Thanks for the memories traditional Thanksgiving top 12 list of best of fall high school sports season
So fall was the best of local high school athletic times. It was also the worst of times.
Galaxy of Fall All-Star awards highlight Rye Town’s top athletes
The Port Chester soccer Rams’ high-scoring senior Ramaul Morgan made the All-Section team announced by the Section One Coaches Association Monday (11/20), while Blind Brook saw a record 29 student-athletes making the various All-Section, All-Conference and All-League teams.
Two ex-Trojans play side by side in NCAA tourney
It’s an almost certain Blind Brook soccer first
In what is almost certainly a first in Blind Brook soccer history, two former Trojan captains who also happen to be the best of friends started for the nationally-ranked Franklin & Marshall men’s soccer team that made it into the second round of the NCAA Tournament's post-season championships this past Saturday in Lancaster, Pa.
Coaching changes give P.C. teams new look as winter school sports season gets underway
The winter sports teams are the same: Rams and Lady Rams basketball, bowling, wrestling, Rams swimming and cheerleading. But the coaching staff has changed so there is a blend of the old and the new, accent on the nouveau.
Laila gets OK to wrestle as Ram and Lady Ram
Eighth-grader eyes school's first state title in both categories
Whatever Laila wants, Laila gets. And what Laila wants is to win Port Chester's first ever state championship in any sport.
Blind Brook school board approves ice hockey merger and freshman Mikayla Newman skates into Green Wave
In her own way, a Blind Brook freshman ice hockey player has the same kind of passion for the game because Mikayla Newman calls playing hockey her "happy place."
Blind Brook school board oks football merger with four schools
Talks underway to see which one would be the best fit
It's better late than never and better early than not at all, and now it is time to wait and see what happens next because you never know which way the pigskin is going to fly.
Runners finish with fast times at end of x-country season
Rams and Lady Rams look back at final two grueling championship races
The loneliness of the Port Chester Rams and Lady Rams distance runners will now take their loneliness indoors.
PCYBL 11U Pirates win GHVBL Fall Championship
The Port Chester Youth Baseball League Pirates 11U age-group team won the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League Fall Championship with an 8-3 win over the Frozen Ropes Rockies of Chester (N.Y.) last Saturday (11/4) in Danbury, Conn. And the local lads did it with a little help from their friends as players on the newly-formed team were drawn from nine area schools.
Walk-off walk helps baseball Rams 18U team win P.C.'s first-ever GHVBL fall season title
It took a walk on the wild side, actually a lot of walks, but the Port Chester baseball Rams made the most of those ramblings on their way to winning Port Chester High School's first-ever Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League Fall Season Championship last Saturday (11/4) in Danbury, Conn.
Lady Rams Vballers lose in playoffs but finish season with winning record
The Lady Rams Vballers finished the regular season 11-9 before losing to higher-seeded Mamaroneck away last Tuesday (10-31) in the first game of the one-and-done playoffs.
Jule a gem of a PCHS volleyball playmaker as 8th-grader who helped lead playoffs team
As the volleyball goes, so goes eighth-grader Julianna Luzzi and, quite possibly, the future of Port Chester volleyball with a lot of help from her up-and-coming teammates.
Overcoming adversity has played a huge role in molding P.C. grid 'Heart of a Giant' nominee
There is a lot more to John Delcid than being one of the Rams’ best backs on offense and defense—and that helps explain why Johnny D has been nominated for the Heart of a Giant Award presented by the New York pro football Giants and the Hospital for Special Surgery.
PCYBL 10U Pirates head into GHVBL fall semi-finals test
Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers aren't the only teams playing meaningful November baseball as they play the World Series in warmer climes.
Lady Rams tween QB leads Middle School grid team
The tween wunderkind we're talking about is McKayla McLoughlin, 12, an eighth-grader who is an offensive and defensive standout as the quarterback on O and linebacker on D for the Rams football team that lined up for its final football game of the regular season Thursday (11/2) against Peekskill at home.
Mistakes in 3-minute span prove costly to Rams in loss to Tappan Zee in one-and-done playoffs
The underdog Port Chester football Rams played playoffs favored top seed Tappan Zee tough, and they played the Flying Dutchmen close and left everything they had on the field. But when all was said and done, the Rams became undone by three costly mistakes over a roughly three-minute span that led to three Zee touchdowns going into halftime.
