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Mahopac, Ossining, Somers/Hen Hud Hope to Challenge for Local Supremacy By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays Mahopac gymnastics Coach Vin Collins has graced the Section 1 circuit for 42 years, winning a handful of sectional titles, training scores of All-Americans
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#Time2Advocate Gaining Steam on NYS Sports Circuit For a variety of reasons, lacrosse is more like family than most sports, so make no mistake: Laxers are there for each other, especially when the chips are down. There is genetic royalty
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays The buzz word being used by Section 1 football coaches during the 2021 spring phase of the coronavirus pandemic is “Advocate”. Mahopac High football Coach Dominick DeMatteo has been a strong proponent of
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It was an unconscionable year, a year most of us would rather put in the rear-view mirror and never see again. That said, our local athletes lifted the lid on some of the
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What I wouldn’t give to be at a high school basketball game right now in any gym in Section 1, or up at the Brewster Ice Arena. And what I wouldn’t give for NYS Gov. Merry-Andrew Cuomo to make an
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays Both Class A HORACE GREELEY and Class B LAKELAND were expecting so much more to their respective 2020 field hockey campaigns when the 2019 season had ended 13 months ago. Lakeland was coming off
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The hits just keep coming… one after another, after another, and they have been devastating on a local, national and global scale on account of this ceaseless coronavirus pandemic. This 2020 can’t end quick enough; for student athletes, their parents,
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays There were some surprises on the Section 1 soccer circuit and then there were some of the usual suspects doing their thing in what was anything but a normal 2020 campaign. With the
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Panthers Fall, 3-1, in South. Westchester Regional Final By Rob DiAntonio Examiner News Writer Pleasantville’s girls’ soccer team fell into an early hole and the top-seeded Panthers weren’t able dig out of it in a 3-1 loss to second-seeded Bronxville
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays There was a ton of heartache, some drama and mixed emotions behind the scenes for many Examiner-area girls’ soccer teams due to Coronavirus, including a co-championship situation between Mahopac and Somers in the Putnam-Northern
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