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PCYBL 12U Pirates make it to Cooperstown to play in prestigious age group tourney in historic village

They lost 6-1 to Croton in the first round of the 12U age group Greater Hudson Valley League Summer Season playoffs, finished the season with an 8-4-2 record that included tying for first place in the prestigious Sacred Heart Slugfest Tournament in Hainesport, N.J., and didn't have the kind of …

First Port Chester girls 11U travel softball team branches out into a Fall GHVBL league of their own

It ain't over until it is over and even then, it isn't over for the first ever 11U Port Chester Youth Baseball League Pirates girls’ travel softball team.

Rye Brook 11U Rebels make winnin’ look easy in playoff opener

The Rebs made it look easy which is what happens when the pitchers pitch and the hitters hit, the defense comes up with the big play and the runners run the bases like there was no stopping the steal.

PCYBL 10U Pirates win GHVBL playoffs deuce to cruise into the semi-finals Friday at Lyon Park

In the one-and-done way that unpredictable age-group playoff baseball unfolds, when a team trails 7-0 at the end of the first inning, it looks like game and season over. But not for the Port Chester Youth Baseball League 10U Pirates because they rallied for nine runs in the bottom of …

Rams upcoming football season a mixture of familiar and unfamiliar Indy team names

The pro football Giants and Jets are already practicing for the new grid season which means the local scholastic football season can't be far behind—and judging by the newly-released Port Chester Rams schedule, it is going to be an intriguing one.

PCYBL backs 11U travel softball team started by moms

Lady Rams head softball coach Jeanine Maiolini has been saying for what seems like forever that Port Chester needs a girls’ travel team to play off-season if the high school wants to be able to compete against the area's better teams with their year-round programs.

Rye Brook 11U Rebels win Mayhem Tournament in key tune-up for the upcoming GHVBL playoffs

The Rye Brook 11U age group Rebels warmed up for their upcoming Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League playoffs opening game at home Sunday by sweeping four consecutive games on their way to winning the United States Amateur Baseball League New Jersey Mayhem Tournament July 13-14 in Nutley, N.J.

Rams’ German and Blind Brook's Rogovic dual aces named to Lohud's '24 Westchester/Putnam All-Stars

The pair of local pitching aces are Rams junior sensation Jordany German, one of the few non-seniors named to the team, and Trojans flame-throwing senior fast baller Andrew Rogovic, who made the team last year, won a baseball scholarship to Northeastern this year, and made the All-Stars this time around …

10U PCYBL Pirates win Ripken consolation round in Maryland, going 3-2 on MLB replica playing fields

The 10U Port Chester Youth Baseball League Pirates won the consolation bracket while going 3-2 in the White Oak Knockout Ripken Experience last Thursday through Sunday in Aberdeen, Md., but the real consolation came from the dramatic way they won their last game as well as the memories from the …

Ex-Ram track star cycles through Stanford on his way from Port Chester to a lucrative financial job in Miami

As one of Port Chester's best distance runners of all time, ex-Ram scholar-athlete Joseph Tapia has always gone the extra mile.

PCYBL Pirates U teams ups and downs range from tourney wins, ties and losses

It was the best of times, the worst of times going up and down the Port Chester Youth Baseball League age group ladder over the past week.

Faraci wins 3rd place medal with NY Wonder 14U baseball team in national championships

It was pure athletic reaction, doing what comes naturally without time to think, and she was off with the crack of the bat, leaping off third base, body and glove extended to the max, stretching through the air as though being pulled by an invisible rope until there was the …

Aging Rams 20U team drops a deuce but sticks together for all the right & wrong reasons including love of game

Port Chester's 20U baseball team made another U turn in the wrong direction as it continues its downward spiral for all the right and wrong reasons.

11U PCYBL Pirates sweep doubleheader on their way to 14-0 record in the GHVBL

Their rivals couldn't stop the steal, and that suited the local larcenous Pirates just fine because they got away with the baseball age-group equivalent of highway robbery in sweeping a doubleheader last Sunday (7/7) at Lyon Park over OGRCC (Old Greenwich-Riverside Community Center) to remain undefeated in their first 14 …

Triage lessons learned from death and dying stirred up by Blind Brook & P.C. graduations

In matters of life and death, friendship matters even when you haven't seen those friends in more years than you can remember going all the way back to high school. And that is something the month of June always reminds me of even as the calendar has turned into July.