Michael Iachetta
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PCYBL backs 11U travel softball team started by moms
Lady Rams head softball coach Jeanine Maiolini has been saying for what seems like forever that Port Chester needs a girls’ travel team to play off-season if the high school wants to be able to compete against the area's better teams with their year-round programs.
Rye Brook 11U Rebels win Mayhem Tournament in key tune-up for the upcoming GHVBL playoffs
The Rye Brook 11U age group Rebels warmed up for their upcoming Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League playoffs opening game at home Sunday by sweeping four consecutive games on their way to winning the United States Amateur Baseball League New Jersey Mayhem Tournament July 13-14 in Nutley, N.J.
Rams’ German and Blind Brook's Rogovic dual aces named to Lohud's '24 Westchester/Putnam All-Stars
The pair of local pitching aces are Rams junior sensation Jordany German, one of the few non-seniors named to the team, and Trojans flame-throwing senior fast baller Andrew Rogovic, who made the team last year, won a baseball scholarship to Northeastern this year, and made the All-Stars this time around as a shortstop as well as pitcher whose last year was pretty much derailed by a blister on his throwing hand that limited his pitching opportunities.
10U PCYBL Pirates win Ripken consolation round in Maryland, going 3-2 on MLB replica playing fields
The 10U Port Chester Youth Baseball League Pirates won the consolation bracket while going 3-2 in the White Oak Knockout Ripken Experience last Thursday through Sunday in Aberdeen, Md., but the real consolation came from the dramatic way they won their last game as well as the memories from the names of the major league field facsimiles they played on.
Ex-Ram track star cycles through Stanford on his way from Port Chester to a lucrative financial job in Miami
As one of Port Chester's best distance runners of all time, ex-Ram scholar-athlete Joseph Tapia has always gone the extra mile.
Faraci wins 3rd place medal with NY Wonder 14U baseball team in national championships
It was pure athletic reaction, doing what comes naturally without time to think, and she was off with the crack of the bat, leaping off third base, body and glove extended to the max, stretching through the air as though being pulled by an invisible rope until there was the satisfying sound of ball thudding into the mitt as the adrenaline flowed through her. At that moment Port Chester's Sophia Faraci knew she was exactly where she belonged, right where she was supposed to be—playing third base as a highly sought after recruit for the elite New York Wonders in the "Baseball for All" national tournament—the biggest girls' baseball tournament in the U.S.
Aging Rams 20U team drops a deuce but sticks together for all the right & wrong reasons including love of game
Port Chester's 20U baseball team made another U turn in the wrong direction as it continues its downward spiral for all the right and wrong reasons.
11U PCYBL Pirates sweep doubleheader on their way to 14-0 record in the GHVBL
Their rivals couldn't stop the steal, and that suited the local larcenous Pirates just fine because they got away with the baseball age-group equivalent of highway robbery in sweeping a doubleheader last Sunday (7/7) at Lyon Park over OGRCC (Old Greenwich-Riverside Community Center) to remain undefeated in their first 14 games.
Triage lessons learned from death and dying stirred up by Blind Brook & P.C. graduations
In matters of life and death, friendship matters even when you haven't seen those friends in more years than you can remember going all the way back to high school. And that is something the month of June always reminds me of even as the calendar has turned into July.
