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WE SALUTE YOUSam Deleo, 93, of VFW 5463 salutes all the soldiers who have served in the armed forces during Harrison’s Veterans Day ceremony and parade on Nov. 11. For coverage, see page 6. Photo/Bobby Begun

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CPW holds annual fundraising eventOn Monday, Nov. 9, Cere-

bral Palsy of Westchester held its annual Taste of Westchester food and wine tasting event at The Renaissance Hotel in Harri-son. The event showcased more than 20 of the area’s finest res-taurants and chefs. The evening also included a cooking demon-stration from Hive Living Room + Bar as well as a wine and food pairing by Aries Wines & Spir-its. All of the proceeds benefit CPW’s mission to ensure that children and adults with disabil-ities receive needed services and enjoy activities regardless of the level of their abilities.

A large crowd was on hand to show support for Cerebral Palsy of Westchester’s annual event on Nov. 9.

Harrison Mayor Ron Belmont, left, with Richard Osterer, CPW board president, and Linda Kuck, CPW executive director.

It was a girls’ night out with a cause on Monday in Harrison. Photos/Bobby Begun

A demonstration by Jean Claude Lanchais, executive director of the Hive Living Room + Bar restaurant at The Renaissance Hotel.


What’s going on...Harrison Recreation

Download brochures and applications for all recreation programs, un-less stated otherwise, at harrison-ny.gov/recre-ation. Also see the cur-rent application page for information and forms. For more information, questions, suggestions and/or comments, email [email protected].

You can also call the Leo Mintzer Center at 949-5265, the Sollazzo Center at 670-3179 or the Harrison Recreation Hotline at 670-3039.

Please be aware that parents must have a current 2015 ID card to register children for all programs. Please be prepared to show proof of residency to obtain ID card: a current utility bill and driver’s license for adults, a school report card or progress report for children.

Swim lessons starting in DecemberRegister now for your child to learn how to

swim on Saturday mornings starting Dec. 12 in seven, 50-minute sessions. Participants register according to grade—kindergarten and first; sec-ond and third; and fourth and fifth. The location will be the Louis M. Klein Middle School Pool. Fee is $100 made payable to Town/Village of Har-rison. Enrollment is limited to 20 kids per age group and registration will end once the maximum number is reached.

Sew ThankfulOn Monday, Nov. 16 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at

the main library. This session is for adults and high school students. Learn the basics of the sewing machine and make useful drawstring bags to be donated to a local charity in the spir-it of World Kindness Day on Nov. 13 and the Thanksgiving season.

All classes are limited to the first eight peo-ple to arrive. For more information, call the li-brary at 835-0324.

Estate planning for disabled families

On Monday, Nov. 16 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the main library. Join local elder law/estate planning attorney Salvatore M. Di Constanzo for information on estate planning for families with disabled family members, followed by a Q-and-A session.

Make artisan cheesecakeOn Friday, Nov. 20 from 11 a.m. to noon at the

main library. In this workshop, learn how to make a savory spinach and goat cheese cheescake just in time for Thanksgiving. Patrons will get to enjoy a yummy tasting with author and instructor, Mela-nie Underwood.

Check out a copy of the “Making Artisan Cheesecake” at the library in the meantime. Cop-ies will be available for sale and signing at this presentation. Online sign-up is recommended.

Harrison Public Library events Scarsdale Medical Group

National Diabetes MonthIn recognition of National Diabetes Month,

Scarsdale Medical Group will host a free diabetes risk and management seminar on Wednesday, Nov. 18 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at its Harrison of-fice located at 600 Mamaroneck Ave. in the second floor waiting room.

Presented by endocrinologist Dr. David Bloom-garden, the seminar will provide information on risk factors of developing diabetes, diabetes man-agement and prevention, healthy lifestyle choices and new medications.

“People with diabetes can take steps to control the disease and lower the risks of complications through proper diet and care so they can live a healthier lifestyle,” says Bloomgarden.

Space is limited and pre-registration is advised. Reservations must be received by Monday, Nov. 16. For more information, or to register, please email [email protected].

To learn more about Scarsdale Medical Group, please visit scarsdalemedical.com.

For more information on events and programs, especially for young children, visit harrisonpl.org or call the main branch at 835-0324 or the West Harrison branch at 948-2092.

