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Articles and images chronicling local youth athletes
By Rob DiAntonio The BYSNS started off the ice-hockey season with an 8-7 statement win over visiting WHITE PLAINS on their senior night on Sunday at Brewster Ice Arena. Jonathan Graham netted the go-ahead goal for the Herd with 2:37
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Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays & Ron DiAntonio @RJD_Photos There are certain girls’ hoops teams in the Examiner region who will have to settle for regional titles in a year when, if not for COVID-19, they should be eying nothing less
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Panas Nips Lakeland, Mahopac Sweeps Carmel, Briarcliff Clips Pleasantville; Haldane Handles PV Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays & Rob DiAntonio @RJD_Photos Thankfully, the schedule makers wasted no time. It was virtually rivalry week as we embarked upon the local Section 1
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COVID be Damned: Slapshots, Wristers & Checks ‘Bout to Drop 2021 Ice Hockey Preview Edition RAY GALLAGHER/ANDY JACOBS/ROB DIANTONIO PHOTOS Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays & Rob Diantonio @RJD_Photos Ice time is always tough to come by for Section 1 hockey
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Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It’ll be quick, it could be less than pretty early on as teams work into “game shape”, find their rhythm and get familiar with their coach’s schema, but Section 1 boys’ basketball season is finally scheduled
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Local Teams Begin Preparation for Abbreviated 12-Game Season By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It looks like it’s finally here: Go time! As of Monday’s Examiner deadline, some of the hurdles and hoops had been jumped over and through
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays Mahopac senior Jamison Castrataro stole the show at Odyssey Gymnastics last Wednesday in the host Indians’ rout of Suffern and Ossining during Section 1’s opening day on the gymnastics circuit, and the only event
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Mahopac, Ossining, Somers/Hen Hud Hope to Challenge for Local Supremacy By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays Mahopac gymnastics Coach Vin Collins has graced the Section 1 circuit for 42 years, winning a handful of sectional titles, training scores of All-Americans
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor@Directrays Both Class A HORACE GREELEY and Class B LAKELAND were expecting so much more to their respective 2020 field hockey campaigns when the 2019 season had ended 13 months ago. Lakeland was coming off
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays There were some surprises on the Section 1 soccer circuit and then there were some of the usual suspects doing their thing in what was anything but a normal 2020 campaign. With the
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