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Ray has 33 years experience covering and photographing local sports in Westchester and Putnam counties, including everything from Little League/Travel Baseball to varsity high school prep sports and collegiate coverage. He has been a sports editor at Examiner Media since its inception in 2007. Visit Ray's author bio page for more details. Also read Ray’s archived work here and his Direct Rays column here.
By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays We saw what you went through, Class of 2022. We saw what it did to you. We witnessed the hell COVID put you through during your sophomore and junior years; sitting alone in
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In the United Kingdom and Ireland they call the Big Dipper the Plough, the large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major. In Section 1 soccer we call Fordham-bound Somers soccer star Daniel D’Ippolito the Big Dipper
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It was yet another year of mayhem in the United States of America, where she’s still the greatest country on Earth while quickly morphing into an unrecognizable state of divisiveness #PleaseComeTogether. The great
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Brewster Bounds Farthest in Inaugural Girls’ Flag Football Campaign By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Like most pilot programs, Section 1 wasn’t certain the notion of girls’ flag football would get off the cutting room floor when the inaugural
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Nappi’s Tuskers Win 1st NYS Tourney Game in School History By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays FISHKILL – If, at the start of the 2022 varsity baseball campaign, you had the Somers baseball team as the last team standing
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40-Time Champion Huskers Fall in 4th-Straight Sectional Tourney, Lose for Just 10th Time Since 1972 By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports editor @Directrays A lot of lacrosse coaches and lax insiders often liken their sport to basketball, given the transitional aspects,
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12th-Seeded Tuskers Upset No.2 Rye, Advance to 1st NYSPHSAA Tourney Since 2009 By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Before Sunday, the history of Somers baseball could be summed up in two distinct eras; the sectional three-peat dynasty between 2007-09
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No.1 Panas Ousted as Baseball Gods are Unforgiving to Most Locals By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays We told you last week in this space that the Baseball Gods are unforgiving, and top-seeded WALTER PANAS was quick to find
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Indians to Face Rye in Semis, Yorktown to Battle John Jay By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays We specifically told you in this space last week that the outcome of No.4 SOMERS vs. No.5 MAHOPAC was going to come
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Hen Hud Needs 13 Innings to Oust Brewster in Epic Battle By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Defending Class AA champion CARMEL finished the regular season with a bang, thus securing the No.4 seed in this week’s Section 1
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