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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.

The sky is the limit for STEER's Skylar Sams

Lights, camera, action! The director in the television studio starts giving the countdown, 10, nine, eight, and when the count comes down to one, there is a deep intake of breath in the interviewer's chair and Port Chester High School rising freshman Skylar Sams lobs a softball "marshmallow" at her …

20U Pirates hit by shutouts, rain, coronavirus but looking to get back on track in the GHVBL

Nobody ever said it was going to be easy—and it hasn't, but it already has been a lot better than it was last year when they won only two games all season long as the Saw Pit Cardinals.

P.C. 12U Pirates have a memorable tourney at Cal Ripken Myrtle Beach Experience in S.C.

It was the stuff that a young baseball player's dreams are made of. It was a chance for a summer getaway to play a week's worth of baseball against some of the nation's best similar age group teams.

Batting averages, All-Star selections and camp help Lady Rams gain respect in softball circles

 When they announced the All-Star teams the other day, the Yankees led the American League with six selections, the Mets had four and the Port Chester Lady Rams had two in Madison (Madi) Ostrowski and Kayleigh Heckel—but even when Port Chester was respected in the naming of stars selected in …

Rams Rising baseball 'one-run loss bandits' getting their act together in new HS league

The returning Rams baseball team's mounting losses in a new off-season summer Rising High School Players baseball league are all part of a season's seasoning process—and those losses will make them better varsity players when the games start for real next spring, according to head coach Sean Burke.

New winning outlook goes beyond name change for reincarnated Rams 20U alumni Pirates

In their first reincarnation last year, the Rams alumni reunion baseball team won just two games during their inaugural 20-game season playing under the name of the Saw Pit Cardinals.

12U PCYBL Pirates endure ups, downs in Cal Ripken Tourney in Myrtle Beach

They were trying to do what only one age group baseball team in Port Chester history has ever done before.

Writer takes a heartfelt walk down memory lane provoked by a meditation on the PCHS graduation

Just in time for the 4th of July weekend, a strange thing happened to me—seven decades worth of accumulated high school memories started exploding in my mind like long-simmering fireworks, dying Roman candles.

PCYBL Pirates 20U alumni reunion team beats Connecticut's Kent White Sox at PCHS

In the end, the ultra-competitive Division 1 College World Series (CWS) came down to eight teams—Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, Texas, Arkansas, Stanford, Mississippi and Auburn.

Rising High School League Rams learning while losing 2 of 3 games

The Rising High School League 16-game summer baseball season has only just begun, and it has already been a rollercoaster ride for the young Port Chester Rams.