A high school girls’ varsity basketball game in New York State was canceled Thursday after players from the visiting team were subjected to antisemitic slurs, according to the New York Post.
The Leffell School, a Jewish day school in Hartsdale, faced Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers. According to Leffell player Robin Bosworth, who wrote about the game in her school’s student paper, the first half of the game was played in a “somewhat hostile environment, with substantially more jabs and comments thrown at the players on our team than what I have experienced in the past.”
Bosworth is a senior and also the editor-in-chief of the school paper, according to the Post.
In the third quarter, members of The Leffell School team began to be injured due to the opposing “team’s physical style of play,” she wrote.