SPORTS
Strong start for Lady Trojans soccer highlights the team’s new talent
With the start of a new school year with new COVID-19 guidelines, Blind Brook sports are kicking it into full gear with the start of the season. Although last year fall sports such as volleyball, cheerleading, and football were pushed back after being deemed high contact, these teams are back …
Lady Rams upset Suffern 2-1 in away season opener
Port Chester's Andrea Flores scored early, Ashley Reyes scored late, and the underdog Lady Rams soccer team opened their regular season with a 2-1 away upset over Suffern. The game had playoff intensity because both teams figure to be meeting again during their expected runs deep into the Section 1 …
Soccer great Steven Hernandez returns to Rams as assistant coach—only with mixed results so far
Rams veteran head soccer coach John Cafaldo has been looking for a game-changing striker like Steven Hernandez ever since Stevie Wonder led Port Chester to within one goal of its first state championship as a freshman in 2012.
Triumphant first week of B.B. boys’ soccer has Trojans winning two games out of three
Thursday, Sept. 9 was not only the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, but the start of an intense boys’ varsity soccer season. With the delay of the season building up even more anticipation, the first week of games has proven fiery and intriguing. The team was overloaded with three …
'Laylah HER-NAN-DEZ' serves as tennis inspiration for Lady Rams after her Cinderella run in U.S. Open
"Laylah. Laylah. Laylah. Laylah HER-NAN-DEZ."
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.
