In sports, every point counts, and Rams head wrestling coach Joe “Fatch” Facciola keeps drilling that point home to his team, urging his grapplers to never give an inch, control what they can control, and then accept the result. What happened in the Bernie Miller Invitational in Rye last Saturday (12/14) illustrates that point perfectly.
Port Chester's Splash Brothers started off the winter season with a splash, making waves by beating Woodlands 51-38 for the first time in several years last Tuesday (12/10) in their home pool at the Carver Center.
Port Chester's Track & Field team got off and running on Friday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 8, in their first championship meets of the winter season at The Armory in New York City. They came away with medals in three relay events ranging from the sprints to middle distances and numerous stellar performances in both meets.
Port Chester's fourth annual Louie Larizza, Jr. Memorial Basketball Tournament last Saturday (12/14) turned out to be more of a showcase than a tourney this time around—but what a showcase it was.
In volleyball terms, dig she must, does and did—and nobody in Blind Brook history has ever done it better than senior Fernanda Julian, the Brazilian-born next level Bard College volleyball recruit who dabbled in figure skating, fencing and even judo-like Taekwondo in a nod to her Korean ancestry before she became the emotional heart and soul of Blind Brook High School's first ever state championship volleyball team.
Depending on your point of view, Port Chester's wrestling team opened their winter season with one of those glass half full or glass half empty kinds of tournament performances—but either way, they proved they didn't have a glass chin.
No Port Chester team has more ups and downs than the bowling team—and not just because those bowling balls keep knocking down those pins in the alley so regularly in what amounts to constant alley-oops until it's game over.