DDS Varsity Basketball v Trinity Pawling on Wednesday January 16th - Report by Coach Ouellette

DDS Varsity Basketball Team makes it Three in a Row –DDS-43 Trinity Pawling -32
Trinity Pawling visited DDS on Thursday and brought some talented players to test our veteran team. DDS came out focused, determined and ready to play. The team has been studying and practicing their new sets of plays and it looks like their hard work is paying off. Point guard Griffin Wilson had a tremendous game scoring a DDS career high 29 points and leading the Tigers with precision and confidence. The TP coach told me after the game that Griffin was a terrific point guard. Great job Griffin.
Hudson Kuras and Adam Baker had their hands full on defense with some very good TP players. Adam rose to the occasion defending a larger player, and held his own with good positioning and his usual stalwart determination. Hudson had a very quick point guard to contend with the entire game but he too showed his usual tenacious and tireless defense. Adam added 4 points while Hudson scored 8. Both players were also complimented by the TP coach for their fine play. That is quite an honor when the opposing coach takes the time to compliment our players after the game. Congrats to Hudson and Adam.
DDS employed a tight 2-3 zone defense to clog the middle with Danielle Stamer and Shriman Baba playing their usual and consistent tough defense. Dani added 2 points for the cause. Defense never shows up in the box score but without Dani and Shriman’s unselfish defensive play, the score would certainly have been closer.
Eighth grade super sub Cooper Davis added his usually energetic mix to the team. Cooper is the kind of player that every coach loves to have on his team. No matter what he is doing he does it with great enthusiasm and always for the good of the team. He always keeps me up-to-date on how much time is left, when it is time to press, and who has too many fouls. Just one more thing that doesn’t show up in the box score.
Jackson, Ben, Matthew, Christian and Roan got a chance to feel the pressure of a full court press and learned a great deal about ball control, team communications, and situational awareness. Jackson Ryan showed greatly improved knowledge of his playbook and set some very strong picks for his teammates. It was a great learning experience for our younger players, who are continually working hard and making more and more significant contributions to this very special DDS basketball team. Hurricane DDS has now reached Category II strength and is headed for their next game with Poughkeepsie Day School on Thursday, January 24th. The game is away and starts at 3:30. Please come out and support your DDS Tigers.
Coach Ouellette

DDS Squash Team show improvement with fine wins against IMS and Millbrook School

Losing only a total of four matches, the Dutchess Day School Squash team played superbly well against older and in many cases more experienced opposition. Millbrook to be fair put out a weaker team than last time, but the way our players performed was exceptional and it is clear that they are all learning tremendously fast. Lucy, playing at #1 found the going tough against both IMS and Millbrook opponents. The Millbrook game was particularly close. Isabel won both her games at #2 but was pushed to a close 3 setter by her IMS opponent. Sarah, at #3, cruised in with two comfortable wins, while Caleb at #4 took some time getting in to his stride, losing badly to Millbrook but coming back to almost push his IMS opponent to a third game. Zoe (#5) played well with mixed fortunes. She beat her Millbrook opponent comfortably giving up only two points but then met her match with IMS, losing both games 5 and 4. Hadley at #6 demonstrated how much she has improved with wins against both schools. She played very well indeed and deserved her success! Millbrook were unable to put out more than 6 players, but the rest of the DDS team showed their metal against IMS. At #7, Lizzie won both games easily. Kayleigh at #8 also polished off her opponent with ease, and without dropping a point! Denny (#9), Hanna (#10), Andrew (#11) and Hugo (#12) all won their games against IMS in fine style. Hugo and Andrew were playing their first competitive games for DDS and both rose tremendously to the occasion. Below are posted the full results:
DDS v IMS v Millbrook Squash Tournament

