The Blind Brook boys’ varsity soccer team kicked off their 2019 regular season this past week, going 1-0-3 in a packed first week.

The first week of the scholastic sports season has come and gone, but rather than dwell on the combined 2-7 record of five of the major Port Chester varsity sports teams, the coaches are focusing on the educational value of how much the Ram and Lady Ram student athletes have learned even as they have stumbled out of the starting gate.

Jaylen Cummings ran 17 yards for a touchdown on a busted play in the second quarter, Fernando Cardenas kicked the extra point and followed up shortly thereafter with a 30-yard field goal and the Port Chester Rams varsity football team went into halftime with a 10-0 lead over the Scarsdale Raiders in their regular season opening game last Saturday, Sept. 7 at SUNY Purchase in the college's debut as their home field.

It was the frightening moment when she saw that life as she knew it up until that instant was about to change. Maybe forever.

Gifted and talented are words being bandied about nowadays in educational circles.

The eight Port Chester Ram and Lady Ram varsity high school sports teams are bucking a national trend that shows participation in high school sports dropped in 2018-19 for the first time in 30 years with that dip including a decline in football for the fifth straight year.

With pre-season practice over and the new Port Chester varsity football team's regular season starting Saturday (9/7), here are 10 takeaways to consider going into the home opener against Scarsdale at 1:30 p.m. at SUNY Purchase.

The on-field events during this week’s pre-season soccer practice at Port Chester High School triggered reminiscences of that song line that goes: "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer, if one of those bottles should happen to fall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall" and subtracting down the line until there are none left.

Only instead of all those bottles of brew, there were 99 players out on the field, all trying out for a chance to make the varsity Rams soccer roster, that number a tribute to the popularity of the sport among Port Chester's heavily Latin American community.