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PCYBL 16U Pirates head into GHVBL playoffs as 3rd seed after ending season on high note
Rams head baseball coach Sean Burke likes the way his Port Chester Youth Baseball League 16U Pirates summer travel team has been playing of late in the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League.
STEER’s behind-the-scenes work makes program an ongoing hit
It takes a lot of unseen work behind the scenes from beginning to end to get a hit show on the road to success. Without fanfare, acclaim or taking any bows, Port Chester's STEER for Student Athletes plays that role in lots of ways.
Sawpit Cardinals end a 10-game losing streak only to be derailed by familial COVID outbreak
In days of old circa 1962 when the then fledgling Major League Baseball New York Mets were in their Loveable Losers infancy stage, far from Amazin with a 40-120 record that had its sage, legendary manager Casey Stengel coming up with quotes like "can't anybody here play this game," Stengel, …
3 merged age group Port Chester/Rye Brook teams take win, place and show in NJ Slugfest tournament
As baseball rallying cries go, it went a long way—all the way into South Jersey.
Sawpit Cardinals drop 4 games in GHVBL as losses mount
"If you are one of those people who say it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game, you probably lose a lot," former Czech-American tennis champion Martina Navratilova used to say with the authority that comes from being one of the greatest tennis players …
Wrestling Rams raise $2,200+ to train at Armonk GPS center
It was a lot for teenaged minds to wrestle with—groping with the physical, mental and emotional turmoil that came from learning that your sport was the only one canceled because of pandemic concerns while other nearby schools such as Harrison were going to have a wrestling season, albeit one with …
Sawpit Cardinals keep getting dealt a losing hand
It isn't in the cards—winning, that is, for the Sawpit Cardinals, Port Chester's promising new 18U baseball team composed primarily of ex-Ram players who came out of retirement to get back in the game after focusing mainly on academics in far-flung colleges.
11U PCYBL Pirates start summer season by winning Summer Blast Tourney in N.J.
It was a blast—the annual Bridgewater Summer Blast Tournament, that is. Especially since the 11U (age 11 and under) combined Port Chester/Rye Brook Pirates came from behind to win it all during the five-game tourney in Bridgewater, N.J.
PCYBL summer travel team season off and running with pandemic safety precautions intact for encore
They did the impossible last summer by playing a successful full season of age-group baseball without incident during the height of the pandemic—and they did it by following all the safety precautions while teaching 16 young teams the ABCs of baseball even as they competed in the highly-competitive Port Chester …
'Beyond the Game' stirs hoop dreams for local kids
They call it the Beyond the Game Connection. And it means exactly what it sounds like. Because the name implies going beyond the skills and drills that help mold ballers into basketball standouts.
Thanks for the memories salute to student-athletes of COVID class of 2021
As the world turns, the scholastic sports season follows its predictable cyclical variations, out goes the senior class of 2021, in comes the next senior class of student-athletes—except what happened this year was unpredictable because it was almost like no other due to the pandemic.
Sawpit Cardinals get wings clipped, lose 3 games in a row after fast start
They were too hot not to cool down, and when they inevitably did, their bats went cold leaving the fledgling Sawpit Cardinals 18-U team looking for answers after losing three straight games in the past week following a fast start in the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League (GHVBL).
Five GHVL All-Star honorees had seasons to remember
The Little O has done it again.
The story behind the latest team photos hung on the Port Chester 'Wall of Fame'
They call it the Wall of Fame. That is the name of the glass case-enclosed showcases that line the Port Chester High School hallway/foyer area outside the old gymnasium.