Hip-hop meets jazz performanceOn Sunday, Nov. 15 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30

p.m. at the main library. Experience Dana Le-ong’s sound, a fusion of computerized hip-hop, funk rhythms and rock propulsions. Both a renowned cellist and trombonist, Dana’s de-but album “Leaving New York” features ap-pearances by Christian McBride and Paquito D’Rivera.

This is part three of the series “Music Di-versity through Ethnicity,” a four-part festival. Each performance will be accompanied by a lively discussion led by David DeJesus, lec-turer in music at Purchase College.

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Harrison honors vets with annual parade

An annual tradition took place in Harrison on Veterans Day, Nov. 11 as the town/village held its parade and ceremony to honor those who have served this country. The parade was followed by a ceremony in West Harrison on the Village Green.

Harrison Mayor Ron Belmont walks through the crowd thanking them for attending the Veterans Day celebration in West Harrison on Nov. 11.

The Marine Color Guard was on hand on Nov. 11 for the veterans parade and ceremony in West Harrison.

VFW Veterans 5463 of West Harrison/Harrison march with pride.Memorial wreaths were placed to honor our soldiers.

A moment of silence is held to show respect for fallen soldiers. Photos/Bobby Begun

Taps could be heard throughout the Village Green.The Harrison High School Band shows its appreci-ation at the West Harrison’s Veterans Day parade.


I would like to take this op-portunity to express my ap-preciation for the tremendous support I received on Election Day. Thank you for allowing me to serve the residents of Harri-son, for another term, as mayor/supervisor on Harrison’s town board. It has been an honor to represent you and I will do my best to make your concerns my concerns.

There have been many suc-cesses over the last several years but we still have work to do. As we look to the future and face the challenges that lie ahead, I would like to encourage all of our residents to get involved. The town board and I will con-tinue to do everything we can to serve the interests of the Town/Village of Harrison, so please come out and support the many exciting events that will take place over the coming years.

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HARRISON HAPPENINGSMayor Ron Belmont

organization whose mission is to ensure the availability and accessibility of the arts for all Westchester residents, has an-nounced that it will be honoring two of our residents at their up-coming 50th anniversary gala on Friday, Nov. 20. Purchase resi-dent Froma Benerofe and Harri-son resident Jacqueline Walker, both former presidents of the arts council, will be recognized for their efforts in bringing at-tention to the organization as it grew into a nationally known private arts council. Congratula-tions to both Ms. Benerofe and Ms. Walker for this very impor-tant distinction.

The Harrison Youth Council, HYC, is participating in Lord & Taylor’s fundraising shopping event, “Shop Smart, Do Good,” on Friday, Nov. 13 at Lord & Taylor in Eastchester. For a $5 donation, you receive a ticket with three savings passes, with a value up to 25 percent off reg-ular or sale priced items. HYC receives 100 percent of your $5 donation. You can purchase a ticket at the youth council of-

fice at 84 Calvert St. in Harrison between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on weekdays. For further informa-tion, please contact Debra Saler-no at [email protected] or the Harrison Youth Council Of-fice at 835-7500.

Now that flu season is upon us, it’s not too late to get a flu shot. You can visit the West-chester County health depart-ment immunization clinics on alternating Fridays in White Plains and Yonkers. Call 995-5800 for White Plains or 231-2500 for Yonkers to set up an appointment. For more informa-tion, visit westchestergov.com/health.

In closing, “Praying for Greater Unity: Different Faith Traditions” will be the theme of the 2015 annual Thanksgiving service sponsored by the Inter-faith Congregational Laymen’s Committee of Harrison, ICLC, to be held on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the JCC Har-rison, 130 Union Ave. All are welcome. For additional infor-mation, please call Lola Geiger at 939-7066.

Harrison High School is proud to announce that 12 of its per-forming arts students were se-lected to participate in this year’s Area All State festival at SUNY Purchase on Nov. 5. The students are under the direction of Meghan Zwart, HHS Chorus Teacher, Charles Bennett, HHS Orchestra teacher and Charles Briem and David Blumenthal, HHS band leaders.

“This year marks the largest cohort participating in this presti-gious festival and the most distin-guished with our students seated as first chairs and serving as sec-tion leaders,” said Lynn Fusco, director of Fine and Perform-

ing Arts for the Harrison Central School District.

