@Directrays Another week, another postponement within the 11-member New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA). Now, folks in Section 1 are awaiting a Sept. 29 start date for low-risk sports like soccer (as if!), field hockey, cross country
Read MoreDavid Zaslaw and company really came through when we needed folks to come through for us. Zaslaw’s Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League summer season ran its course last Sunday, providing thousands of kids from 8 to 18 the opportunity of
Read MoreCops 9U, 12U Crowns Yorktown Spartans Crowned 11U Champs, Briarcliff Falls in 16U Finals Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays Young Max Grodio has never had a more tense moment in his nine years on earth. The bases were juiced, his Somers Red Storm
Read MoreExaminer Sports Editor@Directrays A couple of hard-nosed 10U Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League teams got after each other last week when the host Putnam Valley Miners (11-4) avenged a previous loss to the mighty New Castle Mustangs (13-6) by posting
Read MoreI cannot imagine a world without high school football, without Friday Night Lights at Somers and Yorktown High, without Putnam County bigwigs Carmel and Mahopac packing the stands, without a Saturday afternoon at Parkway Field on Marble Avenue in Pleasantville.
Read MoreMahopac Slugger Mascoll Leads 12U Indians to 15-5 Win over Byram Hills; 10U Yorktown, PV Miners do Battle By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays There’s a mutual respect brewing between the 10U Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League A-Division rivals Putnam
Read MoreIt is going to take a lot more than a COVID-19 pandemic or dire family illness to stop Yorktown High sophomore Alexandra Scialdone from achieving her goal of playing Division I lacrosse for a major university. The 5-foot-5, 130-pound attacker
Read MoreSurely, it was a coincidence, but shortly after my column was published last week state Sen. Peter Harckham (D-Lewisboro) had amended Senate Bill S8708, which originally called for state education law to exclude schools with race-based mascots from receiving some
Read MoreExaminer Sports Editor@Directrays Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League (GHVBL) action is beginning to heat up on diamonds across the Hudson Valley. The Mahopac Indians (16U) won their B-Division season-opener at Crane Field last Thursday in a 12-2 win over Mount
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays Here we go again with the mixing of sports and politics. These guys, many of whom have never tossed a pigskin, just can’t stick to their own lane. State Sen. Peter Harckham (D-Lewisboro) can
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