Put Valley, Westlake, White Plains Advance to Final 4’s By Tony Pinciaro WALTER PANAS came into the current varsity girls’ basketball season with high expectations based on its breakthrough 2021-22 year. The Panthers, led by a talented underclassmen group, played
Read MoreYorktown, Fox Lane to Square off; Panas Shocked; Class B Locals Thrive By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays There were some wild upsets and some terrific theater to open the first round of the Section 1 Basketball Championship Tournament
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays If there’s a bar being set for PUTNAM VALLEY athletes, Rhode Island-bound senior Eva DeChent continues to reestablish the level on an weekly basis. Last Tuesday, while chasing a 2,000-point career milestone only
Read MoreClass A, B Sectional Challengers Emerging as Playoffs Loom By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays In the 35+ years this scribe has covered Section 1 hoops, it’s hard to imagine a year with so many Examiner-area sectional-title challengers north
Read MoreValhalla Holds Down Fort in Class B; White Plains Survives Greeley By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays If we’re going to be completely honest, there were very few people at LAKELAND High School who would have bet more than
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays A diamond in the rough since he first graced the Pride hardwood his junior year, Obi Toppin, the one-time shy student at Ossining High School, returned to the grassroots of what has become
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Midterms and weather played a little havoc on last week’s Section 1 boys’ hoops schedule, but there were plenty of big games played with just two weeks remaining in the regular season of
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Four Examiner-area Class A teams, including No.7 Lakeland, No.15 Somers, No.20 Walter Panas and No.29 Fox Lane, plus a pair of Class B teams – No.12 Valhalla and No.26 Briarcliff – and No.8
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Friday night within ‘The Hive’ at Lakeland was supposed to be epic, and it was for about a half. Host LAKELAND and SOMERS have but one gold ball between them (Somers, 1992), but
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays We saw a few monkey wrenches tossed into the Section 1 hoops circuit last week, none bigger than the one OSSINING threw at state-ranked No.25 WHITE PLAINS along the Class AA circuit. White
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