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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20U Pirates lose 4 of 5 games but ex-Rams keep playing for love of game as aging boys of summer
The aging Port Chester boys of summer are trying to turn back the clock as they start their fourth season as the 20U Pirates— and they are getting clocked.
Turnaround 11U PCYBL Pirates off to a fast start sitting atop the GHVBL by winning 1st 10 games
In one of the most sensational summer season starts in Port Chester Youth Baseball League history, the Port Chester 11U Pirates are off and running and seemingly can't be beat in a dramatic turnaround from their less-than-impressive spring season.
22 Class of '24 student-athlete sports highlights from the Port Chester/Blind Brook best of bests
Graduation has come and gone for the Port Chester and Blind Brook Class of 2024, but the memories linger on after a scholastic sports year to remember because it was like no other year in the storied athletic history of both schools.
Age group focus at upcoming softball camp with All-Star profs recruited to teach the ABCs
The future is now, or almost now, and the crystal ball is focused on what it takes for local ballers to win. Especially the Lady Rams softball team.
Twelve inspirational stories and 6Gs in awards at 10th STEER graduation banquet at Casino Royale
Graduation came early for 12 of Port Chester's most outstanding senior student-athletes with five winning scholarships totaling $6,000 and priceless inspirational stories galore emerging from appearances and testimonials by Rams and Lady Rams past, present and future greats.
Gina Carlone gives insight into what it takes to win dual coaching awards at Blind Brook in same year
It is not every day or year that a Blind Brook varsity coach is named Coach of the Year in one sport, let alone two. But there is always a first time.
PCYBL steps up pace with Major, Minor title winners and travel team Pirates play picking up in GHVBL
In the magical mystery tour that is the Port Chester Youth Baseball League's ongoing yet ever-changing seasons, it is out with the old, in with the new time of year even as almost everything old becomes new again at Lyon Park.
Two ex-age group Rebels U baseball buddies graduate onto college stage after Blind Brook
Their final Blind Brook High School baseball season didn't end the way they wanted it to, but they went down swinging—and they both walked away knowing it wasn't an end to the friendship that had begun on the Rye Brook playing fields when they were in grammar school, just starting to come of baseball age playing up a year with the Rebels 8U team.
Times will tell whether Port Chester's T&F team will go from fast to faster to fastest in near future
The New York State High School Track & Field Championships took place last Friday and Saturday (6/7/8) at Cicero North High School in Syracuse—and nobody from Port Chester qualified.
The legend of Mikey Boc grows from Port Chester to collegiate stardom in New Paltz to next chapter
It was the moment when the legend of Mikey Boc, former Port Chester Rams scholastic sports great, became part of SUNY New Paltz's collegiate baseball history. It was also the moment when Mikey Boc, as he has been called since his earliest Port Chester Youth Baseball League days, saw that baseball had taught him his final lesson as a player.
Port Chester HS Senior Athletic Recognition Ceremony: 107 athletes, 17 All-Stars and 15 best-of-best awardees
15 of the best Port Chester High School senior student-athletes received 10 specialty awards in categories ranging from sportsmanship to citizenship to scholarship along with the school's choices as the outstanding male and female athlete. Basketball ace Guillermo (Memo) Zabala and hoops, soccer and softball triple threat Samantha (Sam) Munoz were the winners in that category.
NY Yankee trio's surprise visit to PCYBL All-Star Day highlights fun-filled baseball event at Lyon Park
This past Saturday (6-1) was a Port Chester Youth Baseball League All-Star Game Day like no other. That’s because three all-time New York Yankee pro baseball greats showed up at Lyon Park to cheer the local ballers on.
B.B. Trojans and Lady Trojans come out to shine at sports award banquet in country club setting
The stars in Blind Brook High School's scholastic sports galaxy came out to play last Thursday. And without a game being played, the glitterati turned the Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich, Conn., into a virtual planetarium filled with local All-Stars being feted during the school's end-of-the-year sports banquet.
PCYBL 9U Pirates beat Pelham Pelicans to win GHVBL title at Danbury park
With John Umbro and Jayden Bautista doing the solid pitching and six players doing the heavy hitting, the Port Chester Youth Baseball League's 9U Pirates beat the Pelham Pelicans 17-5 last Sunday at Roger Memorial Park in Danbury, Conn., to win the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League age group championship. It was their fourth straight win on their way to the title.
Thanks for the top senior athletic award candidates
There are many top-tier possibilities
The results are in. But not yet out. Because the Port Chester and Blind Brook senior athletic awards events took place after Westmore News's press time this past Wednesday at Port Chester High School for the Rams and Lady Rams and at Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich, Conn., Thursday for the Trojans and Lady Trojans.
End-of-season wrap-up of Rams’ baseball results shows returning nucleus promises happier ending
With the regular scholastic sports season over and Port Chester's best baseball-playing senior student-athletes having played their last game for the Rams, the saying "Tradition never graduates" takes on new meaning. And the end-of-season results help tell the story of the past season and what is on the horizon for next year.
PCYBL Major & Minor League All-Star Games, playoffs on tap over next few days at Lyon Park
Port Chester's Little League-aged baseball stars of tomorrow will come out to play big time games at Lyon Park in the next few days.
Port Chester T&F team runs off with 17 medals in Mount Vernon's Memorial Stadium Invitational
In an unprecedented display of sprint, middle and distance running events prowess on an individual as well as relay team basis, the Port Chester Track & Field Rams raced to a season high 17 medals in the Mount Vernon Memorial Stadium T&F Invitational last Tuesday.
Rams lose final tennis match of losing season to Woodlands 3-2
There will be no more chances for any kind of comeback for the Port Chester tennis Rams, alas, because they lost their last match of the season last Thursday (5/16) by yet another close score with the ball once again taking some strange bounces, not many or not nearly enough going the Rams’ way.
Baseball Rams lose to White Plains 5-3 away in one-and-done late inning playoffs 'debacle'
It was what the Rams baseball coach called another "late game debacle," a sixth inning meltdown involving two hit batters, a bobbled outfield base hit and a dropped infield throw that cost Port Chester its late lead and a winnable away game against White Plains last Saturday (5/18).
Blind Brook makes 'His and Hers' T&F history in Loucks Games and impresses in Sectionals
In a Blind Brook Track & Field first, the Trojans and Lady Trojans raced to an historic "His and Her" mixed mile relay second place finish in a rare event staged for the first time in Westchester during the Loucks Games, one of the premier championship meets in the Northeast.
Rams & Lady Rams T&F team records 6 PRs in Westchester County Championship races
Their times weren't anything to write home about, but then the Port Chester Track & Field team wasn't looking to write any letters, book reports or term papers. They were looking to author an impressive series of final chapters to their end-of-season high school careers.
Senior Athletic Awards events on tap for both Port Chester and Blind Brook
Within the next few days, Port Chester and Blind Brook will find out who their best senior high school student- athletes are.
Baseball Rams drop 2 of last 3 games but have shot in playoffs because of pitching ace Jordany German
Port Chester still has shot in playoffs because of pitching ace Jordany German
It was a week where the baseball Rams’ defense "got young" in the words of their coach, but their great pitching never got old.
LAX on the upswing with Port Chester soaring and readying a move to varsity status next year
Port Chester is about to join the LAX party as a high school varsity sport for the first time ever. But just as Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was Port Chester's LAX program.
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