We at Sheepshead Bites are very sociable people (not really). So it should come as no surprise (actually, it’s very surprising) that we receive invitations to cool events and offers all the time (almost never). For example, just recently we got invited to see the Brooklyn Cyclones game this Wednesday, July 15, at Coney Island’s Keyspan Park for just $2.
But wait, there’s more! The invitation is extended to all of our awesome readers by the event’s organizers, the NYMeetup group. Tickets include a hot dog, a soda, and – for the early birds – a batting helmet (first 2,500 at the park). Sure, it’s the bleachers – but where in New York can you get a hot dog and coke for $2?!
Tickets are expected to sell out quickly, so be sure to head over to NYMeetup’s page, find out the details, and confirm your spot ASAP. Oh, and drop us a line if you’re going – ’cause we’ll be there, too!
Coming in from Five Boro Sports: Leon M. Goldstein High School – formerly Kingsborough High School – competed for the first time in the Mayor’s Cup this past weekend.
The team was led by freshman Becky Shtilkind, who last week defeated Cardozo freshman Arielle Griffin, 6-0, 6-1, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, making her the “first freshman to win the PSAL girls’ tennis individual tennis championship in recent memory.” Shtlikind is a Ukrainian immigrant living in Sheepshead Bay.
The victory over Cardozo won them entrance to the Mayor’s Cup this weekend, where the sixth-seeded Dolphins bested No. 3 Francis Lewis, 5-0, in the quarterfinals in Flushing. They faced Cardoza – No 2. – on Sunday and lost in the semifinals.
Despite ending their Mayor’s Cup run in the semifinals, the team still ought to be proud to have raised the bar for Goldstein High School’s sports.
When we last checked in with Rockin’ Ray Fiore, he was throwing a fundraiser for his H.O.N.K. (Help Our Neighborhood Kids) Boxing Club and Youth Center here in Sheepshead Bay. Well, that was back in March, and apparently Ray wasn’t able to raise enough. Daily News is reporting that he owes the landlord two months rent, and faces eviction if he can’t come up with $7,000 by Sunday.
H.O.N.K. is a great community organization that helps mentor kids – many who are troubled – and is also the only boxing club in southern Brooklyn. Help keep great organizations like this in our community by contacting Ray to see what you can do to keep the club going.
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Ray Fiore, whose community work and artwork is well-noted, is gaining notoriety for his involvement in sports as a charitable boxer.
A boxing training organization called H.O.N.K — Help Our Neighborhood Kids — that he is heading will benefit many neighborhood kids.
Ray is inviting everyone to come out to his Sheepshead Bay-based boxing center for an Open House and rockin’ Fundraising Party. Don’t forget to bring your checkbooks, because the H.O.N.K. center will soon be a not-for-profit set up to help keep neighborhood kids off the streets and engaged in sports.
Ray and his team have been working hard towards this goal and he gained media attention with a mention of his project in a New York Times article in 2007. Late last year, the New York Daily News featured Ray and his charitable project. With the information about the Open House and the Fundraising Party posted here and at GerritsenBeach.net, we hope that supporters will show up feeling generous so that the kids will not have to lay down the gloves.
Here are the details:
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Open House from Noon until 6 p.m.
Fundraiser party from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m.
There will be Beer / Wine / Beverages / Heroes
DJ Ross Failace, Richie Moore and DJ Richie Noodles will be spinning the hottest mixes for your enjoyment all night long!
There will be a couple of COMICS performing to rip your funny bone apart, Joey Gay of “LAST COMIC STANDING” and others!
Rockin’ Ray’s Boxing Club
2460 East 17 Street
between Ave Y & X
Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
(Photo courtesy of Ruby Washington/The New York Times)
Sheepshead Bay High School’s Double Dutch team, the Bay Shark Jumpers, was in the news this weekend. The subject of the feature article and photo slideshow in The City section of the New York Times was the Team Captain, Twindexane Lares.
In one of the photos, one of the team’s coaches, Maria Feld, can be seen with a counter in her hand, keeping track of all of the team members’ jumps.
New York Times writer, Sophia Hollander, interviewed Twindexane about her experience as a double Dutcher, as well about her team’s preparation for the upcoming competition season. In the interview, Twindexane, an 18-year-old senior who is originally from Trinidad & Tobago, says that although many people don’t think of double Dutch rope jumping as a sport, she and her team “work out just as much as other teams”.
We wish Twindexane and the Bay Shark Jumpers all the best this season.
(Photo courtesy of NY MileSplit US)
This past week, the Sheepshead Bay High School Track Team, coached by John Padula, Rori Kelly, and D.R. Phipps, has been in the news. The team participated at the state championships in Ithaca, NY.
While Ramapo’s runner stole first place from Sheepshead’s Paul Fyffe in the 800-meter relay, team member, Darryl Bradshaw (pictured above), raced to first place in the 55-hurdle race. Five Boro Sports and Lo Hud reported on how he took the state title.
Bradshaw and his team members, known as the Sharks, are no no strangers to the news. They were featured in a Daily News article last year for being a team to watch.
You can see sportswriter Christopher Hunt’s article at the Armory Track website outlining how Bradshaw trains.
Sheepshead Bay High School’s sports medicine program will be featured this week in an encore presentation on Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT).
Here is the information:
On this episode of In The Zone we’ll recap the high school gridiron action for the month of September with Vernon Jones of NYC Sports Network. Then, on our Skills and Drills segment, we’ll learn how to deliver the perfect Olympic jab with Gymu Boxing’s Kelly Richardson. Later, our aching joints will scout out Sheepshead Bay High School’s sports medicine program before we take a Super Bowl shuffle down memory lane with Chicago Bear #55, Otis Wilson.
Saturday, February 8th at 11pm & 9pm
Wednesday, February 11th at 12pm & 8pm
Thursday, February 12th at 3pm & 11pm
BCAT cablecasts on both Time Warner and Cablevision cable systems in Brooklyn, and the channel designations vary between the two systems. On Time Warner, BCAT can be found on channels 34, 35, 56, 57. On Cablevision, BCAT can be found on channels 67-70. On RCN, BCAT can be found on channels 82-85. Each program in our schedule will have the channels listed for both cable systems.
Check the website for live online information.
Sheepshead Bay H.S. defensive end Andre Civil has accepted an offer from Rutgers’ Scarlet Knights football team, making him the second Brooklynite selected this year. The 6-foot-3, 238-pound student will head to the banks of the ol’ Raritan to join the Class of 2009, and he will play alongside South Shore offensive tackle Jamal Wilson. He chose the Knights over Big East rivals Syracuse and Connecticut. [via NY Post]
As a Sheepshead resident AND a Rutgers alumnus, all I have to say is…
Eat it, Syracuse and Connecticut!
Keep Rutgers colors to the fore,
For they must win so fight, fight, fight!
And we’ll advance some more to score,
The Rutgers flag flies high tonight, alright, alright.
We’ll fling the Scarlet banner out,
And Rutgers men will fight, fight, fight!
The bells of Queens each victr’y shout,
The bells of Queens must ring tonight.
R! U! RAH! RAH! R! U! RAH! RAH! RAH!
HOORAH! HOORAH! RUTGERS! RAH! RAH!
FIGHT! TEAM! UP! STREAM!
UP! STREAM! RED! TEAM! RAH! RAH! RUTGERS! RAH!
-Rutgers Fight Song
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