The Harrison High School stu-dent musicians who performed were Kent Takada, third chair trumpet player in the band; Ayaka Yorihiro, first chair viola player in the orchestra; Sakura Tateiwa, first chair piccolo player in the orchestra; and David Choi, mu-sician in the orchestra. The sing-ers who performed in the mixed choir were Samantha Miles, Jon Crozier, Matt Novak and Deme-tri McMullen, and the singers who performed in the women’s choir were Julia Di Lorenzo, Julia Goldstein, Mihoko Sakanaka and Gianna Prignano.

A committee of teachers from Westchester County School Mu-sic Association, WCSMA, selects students for participation primar-ily based on scores received the previous spring from the New York State School Music As-sociation, NYSSMA, festival. WCSMA is a county unit of the NYSSMA and the National Asso-ciation for Music Educators, for-merly known as MENC. It repre-sents more than 450 music educa-tors from 55 school districts pub-lic, private and parochial. Each year, more than 1,200 students from across Westchester County participate in the organization’s Festivals. (Submitted)

HHS musicians perform at Area All State Festival

Harrison High School student musicians and singers were chosen to perform in this year’s Area All State Festival at SUNY Purchase on Nov. 5. Photo courtesy Harrison school district


Special Olympics New York is recruiting hardy, brave souls to participate in its seventh an-nual Westchester Polar Plunge, “Freezin’ For A Reason,” on Saturday, Nov. 14 at Glen Is-land Park in New Rochelle. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the plunge starts at noon.

This Polar Plunge is be-ing held to raise money for the 3,500 athletes of Special Olympics NY–Hudson Valley Region.

Last year, more than 600 brave souls with warm hearts ran, jumped and dove into the chilly waters of the Long Island Sound to raise funds for the ath-letes of Special Olympics New York. A record-breaking amount of $84,000 were raised by all participants. This year, the or-ganization is looking to increase its numbers and blow its goal of raising $70,000 right out of the water. All funds support Special Olympics New York’s programs and promote awareness of peo-ple living with intellectual dis-abilities in New York.

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Special Olympics NY to host annual polar plunge

Westchester Polar Plunge, log on to polarplungeny.org/event/2015-westchester-polar-plunge/ and click on “Register Here.” Participants can then easily register as an individual, form a team, invite contacts to join the team, create their Per-sonal Plunge Page, check their donation totals and send emails out to their contacts.

As a friendly reminder, par-ticipaints can register the day of as well. Participants are en-couraged to raise a minimum of $125 to take the plunge and

receive an official Polar Plunge sweatshirt. Participants who raise more money will receive more great prizes.

Volunteers are needed to as-sist with set up, registration, and sweatshirt distribution. All volunteers will receive at least 10 hours of community service.

Please register today for the Westchester Polar Plunge. If you take the plunge then you can say you are “Freezin’ For a Reason!” It will truly be an experience of a lifetime. (Submitted)

Participants at last year’s Westchester Polar Plunge rush into the chilly waters of the Long Island Sound. Contributed photo

Students and faculty of Louis M. Klein Middle School attend-ed the long-awaited playground ribbon cutting for the New York School for the Deaf on Oct. 16. Eighth graders Ava Zinman, Paige Lipman, Christopher Demirjian and Brett McLauglin, along with LMK Principal Scott Fried and student council advi-sors Steve Goodstein, Kristen Kearney and Dana Morello, were on hand at the ribbon cutting that featured presentations by School Superintendent Ronald Stern, the elementary school’s princi-pal and students. Some students signed their words and others spoke with a signer next to them while they shared their excite-ment about playing on their new playground.

“When the ribbon was cut, the students stormed the playground and immediately started having fun,” said LMK eighth grader Ava Zinman. “It was amazing to watch them enjoy the privilege of a playground, after having been denied it for the past three years.”

LMK students, with the sup-

Ribbon cutting brings students, faculty together

port of teachers, administrators, staff members and the PTA, held a carnival two years ago and raised $7,000 to help the New York School for the Deaf rebuild its playground after it was de-stroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

“We so appreciate all that you

did to support our playground,” said Superintendent Stern to the LMK students and faculty. “Our children are extremely fortu-nate to have people like the stu-dents at Louis M. Klein Middle School advocating for them.” (Submitted)

Students of the Louis M. Klein Middle School attend the opening of a playground for the New York School for the Deaf. Photo courtesy Monica Miles


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aspects of remodeling. Websites like Houzz and Pinterest allow you to save examples of what you like and share them with others.

