The Dragons win again!

HSMSE Volleyball

On March 21, High School for Math, Science and Engineering's volleyball team, the Dragons, played a scrimmage against Bronx High School of Science's "B" volleyball team, the Wolverines. The Dragons ended up with the victory, but the Wolverines put up a great fight. One key player for the game was Yassine Khaliqui.  Khaliqui is a junior that has been playing on the Dragons' team for two seasons.

The Dragons won this game, but there were some flaws in their playing. First of all, there was little to no communication happening. Therefore, there was a lot of confusion in the air as well as collisions. Another blemish was the repeated mistake of blocks.When attempting a block, the hands are supposed to be out in front so that the ball does not roll onto the floor. The team members were not able to control this, which led to many points being scored by the other team.

Khaliqui played a very well game today, but had troubles with blocking. In today's game  Khaliqui was able to pick up four kills in his eight attack attempts. This is a great record and not only that, but it seemed that Khaliqui has been working on his blocks because he was able to get two blocks in this game. Another key feature Khaliqui has added to the team was his assists. In total Khaliqui received three assists without being a setter. In an interview Khaliqui was asked what he could do to improve. He replied, "I can improve on hitting and blocks. Wait and I need to be less hot."

The future of the Dragons seems very bright and it seems that they are looking at a chance for the playoffs. If the Dragons and Khaliqui can continue playing this they are almost guaranteed to go to the playoffs, but they must cover up their flaws. 

The HSMSE Dragons victory over Lab Museum Gators

The High School for Math Science and Engineering's basketball team, had a very interesting match against Lab Museum United's basketball team, on the 19th of December. HSMSE was able to pick up the victory which was a very easy win for them.

The Dragons started off strong. In the first quarter the HSMSE Dragons, had a lead of 10-0. They got the ball moving throughout the team and were exercising their advantage of height. The Gators, on the other hand, weren’t getting it together and they weren’t passing the ball properly. This left them with a weak offense and defense. The HSMSE Dragons got into the paint with the slightest of ease leading to a big advance in points. The Dragons were playing man to man defense allowing the Gators to only score a very limited amount of points.

In the second quarter the HSMSE Dragons showed they were tired. Their game got very sloppy in defense and they allowed points to slip. They also performed many fouls some of which were good and some that were unnecessary. The Dragons changed up their style of play to zone playing. This resulted to give up in points. In an interview with Coach Epstein, he said “We had a strong first half, but we had a bad second half… we allowed them to score easily and gave up too many free throws.”

Key players that had huge effects in this game were Kavan Edwards. Edwards, the key player of the game, had a total of six rebounds, and 25 points. He scored almost half of the points for the Dragons. Besides Edwards, Dylan Agyemang was another key player for Dragons. Agyemang had a total score of 12 points with two rebounds.

The Dragons and the Gators had a great match. The Dragons started off their games strong but as the game went on, they lost their power. At the end of the match the Dragons got a total of 51 points and the Gators a total of 40 points. Hopefully, the HSMSE Dragons will be able to fix their flaws and retaliate with even better performance.