Age-group Pirates play lights out against Lightning in sweeping a doubleheader on way to Cooperstown
It's a long last hurrah for Port Chester's age-group 12U Pirates, a fall season run for the ages that aims at arriving in Cooperstown before they age out of the Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL)–and they are closing out in style while playing in the middle of a fundraising drive.
Football Rams win 'Friday Night Lights’ game with a ground-and-pound beatdown of Panas
In a dramatic turnaround performance that made them look like a different team from the one that opened the season with an embarrassing 41-8 home loss to Tuckahoe, Port Chester's football Rams beat Walter Panas 21-12 last Friday (9/8) at home
Pirates summer GHVBL champs age out of PCYBL, move from little fields to big fields as new U team
It's a whole new ball game for some of Port Chester's best age group baseball players caught between the tweens and the teens and already old before their time.
Soccer Rams lose three of 4 games during heat wave
Between the high heat/humidity index, drizzles that turned to downpours, and thunderstorms and lightning when the heat broke, often all in the same day, the week that was triggered high school game cancellations and worse, all of which wreaked havoc with the local scholastic sports schedule.
New uniforms, new coach, new attitude as Lady Rams volleyball wins first 2 games
Volleyball is one of the fastest growing women's sports—especially after a world record more than 92,000 fans attended a women's VB match held in the Nebraska Cornhuskers' football stadium.
Football Rams lose opener to Tuckahoe Tigers in a fumble-marred 41-8 game that ended twice
Last Saturday’s (9/2) opening Port Chester High School football contest was a game that was over twice.
Final cuts come down to the last scrimmage as soccer Rams heat up for new fall season
The soccer Rams season opener was moved back a day—and maybe longer— from its scheduled fall season home opener Tuesday (9/5) against Spring Valley due to the heat and the New York State Public High School Athletic Association's (NYSPHSAA’s) heat index policy, according to James Ryan, athletic director for the Port Chester School District.
Lady Rams soccer drops 2 of first three games
Coach now has less of a roster juggling act
Lady Rams head soccer coach Danny Alvarado was stressed, but in a good way if that is possible.
Local Pirates take fifth in doubleheader sweep to start new fall season on dreamy upbeat note
It may not rank up there with Beethoven's mighty fifth symphony, but a local age group baseball team will take what happened in the fifth any day along with any money you can donate for a worthy cause.
Wunderkind Lady Rams VB coach has upbeat team believing the sky is their limit in new fall season
Port Chester Lady Rams volleyball has had more than its share of ups and downs over the past decade, but there is a definite upbeat note, a new positive vibe reverberating throughout its practices leading up to its new fall season-opening home game next Wednesday (9/6) at 5 p.m. against up county powerhouse Roy C. Ketcham.
Blind Brook football team may merge with Hastings
Merger approved by Blind Brook school board, but status of fall grid season still up in the air
Another opening, another show, but when it comes to the start of the high school fall football season locally, this will be a very different one.
Lady Rams swim coach weighs all the factors that go into naming captains for new season
When it comes to choosing a Lady Rams swim team captain, head coach Colleen Cahill thinks long and hard before making that decision.
Port Chester x-country team off and running towards Croton Point
Impressive soph contingent leading the way at Crawford Park
The loneliness of the long distance runner just got less lonely for the Port Chester varsity Rams and Lady Rams with a flock of 17 talented cross-country runners out for the team.
Lady Rams soccer team kicks off season with loss
Numbers are up but split practices hurt
Shortly before the end of one of the Lady Rams final pre-season practices for the new fall season at the high school, head coach Danny Alvarado was finding comfort in numbers contrasting the upcoming season with last year's.
'No Tarzans playing like Janes,' coach says as football Rams prep for season to kick off
Sporting a new goatee and brimming with confidence despite being drenched with sweat in shorts and a T-shirt, a whistle around his neck, Port Chester Rams football coach Chris Halstead surveyed the first official practice of the new fall season at the high school Monday (8/21) and didn't seem overly concerned about the lack of size in the candidates for his offensive and defensive lines.