The style and color of the cabinets create the main focal point of the kitchen so this is the probably your most important aesthetic choice. However, don’t rely on the colors in a printed piece or on a computer moni-tor because they tend to be less than accurate due to the medium. There is no substitute to seeing the material in person.

The same advice applies to countertops as well. The coun-ter, and its counterpart, the backsplash, establish the second major focal point of the room. Contrasting the color of the counter with that of the cabinets is very popular today; however, you may want a monochromat-ic look, which can be stunning. Granite, marble, quartz, soap-stone, concrete, wood, and stain-less steel are just some of the materials available for coun-tertops. Once the counter is se-lected, the backsplash should be next. The same materials for countertops are available for backsplashes; however, tile is probably the most beautiful and by far the most popular.

The next big part of your fu-ture kitchen is the color and style of the appliances. Do you want them to stand out or fade into the background? Should they be

stainless steel, a solid color, or should they match the cabinets? And, while we’re making deci-sions, let’s not forget some other aspects of the space, including the floor, the walls and the mold-ing. For each component of the project there is an abundance of materials and finishes to select from. Oh, and don’t leave out the hardware. Beautiful knobs can make or break the whole proj-ect. Unless you want handles, instead of knobs.

With all these decisions, if you’re not sure what you want, it pays to work with an experi-enced designer that will assist you with all these choices. Like the “don’t try this at home” dis-claimer you see on TV, I suggest you don’t try this alone unless you are confident in your own ability to put together all the var-ied aspects of your remodeling project.

And now, the day is almost over, and soon I’ll be going home to settle down and watch a little TV. I know that I’ll commit too much time to deciding what to watch, even though it will probably just be another re-run of “Law and Order.”

Kitchen remodeling: don’t try this aloneBy PAul BOOkBINDeR

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After returning home from my usual long day at work, I made myself comfortable in my favorite chair and settled down to watch a little TV. After 15 minutes or so, my wife Liz passed by and asked me what I was watching, at which point I realized that I was still going through the channel guides. In fact, lately, I find myself spend-ing more time looking to see what’s on, rather than watch-ing what’s on, because there are too many choices, even though there’s never anything on.

This phenomenon is not lim-ited to TV programming. In the remodeling world, the choices are voluminous. Hundreds of styles, colors, shapes and sizes of cabinets, countertops, appli-ances and tiles have made deci-sion making very time consum-ing for consumers, unless you’re one of the lucky few who knows exactly what you want. So what can you do to narrow down the choices without losing too much sleep?

Magazines are a good place to find ideas and begin your se-lection process. Here you can see the best of the biggest proj-ects and what is available and popular today. Then, you can scale it down to fit your needs. The Internet has really become the most valuable place to see all

Are you really going to eat that?

“Where’s the milk?” I asked my best friend from high school, Gigi, as I peered into her fridge.

“It’s right there!”“Where?”“There!” But, as Gertrude Stein would

have said—if she were still alive and needed something to pour in her coffee—”There’s no ‘there’ there, only almond milk.”

Gigi shrugged. “That’s what we drink.”

And therein lies a tale. There was no cow’s milk in

Gigi’s fridge, no white bread in her bread box, and no peanut butter in her cabinets, only al-mond butter. Without even real-izing it, Gigi had become what we used to call a health nut, but now apparently is just a health mainstreamer, leaving good ole milk-drinking, Wonder Bread-loving, candy-gobblers like me behind. Folks who still eat hot dogs, if you can believe that, de-spite WNYC reporting recently: “The World Health Organiza-tion Says Processed Meat is Bad for You. BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD! Donate now, be-fore you drop dead.” Simply by standing in place, I’d become ab-normal, like a gal still wild about Earth Shoes. Or Jeb Bush.

Everyone else today is eating or juicing something they never thought they’d eat—or even con-sider food. A guy I know—who was briefly a pro football play-

er—just mentioned he is into hemp hearts.

Hemp has a heart? It’s legal to eat? He says he mixes the hearts into cheesy eggs, which sounds somewhere between revolting and felonious.

But hemp is just one of those things that people say, “I’m into now,” like kombucha—the stuff in bottles that looks like pond water. And chia! If chia can go from pet to food, what hope is there for puppies? Another high school friend of mine (they’re all turning!) now “cheats” by eating chia pudding.

