BW Player of The Week: Zavion Vassel Scores First Touchdown As Knights Win Inaugural Game At Newly Renovated Memorial Field
Mount Vernon Knights Senior Zavion Vassel scored the first touchdown in the first game at the newly renovated Memorial Field, Saturday, September 24th. The long touchdown rush that put the Knights up by 8, was also the first game Zavion played in Memorial Field in Mount Vernon’s 32-24 victory over the Yonkers Force. You can tell by the cheers Mount Vernonites enjoyed seeing their Knights get off to a fast start and had memories of old games at Memorial Field. It was electric when the Knights came out the tunnel for the coin toss. Superintendent Dr. Waveline Bennett-Conroy, Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard and Westchester County Executive George Latimer joined the players on the field for the coin-toss. “This is our home,” Patterson-Howard said. “This is the jewel of Mount Vernon.” People began arriving by 11 a.m. – two and a half hours before game-time – to see the renovated field in action. Zavion who is 17-years-old never had the opportunity to play in Memorial Field when he was a Razorback since the famed park had been closed since he was one. Unlike Razorbacks before him like People Before Politics Radio Co-host Robert ‘Dr. Bob’ Baskerville, Zavion and the Razorbacks played at Brush [...]
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Mount Vernon Knights Senior Zavion Vassel scored the first touchdown in the first game at the newly renovated Memorial Field, Saturday, September 24th. The long touchdown rush that put the Knights up by 8, was also the first game Zavion played in Memorial Field in Mount Vernon’s 32-24 victory over the Yonkers Force. You can tell by the cheers Mount Vernonites enjoyed seeing their Knights get off to a fast start and had memories of old games at Memorial Field. It was electric when the Knights came out the tunnel for the coin toss. Superintendent Dr. Waveline Bennett-Conroy, Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard and Westchester County Executive George Latimer joined the players on the field for the coin-toss. “This is our home,” Patterson-Howard said. “This is the jewel of Mount Vernon.” People began arriving by 11 a.m. – two and a half hours before game-time – to see the renovated field in action. Zavion who is 17-years-old never had the opportunity to play in Memorial Field when he was a Razorback since the famed park had been closed since he was one. Unlike Razorbacks before him like People Before Politics Radio Co-host Robert ‘Dr. Bob’ Baskerville, Zavion and the Razorbacks played at Brush [...]