Photo of Lady Rams league tennis champions speaks louder than words in telling team’s story
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and the Port Chester pride that emanates from the accompanying historic Lady Rams tennis team photo and everyone connected to the team says all you need to know—or almost all—about the school's first team in recent history to win a league championship at the varsity level.
Rams beat Poughkeepsie to make playoffs in wild, season-ending homecoming game
The football Rams took on a new look as the boys in black instead of Port Chester's traditional blue and white, the familiar one-two punch of sophomore quarterback Alexis Morel and junior fullback John Pauletti clicked once again, baseball catcher Scott Sullivan made a clutch TD catch in the end zone to put the game away and the Rams made it into the upcoming playoffs last Saturday (10/21) during the regular season finale with a 23-6 homecoming game must win over Poughkeepsie.
Rams and Lady Rams x-country harriers slog through wind, rain, mud in Coaches Invitational
High steps, glides, strides, lunges, an easy half-mile run, 50-yard sprints at half speed, a cooldown quarter mile jog in the after school sunshine on the Port Chester High School track Monday (10/23) and then it was time for a slow 30-minute run around the streets surrounding the school, but before Rams and Lady Rams cross country coach Cindy Reyes Martinez clicked her stop watch to send her young charges on their way, she asked how her team was feeling.
Lady Rams make big splash in Conference Championships
Team sets 15 PRs and has second best score in school's history
The Lady Rams raced to the second best showing in Port Chester High School swimming history, scoring more than 200 points and setting 15 personal records (PRs) while placing scorers in the top 20 events for the first time in the Section One Conference Championships last Saturday (10/21) in Peekskill.
Soccer Rams out in 2nd round of one-and-done playoffs
Lady Rams Vballers gear up for a Tuesday opener
It is time for the latest version of as the big round playoffs ball turns in Port Chester with the soccer Rams out in the second round and the Lady Rams volleyballers closing fast to get in with home-and-away, end-of-the-regular- season shutouts against Roosevelt to draw Mamaroneck when the VB playoffs start Tuesday (10/31).
Rose ceremony honors senior football players and cheerleaders at homecoming game finale
Everything was coming up roses before the start of the regular season-ending football game between Port Chester and Poughkeepsie last Saturday (10/21) at John Ryan Stadium. The curtain raiser was the traditional rose ceremony before the Homecoming Game.
Lady Rams up their game and PRs on their way to higher seedings in Conference Championship
It is the time of year when the Lady Rams swimmers are upping their game, so much so that it doesn't really matter whether they win or lose but how fast they go in what amounts to a last series of splashes for five graduating seniors and improved seedings in the upcoming Conference Championships Saturday (10/21) in Peekskill.
Rams soccer in, Lady Rams soccer out of playoffs
Vballers look like a good bet to get in with 3 games left
The big round ball has taken its final regular season bounces in Rams and Lady Rams soccer, with the Rams in the upcoming playoffs while their female counterparts are out. But the ball is still up in the air in volleyball where the Lady Rams have had a rough October with three games left to go but still look like a sure thing to make the post-season playoffs with a winning record.
Football Rams lose to Tappan Zee under the lights but look for playoff berth in homecoming game
Into almost every football season comes a game best remembered as forgotten. The Port Chester Rams played that kind of game against Tappan Zee last Friday, a horrifically unlucky Friday the 13th for Port Chester because it was a Friday night lights game away in which the hometown Dutchmen played lights out from the get- go and the Rams looked lost.
Last hurrah for Lady Rams Fab 5 and their coach after tennis team wins league championship title
It was a last hurrah for Port Chester's Fab 5 of tennis, going out as undefeated league champions—the first time in recent history that a Lady Rams tennis team won a league championship at the varsity level.
Rams and Lady Rams soccer and Vballers gear up in unpredictable race to the finish
The large round ball took some unpredictable bounces with wildly varying results for the soccer Rams and Lady Rams and the Lady Ram volleyballers during the past week or so.
Marquez makes All-League cross-country team
P.C. harriers eye faster times in Sectionals
In the long run in distance races, what is done in the short run leading up to the races makes the difference. In other words, the preparation done in training before the races in terms of miles run in practice usually pays off on race day.
Clutch Lady Rams tennis team goes down to wire to beat Woodlands and win league championship
"It was the most awesome ending a coach could ask for," head coach Manny Martinez said after Lucia Giordano and Sinai Cooper—two players who had never played doubles together—winning the pivotal fourth doubles match at Anthony Veteran Park in Greenburgh last Thursday (10/5).
