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The Glen Rock Panthers Baseball team will be wearing stirrups this season. Four players wore stirrups last year against Ridgefield including Max Felsenstein, Parker Chan, Matthew Lange, and Jason Palmeri.

Baseball team is rock ‘n the socks

by Max Felsenstein, Managing Editor October 12, 2015

For years, baseball “fashion” was dominated by the stirrups. Stirrups are baseball socks that are half cut from the bottom, leaving an area for a sanitary sock underneath. Until the early 1990s,...

The new fitness center will keep students physically active during school hours and after school hours.

APR converted to new fitness center

by Max Felsenstein, Managing Editor September 24, 2015

Glen Rock High School has added a new Fitness Center, located in the All-Purpose Room, for students to use with their Physical Education classes, their respective sports teams, or on their own. “The...

English teacher Ms. Allen covers an English 11 class, while the Board of Education is in the process of interviewing possible candidates.

High school seeks new English teacher to fill vacated position

by Max Felsenstein, Julia Rooney, Beth Keefe, and Jack Jensen September 9, 2015

The search for a replacement high school English teacher has progressed with the publication of an advertisement in newspapers this past weekend. Just two days before the start of the new school year,...

Bridget swimming breaststroke.

Swimming with the sharks

by Anne Vandervalk, Staff Writer June 15, 2015

It is spring 2013, and the weather is hot and steamy in Indianapolis. Cheering accentuates the atmosphere as many girls and boys dive into the pool and break the surface of the water. It is Bridget...

Glen Rock High School freshman Mia Ramdayal studies for the SAT test.

Should GRHS have an SAT prep class?

by Nicola Fornino, Staff Writer June 4, 2015

Many students at GRHS are well prepared to take their SATs. But would an SAT prep class at our school be beneficial? In the past, there has been an SAT prep class at GRHS. This class was hosted by a...

Kopyta tore his ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his elbow while pitching for UMASS and even thought about quitting baseball afterwards.

Baseball’s broken arm

by Max Felsenstein, Sports Editor April 21, 2015

“It happened during an extended bullpen session,” said Glen Rock High School alumnus Jeff Kopyta.  After throwing thousands of baseballs, after years of town recreational baseball, travel baseball,...

Where to buy your baseball equipment

Where to buy your baseball equipment

by Max Felsenstein, Sports Editor February 3, 2015

Snowstorms, cold temperatures and ice … and my thoughts go immediately to baseball! Not that my thoughts ever really drift from baseball but as I write this article, there are only 31 days until Friday,...

The Glen Rock Baseball team has had to get used to using BBCOR bats over the past four seasons.

Where did the home runs go?

by Max Felsenstein, Sports Editor February 1, 2015

Hitting a round object with a round object… It is often said that hitting a baseball is the toughest thing to do in sports. Over the four past amateur baseball seasons, hitting has become even tougher...

The 2015-16 Glen Rock Panthers baseball team would benefit from a trip to Georgia for Perfect Games Spring Swing.

Making a pitch

by Max Felsenstein, Sports Editor January 20, 2015

Every February, all thirty Major League Baseball teams travel down to various sites in Florida and Arizona to play competitive exhibition games and prepare for the upcoming baseball season. Additionally,...

Bullpen on deck for spring season

Bullpen on deck for spring season

by Max Felsenstein, Sports Editor January 5, 2015

Sixty feet and six inches of pure grass and the finest baseball dirt, a holding area for the “bulls” (pitchers) to warm up before they’re sent off to annihilate opposing hitters. For the Glen...

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