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Five Examiner-Area Teams Ranked by State Pollsters By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays There’s a bunch of teams from the Examiner region taking up space in the NYS Sportswriters Association poll, and we got their mentions below, so have
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays LAKELAND Coach Tim Hourahan and SOMERS Coach Brian Lanzetta have done as much as anybody to promote the great game of fútbol within the Section 1 spectrum and their respective feeder programs, and
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Putnam Valley Turning Corner, Making Gains Under Parchen By Tony Pinciaro A strong showing in the second half of the 2021 varsity field hockey season catapulted PUTNAM VALLEY into sectionals, where it won a first-round game. As a result of
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By Tony Pinciaro SOMERS had a successful 2021 season, however, it came to a premature conclusion in the quarterfinal round of the Section 1 Class A Girls’ Soccer Championship to Pearl River in the fourth overtime. It was a crushing
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Everyone we asked prior to the start of the 2022 campaign suggested YORKTOWN was the team to beat in Class A this season, and Coach Zoran Milojevic’s undefeated Huskers (6-0) did nothing to dispel that notion last week after they
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In what could only be described as an otherwise uneventful football weekend along the Section 1 circuit, the three reigning Section 1 champions of the Examiner area – Class AA Carmel, Class A Somers and Class B Pleasantville – continued
Read moreBefore most of you knew who he was, or all he would eventually stand for during his epic time on Earth, Mahopac’s Dan Callahan granted me an interview his senior year at Lakeland High back in the wee ‘90s. I
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Meyreles, Koch, Carroll with Dominant Performances By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Every coach in the game loves a good Swiss Army knife, and that’s exactly what YORKTOWN Coach Pantelis Ypsilantis has in QB/RB/WR/DB Justin Meyreles, who rushed for
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Huskers Shutout Class A Carmel, Port Chester; White Plains Up then Down By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It’s too early in the season to draw conclusions from what we saw in Week 1 of the Section 1 soccer
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By Tony Pinciaro Jules Vano wasted little time demonstrating why she is one of Section 1’s most lethal playmakers/scorers. Vano had a hat trick in Yorktown’s season-opening 3-1 win over Eastchester. She added a second consecutive hat trick, and collected
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