Decades of outstanding local sports moments in a P.C./B.B. thanks for the memories farewell
It ain't over until it's over, and now it is.
Wrestling Rams drop tiebreaker to Rye in prestigious Bernie Miller Invitational
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.
Splash Brothers Rams swim team makes waves while splitting a deuce in season-opening meets
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 T&F team off and running at The Armory with stellar performances from sprints to middle distance
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.
Rams, Lady Rams split deuce in Louie Larizza, Jr. Invitational
Teams are working hard to turn around losing Rams hoop culture
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.
Story behind BBHS's record-breaking Fernanda Julian, heart 'n' soul of state championship volleyball team
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.
Wrestling Rams finish fifth in season's first tournament
Builes named frosh Most Outstanding Wrestler
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.
I on the World: Jolie, Callas and the new Oscar-bound film 'Maria': A remembrance of Callas's final Carnegie Hall concert
This is a story about the actress Angelina Jolie, opera star Maria Callas and me.
Ram and Lady Ram bowlers drop 5 in a row but see more ups than downs in near future
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.
Rams and Lady Rams hoop teams blow hot and cold in winter season-opening games in Rye Neck Tourney
Just a few basketball games do not a season make or indicate whether a team is heading in the right direction.
Port Chester gears up for winter season inside and out with preseason practice ending & 6 teams raring to go
With the cold winds of December setting in, the ins and outs of the wind chill factor have come into play as the Port Chester teams warm-up practices heat up on their way into the start of regular winter season play Thursday (12/4).
Galaxy of post-season All-Star selections galore at end of a star-studded fall season to remember
Before the fall scholastic sports season ever began, Blind Brook aimed for the stars and came close to hitting the celestial bullseye by season's end. And while Port Chester's All-Star results won't all be in until the end of the week, the Rams and Lady Rams also did very well indeed.
Thanksgiving ‘Thanks for the Memories’ column: 20 fall sports season unforgettable highlights
The B.B. vballers’ perfect fall season ending is the beginning of this traditional Thanks for the Memories annual Thanksgiving column, 20 final thoughts on a very special local high school fall sports season.
Port Chester's x-country team beats clock in Section 1 championships at Bowdoin Park
All runners clock improved times over 3.1-mile course
They beat the clock in the final Section 1 cross country race of their fall season. But their improved times over the 3.1-mile Bowdoin Park course showed how far they still have to go because while the distance may remain the same, the finishing times vary depending on where the runners compete.
Winter high school sports season began Monday
A galaxy of All-Stars came out to play during fall season
The new high school winter sports season started Monday (11/18) for Port Chester and Blind Brook on a sun-splashed day that made it look as though the summer that never ends hasn't ended yet despite the chill in the air.
Port Chester cheerleaders stage rare three-peat in regionals
Performance at regionals wins them bids to nationals at Disney World
Port Chester High School’s cheerleading team deserves a cheer of its own.
Blind Brook/Edgemont football team breaks ice by winning final fall game against Croton 32-8
They saved the best for last. And the Blind Brook players made their final fall season football game a good one as part of the combined 1-8 Blind Brook/Edgemont team that beat Croton 32-8 at Edgemont on the Scarsdale/Edgemont border.
P.C. head cheer coach dances to a world hoops title with WNBA NY Liberty, eyes national win with Rams
It hasn't been easy, but Port Chester head cheerleading coach John Gonzalez always practices what he preaches to his team—practice hard, work hard, give it everything you have in workouts and competition and see how far it takes you.
PCHS soccer teams lose in the playoffs but both score All-League selections
It was the moment of truth for veteran Port Chester head soccer coaches John Cafaldo and Danny Alvarado, a lot of moments actually, playoff game-filled moments for the Ram and Lady Ram mentors respectively.
Football Rams miss making the playoffs but came ever so close to getting indy nod
The high school football playoffs began last weekend for Class AA, A, B and independent league teams, and the indy Port Chester Rams didn't make the cut—and that was the unkindest cut of all.
Lady Rams lose to Mamaroneck in playoffs
Volleyballers destined to be a force for years to come
Dig they must, and when they don't dig enough, they get buried—at least that's the way it works in volleyball. And the first team to get to 25 points wins the set. And the first team that wins three sets wins the match.
