SPORTS
Lady Rams swim team hits water daily at 5:45 a.m.
They're all wet, but they like being in the water so much they start making a splash at 5:45 a.m. each weekday in the pool at the Carver Center, and they are all in on the early start—in fact, they voted for it so they could get as much practice …
Upcoming season looks bright for Blind Brook boys’ soccer
Leading the Blind Brook boys’ varsity soccer team this year as senior captains are Jack Sassower, Daniel Karetsky, Ethan Taerstein and Nico Gonzalez. Over the last few years, these four have proven themselves as not only excellent athletes, but fearless leaders.
Curtain going up on new scholastic sports season
It is showtime for Port Chester's seven high school interscholastic teams. It is time for another opening, another show for varsity Rams football, Rams and Lady Rams soccer, cross country and Lady Rams volleyball, tennis and swimming.
Whistleblower effect on the stops and goes of pre-season opening practices at PCHS
It is whistleblower time on the Port Chester High School playing fields—in the best and worst sense of the word.
Valedictorian and all-around athlete Danny Hinz checks into UVA with emphasis on academics
Instead of standing behind the center, taking the pre-season snap as quarterback for the Port Chester Rams football team at practice at the high school, former All-Section 1 QB Danny Hinz was checking into his first class Tuesday (8/23) at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville after moving into …
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)
