Examiner 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 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 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 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 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 MoreBy Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays The rumor around the GHVBL 11U B-Division circuit is that Putnam Valley Blue is good enough to play in the A-Division, and some teams, including the visiting Byram Hills Bobcats might concur with that
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
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays Taking a deep dive into the 11U Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League, or any baseball for that matter, was a long time coming. A pair of games from the B-Division revealed a couple of
Read MoreUpon its return in late July for an abbreviated 60-game sprint to the postseason, Major League Baseball just saved the day for many, not to mention its own rump. For a sport that is losing some appeal among youngsters, MLB
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