The Garden City varsity volleyball team had a big week as they won all three of their games. First the girls faced Clarke. Garden City defeated Clarke in only three games with scores of 25-13, 25-21 and 25-18. Jeanne Castel had a total of 8 kills and 4 blocks for the Trojans while Katherine Pastrana added 8 kills and 2 blocks. Next Garden City played Seaford. Key players included Patrice Collins, Kristen Kraff and Jamie Lee Lardner. Collins had 11 kills, 3 aces and 7 digs and Kraff had 9 assists, 3 aces and 3 digs. Lardner contributed 11 assists, 4 kills and 3 aces for a 25-19, 25-22, and 25-17 Garden City victory. The team then defeated Oceanside with scores of 25-8, 25-15, 25-27 and 25-14. Garden City showed all of their opponents that they were both physically and mentally the stronger team.

On a miserable rainy day the Garden City Trojans remained undefeated by beating the Sewanhaka Indians. Led by the league leading defense and the running of backs Dan Oppedisano and Matt Ganas. Garden City rolled to their fourth straight victory. Oppedisano rushed for 54 yards on 7 carries and 3 touchdowns while Ganas had 70 yards on 8 carries and 2 touchdowns. The Garden City defense forced 5 Sewanhaka fumbles and had one pass interception. The Trojans defense held the Indians to 3 first downs and 38 yards total offense.

Garden City opened the scoring by establishing a strong running game behind the offensive line blocking of Ryan Welch, Justin Bolebruch and Greg Pando and the running of Oppedisano, Ganas and Conor O'Brien. Oppedisano ran the ball in from the 1-yard line to give Garden City a 6-0 lead. After an exchange of fumbles Garden City defensive back Ben Kinsberg made a key interception which led the second Garden City score by Oppedisano on an 8-yard run. Garden City made the two-point conversion and the Trojans led 14-0 at the end of the first quarter.

The second quarter started with the Garden City defense led by Dennis Hannan, Pat Gibbons and Brendan Flanagan completely stopping the Sewanhaka offense. When Garden City took over the ball they scored on a 45-yard run by Ganas. Next defensive tackle Pat Zirpoli recovered a fumble to set up a 32-yard touchdown run by Oppedisano. Garden City finished the scoring in the first half on a 4-yard touchdown run by sophomore Terence Hartigan. The score at the half was Garden City 34 Sewanhaka 0.

In the third quarter Ganas scored his second touchdown on a 3-yard run and junior Oliver Schenkel finished out the Trojans scoring on a nice 21-yard touchdown run. In the second half linebacker Ryan Pomponio was responsible for recovering two Sewanhaka fumbles. The stingy Garden City defense has allowed only 13 points in its first four games.

This past week, the boys' soccer team played two great games against South Side and Hicksville. The first game of the week was played on Tuesday, Oct. 8, against South Side. The first half of the game was scoreless. Janeczko scored the first goal for Garden City on a corner kick. Kassimatis soon added another goal for Garden City to ensure the win. South Side was able to put one goal past the Garden City defense, but it wasn't enough to beat the boys. Torino had 4 saves in goal to enable the Garden City win.

The next game of the week was played on Thursday, Oct. 10. The boys started off the game with 2 goals against Hicksville. In the second half, Hicksville scored 1 goal but the boys didn't relent and scored two more goals. The final score was 4-1. Goals were score by Janezcko, Kassimatis and Vafier with 2. Torino had another great game in goal with 5 saves.