Soccer Rams beat Ramapo 2-1 in overtime in playoffs while Lady Rams lose opener but hit pre-season goals
Anything can happen in the one-and-done ultra competitive Section 1 playoffs, and good things did happen for the Port Chester soccer Rams in the opening round while the Lady Rams didn't fare quite as well and got knocked out.
Football Rams end fall season with 1-point win over Panas
Morel-Pauletti combo leads dramatic late comeback
It couldn't have been much closer, but the Port Chester football Rams’ one-two scoring punch of junior quarterback Alexis Morel and senior fullback John Pauletti came through once again by alternating Morel QB sweeps and keeps with unstoppable Pauletti power runs up the middle in the dying minutes of a game rival Walter Panas led by a score of 21-14 but wound up losing by a point because of the late game Morel-Pauletti heroics.
Lady Rams swim team breaks lots of school records in final meet and in Conference Championships
Port Chester's ever-improving Lady Rams swim team has done what no other Lady Rams swim team has done before—and they did it twice within the past few weeks.
PCHS soccer teams ready for playoffs Fri. and Sat. against now certain opponents
The Rams and Lady Rams know they are heading into the postseason playoffs season Friday and Saturday (10/25/26), but they didn't know who or where they would be playing until just before press time.
Show biz 'break a leg' idiom for good luck means ‘Ram tough' despite 34-6 grid loss to Tappan Zee
"Break a leg" took on new meaning boiled down to just two words—Ram tough—after Port Chester's upset-minded 34-6 home loss to Tappan Zee last Saturday (10/19) with the adrenaline-fueled Rams deadlocked in a 6-6 tie at halftime while trading shot for shot with one of the best teams in the independent football league.
Lady Rams swim team beats Brewster, eyes P.C. High School record for wins
Team heads into Conference Championships in Yonkers Saturday
Port Chester's Lady Rams swim team warmed up for the Conference Championships Saturday (10/26) in Yonkers by beating Brewster away Monday (10/21). In the process, they came within one win of becoming the winningest swim team—boys and girls—in school history with one regular fall season meet to go later in the week against Mount Vernon.
Marquez makes All-League Cross Country Team in runup to Super Dome County Championships
Port Chester Rams junior distance running ace Santiago Marquez made the All-League Cross Country Team for the second consecutive year with a seventh place finish in the League Championships last Tuesday (10/15) at Croton, finishing right on the heels of runners from Horace Greeley and Fox Lane, two schools considered among Westchester's best in ultra-competitive Section 1.
Lady Rams swim team loses to conference power Peekskill
Team keeps setting personal records nonetheless
With the fall chill hinting at the winter cold to come, Port Chester's swimming Lady Rams keep ignoring that baby, it's cold outside kind of feeling by heating up the winter pools with their overall improved performance and PRs (personal records) even when they lose.
Lady Rams and Rams soccer wind down their seasons
Lady Rams head soccer coach Danny Alvarado has been twice selected as League Coach of the Year in the recent past, but his current fall season coaching performance may be his best yet.
Ram Vballers’ first season coming to an end with lots of learning coming with ups & downs
Be careful what you wish for. Because the Rams’ first volleyball team got what they wished for—a chance to play varsity ball this year, but it didn't turn out the way they wanted it to record-wise and otherwise.
Football Rams face Tappan Zee team with winning record in home game Saturday
No matter how you spin the records, and no matter how they go round and round, the essential songs they sing and the stories they tell remain the same.
Port Chester runs the run and does well in Bobcat Cross Country Invitational
Rams arrive early to walk the walk before running the run
The thing that stands out about Port Chester head cross country coach Cindy Reyes Martinez is that she has not only walked the walk, she has also run the run—and she is letting her team in on what that means with the results in last Saturday's Bobcat Invitational (10/5) showing she knows what she is talking about, not just talking the talk.
Rams and Lady Rams ride the October rollercoaster that makes the fall soccer season playoff run special
Lady Rams head soccer coach Danny Alvarado says his team has been on a rollercoaster of late and he isn't talking about Playland.
Grid Rams edge Woodlands 38-32 in away game with points after 5 touchdowns the deciding factor
In a forest primeval setting more conducive to meditation than football, the endgame final results of last Saturday's Rams away game (10/5) against Woodlands gave gridiron risk-takers a lot to think about.
