Well Runs Dry in Pride’s 73-45 NYS Title Loss to Section 8’s Baldwin TROY – It was anything but the way a reigning four-time NYS champion should go out; until the bitter end when the seven-time defending Section 1 champion
Read MorePride’s Espinosa-Hunter Named NYS Player of Year Class A SOMERS and Class AA OSSINING have survived and advanced to the NYS Final 4. After a 44-39 win over Section 4 champion Vestal in the NYS Class A Region 1 championship
Read MoreThere is plenty to be admired about Yorktown’s terrific basketball season: A league title, 17 wins, a run to the Westchester County Center Final 4 and a lifetime of memories for Coach Kevin Downes’ seventh-seeded Huskers. But perhaps bigger than
Read MoreBy Tony Pinciaro & Ray Gallagher – In what might be the greatest showing in Northern Westchester/Putnam girls’ hoops history, three local teams danced the County Center dance and rode home in championship chariots; including Class AA OSSINING, Class A SOMERS
Read MoreIn what might be the strongest showing in recent history, four girls’ basketball programs from the Northern Westchester/Putnam County region will be dancing at the Westchester County Center this week, including Class AA Ossining, Class A Somers and Panas and
Read MoreIt took a few years, but Yorktown High hoopers are now, officially, cut from the cloth of their Coach, Kevin Downes. If Downes isn’t the Class AA Coach of the Year after No.7 Yorktown’s dramatic 59-58 Section 1 Class AA
Read MoreThe odds were against most of the locals going in. With so many out-bracket games to be contested — and nobody in their respective Section 1 tournaments with anything better than a No.7 seed — the chances of many teams
Read MoreSo where does Walter Panas get off being a top-two seed in the upcoming Section 1 Class A playoffs? Where did this come from? When did Danielle Hood and Kerry Sullivan suit up for the Panthers again? Panas veteran Coach
Read MoreIn our best Dave Johnson impersonation (the sportscaster best known for his work in horse racing): “And down the stretch they come!” As we head out of the three-quarter turn and in to the final stretch, the Section 1 hoops
Read MoreJohn Watson, one of three owners at the newly renovated Watson’s Restaurant & Bar in Putnam Valley, has a grand notion that just might work in a town that could sure use some fixings and fun. “I want the place
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