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HVRHS honors student athletes at Winter Sports Award Night

FALLS VILLAGE — The Housatonic Valley Regional High School athletic department celebrated Winter Sports Awards Night on March 26.

The evening began in the auditorium with special presentations. Symbolic basketballs were presented to girls varsity basketball coach Steven Dodge for his 100th win; first year boys varsity basketball coach Kurt Johnson for his first Housatonic win; and to Sydney Segalla for becoming the 11th member of the Housatonic 1,000 Point club.

The Four Year Award was presented to three seniors who earned a varsity letter in one sport all four years: Sydney Segalla and Tori Dodge for girls basketball and Landon Good for ice hockey.

The following student athletes were named Berkshire League Scholar Athletes for the winter season: Emma Crane, Victoria Dodge, Josie Marks, Haley Leonard, Dana Saccardi, Mackenzie Ongley, Sydney Segalla, Mary LaFond, Grace Riva, Daniela Brennan, Tessa Dekker, Amelia Dodge, Ellanor Karcheski, Abigail White and Kylie Leonard (girls basketball); Noah Shippa, Austin Bayer, Joey Brennan, Aman Egan, Alexander Hedhili, James Wiggins, Carter Sneller, Logan Dean, Eli Bosio, Mason O’Niel, Ethan Fenn (boys basketball); Katya Nweeia, Mary Genevieve Ireland, Lola Moerschell, August Dekker, Zoe Gillette, Caitlin Sorrell, Shanea Togninalli, Margot Minton, Lily Najdek, Magdalena Sedlatschek (swimming); Manasseh Matsudaira, Melody Matsudaira, Katerin McEnroe, Gariela Titone (skiing); Landon Good, Cole Mollica and Zim McAuliffe (ice hockey).

The ceremony continued as teams broke into classrooms to award Varsity letters, JV certificates and team awards. Sydney Segalla and Victoria Dodge were named Most Valuable Players for girls basketball while Emma Crane was named Most Improved. Josie Marks was awarded the Sportsmanship Award. Tessa Dekker and Lou Haemmerle were awarded the Tyburski Award for Outstanding Freshmen. Anne Moran was named the JV team Most Improved and Kylie Leonard was awarded the Stevenson Award for Sportsmanship.

The boys basketball Most Valuable Player was awarded to Russell Sears and the Most Improved went to Xan Hedhili. The Varsity Sportsmanship award was awarded to Austin Bayer. Jesse Bonhotel was awarded the Tyburski Award. Jacob Marcus was awarded the JV Most Improved award and Noah Shippa received the Stevenson Award for Sportsmanship.

Cole Mollica was awarded the ice hockey Most Valuable award while Colin Goguen (from Wolcott Tech) was awarded the Most Improved award. The Sportsmanship Award went to Ryan Mercogliano from Torrington and the Rookie of the Year went to Sean Mercogliano from Torrington. The ice hockey team is a co-op team made up of five schools: Torrington, Wolcott Tech, Wamogo, Northwestern and Housatonic.

The swim team Top Swimmer Awards were awarded to Mia Bayer, Gus Dekker and Zoe Gillette. Zoe also received the Sportsmanship Award. Lola Moerschell was named the Tyburski Award winner. The Most Improved award was not given.

Gregory Meindl was named Most Valuable for the ski team while Melody Matsudaira was named the Most Improved. Manny Matsudaira was awarded the Varsity Sportsmanship award and Gabriela Titone was awarded the Stevenson Award for JV Sportsmanship. The Tyburski Award was given to Katerin McEnroe.

Anne MacNeil is the Region One Athletic Director.

Anne MacNeil

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