The Rye Boys Soccer team handed Pleasantville their first loss of the 2025 season on Saturday, October 4, as the Garnets won 4-2. Sophomore Felix Wismer netted all four goals for the Garnets in a career-best day, the first such performance since Tommy Broderick’s six-goal outburst against Harrison in 2022.
“Fantastic work from the team against a previously undefeated opponent (11-0 Pleasantville), and of course an epic performance from Felix Wismer,” Head Coach Jared Small told MyRye.com on Sunday. “We played well from the start to almost the finish, and altogether it was a strong outing from the lads against a strong league opponent who we will see again in 11 days.”
Wismer scored in four different ways: his first, in the 27th minute, came from short distance off his right foot, giving Rye a 1-0 lead. He broke a 1-1 tie in the 45th minute with a strong left-footed finish from just about the 18-yard box. The go-ahead goal was great, but Wismer wasted no time completing the hat trick, in even more impressive fashion.
“Wismer’s most clinical finish would come just 90 seconds later,” Small said. “He made a sweet one-time connection with the ball and curled it into the left upper-90 of the goal. It was a strike that only an on-form and confident striker even thinks to take, and one that very few will successfully execute.”
Wismer added his third tally of the second half after chaos in the box, capping off the best offensive performance for a Garnet in three years. Pleasantville managed to cut their deficit to two, but it was not nearly enough, as Rye earned at least a draw in seven straight games, going 6-0-1 in that stretch. They are now 8-1-2 on the year and 3-0-1 in league play. The next challenger is Eastchester on Monday, October 6, on the roadat 4:30pm. Watch the win over Pleasantville here.
