SPORTS

Heckel named to Section 1 All-Star and Nike Exodus All-Star teams

It has almost become a game of can you top this for Port Chester Lady Ram sophomore basketball wunderkind Kayleigh Heckel.

Rams & Lady Rams start spring practice season

Play ball and let the good times roll because March Madness has begun on a national and local level.

Baseball Rams look to defend league title

Rams baseball head coach Sean Burke looked around Port Chester's glitzy renewed baseball diamond with the practiced eye of a jeweler looking for a diamond in the rough earlier this week at the official start of the spring practice season. He saw a lot of glitterati, the genuine article, the …

Big 3 emerges from 40 Lady Ram varsity softball candidates

It is the last softball go around for Madison (Madi) Ostrowski, one of the greatest female athletes in Port Chester history as was her legendary big sister Brooklyn (BK) who is now playing for Villanova on scholarship as will Madi next year. Albeit with one big difference.

Moderators Gomez and DiNome help make badminton the newest and fastest-rising Port Chester club sport

Badminton, anyone? A lot of students responded affirmatively to that question. Or, more specifically, they responded to the following query more or less:

Local talent learns ice hockey ABCs skating for Coach Rob's Mod Squad

Remember the Titans. That is the title of a classic football film starring Mount Vernon's own Denzel Washington—the true story of a newly-appointed African American coach and his high school team in their first season as a racially integrated unit.

Mikayla, the hockey-playing Rye Brook girl on ice is the only female playing for Titans Mod Squad

It is the athletic moment that comes from they don’t know where. Nor does the gifted teen-aged athlete care where those feelings come from. She just knows it is there. 

Forever memories of Ram Nation Day to unfold in a parade of blue and white

They are called forever memories. Not the instant gratification that comes from winning an important game by scoring a clutch goal, basket, strike, hitting a home run or winning a race in the last stride.

Ramirez & Tigre named T&F indoor MVPs with both qualifying for state championships

More than 90 runners turned out for the Rams and Lady Rams Track & Field indoor winter season, but now, as the season winds down, only two qualified for the state championships Saturday (3/5) at the Ocean Breeze Track on Staten Island with a third a near miss.

Wrestling Rams rack up numerous post-season awards

For the first time since 2006, Westchester's large school Section 1 Class AA didn't win a state wrestling championship in the finals conducted at the MVP Arena in Albany this past weekend. 

Final buzzer sounds for B.B. girls’ basketball

Following a long, hard-fought season, the Blind Brook girls’ basketball season is finally coming to an end. With the final game, the team sends off three seniors, including Anna Bouadze, Alexandra Lucchese and captain Gabby Tucker. With a bittersweet ending, the team not only loses three strong players, but also …

Cheerleaders make Port Chester history in Disney World as 1st team to qualify for Nationals Game Day Competition

It is not every day that a Port Chester team makes history by earning a bid to compete in the National Championships at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., with a dazzling combination of stunts, pyramids, jumps, dances, pom poms and crowd participation.

The behind-the-scenes All-Star lineup that makes the new PCHS gym the gym dandiest around

It is the ultimate Westchester high school playpen, the gym dandiest of all local gymnasium gems, a now and forever mecca proclaiming Port Chester as the host to local games and tournaments as well as Divisional, Sectional and even Northeast championships for years to come.

Top ten Port Chester winter season events during an unfolding sports year like no other

The Winter Olympics in Beijing have come and gone, but memories of its thrills, spills and heartaches linger on. The same holds true for the just concluded Port Chester winter scholastic sports season. 

Two Lady Ram hoop starters miss playoffs and Heckel can’t do it alone against New Ro

It was short and not-so-sweet, more like bittersweet. That describes the Lady Ram basketball team's one-and-done run in the playoffs Tuesday (2/22) at New Rochelle. It was more like a funeral procession than a run.