Skylar Sams notches 500th dig, launches P.C. volleyballers on four-game winning streak
The sky is the limit for the Lady Rams volleyball team of late, and junior hotshot Skylar Sams has a lot to do with assisting in that rise, 500 digs to be exact, because dig she must and she has, scooping the ball up before it hits the ground, her hands cupped so they resemble a tennis racquet as they send the near basketball-sized volleyball high into the air in what amounts to a pass to her teammates.
Lady Rams in swim of things setting PRs galore with strong wins over Brewster and Pearl River
Port Chester's ever-improving Lady Rams swim team warmed up for the conference championships at the end of the month with key wins over Brewster and Pearl River in the past week or so while breaking multiple PRs (personal records) along the way.
Marquez emerging as Rams’ top x-country runner as team learns important lessons while on the run
Port Chester's best swimmer ever is on his way to becoming one of the Rams’ best runners ever as well.
Rams and Lady Rams soccer play through ups, downs
October brings on tough tests leading up to playoffs
As the October fall soccer season kicks into high gear as the end-of-month playoffs near, the competition gets ever more intense, and teams find it harder to separate themselves from the Section 1 pack with everyone fighting for the higher seedings. That has been the case for Port Chester's soccer Rams and Lady Rams in the past week or so.
Lady Rams tennis loses match to Mount Vernon 3-2
All-senior team is a winner no matter what happens
It was a tennis match with a lot of flare, a game within a game, and it drew a standing room only crowd around the Port Chester High School tennis courts Monday (9/30).
Grid Rams flub pivotal two-point conversion in 14-12 loss to Peekskill on wet, raw day
It was a do-or-die away gridiron match between Port Chester and Peekskill that went right down to the wire only for the Rams to short circuit at the end.
Lady Ram volleyballers play 3 beautiful games
Net result was dropping 3 straight close matches
Strange as it may sound, there is a special beauty in a well-played Lady Rams volleyball game—and last Friday's (9/20) home game against Ossining was a real beaut even though Port Chester lost in three sets, all three lost by two points.
Rams stumble against Luhi Crusaders with a 40-7 grid loss under the lights at home
The scoreboard told the final score of the Port Chester versus Long Island Lutheran (Luhi) home football game last Friday night (9/20). The scoreboard read Luhi 40, Rams 7. But that only told part of the story.
Lady Rams swim up, up and away against Harrison
Loss seems more like a win because of four personal records
Port Chester's ever-improving swimming Lady Rams knew they were out of their depth swimming up against Harrison, one of Westchester's top teams two conferences above them. But even though the Rams lost as they expected, that didn't stop them from setting four personal best records—three by a freshman phenom—and swimming creditably in every event.
Ram and Lady Ram soccer teams sharpen their skills so they are ready when playoffs start in late October
At the highest level of ultra-competitive Section 1 soccer, games are often decided by one goal. And while the coaches want to win, experienced mentors like John Cafaldo and Danny Alvarado, head coaches of the Rams and Lady Rams, know that the early season games serve a purpose beyond the W-L record.
Rams ground-and-pound game overpowers Magnus with Pauletti scoring 3 TDS in a winning football opus
It was Port Chester's ground-and-pound game against Albertus Magnus's run-and-gun approach to football. And when the dust settled, the Rams won 27-14.
Lady Rams and Rams soccer kick off on right foot with past stalwarts stepping up to assist coaches
Port Chester's storied soccer past is stepping up in the present to help mold the future—and it is already paying big dividends for the Rams and Lady Rams.
Lady Rams swim team beats Woodlands in opener
Fast times indicate positive outlook for season
At the final Lady Rams swim team time trials at the Carver Center, the stopwatch times indicated that something special was in the air and in the water. And head coach Colleen Cahill liked what she was seeing.
Ram & Lady Ram x-country harriers learn lesson about 'pulling the cork' too soon in opening meet
In long distance running circles, experienced competitors have learned the hard way about what "don't get your cork pulled too soon" warns them about once the starter's gun goes off.
Soccer Rams and Lady Rams kick off fall season on right foot but with ball taking different bounces
The Rams’ and Lady Rams’ fall soccer season kicked off with different kinds of bounces—a tie and a close loss for the Rams and a scrimmage win for the Lady Rams followed by two canceled and rescheduled games because the opposing teams didn't have enough girls to play.
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