SPORTS
PCYBL 8U and 12U teams’ ups and downs on way from Lyon Park to Maple Shade, N.J.
The Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) Pirates teams had their age-group ups and downs in the past week from top to bottom, from the oldest to the youngest in league and tournament play stretching from Lyon Park to Rec Field to Maple Point, N.J.
Go-to Rams a hit in GHVBL summer league with Big 4 and the newbies closing on a roll
The graduated go-to players are gone, the projected go-to players are here, and the question for the Port Chester Rams 18U summer baseball team is whether their current designated go-to players will be up to holding down the pivotal go-to role in crunch time.
Lineup change helps the 20U Pirates get their act together with late wins
It was a collegiate first—the first time a pair of teammates went one-two as the top picks in Major League Baseball's First Year Player Draft at T-Mobile Park in Seattle last Sunday (7/9).
Lacrosse season over but Trojans keep scoring
Blind Brook has long since closed out its lacrosse season by winning the league championship and its first game in the playoffs, but still the Trojans keep on scoring by achieving new LAX goals, the latest coming last Thursday (July 6).
Time flies in remembrance of fleeting races past
The U.S. Outdoor Track and Field National Championships took place last weekend (7/7-9) at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field in Eugene, with the top three finishers in each of the events qualifying to represent the U.S. in the world championships in Budapest Aug. 16-27.
Baseball hits, high school All-Stars and local lore on PCYBL 8U level
The regular high school baseball season is over, the U age group season is beginning, and the hits keep coming, both the accolades and the unusual.
It's end of the coaching line for Manny Martinez after 34-year career at Port Chester and Blind Brook
In sports they say a game ain't over until it's over. In opera the appropriate saying is the stage action isn't over until the fat lady sings one last time. And the Broadway musical hit formula notes that the dramatically climactic 11 o'clock number signals the end is near.
Blind Brook relay team impresses in Nike Nationals in Oregon
The Blind Brook boys relay team flew to Oregon for the Nike Nationals on Friday, June 16. The relay team has made history this year, breaking multiple school records and becoming the first Blind Brook relay team to qualify for the national championships.
Port Chester inches closer to fielding varsity LAX team
With interest in high school lacrosse mounting, Scarsdale, Rye and Briarcliff all lost in the LAX state semi-finals to Long Island schools at the University at Albany earlier this month.
20U Pirates open GHVBL summer season by losing early error-filled deuce at Rec Park
It may have been something in the murky air drifting in from those Canadian wildfires or it could have been rust from lack of practice, first game jitters or just not yet time enough to bond as a team, but whatever it was, it wasn't good. The 20U Pirates lost …
Long jump fouls hurt Taylor in state championships
It didn't have the desired happy Hollywood ending. It included a decision mired in controversy. But a lot of good things still happened along the way despite history repeating itself. And more good things could still happen.
Pirates in the Park Day marks the unofficial start of GHVBL summer season at Lyon Park Saturday
It isn't easy for a Pirate to become a Ram. It usually takes almost a decade, from age four to 12 to be exact. It isn't, of course, a physical transformation. It is more like an adjustment to a new name. And, in local age group baseball, there is no …
Baseball 18U Rams brace for a summer season that includes what coach sees as 'an epic rebuild'
Hits don't count. Even in a no-hitter. As long as the bottom line shows your team has more runs than the other team. And therein lies in implicit challenge for the Port Chester Rams and their baseball community, starting from the Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) on up to …
PCYBL upstages July MLB All-Star Game in Seattle with its All-Star Saturday extravaganza in Lyon Park
It is not every day that the Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) manages to upstage Major League Baseball (MLB).
