Lady Knights Explode in Season Opening Wins

Spring has finally arrived and with it the opening of baseball, softball,track, boys tennis and volleyball seasons. And after a long winter the New Milford Knights are already running towards successful seasons.

Softball

With six returning starters, the Lady Knights are already the perenial favorite in the NJIC Liberty division, more so after their opening day shutout wins over Secaucus (5-0) and Ridgefield (18-0). Against the Patriots, both sides were held scoreless until the third inning when shortstop Carly Lesko blasted a two-run homer over the center field fence for the lead. The Lady Knights followed up with the win over Ridgefield in five innings as the team exploded with five runs in the first inning and then added nine more in the fourth inning and the rest in the final at bat.

Baseball

After setting plenty of records last season at the plate, senior second basemen Sawyer Coughlin is once again giving opposing pitchers reason to pause after swatting in a handful of RBI's as the Knights opened the season with a 7-2 win over Secaucus and then 7-3 against Hasbrouck Heights.

Track

The boys and girls both defeated Ridgefield in the beginning of the week as the boys won 100-40 and the girls 97-29.

The team returns Andrew McElroy, Dante Tobler, Jon Melendez, Miguel Aranas, Chaeen Payne, Chris Whittaker, Kevin Teets, Nick Ramirez, Zach Suarez, Dylan Dzadic, Alex Matulac, Khadijah Cox, Jennifer Teets and Jaimee Tiu for the season.

Tennis

The team got off to a rough start with an opening loss to Cresskill, 5-0 and then to Garfield, 3-2. Doubles teams Sean Reis/Kyle Viduya and Zach Calle/Atittan Sritharan held off the Boilermakers from a second shutout loss.

Golf

Coming off last year's two-win season, the Knights are in an early whole after dropping their first three matches. To date, New Milford has fallen to Cresskill (256-194), Waldwick (256-205) and Dwight-Englewood (247-174).

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