SPORTS

Ostrowski sisters check in to start playing for Villanova

For the first time in more than a decade, there won't be an Ostrowski girl stepping onto a Port Chester High School playing field as one of the school's best athletes ever, male or female.

Fall pre-season sports practice starts Monday

Ready, set, go—and ready or not, the Port Chester High School fall scholastic sports pre-season practices start Monday (8/22).

STEER for Student-Athletes summer programs offer record number of local innovative projects

Scholastic sports championships aren't won in August. But the road to interscholastic athletic success consists of a year-round drive to get there—and that includes summertime when the living is supposed to be easy but isn't locally. 

'Off the Sand' Port Chester sextet helps local team win Oakland Beach VB title after 20 years of trying

Better late than never, but who woulda thunk it because life is a beach and the tide seemed to keep running against them with more ebbs than flows.

Injuries are part of the game on a pro, collegiate and high school level, as Port Chester well knows

When it comes to athletic injuries, the body keeps score—and sore. That's just the way it goes from the pros to the colleges all the way down to high schools like Port Chester. In just the past week, for example:

PCYBL 12U Pirates travel team stages another comeback

They paid their dues time after time, my friend—and now they are the champions. That is, of course, a paraphrase of the Queen rock classic "We Are the Champions" written by lead singer Freddie Mercury and first recorded on Oct. 7, 1977.

Baseball Rams score on and off the field with ABCA

It was as easy as saying ABCA. Only saying those first three letters of the alphabet is easier than understanding what they mean baseball-wise. 

PCYBL travel teams have ups and downs in playoffs but the 8U Black Pirates excel with a walk-off win

It was the kind of game filled with the special baseball moments that made all the practices, all the drills, all the running, catching, sliding and bunting repetitions worthwhile.

PCYBL 20U Pirates Rams reunion squad close out season with two losses

The Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) 20U Pirates travel team, basically a varsity Rams reunion squad playing for the love of the game, lost their regular season's final game last Wednesday (7/27) as well as their first Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League one-and-done playoff game Sunday (7/31)

Rams alumni reunion PCYBL 20U Pirates team splits a regular season deuce on way to playoffs

Between rainouts and cancellations due to the ongoing threat of the Omicron variant, it has been a stop-and-go race to the regular season finish line for the 20U Port Chester Youth Baseball League Pirates, basically a high school varsity Rams alumni reunion team consisting of local players who have either …

PCYBL sends five top-tier U teams into upcoming GHVBL playoffs

It is a whole new ballgame for the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League. And Port Chester is ready to rumble. The regular season is over. And the playoffs are about to begin.

PCYBL sends five top-tier U teams into upcoming GHVBL playoffs

It is a whole new ballgame for the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League.

Rams alumni reunion PCYBL 20U Pirates team splits a regular season deuce on way to playoffs

Between rainouts and cancellations due to the ongoing threat of the Omicron variant, it has been a stop-and-go race to the regular season finish line for the 20U Port Chester Youth Baseball League Pirates, basically a high school varsity Rams alumni reunion team consisting of local players who have either …

8U PCYBL Pirates put a new U in age group baseball with league play a university-like learning experience

Although it does matter to the young Port Chester baseball players involved, it really doesn't matter whether they win or lose at the outset of their careers in the Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL).

12U PCYBL Pirates steal a championship from Angels in N.J. 'Slugfest' Tournament

The Angels couldn't stop the steal and that proved costly because the Port Chester Youth Baseball League 12U Pirates wound up stealing away with yet another New Jersey championship in their last at bat.