More than 100 Ram soccer wannabes turn out for first practice of fall season
It was a soccer first—the largest number of players ever to try out for the soccer Rams.
Teaching Lady Rams tennis more than a game for veteran approaching his last coaching hurrah
Nobody is going to expect the level of tennis played by the Lady Rams on the Port Chester High School courts to come anywhere remotely close to the style of professional play on display starting Monday (8/28) at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in Queens.
Fundraiser in motion so 12U Pirates can play Cooperstown dream series
It is the once-in-a-lifetime chance for 12 Port Chester Youth Baseball League tween players to compete against some of the nation's best age group teams during a prestigious week-long tournament on the playing fields at Cooperstown, hallowed Upstate home of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
Lady Rams swim team looks to make splash despite 7 missing aces on fall season roster
It was an eye-opener—and not just because the Lady Rams swim team started their first official fall season practice Monday, Aug. 21 at 5:45 a.m. in their Carver Center home pool, a lot earlier in the day than any other Port Chester team.
Ex-Ram dual sports star Lizandro Espinosa switches careers to aid potential greats at Crunch
He was a former Rams dual sports star athlete in wrestling and football who played a role in one of Port Chester's most thrilling comebacks in nearly the past two decades. He was a STEER for Student Athletes honors grad, was nominated for the prestigious "Heart of a Giant" award and envisioned a career in criminal justice after graduation but was sidelined by COVID, dropped out of college, worked in a local pizzeria and found a new career in his love for physical fitness.
7 Port Chester teams start practice Monday
New fall season right around the corner
No runs, no hits, no errors, no Ws or Ls, all adding up to the fact that there are no high school sports going on these days. At least not yet. But almost. It will soon be start up time for local high school sports.
Crunch time D1 Athletics 1-on-1 training program helps local talent maximize their sports potential
For the first time ever, Port Chester's Crunch Fitness has introduced its initial Division 1 Athletics 1-on-1 sports training program at its Waterfront Place gym location.
PCYBL 12U Pirates comeback from 8-1 deficit tops off 3 straight Ws on way to GHVBL title
"The Pirates win the pennant. The Pirates win the pennant." That, of course, is a takeoff on what is arguably the most famous sports radio call of all time—Russ Hodges announcing the "shot heard 'round the world," New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thompson's walk-off home run against Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca of Mount Vernon at the Polo Grounds in New York City on Oct. 2, 1981, to win the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 to take the decisive third game of a three-game playoff for the pennant in which the Giants trailed 4-1 going into the ninth inning and 4-2 with two runners on base when Staten Island's Thompson came to bat.
Ram wrestlers put in pre-season mat sweat equity they hope will pay off when regular season starts
They call it sweat equity. It means the amount of effort that goes into training. And that sweat is never more apparent than now in the middle of one of the hottest summers on record. Because the better athletes know that off-season training will pay off once the season starts for real with the start of the school year. And perhaps no Port Chester team is putting more sweat equity into their summer training than head coach Joe Facciola's wrestling Rams.
20U Pirates lose to Cardinals in playoff opener but emerge grateful for how far they have come
The season started off well even though it didn't end well. Because the local aging boys of summer have learned the hard way that it doesn't really matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Especially if you get to keep on playing the game you love another summer no matter what happens.
Extra inning excitement as Pirates 8U team takes 2 of 3 in a one-and-done playoff show
It was the stuff young baseball dreams are made of, the kind of team game that shows how far they have come in their first 8U playoff game of the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League post-season.
8U Pirates coming off extraordinary season as they keep learning on way to the playoffs
The 8U Pirates have advanced from learning the ABCs of baseball at the start of the season to coming closer to learning the whole alphabet by season's end. And the results have been nothing short of "extraordinary," according to a mentor who has been there from the beginning and thinks the best is yet to come now that the regular season is over and the playoffs are about to begin.
