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Yorktown Set to Reload in AA; New Coaches at PV, Hen Hud, Lakeland, Panas, Valhalla By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays There was a bonanza of Section 1 titles to be had in and about the Examiner region (Ex-area)
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State-Ranked (No.1) Tuskers Seal Deal in 51-27 Rout of Whitesboro By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Nobody needs to tell the state-ranked (co-No.1) Tuskers, or those within Tusker Nation, just how grand Coach Anthony DeMatteo’s Somers High football program
Read MoreBy Tony Pinciaro Neil Paulercio saw promise in the BRIARCLIFF/BYRAM HILLS/VALHALLA/WESTLAKE wrestling program when he started his freshman year. “We had the potential because Coach Joe and Coach Pete knew we had talented kids and we just needed to work,”
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PV, Westlake, P’Ville to Challenge for Class A Title By Tony Pinciaro, For Examiner News @Finch63 The 2024 season was pretty electric in our neck of the EX-area woods, and 2025 is shaping up mightily the same; as the dream
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Somers Football: Bidding for a three-peat as NYSPHSAA champions this coming week at the JMA Dome in Syracuse, Coach Anthony DeMatteo’s state-ranked (co-No.1) Tuskers (13-0) have already provided the region with a glimpse of what the section’s No.1 grid program
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State-Ranked No.1 Class A Tuskers Poised for Rematch vs. No.4 Section 4 Champ Whitesboro By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Oops, they’ve done it again! Excuse our played-out Britney Spears-style entrance, but facts are facts. Somers High is brokering an
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State-Ranked (No.4) Vikings Fall to No.5 Schuylerville, 24-7 By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Unforced errors, dead ball fouls and crucial penalties were just part of what plagued Section 1 champion VALHALLA (11-1), ranked No.4 in NYS, in its
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Vikings to Challenge No.7 Schuylerville for Berth in State Finals By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Plagued by an otherwise slow start, state-ranked (No.6) Section 1 champion VALHALLA looked like it was going through the motions for much of
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State-Ranked (No.1) Tuskers Reach Final 4, vs. Cornwall By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Webster’s newest definition for a ‘wakeup call’ – #TongueInCheek – refers to Section 1 champion SOMERS’ 29-8 NYSPHSAA Class A title victory over Section 2
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DeMatteo Brethren Lead Tuskers, Vikings to NYSPHSAA Regionals; Class B P’ville Ousted By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays If you were a member of the DeMatteo family, you couldn’t ask for much more at last weekend’s Section 1 grid
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