SPORTS
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 …
STEER honors golden dozen student-athletes at first meeting of its new alumni group
They started the pandemic year like no other year in Port Chester—or world—history. They were masked, unsure of whether they would have a scholastic sports season or what kind of educational classes they would have—virtual, hybrid or in-person.
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 …
