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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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New Ram volleyballers drop their first game against New Ro

Coach considers 'L' a win because of how well the brand new team played

When is a loss a win? When it is the first game ever played by the new Rams volleyball team because "even though we lost, it was a win for me," said new Port Chester boys’ VB coach Jhonattan Cortez.

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Lady Rams tennis loses home opener against Valhalla

Team and coach hope to be winners on and off courts

New Lady Rams head tennis coach Santos Avila, a guidance counselor in the Port Chester School District, was thinking how far he had come to be standing on the sidelines guiding his team in their season- opening home game last Friday (9/6) against Valhalla.

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Football Rams lose season opener 34-7

Battering Ram John Pauletti provides most of offense

One game does not a season make. Which is a good thing. Because Port Chester's football Rams lost their season-opening game to Horace Greeley 34-7 away last Friday (9/6) in Chappaqua.

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STEER for Student Athletes summer programs that provide material for inevitable class essays

When you are assigned to write that inevitable back-to-school essay titled "What I did on my summer vacation," Port Chester's STEER for Student Athletes participants have many special stories to tell. They range from a "Nourish our Neighbors" initiative to a college transition program at four local colleges, and from attendance at softball and soccer camps to interning with the P.C. Police Department to exploring academic programs at schools ranging from Mercy to Harvard.

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PCYBL Pirates off & runnin' in fall baseball season by taking 2 games in a row from Rye Brook Rebels

The Port Chester Youth Baseball League 9U Pirates, 1-11 during the summer Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League playing up against some of the league's best D-3 teams, moved up to D-4 for the fall season and started off by winning their first two games by pounding out 16 hits in eight innings and outscoring their opponents 29-10 for the opener.

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Curtain goes up on new fall scholastic sports season with 8 Port Chester teams and a cast of 400 athletes

Another opening, another show—it's prime time showtime for scholastic sports locally. The curtain on the fall season is going up this week with the spotlight on more than 400 student athletes on eight Port Chester teams—football, boys’ and girls’ soccer, girls' swimming and tennis, cross-country, and boys' and girls' volleyball—the boys' VB team making its varsity debut in response to popular demand.

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It's 'burn the ships' time for Blind Brook football team

Merged with Edgemont, their first game on tap for Friday

Blind Brook football's "Burn the Ships" time was fast approaching full speed ahead. It was days before the Blind Brook football team played its history-making first home game as a merged team with Edgemont Friday (9/6) at 6:30 p.m. against Irvington on their new home field at Edgemont, and Trojans head coach Darren Perillo knew exactly what to say.

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Fall high school sports season off and running with 8 Port Chester teams starting 1st practice

Summer is almost over, fall is right around the corner, the National Football League pro football season is about to begin, Major League Baseball teams are making their closing drives to the playoffs and the U.S. Open Tennis Championships started Monday (8/26) in Queens—the same day sports came back to school.

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12U PCYBL Pirates come back from trip of a lifetime after week spent playing ball at historic Cooperstown

Lake Mary, Fla., rallied in extra innings, scoring from second on an overthrow to first base to beat Taiwan 2-1 in eight innings and win the Little League World Series Sunday (8/25) in South Williamsport, Pa.

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Merged Trojans football leads six Blind Brook teams with 225 student athletes starting fall season practice

Blind Brook kicked off its fall athletic season with its first official Section 1 practices Monday (8/26) with four teams working out at the high school and middle school and two off campus, but the big news is that football is back albeit at a different school as part of a newly merged team.

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Judo wrestling wunderkind wins third straight world title, looks to win Port Chester's 1st ever state championship

Winning a world championship doesn't happen every day, more likely once in a blue moon if dreams really come true, and rarely if ever does the same person win an international title three years in a row. But that’s what a Port Chester jiu jitsu wunderkind just did albeit this time around with blue hair.

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Pauletti overcomes lots of adversity to become key to Rams’ grid success when practice starts Monday

Port Chester's bruising fullback John Pauletti, a truly battering Ram on offense and defense, has been named as one of Westchester's players to watch in Lohud's listing of the best area players announced Monday in a roll covering Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and the lower Hudson Valley. Only Pauletti knows how much adversity he has had to overcome to find himself listed in that elite group.

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The 'Celtic Tigress' transfers to a Pennsylvania prep school instead of enrolling as a Port Chester Lady Rams freshman

Instead of getting ready to start her freshman year at Port Chester High School in September after graduating from the Middle School as one of the greatest student-athletes in school history, McKayla McLoughlin, the Celtic Tigress of tween local sports renown, has packed her bags and will leave town Sunday for the prestigious Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania on a basketball scholarship worth $75.5Gs per year, the annual cost of room, board and tuition there.

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Grid Rams working out on their own to shape up before official practice as one of best indy teams

The first official practice for Section One scholastic sports isn't scheduled to start until Aug. 26. But don't tell that to the Port Chester football Rams. They have been practicing on their own since the past season ended last December.

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Major PCYBL age group Pirates teams lose in finals and semis of the GHVBL Summer Season playoffs

The Port Chester Youth Baseball League 11U Pirates came up one game short of a championship season.

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7 Up—The players are stepping up and starting young as age group baseball dips into local fountain of youth

The accent is on youth as perhaps never before when it comes to age-group baseball in Port Chester and Rye Brook where starting them young takes on a whole new meaning.

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PCYBL 12U Pirates make it to Cooperstown to play in prestigious age group tourney in historic village

They lost 6-1 to Croton in the first round of the 12U age group Greater Hudson Valley League Summer Season playoffs, finished the season with an 8-4-2 record that included tying for first place in the prestigious Sacred Heart Slugfest Tournament in Hainesport, N.J., and didn't have the kind of season they wanted to have, but now it is a whole new ball game for the Port Chester Youth Baseball League 12U Pirates.

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First Port Chester girls 11U travel softball team branches out into a Fall GHVBL league of their own

It ain't over until it is over and even then, it isn't over for the first ever 11U Port Chester Youth Baseball League Pirates girls’ travel softball team.

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Rye Brook 11U Rebels make winnin’ look easy in playoff opener

Rebs drop tough second game in GHVBL end-of-season competition

The Rebs made it look easy which is what happens when the pitchers pitch and the hitters hit, the defense comes up with the big play and the runners run the bases like there was no stopping the steal.

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PCYBL 10U Pirates win GHVBL playoffs deuce to cruise into the semi-finals Friday at Lyon Park

In the one-and-done way that unpredictable age-group playoff baseball unfolds, when a team trails 7-0 at the end of the first inning, it looks like game and season over. But not for the Port Chester Youth Baseball League 10U Pirates because they rallied for nine runs in the bottom of the second inning with Derek Lovallo coming through with a bases loaded triple that cleared the bases.

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Rams upcoming football season a mixture of familiar and unfamiliar Indy team names

The pro football Giants and Jets are already practicing for the new grid season which means the local scholastic football season can't be far behind—and judging by the newly-released Port Chester Rams schedule, it is going to be an intriguing one.

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PCYBL backs 11U travel softball team started by moms

Lady Rams varsity coach ecstatic about this Port Chester first

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.

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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.

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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.

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