Results Card Games

TEAM V TEAM 1 2 3 WINNER

COURT 1 DDS 1 v IMS 1 4-9 3-9 IMS

COURT 1 DDS 1 v MB 1 7-9 8-10 MB

COURT 1 MB 1 v IMS 1 2-9 5-9 IMS

COURT 1 DDS 2 v IMS 2 9-2 8-10 9-6 DDS

COURT 1 DDS 2 v MB 2 9-1 9-1 DDS

COURT 2 IMS 2 v MB 2 9-5 6-9 9-7 IMS

COURT 2 DDS 3 v MB 3 9-3 9-1 DDS

COURT 2 MB 3 v IMS 3 4-9 10-8 6-9 IMS

COURT 2 DDS 3 v IMS 3 9-6 9-1 DDS

COURT 2 DDS 4 v MB 4 1-9 0-9 MB

COURT 3 MB 4 v IMS 4 2-9 1-9 IMS

COURT 3 IMS 4 v DDS 4 9-5 10-8 IMS

COURT 3 DDS 5 v MB 5 9-0 9-2 DDS

COURT 3 IMS 5 v DDS 5 9-5 9-4 DDS

COURT 3 MB 5 v IMS 5 0-9 0-9 IMS

COURT 4 IMS 6 v MB 6 9-7 9-3 IMS

COURT 4 MB 6 v DDS 6 2-9 3-9 DDS

COURT 4 DDS 6 v IMS 6 10-8 9-5 DDS

COURT 4 DDS 7 v IMS 7 9-1 9-3 DDS

COURT 4 DDS 8 v IMS 8 9-0 9-0 DDS

OLD 1 DDS 9 v IMS 9 9-1 9-0 DDS

OLD 1 DDS 10 v IMS 10 9-0 9-2 DDS

OLD 1 DDS 11 v IMS 9 9-4 9-6 DDS

OLD 2 DDS 12 v IMS 10 9-1 9-1 DDS

OVERALL RESULT - DDS 9 IMS 3
DDS 5 Millbrook 1

Varsity Volleyball game v Rumsey School on Wed Jan 9th - Report by Ms Schoch

The Dutchess Day School varsity volleyball team began their regular season with a solid 3-0 win over Rumsey. Serving was crucial, at this point in the season, and several players stepped up with consistent and well-placed serves. Co-captains Adrienne Sieverding and Claire Shope led the attack, with Christy Agrawal and Eddie Castillo contributing to the Tiger offense as well. Alexa Colangelo played a great defensive game, and Paige Reifler came up from the junior varsity to help the Tigers to their first win of the season. It was an exciting beginning, and the team invites everyone to come and watch its games during the season. Please see the sports calendar for the schedule. Also, the team has added a game on January 23rd, with Westover, at Westover. Look for details to come.

JV Basketball v Rumsey School on Wednesday Jan 9th 2008

On Wednesday, January 9, the JV basketball team traveled to Rumsey School for its first away game. The power outage which delayed the beginning of the game did nothing to short-circuit the energy and spark of any of the 12 JV basketball players. This was an intense defensive battle.

Some of the highlights included Nick Akst leading the team in rebounds and scoring by snagging many offensive rebounds and easily scoring several baskets. After falling behind early, 6 – 0, Nick’s baskets and our suffocating defense and fast break baskets by David Akst, Sebastian Barry and Jon Hill enabled us to catch up to Rumsey as we matched Rumsey score for score. Late in the first half, Sean Gorwara, sent a high arching set shot from the right-hand corner for our first three-pointer of the season – nothing but net too.

In the second half, we fell behind again, but tied the score with a clutch free-throw by Taylor Digilio, 14 – 14. A steal by Bernadette Winby and a beautiful feed from Alex Quartararo to David Akst for another basket kept us in the game. TJ Sayah, Maggie Dull and Nick Salnikoff frustrated Rumsey with tight defense and Matt Pelletier’s savvy ball-handling kept the game flowing offensively.

In the end, Rumsey hit two rim-rattling set shots late in the game which we could not match even though both Sebastian and Sean has two shots flirt with the net only to slide painfully to the wrong side of the iron. The final score was Rumsey Blue Dogs - 22, Dutchess Day Tigers – 18.

Each one of the JV 12 put their hearts on the line for this fever-pitched contest – it was definitely exciting.

Coach Cissel

Varsity Basketball photos v Rumsey (Wed Jan 9th)

DDS Sports Schedule for week beginning Monday January 14th

MONDAY Jan 14th - SNOW DAY

TUESDAY Jan 15th - No Sports

WEDNESDAY Jan 16th - Varsity Basketball - No Practice
JV Basketball - Home game v Melrose School 3:30 p.m. start
Pick up at 4:45 p.m.
Varsity Volleyball - Practice
JV Volleyball - Away game at Rumsey School 3:30 p.m. start
Pick up at 5:45 p.m.
Squash - Away game v Millbrook/IMS Schools 3:15 p.m. start
Pick up 5:15 p.m. at DDS

THURSDAY Jan 17th - Varsity Basketball - Home game v Trinity Pawling 3:30 p.m. start
Pick up at 4:45 p.m.
JV Basketball - No Practice
Varsity & JV Volleyball - Practice
Squash - Practice at Vassar College Pick up 5:45 p.m.

FRIDAY Jan 18th - SKIING.

JV Basketball Photos of game v Rumsey on Wednesday January 9th 2008

PHOTOGRAPHS by Theresa Quartararo