12U PCYBL Pirates take 4 of 5 games to end regular season on high note
The Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) 12U age group Pirates warmed up for the upcoming Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League (GHVBL) playoffs by closing out the regular season by winning four of their last five games in the past week.
9U Pirates summer season ends on a high note
Luis Sherwood pitches gem over D1 Stars
It was a great way to end the regular 9U Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) Pirates’ summer season at Lyon Park last Sunday (7/23). Luis Sherwood struck out 10 batters while pitching a complete game to beat the D1 Stars Baseball Academy, the 2022 summer championship team that ended the Pirates’ season last year.
Pirates 20U team gets inspirational lift from walk-off hit from RJ Thalheimer
Team eyes deep playoff run in GHVBL
It was a walk-off base hit off the bat of RJ Thalheimer that gave Port Chester's 20U Pirates a 10-9 home win over the Connecticut Devils last Tuesday (7/18) at Rec Park—but it was actually a lot more than that.
18U baseball Rams save the best for last, peaking heading into start of the playoffs
They saved the best for last. Or almost last. Port Chester Rams sophomore shortstop/second baseman Bryan Sachs wrapped up his 18U summer season-long Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League audition for a starting spot in the upcoming regular high school varsity pitching rotation with his best effort ever—a complete game, eight-strikeout, 5-1 home win on Saturday. July 15 over Stamford, one of the better teams in the GHVBL.
Steering towards 'at promise' student-athlete success with variety of innovative STEER summer programs
More than 60 "at promise" Port Chester seventh to 12th graders are scoring in and out of the classroom as part of an innovative STEER for Student Athletes summer training program.
Pirates 20U Rams alumni team drops a deuce but Lovallo walk-on sparks a win over Harrison
Ex-Ram All-League centerfielder/pitcher Nic Lovallo plans to walk on as a tryout candidate for his Florida college baseball team in the fall, but his late walk-on as a fill in on the depleted Pirates 20U mostly Rams alumni baseball team won him a quick start during their Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League summer season.
Pirates 8U and 12U PCYBL teams peaking as season winds down and playoffs looming
There's nothing like going into the upcoming Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League (GHVBL) U-team playoffs on a roll—and the Port Chester Youth Baseball League 8U and 12U age group teams are rolling.
18U Rams run into arm woes while losing a deuce
German and Tomassetti attract eyes of scouts
It is summertime and the living isn't easy for Port Chester's 18U baseball Rams because the arms of key players are hurting, the pitching control has been on the wild side except for their junior ace Jordany German and the bats have been mostly silent except that of John (Tommy) Tomassetti who is being scouted by college recruiters.
Ty Ostrowski ranked top 14U outfielder in state, following distinguished family sports tradition
His is a famous sports name in local and national history, and he is starting to more than live up to it.
PCYBL 8U and 12U teams’ ups and downs on way from Lyon Park to Maple Shade, N.J.
The Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) Pirates teams had their age-group ups and downs in the past week from top to bottom, from the oldest to the youngest in league and tournament play stretching from Lyon Park to Rec Field to Maple Point, N.J.
Go-to Rams a hit in GHVBL summer league with Big 4 and the newbies closing on a roll
The graduated go-to players are gone, the projected go-to players are here, and the question for the Port Chester Rams 18U summer baseball team is whether their current designated go-to players will be up to holding down the pivotal go-to role in crunch time.
Lineup change helps the 20U Pirates get their act together with late wins
It was a collegiate first—the first time a pair of teammates went one-two as the top picks in Major League Baseball's First Year Player Draft at T-Mobile Park in Seattle last Sunday (7/9).
Lacrosse season over but Trojans keep scoring
Ethan Taerstein leads the way
Blind Brook has long since closed out its lacrosse season by winning the league championship and its first game in the playoffs, but still the Trojans keep on scoring by achieving new LAX goals, the latest coming last Thursday (July 6).
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