SPORTS

Following scrimmage Friday vs TZee, baseball Rams will open season Monday

March Madness is here—baseball variety, that is. And despite the lingering chill in the air, it is time to play ball.

Ram wrestling version of the Academy Awards serves up 12 'Oscars' at the local 7 Willow Café

It was the equivalent of the Academy Awards for local high school wrestling served up along with dinner last Thursday night, Mar. 14, at Port Chester's 7 Willow Café—and what a celebratory show it was. More than 115 wrestling aficionados turned out to turn the dining room into a hallowed …

Loneliness of a Lady Ram distance runner on the rocky, winding road to excellence

When the going gets tough, the tough get going, as the saying goes, but that saying doesn't go far enough when applied to Port Chester's top Lady Rams distance runner Alexandra Cruz, a student-scholar-leader extraordinaire who has gone farther than most—and not just on the track.

The 10 most memorable scholastic sports events that were highlights of P.C./B.B. winter season

During the local scholastic sports winter season, the schedule brimmed over with stirringly thrilling performances and many moments to remember at both Port Chester and Blind Brook on the high school level.

Old Rams return & everything old becomes new again as new crop of student-athletes starts the spring season

Coaching changes at Port Chester High School will give a new look to the spring sports season that starts Monday (3/11). Everything old will become new again for the estimated 400 student-athletes who will compete in four varsity sports—baseball, softball, tennis and Track & Field.

Ex-Ram athletic star comes home to pay it forward as part of new P.C. STEER student-athlete program

Former Rams football and Track & Field star Jordan Lewis asks not for whom the bells toll. Not after having his bell rung so many times on the gridiron that he gave up the sport in college because of the concussions he endured as part of the game.

The Titans’ final show

After the Rye Town-Harrison Titans defeated the Rivertown Legends on Saturday, Feb. 10 at Westchester Skating Academy in Elmsford, they moved to their second round of playoffs against Cortlandt on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at Playland Ice Casino in Rye.

Ram baseball practices underway at PCHS

Major League Baseball pre-season games are underway in warmer clime training camps stretching from Arizona to Florida. And while the Port Chester baseball Rams play in a very different kind of league, unofficial practices are also underway in the old and new high school gym, albeit in a much colder …

Blind Brook girls’ basketball falls to Westlake in quarterfinals

After a whirlwind season, the year came to a close for Blind Brook’s girls’ basketball team with a playoff loss to Westlake. The team—filled with heart and passion for the sport–exited the court for the final time this season with a 13-8 record and plenty to look back on.

B.B. boys’ hoops lose in first round of playoffs

The Blind Brook Trojans basketball team entered the playoffs with tons of confidence following their win over Pleasantville to end the regular season. They earned the 5 seed in the playoffs after finishing with a 13-8 record and were set to play the 4th seeded Westlake Wildcats in the first …

Nationally-ranked cheerleaders in rebuilding mode while out to change stigma against males on team

Port Chester hasn't had much to cheer about during a dreary winter scholastic sports season because just about every varsity team has had a losing season except, ironically, its cheerleaders.

Local hoops March Madness comes to Carver Center with age-group tournament featuring 70 future stars

The Port Chester basketball Rams failed to make the Section 1 hoops championship playoffs currently underway, the Lady Rams were one and done, and both teams are coming off another losing season, but there's still a local tournament about to get underway stocked with a galaxy of future stars.

Track & Field team winds up winter indoor season in beat the clock final races in NYC at The Armory

It's about time! And that's what the Port Chester Track & Field Team was really all about—fast times, that is—during the winter indoor season that was and wasn't.

The ins and outs of basketball post-season playoffs

If a team is only as good as its record, no matter how you spin it, the basketball Rams weren't very good and nowhere good enough to make it into the Section 1 playoffs with the seeding brackets announced last Monday (2/12).

Iona Prep's Dan Pauletti signs grid commitment to play for Ithaca

It was a life-changing announcement for three Iona Prep football players, a Feb. 7 statement from the New Rochelle school saying the student-athlete trio had committed to playing collegiate sports as part of the school year's second National Signing day. For local grid aficionados, the name that stood out in …