Cheats on what? Gently-sautéed pine needles? Liver smoothies? How is it cheating to eat something so healthy that it still grosses at least a portion of the population out? “MARCY!” I typed at her. “You were the one who introduced me to the food that is totally worth cheating with: Hostess Fruit Pies. What happened?”

She typed back (where would we be, friendship-wise, without Facebook?): “Chia pudding is made with chia seeds, almond milk, cacao (or, for those that still speak English, cocoa), ma-ple syrup and vanilla extract. As the seeds soak, they become tap-ioca-like. Makes a yummy pud-ding. Hostess Fruit Pies! I forgot about those.”

FORGOT?I know, I know—people’s

tastes change, and change is good. My friend Sue is eating beets now. She used to spit them out back when beets were on everyone’s shelf in a can. Then

recently, someone convinced her to eat them for good luck and she gave them an open-minded nibble. Now Sue’s a beet-fiend. A beet-nik. I worry that it’s the gateway to hemp hearts! And others are opening up to celery root. All those ancient grains are taking over, too. Not for nothing do they call it Faro.

The problem is not that peo-ple’s tastes are shifting—tastes always shift. It’s that they seem to be lurching. “I got all into try-ing to go vegan, then I got into paleo—huge shift, I know,” I read a mom confess online.

The soy milk folks are get-ting into butter. The pescatarians are trying pork. The NutraSweet crowd is swearing by Stevia. And I wasn’t going to mention kale, but it’s the elephant in the kitchen.

“It’s an aspirational vegeta-ble,” explains Nancy McDer-mott, an independent research-er and advisor for the website Park Slope Parents. “It’s also very pretty. I saw a nice kale tattoo on Facebook the other day. But eating it, preparing it, is difficult. I hate having to cut out the stalks, and rolling the leaves and cutting them. And as for bruising it, I think you’d have to sleep with it under the mattress to make it tender enough to eat.”

By the time we are sleeping with our kale, all bets are off. It’s driving me to drink.

But not kombucha with al-mond milk.

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14 • THe The hARRISON RevIew • November 13, 2015 SPORTS

LIvE MIKEMike Smith

One of my favorite postgame celebration moments ever came in 2013 after the Detroit Tigers clinched a playoff berth. The Tigers’ manager Jim Leyland, a notoriously prickly customer, was speaking with a few report-ers outside of the clubhouse when the enormity of the situa-tion seemed to sneak up on him. While discussing his team’s achievements that year, the base-ball lifer began to stumble over his words, his eyes welling up, until he was rescued by veter-an outfielder Torii Hunter, who hoisted up the 67-year-old skip-per and carried him out of the room and into the midst of the players’ celebration. Leyland was then doused in champagne and beer, and performed a nifty moonwalk to the raucous cheers of his ballclub.

Simply put, it was an almost-perfect celebration.

I was reminded of Leyland and the Tigers on Saturday, as I found myself on the sidelines at Yorktown High School for the Class AA football champion-ship.

With a 44-25 win over John Jay on Nov. 7, the New Rochelle Huguenots won their first section title since 2012. But out of ev-erything about New Rochelle’s play—the big defensive stops,

Tears of joy

the offensive explosion—it was how they celebrated their win that is going to stick with me.

New Rochelle’s players were hardly uniform in their reactions, and with more than 50 players suited up on the sidelines, how could they be? Sophomore run-ning back Jared Baron, a young-ster who has emerged as one of the section’s top players quite early on in his short varsity ca-reer, had a delirious ear-to-ear grin as he bounded across the field to hug his teammates. Se-nior lineman Justin Cossifos, who helped anchor the Hugue-nots’ defense all year, got his hands on the Section I champi-

onship plaque and stared at it in disbelief, almost like he couldn’t quite comprehend what he and his teammates had just accom-plished.

And then there was quarter-back Greg Powell.

For a team as deep as New Rochelle, one that has succeeded not because of one player’s ef-forts but a collective team play, Powell’s spot as the starting quarterback has made him the de facto face of the program, some-thing that was certainly not lost on him as he broke down in the arms of teammates and coaches after the final whistle blew.

All the pressure of leading the

Kevin Singletary flashes a big grin after the final whistle on Nov. 7. The Huguenots will be back in action on Nov. 14 in the Class AA regional finals against Newburgh.

