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.
Softball Lady Rams drop deuce, fail to make playoffs but local alums will be playing in college regionals
It wasn't all bad, at least not as bad as the scores looked, but any way you looked at it, the softball Lady Rams still lost twice to Horace Greeley home and away last Monday and Tuesday by scores of 16-4 and 14-1.
Rams and Lady Rams T&F team off and running with record bronze medal haul in Rasbeck Relays
It was the kind of team excellence that should be preserved in bronze, immortalized in the annals of Port Chester Track & Field history as a monument to speed on the run. And, as a matter of fact, it was.
Lady Rams softball team loses three straight games
Losses come against top tier Fox Lane, Ossining and White Plains teams
These are the times that try men's souls. And women's, too. Especially the young teen-aged women playing softball for the Port Chester Lady Rams.
Baseball Rams are looking for a turnaround W and a lucky streak after losing 5 straight games
Buddy, can you spare a lucky sausage? The hard-luck Port Chester baseball Rams could certainly use one.
Improving Ram racqueteers lose by 3-2 scores to the Mount Vernon and East Ramapo swingers
It was a week of close finishes in sports with lots of wheeling, dealing, horsing around and racqueteering on the national and local stages.
Ram Zabala earns Lohud All-Star Honorable Mention but Trojan hoop dawgs Brookman and Zimmerman don't
Basketball is in the air, and it is the time when the big dawgs come out to play. But there are dawgs and there are dawgs, the name synonymous with the best basketball players who rise to new heights in crunch time.
Rams and Lady Rams T&F team race against time, look good in the Somers Lions Club Invitational
The one sure thing in Track & Field is that you can't coach speed, you either have it or you don't. But you can coach a fast runner to run faster and the farther you go, the faster you can become.
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Baseball Rams win Anthony Foust Tournament
Home runs and small ball approach key to victory
In baseball, one swing of the bat can change the outcome of a game, maybe even a season.
Port Chester's T&F big picture looking a lot better with solid performances in Penn and Rye Relays
It all depends on how you look at it—whether you see the big picture when it comes to Port Chester Track & Field or the blurred image from a quick take on a negative that could well be a positive based on the team's latest performances on local and national stages.
Lady Rams very good against Lincs, very bad against Ossining in hair-raising softball trifecta
It is not often that you can intertwine the words of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with jazz great Duke Ellington and throw in a Lincoln link at the same time in describing the Lady Rams’ latest softball trifecta that had more highs and lows than an airliner's ups and downs flying through stormy weather.
Rams lose only match of the tennis season so far
Close 5-0 score to E. Ramapo with 2 tiebreakers
With the spring weather blowing hot and cold, windy and rainy, it hasn't been much of a season so far for the tennis Rams with their one match a doozy and a loss to East Ramapo that couldn't have been much closer despite the final 5-0 score because four of the five matches came down to the very end, were highly competitive and included two tiebreakers.
Rams lose two of four games as playoff stretch run begins
New practice improvement emphasizes '1% rule'
"To err is human; to forgive divine," is one of the famous quotations from "An Essay on Criticism," one of the first major poems penned by English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744), published in 1711.
Lady Rams come out flat at start against Fox Lane and pay the price in 12-0 softball shutout loss
When you are a veteran coach seasoned by the ebb and flow of Ws and Ls, sporting cliches are part of the game.
Port Chester T&F team's final dual meet time trials leading up to Penn Relays go off minus a gunman
The gunman didn't show up, but the whistleblower did. And that was all it took for the Port Chester Track & Field team to get off and running in their dual meet against White Plains and Lakeland/Panas at the high school last Monday (4/15).
3 Port Chester Ram and Lady Ram T&F teams compete in Penn Relays for first time since 2013
The Penn Relays is America's oldest and largest Track & Field competition. The University of Pennsylvania has hosted the annual track and field event at Franklin Field in West Philadelphia—the country’s oldest college stadium—every year since 1895.
