Rugby Players Earn All-Star Honors: Daily Sports Digest June 15

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Rugby Teammates from Harvey and Fox Lane Selected to All-Star Team

We thank the Harvey Communciations Department for the below submission:

Katonah – Three members of the Harvey rugby team have been selected to play in all-star competition this weekend in Massachusetts. Zack Buckwald, Sharif Koonce, and Andre Britton-Tannebaum were chosen along with 21 other rugby players from the NY/CT/NJ region to form a team of high school all-stars who will compete against top high school players from New England.

Buckwald, Koonce, and Britton-Tannebaum had been nominated to participate in a five week tri-state high school training camp involving over 60 athletes.  Following the training camp, coaches trimmed the roster to 24 members to compete in the all-star weekend.

Commenting on the selection of three of his players, Harvey’s rugby coach Phil Lazzaro said, “I am proud to state that all three of the Harvey nominees made it through the training camp, impressed the assorted coaches, and were selected.”

He said, “These three men are not only terrific athletes but also fine, upstanding young men who represent our rugby program and their schools as well.”  He expects Buckwald will play at starting Wing, Britton-Tannebaum at starting Prop, and Koonce as a reserve inside-center.

Zack Buckwald, a Harvey senior and two year captain, plans to play for Kutztown University next year. Andre Britton-Tannebaum, a graduating senior at Fox Lane High School, competed for Harvey this season. He hopes to play at Bates University.  Coach Lazzaro said playing in the all-star weekend will be beneficial to Buckwald and Britton-Tannebaum as they prepare themselves for competition on the collegiate level.

About Koonce, a junior captain who will be a senior on next year’s Harvey team, Coach Lazzaro said, “I expect the knowledge gained by Sharif will be invaluable to our squad as he returns to play for his senior season next spring.”

The all-star tournament, hosted by Wilbraham-Munson Academy in Wilbraham, Mass., is sponsored by the New England Rugby Football Union.

Tournament Info

The New England Challenge Cup Tournament is bringing select-side Boys and Girls U17 and U19 teams from across New England, as well as New York and Pennsylvania, to Wilbraham & Monson Academy, in Wilbraham, Mass. this weekend. 

All of the players at the tournament have been selected by their state selectors through a rigorous try out process to represent their state at this Cup.

Players will have two full days of matches of high level rugby, staying over in the dormitories on the Wilbraham & Monson Academy campus, and sharing a large tournament dinner on Saturday evening to celebrate this great weekend of high level rugby.

Youth Baseball

The below appeared on the Bedford-Pound Ridge Baseball Association website:

Minors Championship is Saturday, June 16th at 11am at BVMP.

Majors Championship is Saturday, June 16th, 1:30pm at BVMP.

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