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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays State-ranked Class AA (No.12) CARMEL and Class A (No12) SOMERS clinched their respective league titles last weekend and both remain on the fast track for their respective sectional title tilts on November 12/13
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The KLBS Blue Storm 12U softball squad captured the championship at the Hudson Valley Raptors 12U Pink October Fastpitch tournament, held Oct. 16-17 at Sprout Brook Park in Cortlandt Manor. The Blue crew stormed its way to an undefeated 6-0
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays YORKTOWN’s George Popovic certainly drilled some of the biggest goals of the regular season last week, including last Tuesday’s OT stunner over visiting SOMERS when the state-ranked (No.13) Huskers (14-1-1) knocked off the
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By Tony Pinciaro Midway through preseason, HEN HUD senior and captain Taeghan Dapson realized the varsity field hockey team had the potential for a promising season. “Truthfully, at the start of the season, we had a lot of new players
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Section 1 soccer is nothing to sneeze at anymore. After decades of mediocre fùtbol, the times they are a-changin’. A concerted effort by coaches across the section has witnessed a notable change in
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By Andy Jacobs More than a month into the 2021 season, the Pleasantville football team was faced with its biggest hurdle on Saturday afternoon — a foe from Bronxville led by dynamic senior quarterback Conor O’Neil. Even though O’Neil provided
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There were touchdowns galore late Saturday afternoon at Briarcliff High School, where the Byram Hills Bobcats wound up scoring the final two of them in a 42-28 victory over Briarcliff/Hamilton. The two teams were deadlocked 14-14 at halftime and
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By Andy Jacobs White Plains football coach Mike Lindberg has found himself in the unenviable position of having to improvise with the Tigers’ starting backfield so far this season. On Friday afternoon, those improvisational skills of his reached a breaking
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By Tony Pinciaro As the 2021 girls’ varsity soccer season is winding down toward sectionals, LAKELAND is hitting its stride. The Hornets did not have time to take a breath last week with four games, but it did not affect
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays The Road to Syracuse is a long and winding highway from Route 17 to I-81 with pit stops along I-87/I-90 for the last two grid teams standing at the NYSPHSAA finals. Getting there
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