SPORTS
A thanks for the memories sports top 10 list in a challenging, adversity-filled school year
The Port Chester High School graduation has come and gone, but the memories linger of a very special scholastic sports year because of the way the ongoing pandemic challenged lives and yet the local student-athletes endured, adapted and even thrived in the face of challenges that led to amazing accomplishments …
Student-athletes take $13K bite out of big Apple after completing STEER Technical Literacy program
It's the educational equivalent of hitting a home run, scoring the winning basket, kicking in a pivotal goal, finishing first in a major race. And each heady score was worth more than $1,000.
The hellos & goodbyes that take Rams baseball to better and more competitive small ball place
Give him an inch and he will take the varsity Rams baseball program miles away in his quest to make his players better. Rams baseball coach Sean Burke has been named League Coach of the Year for the past two years.
Softball ABCs learning curve on agenda for P.C. Rec camp with Coach M, BK
The cost of athletic excellence doesn't come cheap when you need to build a foundation from the ground up. But how does $200 for one week or $375 for two weeks of training excellence sound?
Rams reunion 18/19U Pirates baseball team starts season with 11-1 win over Armonk
It's a whole new ball game for the new/old Port Chester Pirates 18-19U varsity Rams reunion team—and they wasted no time showing that, while they ain't what they used to be, they’ve still got game by any other name.
End-of-season awards and college signings make lifetime of P.C., Blind Brook memories
The high school sports season has ended, but the post-season awards and collegiate signing commitments continue for outstanding student-athletes at Blind Brook and Port Chester high schools and one Trojan varsity coach got a fitting surprise symbolic of the beginnings and endings that go hand in hand with the cyclical …
Saw Pit Cardinals bite the dust but emerge as a new/old PCYBL Pirates baseball team
It wasn't in the baseball cards to keep going the way they were going, but a shuffle of the deck has resulted in a whole new deal.
Senior Specialty Awards Night honors 13 of PCHS’s best athletes
It was the Port Chester scholastic sports version of Hollywood's Academy Awards, Broadway's Tonys, TV's Emmys and Tin Pan Alley's recording industry Grammys.
Top tier B.B. student-athlete sextet win sports awards at Senior Banquet
It cost $50 per head for dinner at a local country club and it was necessary to dress up in country club attire, but it was more than worth it for six top-tier Blind Brook student-athletes who won major scholastic sports awards at the high school's Senior Athletics Banquet last …
July 4 baseball fireworks come early to Lyon Park with glittering PCYBL All-Star Day Extravaganza
It was peanuts, popcorn and crackerjacks take-me-out-to-the-ballgame time. Small town Americana baseball at its best. It was like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, ice cream cones melting, lots of mustard on free hot dogs, doting parents and elders and aging in-betweens remembering what it was like to be …
Close teacher & student matches light up Port Chester High School
Badminton anyone? Lots of anyones as it turned out because Port Chester's new and ever-growing Badminton Club held a two-day End-of-the-Year Doubles Tournament last Thursday and Friday (5/26/27) at the high school that resulted in close finishes in the teacher and student tournaments.
STEER helped volleyballer deal with life's ups & downs
She told it the way it was for her as a former Port Chester High School volleyball player who had more than her share of life's ups and downs before the program called STEER helped steer her towards a college degree at Morgan State University.
STEER grads, inductees wish upon a star at Yonkers Castle Royale awards banquet
It was a setting fit for royalty albeit the pseudo castle involved is in Yonkers. The Castle Royale on Waverly Place in lower Westchester's Yonkers was no famous castle like Britain's Windsor, Buckingham or Edinburgh, France's Monte Carlo, Chenonceau or Chambord, Japan's Matsumoto, or Mexico City's Chapultepec, all the global …
Taylor, Tigre & Guaman head for state qualifiers highlighting a strong T&F season-ending finish
They saved the best for last—or almost last. With the Port Chester outdoor Track & Field season coming down to its last few championship meets, the Rams and Lady Rams finished with a strong kick in the Westchester County and Section 1 Class AA title runs at three different venues …
