NEWBURGH, N.Y. — When Red Hook High senior guard Mathew Simmons walked off the court for the final time late in the fourth quarter in a 62-37 loss to Beacon in the Section 9 Class A boys basketball championship game on Friday, March 6, he pulled his jersey top over his face and embraced head coach Kevin Cayea on the sidelines at Mount Saint Mary College. It wasn’t the way Simmons and seven other seniors on the Red Hook roster wanted to finish out their careers. But before he addressed his team in the locker room for the last time in the 2025-2026 campaign, Cayea wanted everyone to know how he felt about this special group that finished just one win away from capturing the...