Pirate Relays coaching time trials cram course in selecting Port Chester picks for Penn Relays
New Port Chester head Track & Field coach Greg Domestico has been away from coaching three sports at his alma mater for more than a decade now.
Lady Rams softball coach stresses the positives despite 3 consecutive losses in downward spiral
Lady Rams softball coach Jeanine Maiolini keeps saying and doing the right thing even when things are going wrong for her team.
Rams tie Mamaroneck thanks to a last-ditch clutch homer
Tomassetti belts a drive off the school building
It was just a matter of time. And Rams senior slugger John (Tommy) Tomassetti didn't disappoint. He saved his breakout swing for exactly the right time.
Port Chester and Blind Brook score 52 combined runs with Lady Rams outlasting Lady Trojans in 31-21 win
Strange things were happening as the world seemed to be spinning out of control. First came the earthquake, the eclipse and a bridge struck by a ship collapsing in Baltimore.
Ram wrestlers score at N.J. War on the Shore
Laila Builes wins both middle and high school titles
They call it the "War at the Shore," and while it isn't anything resembling a real war, it is the name for a very competitive and prestigious off-season wrestling tournament in Wildwood, N.J., a popular five-mile island with all kinds of touristy attractions on the Jersey Shore.
Rams tennis coach goes from hoops to nets as new PCHS spring season gets underway
As the tennis balls came across the nets in continuous volleys, Rams head coach Craig Holcomb watched his players hit their practice shots with varying degrees of pace and expertise as the new season was about to get underway—and thought back to another Port Chester team he had coached, the last Rams basketball team to make the semi-finals of the Section 1 playoffs at the County Center in White Plains.
Rams baseball 'Little Rascals' drop three straight in a trifecta vs Arlington, Dobbs Ferry and Suffern
The new spring season started out that way with the Rams romping over beatable teams like East Ramapo and Roosevelt. But now reality is setting in.
7 Port Chester and Blind Brook players named to Lohud elite ballers list
In the galaxy of high school sports superstars, some shine more brightly than others—and Port Chester and Blind Brook players rank right up there with the best of the best glitterati in Westchester and the Lower Hudson Valley.
Lady Rams softball team on a rebuilding kick
April showers and lack of pitchers putting a damper on spring season
It was an all too familiar scene when Tuesday's April showers washed away the scheduled Apr. 2 Lady Rams softball game away against Mamaroneck.
Port Chester T&F heads into Pearl River Relays with a new stick passing approach built on trust
The Port Chester Track & Field team heads into the prestigious Pearl River Relays for the first time Saturday (4/6) at 10 a.m. and aims to stick it to them—the relay stick, that is.
German throws opening game strikeout masterpiece in the P.C. Rams’ home victory over Roosevelt April 1
It will go down as one of Port Chester's greatest baseball games ever. Happening on April Fools’ Day, it was a zip and let it rip kind of game.
Wrestling lows, lax highs when singling out sports achievers from P.C. and Blind Brook
Here's a good news/bad news local story involving the latest scholastic sports accolades with Port Chester once again getting no respect while Blind Brook scored once.
Lady Rams softball team loses 3 of 4 games including an ultra wild deuce to Sleepy Hollow
It was one of those good news, bad news yet predictably unpredictable starts to the Lady Rams softball team's spring season.
Baseball Rams open new spring season away with 'The Little Rascals' blowing out E. Ramapo
It was the spring baseball season’s opening away game and it was written in chalk for the favored Port Chester Rams, chalk here being the horseracing term for an odds-on favorite—and the chalk came through.
Port Chester T&F gets off & running & throwing with meet Wednesday vs White Plains & Panas
A week before the Port Chester Rams Track & Field team’s first home meet Wednesday (4/3) against White Plains and Lakeland/Panas, the local mentors were discussing their potential starters in the various events with the names under discussion drawn from the 41 potential student-athletes out for the team.