Lady Rams swim team splits deuce
Port Chester breaks numerous PRs against Mount Vernon and Brewster
The timing has never been better for the ever-improving Port Chester Lady Rams swim team.
Grid Rams win 'Rain Bowl' at Ramapo
Score was 26-24 with 2 Pauletti TDs & 4 stops on 2 extra point tries
In their latest version of the Rain Bowl, the Port Chester football Rams edged Ramapo away by a deuce, four deuces actually, 26-24, stopping four pivotal two-point conversions while three different Rams scored.
Lady Ram swimmers beat Mount Vernon 78-61
P.C. wins 8 of 11 events in 1st win of season
The surprising Lady Rams swim team may be all wet, but it's in a good way because they keep right on improving as evidenced by their 78-61 away win over Mount Vernon last Wednesday (9/27).
12U Pirates warm up for Field of Screams Tournament by sweeping the Eagles in doubleheader at Lyon Park
In a warmup for the first multi-team tween age group fundraising Field of Screams Tournament Saturday and Sunday (10/7/8) at Lyon Park, the Port Chester Youth Baseball League 12U Pirates ran their undefeated fall season Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League record to an undefeated 6-0 with a doubleheader sweep of the Eastchester Eagles last Sunday (10/1).
P.C.'s Big 3 of football, Rams and Lady Rams soccer may yet heat up during fall season of discontent
With the fading warmth of October edging towards the chill of November, the winter of discontent has already set in during the fall sports season for Port Chester's Big 3—football and Rams and Lady Rams soccer.
Lady Rams volleyballers continue to impress as Port Chester's surprisingly winningest team
They have new uniforms, a new coach, a new emphasis on teamwork and a newly-found confidence that makes them think they can hang tough against the best teams in Westchester—and they have been doing just that, hanging tough, that is, and then some.
Diehard Trojans practice for canceled grid season despite Section One brass nixing proposed merger
"We want to play football. We need to play football. We will play football," said Robby Carey, the high-scoring senior running back for the Blind Brook Trojans.
Lady Rams swim team sets 7 personal records in close loss to Poughkeepsie with 3 aces out
It was déjà vu all over again, a swimming blast from the past indicative of the fighting spirit that makes the Lady Rams ever-improving swim team such an intriguing group to watch under inspirational coach Colleen Cahill.
The way the large ball bounces in Port Chester for Lady Rams VBallers and its 2 soccer teams
The Lady Rams volleyball team has come out of nowhere to sport Port Chester's best record at 6-1 after three more straight shutouts while the Rams soccer team is showing signs of turning things around after beating archrival White Plains.
Peekskill Red Devils bedevil grid Rams 38-8 at home in wind & rain of a tropical storm
The Peekskill Red Devils beat the Rams 38-8 at home—Port Chester's only points coming with less than a minute left to play.
Rams fall baseball off to impressive start with two away GHVBL wins in Stamford
Port Chester's baseball Rams boys of summer are now the boys of fall and falling upwards, aiming to spring forward as their best versions of themselves once the scholastic baseball season starts in the spring.
Lady Rams swimmers set 5 personal best records in close home loss to best team in their conference
It was Port Chester's first meet of the new fall season, and their coach said the Lady Rams did themselves proud.
Section 1 nixes Blind Brook football merger with Hastings
Move ends the Trojans’ grid era at the high school
It was supposed to be a done deal. Only it wasn't. And now the proposed football merger between Blind Brook and Hastings isn't going to happen because it was dead and buried as early as this past Monday (9/18), maybe sooner.
Lady Rams tennis off to fast fall season start with its 1st and 2nd doubles teams unbeaten
If you follow the bouncing ball in women's pro tennis, you know that 19-year-old Coco Gauff became the first American teenager to reach the final of the U.S. Open in New York's borough of Queens since Serena Williams in 2001 and came of age by winning it all by defeating Aryna Sabalenka, 25, the number two seed from Belarus.
Lady Rams volleyballers take 4 of first 5 matches
It couldn't last forever. Port Chester won its first three fall season Lady Rams volleyball matches without losing a set against Roy C. Ketcham, East Ramapo and Scarsdale B in its latest home win last Tuesday (9/12).
Disrupted sked wreaks havoc on the Port Chester Big 3
Football, Rams & Lady Rams soccer get back on track
More than 60 local scholastic sports games were canceled in the past week due to either the rising heat index, thunderstorms, rain, Rosh Hashanah or some combination thereof wreaking havoc on the schedules of Port Chester's Big 3—football and Rams and Lady Rams soccer.
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.