16 MAY 23, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Top seed Maspeth HS girls fl ag football
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
After five years of consistently
making the playoffs, Maspeth High
School’s girls varsity flag football
team made the number one seed in
the Public School Athletic League
playoffs, the first time a Queens flag
football team has done so.
With a record of 11-1, the team
has more wins than any of its
competitors.
“Last year we were in the elite eight.
We’re hoping to finally push past the
final four and get that championship,”
said assistant principal and coach
Jesse Pachter.
Pachter, and his co-coach Daniel
Sepulveda, have been surprised and
pleased by the team’s progress this
season. The team lost its quarterback,
star wide receiver and center after
they graduated last year.
“We were thinking this might be
a rebuilding season, but the people
who took the spots are really taking
control and the team is really
gelling. There’s a lot of good things
happening,” Pachter said.
The PSAL offered flag football
for the first time ever in 2014, when
Photo courtesy of Maspeth High School
the league split up it into an A and
B division and MHS made it to the
upper tier. The team has been in the
playoffs every single year since the
creation of the league, but two years
ago they made it to the final four,
marking the first time a team made
it there from Queens.
The Lady Argos will compete in
the quarter-finals at 4:30 p.m. May
23 at Juniper Park, 80th St., Middle
Village.
“We’re looking to make a deep run,”
Pachter said.
Ridgewood remembers beloved historian
The Greater Ridgewood Historical Society held a memorial service on May 19 at the Onderdonk House to honor the life and memory of George
Miller, a long-time member of the preservation group who died last year. The society also dedicated the house’s History and Genealogy Resource
Rooms in his honor. Miller served for many years as the society’s offi cial historian and archivist, and was involved in the production of the Times
Newsweekly’s 100th anniversary issue back in 2008. Steve Monte, president of the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society, led the ceremony.
Photo courtesy of Linda Monte
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