Port Chester's Kayleigh Heckel selected to play in the upcoming McDonald's All-American Game
She's our own basketball Cinderella, and she's going dancing!
Eight returnees and two solid pitchers lead 40+ girls trying out for PCHS softball
The arms race is on—and the Port Chester Lady Rams softball team is off in a windmilling whirl of motion.
Following scrimmage Friday vs TZee, baseball Rams will open season Monday
March Madness is here—baseball variety, that is. And despite the lingering chill in the air, it is time to play ball.
Ram wrestling version of the Academy Awards serves up 12 'Oscars' at the local 7 Willow Café
It was the equivalent of the Academy Awards for local high school wrestling served up along with dinner last Thursday night, Mar. 14, at Port Chester's 7 Willow Café—and what a celebratory show it was. More than 115 wrestling aficionados turned out to turn the dining room into a hallowed space where the mat really matters.
Loneliness of a Lady Ram distance runner on the rocky, winding road to excellence
When the going gets tough, the tough get going, as the saying goes, but that saying doesn't go far enough when applied to Port Chester's top Lady Rams distance runner Alexandra Cruz, a student-scholar-leader extraordinaire who has gone farther than most—and not just on the track.
The 10 most memorable scholastic sports events that were highlights of P.C./B.B. winter season
During the local scholastic sports winter season, the schedule brimmed over with stirringly thrilling performances and many moments to remember at both Port Chester and Blind Brook on the high school level.
Old Rams return & everything old becomes new again as new crop of student-athletes starts the spring season
Coaching changes at Port Chester High School will give a new look to the spring sports season that starts Monday (3/11). Everything old will become new again for the estimated 400 student-athletes who will compete in four varsity sports—baseball, softball, tennis and Track & Field.
Ex-Ram athletic star comes home to pay it forward as part of new P.C. STEER student-athlete program
Former Rams football and Track & Field star Jordan Lewis asks not for whom the bells toll. Not after having his bell rung so many times on the gridiron that he gave up the sport in college because of the concussions he endured as part of the game.
Ram baseball practices underway at PCHS
Coach has eye on league title with encouraged, but not mandated, pre-season drills
Major League Baseball pre-season games are underway in warmer clime training camps stretching from Arizona to Florida. And while the Port Chester baseball Rams play in a very different kind of league, unofficial practices are also underway in the old and new high school gym, albeit in a much colder climate zone warmed by the intensity of what's at stake—a league championship—even without a game being played.
Nationally-ranked cheerleaders in rebuilding mode while out to change stigma against males on team
Port Chester hasn't had much to cheer about during a dreary winter scholastic sports season because just about every varsity team has had a losing season except, ironically, its cheerleaders.
Local hoops March Madness comes to Carver Center with age-group tournament featuring 70 future stars
The Port Chester basketball Rams failed to make the Section 1 hoops championship playoffs currently underway, the Lady Rams were one and done, and both teams are coming off another losing season, but there's still a local tournament about to get underway stocked with a galaxy of future stars.
Track & Field team winds up winter indoor season in beat the clock final races in NYC at The Armory
It's about time! And that's what the Port Chester Track & Field Team was really all about—fast times, that is—during the winter indoor season that was and wasn't.
The ins and outs of basketball post-season playoffs
Zabala, Brookman and Zimmerman named All-Stars
If a team is only as good as its record, no matter how you spin it, the basketball Rams weren't very good and nowhere good enough to make it into the Section 1 playoffs with the seeding brackets announced last Monday (2/12).
Iona Prep's Dan Pauletti signs grid commitment to play for Ithaca
It was a life-changing announcement for three Iona Prep football players, a Feb. 7 statement from the New Rochelle school saying the student-athlete trio had committed to playing collegiate sports as part of the school year's second National Signing day. For local grid aficionados, the name that stood out in the lineup was Dan Pauletti, 17, of Rye Brook who will be playing DIII football for Ithaca as a center and offensive lineman.