Huguenots back to the promised land was lifted from his shoul-ders on Saturday, and his rec-ognition of that was a beautiful thing to watch.

Of course, New Rochelle’s story isn’t over yet.

With their regional final matchup with Newburgh loom-ing on Nov. 14, the Huguenots were back at work on Monday, getting ready to tackle their lat-est challenge.

But on Saturday, none of that mattered. The only thing on the minds of New Rochelle’s play-ers and fans was letting the pro-gram’s biggest win in three years sink in.

They’ll have all week to come down from their win over John Jay, but at least they got the chance to enjoy the ride for a few minutes.

And isn’t that why we all love sports?

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New Rochelle quarterback Greg Powell breaks down after the Huguenots’ 44-25 win over John Jay in the Class AA finals on Nov. 7. The Huguenots’ emotional win was especially poignant for the senior signal caller.

Miles Harvey and Justin Cossifos look at the Section I championship plaque. For the first time since 2012, the Huguenots are Class AA champions.

New Rochelle head coach Lou DiRienzo leads his team in a postgame celebration. Photos/Mike Smith

November 13, 2015 • THe HARRISON ReVIeW • 15SPORTS

Winter sports schedules12/09 4:15 p.m. @ ROOSEVELT12/11 6:30 p.m. @ WHITE PLAINS TOURNAMENT12/14 6:15 p.m. PORT CHESTER12/17 7 p.m. BYRAM HILLS 12/21 4:30 p.m. @ PELHAM12/23 4:30 p.m. @ WESTLAKE12/28 3:30 p.m. @ WESTCHESTER COUNTY CENTER*01/06 6:15 p.m. @ BYRAM HILLS01/09 3:00 p.m. @ RYE01/14 6:15 p.m. PELHAM01/16 11 a.m. @ WESTLAKE01/20 4:15 p.m. @ EASTCHESTER 01/23 7:30 p.m. @ SCARSDALE01/30 8 p.m. PEARL RIVER02/01 6:15 p.m. RYE02/04 6:15 p.m. @ PORT CHESTER02/08 6:15 p.m. EASTCHESTER

* Slam Dunk Tournament

2015-16 Boys Basketball

12/04 7 p.m. @ CARMEL TOURNAMENT12/09 4:30 p.m. SAUNDERS12/11 7 p.m. @ PEARL RIVER12/16 6:15 p.m. CARMEL12/18 5 p.m. HARRISON TOURNAMENT12/23 4:30 p.m. @ TAPPAN ZEE12/26 12 p.m. @ WESTCHESTER COUNTY CENTER*01/12 6:15 p.m. RYE 01/14 4:30 p.m. @ PELHAM01/20 6:15 p.m. EASTCHESTER01/22 7 p.m. @ BYRAM HILLS 01/28 6:15 p.m. PORT CHESTER02/01 6:15 p.m. @ RYE02/03 6:15 p.m. PELHAM02/04 4:30 p.m. @ PORT CHESTER02/05 7 p.m. @ EASTCHESTER

* Slam Dunk Tournament

2015-16 Girls Basketball

11/27 12 p.m. @WHITE PLAINS TOURNAMENT12/04 6 p.m. @NEW ROCHELLE12/07 6:30 p.m. BYRAM HILLS12/12 9 p.m. @BRIARCLIFF12/14 6:30 p.m. PEARL RIVER12/19 8:30 p.m. @BYRAM HILLS12/21 6:30 p.m. MAMARONECK 12/28 6:30 p.m. SOMERS01/04 6:30 p.m. IRVINGTON01/08 9:30 p.m. @MAMARONECK01/10 5:05 p.m. @ETB01/11 6:30 p.m. SCARSDALE01/16 7:10 p.m. @IRVINGTON01/18 6:30 p.m. BRIARCLIFF01/26 7:15 p.m. @SUFFERN 02/01 6:30 p.m. ETB02/08 6:30 p.m. NEW ROCHELLE

2015-16 Hockey

Zach Evans sets up the Harrison offense during the Huskies’ Slam Dunk Tournament game in 2014. File Photos

Gia Mancini takes a shot against Tappan Zee in last year’s quarterfinal playoff game. The Huskies are looking to improve their fortunes this winter.

A Rye Town/Harrison player wins a faceoff in the 2015 playoffs. The Titans made the section finals last season.

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