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On The Record: Garnets Come Out Smoking
Rout Middletown 63-20 in opener
Good morning subscribers. ☕This is your Wednesday, Sept. 10, Rye Record newsletter, curating some of the latest headlines across the city of Rye.
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Next? To describe the Rye football team’s season-opening victory over Middletown as a high-scoring affair would be an understatement.
The Garnets’ 63-20 win was the most points they’ve scored in a game in 20 seasons, and the combined 83 points made it the highest-scoring game Rye has played in since 2016.
The team led by as much as 50 points at one point, and carried a 49-7 lead into the half after reaching the end zone seven times in the span of 24 minutes.
Six different players scored for the Garnets, including a career-high three touchdowns for senior running back Charlie Garnett, who also recorded his first career sack in his return to the field for Rye.
Senior quarterback Carson Miller threw for three touchdowns in the game, all in the first half. After finding the end zone on the ground in the first quarter, Miller went to the air later in the half and found senior Sebastian Lewis on a 32-yard pass to give the team a 28-0 lead.
On the next possession, Miller hit Lewis again on an 11-yard score, and then followed that by finding fellow senior captain Henry Shoemaker on a 78-yard bomb to push the lead to 42.
To read Ian Colalucci’s full game recap, click here.
Dino Garr's 50th season as the Rye Garnets head coach started with a commanding win.
-Today’s newsletter is curated by Christian Falcone
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IN OTHER NEWS
Sickening. Two people have died and more than three dozen have fallen ill from Legionnaires' disease in Westchester, according to health officials. The two deaths were among the 37 people who have contracted the illness since the beginning of the summer. -NBC News
Dirty water. The Westchester County Department of Health closed Coveleigh Club beach Monday after 0.63 inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours, citing potential bacterial contamination from stormwater runoff. -Rosie Newmark
Nice digs. Midland and Osborn schools are moving forward with the installation of long-anticipated modular classrooms to replace old portable units that have been in use for more than 20 years. -Rosie Newmark
AROUND TOWN
-New Italian restaurant Ora is set to open today. The Italian farm to table steakhouse and speakeasy is owned and operated by two brothers and sits in the old Ocean Prime space. -Jeanne Muchnick
-Kids battled police officers in a tug-of-war and a water balloon fight at the fourth annual National Night Out sponsored by the Rye Police Department at Rye Rec last month. The event is designed to foster community and strengthen police-community partnerships. -Sydney Depietto
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BUSINESS & ORGS
Winfield Street Coffee at the Rye train station has been closed since Aug. 18.
Frustrated by the MTA’s nearly month-long closure of his café at the Rye train station, the owner of Winfield Street Coffee is threatening legal action and raising the possibility of closing shop for good.
But a glimmer of hope arose on Tuesday as the health department OK’d Donatti’s renovation plan in writing. He told The Record he could have the work done and inspected by the county this week.
-by David Hessekiel
Junior Kasen Scarperi scored twice against Westlake.
SPORTS
The Rye boys soccer team found the back of the net five times in a tight – but then it wasn’t – 5-2 victory Monday at Westlake.
Junior Kasen Scarperi scored with a left-footed, top-shelf Tomahawk steak from well outside the 18-yard box to give Rye a 1-0 lead just over four minutes into the game. Seven minutes later, Scarperi struck again to make it 2-0.
-by Steven Kearney
ARTS
Lee Sandford always wanted to write a book.
She’s a fitness instructor, business owner, and mom to three kids, but Rye resident Lee Sandford, 54, wanted one more title.
“I didn’t want to be that person who always wanted to write a book. I wanted to have done it,” said Sandford, whose first novel, “The Glass Pass,” was recently published.
The founder of Thryve, formerly Boot Camp by the Beach in Rye Town Park, and a former contributor of health articles to The Rye Record, Sandford is married to Graeme and mom to Gregor, Anna, and Kirsty.
-by Beth Levine
Senior Sienna Myers scored the first goal of the season in Rye's 8-0 win at Pelham.
SPORTS
Valerie Perkins couldn’t have scripted a better opening week as Rye field hockey’s new head coach.
The Garnets beat their first two opponents by a combined score of 15-0, shutting out Pelham in an 8-0 road win Wednesday and Ursuline 7-0 in the home opener Saturday.
At Pelham, Rye scored just three minutes into the contest and got goals from six different players, showing the versatility and depth of this year’s roster.
-by Ariana Ottrando