"A Piece of History and a Test of Progress”

Tonight we begin the second half of the season with a game against an old foe The Williams School.

Hamden Hall’s First Two New England Championships in 1996 and 1997 were against Williams.

They were well coached and played hard and the outcomes were not decided until late in the games.

It seems like yesterday that Co-Captains Zac King and Avery Esdaile held the Trophy indicating the Hornets first ever New England Championship. That Team included the “speed demon” Harry Stanley and the “defensive specialist” Quaison Dobb and Le Andre Dupree, David Hall, Marco Lujic and the “hustle” of Hamden Hall’s own Keith Kaliszewski.

The next year the team returned 8 players and Alex Esdaile, Eric Bost, Rolando Jones, Kerry Hall along with Captain Jonathan Tross made it “back to back” Championships.

They didn’t make baskets; but Jack King and Bruce Rich played an important role as assistant coaches helping us to gain the platform of winning.

There is a piece of History with the Williams School and those two Hamden Hall Teams.

They were good teams and great kids and set the foundation for a program that produced more than just basketball players.

The present team has improved since the start of the season and not many people would have thought we would be 8-4 and 4-1 in League play, but the remaining 10 games will be very difficult  and be the real test on how much we have improved. This is a real concern.  The past 10 days there has been no practice or games due to exam week as well as Mother Nature sprinkling her white dust.  We really do not know the effect of the layoff.  Hopefully the boys will come to play.

The remaining schedule has two games against a Strong Hopkins, Two Games against a Solid Brunswick Team, rematches with Undefeated St. Lukes, Defending Champion Green Farms (now healthy) and Rye Masters and King.These are all Fairchester League Games and will have a direct bearing on our outcome this year.

The Season Continues…..