SPORTS
New P.C. sports season starting despite surge of the Delta variant
Going, going, almost gone—the Port Chester pre-season scholastic sports practices are over, the regular season is about to begin, and marquee matches are already on the horizon for the seven high school varsity teams from the get-go in contrast to the way Fall sports were going—or more accurately not going—a …
Blind Brook boys’ soccer eyes winning season
Unfortunately, summer 2021 is coming to an end. As the days get shorter and colder, Blind Brook boys’ varsity soccer is only heating up. Under new Coach Eric Brand, the team has been intensely preparing and has high hopes going into this fall season.
Good and bad going on behind the scenes before curtain goes up on football season
The curtain is about to go up on Port Chester's scholastic sports season, but a lot has already been going on behind the scenes, both good and bad. Take, for example, the Rams football team which provides an ensemble glimpse of what has been happening in microcosm.
Seven Port Chester varsity teams get ready for upcoming Fall scholastic sports season
It is the best of times, the worst of times, the hope springs eternal time of great Port Chester sports expectations which may either come to pass or fail because the report cards are not yet in with school starting and the Fall sports season kicking off.
COVID restrictions and injuries can't slow down Rye Brook's nationally-ranked masters runner
Rye Brook's nationally-ranked masters (over 40) long-distance runner Jonathan Frieder has miles to go before he sleeps—and not even the coronavirus quarantine could stop him from his latest efforts, including a sub 4:50 mile at age 50, a time that is rated just under world-class but still the holy grail …
Danny Alvarado has come a long coaching way from the scared kid who couldn't speak English
With the scenic Port Chester High School clocktower serving as the backdrop for some of his greatest hits, Danny Alvarado was talking about the ingredients that went into making him into an All-Star Lady Rams soccer coach, winner of the League Coach of the Year award for the second straight …
Port Chester's Big 3 pre-season practices underway for football and Rams and Lady Rams varsity soccer
Ask not for whom the bell tolls because the picturesque high school clocktower was chiming away on the hour for Port Chester's Big 3—football and Rams and Lady Rams soccer—at the start of regular pre-season practices Monday (8/23).
Lady Rams senior sensation Ashley Reyes selected for Ecuador Nat’l Soccer 17U Team
Incoming Lady Rams senior Ashley Reyes gets her kicks from soccer. But there is no telling how high is up when it comes to Ashley winding down her short-lived Port Chester soccer career because the sky seems to be her limit after a season to remember even by her lofty …
Pre-season practice starts Monday at PCHS
The play's the thing, but to play or not to play, masked or unmasked, vaccinated or not, those are the questions. Because of the coronavirus, authoritative answers to those questions vary when talking about the upcoming start of the local scholastic sports season.
8U merged Port Chester/Rye Brook Pirates win Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League title
They showed up with a baseball, a bat, a glove and a dream, the same kind of dream all beginning age group baseball players have on fields of dreams everywhere, a dream of getting a clutch base hit, making a great defensive play, becoming part of a team and winning …
Rams lose in semi-finals of 16U GHVBL playoffs
It was the kind of move that showcased Port Chester Rams 16U baseball at its small ball best—runners on first and third, rattle the pitcher with a delayed double steal in a close ball game. It represented the Rams daring see what happens next approach to winning baseball.
Despite losing first season, Sawpit Cardinals will be back next year with lots of returning MVPs
Old Pirates don't just fade away, they come out of retirement to play another day because of their love for baseball even after they have aged out of the usual Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) mandatory restrictions. And while their initial season as the fledgling 18U Sawpit Cardinals was …
Jam-packed travel sports summer on the road as Ostrowski family makes more athletic history
Travel right now is very much up in the air as coronavirus variants like Delta spread, cases are once again on the rise, vaccine conspiracy theories abound and the Centers for Disease Control seems to keep issuing its own masked/unmasked variations of the hokey pokey as in first you put …
Rams 16U team wins GHVBL playoff opener
Incoming senior pitching ace Dan Hinz threw a one-hit, 5-0 shutout against visiting Warstic of Pleasant Valley in Orange County, striking out eight batters along the way, in the opening game of the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League playoffs as the Port Chester Rams 16U Babe Ruth baseball team stole …
