Eighth grader Makenzie Ekechukwu has made an immediate impact during her first season on the girls’ varsity basketball team. The talented lefty is a force to be reckoned with in the paint and is averaging a double-double through her team’s first five games. In the team’s biggest game of the season later tonight at Friday Night Hoops, Belmont Day will lean on Ekechukwu on both ends of the floor and will need another strong performance to overcome a talented Meadowbrook team.
- Fergus Fagenholz and Kabir Sonawane shined during intramural basketball’s weekly scrimmage. Both players have improved tremendously throughout the season.
- Varsity player Woody Evans joined his junior varsity classmates for their game against DCD this week. The talented sixth grader has been learning the ropes against stiff competition this year.
- The JV basketball teams fell to DCD this week. Rowan McCoy played great defense for the girls. Suryavir Nallari-Jhala returned to action for the boys and logged productive minutes.
- The fencing team remains undefeated following a 15-12 win over BB&N. Sixth grade classmates Ben Bradshaw and Jacob Jarbeau each won 2 of their 3 bouts in epee.
- Team captain Jun Murakami wrestled a pair of tough matches and newcomer Hughy Marsan had a great pin during Belmont Day’s tri-meet against Belmont Hill and Fessenden.
- Classmates Rosie Smith and Emily Wang have been quick studies on the squash court this winter while Max Kishlansky and Rubin Xiao have used their athleticism to excel.
- Penelope Wong and Gwen Wagner are extremely comfortable on a climbing wall and have really taken to both the traverse wall and the high elements in the Downing Gym.
