SPRING 2023
Seniors ( left to right ) Max Del Pino , Ryan Neville , Nick Stellabotte , and Danny Drotos hold their framed plaques on Senior Day .
SPORTS ROUNDUP
The spring sports season was another successful one for the Rams with multiple CHSAA titles . We also said farewell to the 16 spring season student-athletes who will be participating in athletics at the collegiate level .
LEFT TO RIGHT : Tyler Kane , Griffin Shea , Brian Hickey , Will Conway , and Patrick O ’ Connell helped Fordham Prep Crew take home silver at the New York State Scholastic Championship 2023 in Saratoga Springs .
Baseball
The Rams finished the regular season with a 12 – 12 overall record in “ AA ” Division play . The team was led by a core group of seniors , seven of which — Danny Drotos , Thomas Skrobe , Michael Lunny , Nick Stellabotte , Nelphie Lopez , Max Del Pino , and Hugo Kohnhorst — will play next year at the college level . Over the
Easter break , the Rams traveled to Myrtle Beach , South Carolina , where they picked up a win over Edgewood City and dropped a second game to Bowling Green .
After a strong push to end the regular season , the Rams began the playoffs by defeating St . Joes by the Sea on a walk-off single by Hugo Kohnhorst in the third game of the series . After a 6 – 0 loss to Iona Prep , the Rams defeated Archbishop Stepinac in an elimination game before falling 4 – 2 to Kennedy Catholic to finish their 2023 campaign .
The JV team finished the regular season with a 10 – 10 record . They ended their season with a playoff loss to St . Joe ’ s by the Sea . The Freshmen team finished the regular season with a 12 – 5 overall record . They ended their season with a playoff loss to Archbishop Stepinac .
Crew
The Varsity and Freshman Crew teams spent their spring break in South Carolina training and honing their skills , rowing three times a day starting at dawn . The team then had their first spring season race in Philadelphia at the Manny Flick Regatta . Tyler Kane , Patrick O ’ Connell , Will Conway , Brian Hickey , and Griffin Shea won third-place in the Freshmen boys 4 + race .
Varsity and Freshmen Crew later performed well at the 2023 Saratoga Invitational , where Robert Romani ’ 24 won third place in the Boys 1x . A week later at the NYS Scholastic Championship 2023 in Saratoga Springs the Freshmen 4 + boat won second place . It included Tyler Kane , Griffin Shea , Brian Hickey , Will Conway , and Patrick O ’ Connell .
The Crew teams finished the spring season back in Philadelphia at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta , the largest high-school rowing regatta in the world with over 4,000 competitors and 180 teams from the U . S . and Canada . Robert Romani ’ 24 advanced to the second round where he finished in fourth place in the 1x race .
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