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Sailors Cap Undefeated Season at Glens Falls, Home Away from Home By Tony Pinciaro HEN HUD left no doubt as to who was the best and most dominant Class B girls’ volleyball team in New York State. The Sailors entered
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Reigning NYS Champ Carmel Ousted in OT; Westlake Denied by O’Neill By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays, and Andy Jacobs Football is the fabric that weaves our communities together each and every fall. Win, lose or draw, very few
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The 14U Blue Storm Team (of the Katonah Lewisboro Bedford Softball league) won the Larchmont Fall Tournament Championship over the weekend of November 5th and 6th. The tournament included nine total teams from across the Lower Hudson Valley and Connecticut.
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays MAHOPAC – The rain held off for Friday morning’s Class D championship but the Class A final was played amidst a steady rain at Mahopac High where two blowouts prevailed, but the sun
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By Jessica Medoff Brewster senior Mia Palladino is a tennis wunderkind. A nationally ranked tennis player, seventh in New York, she finished third most recently at the New York State Tennis Championships, and has been recruited to play for a
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State-Ranked (No.4) Blue Devils Upset No.1 Avon, No.3 Maple Hill to Claim 1st NYS Title By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays History is special when you make it, and there’s a group of young men at Haldane High who
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By Tony Pinciaro Following set two of its New York State Class B regional volleyball final with Section 4 champion Maine-Endwell, HEN HUD experienced a season-first. Maine-Endwell had dealt Hen Hud its first set loss this season, evening the regional
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Mahopac’s Koch Scorched Earth, Runs for 6 TDs, 319 yards in Record-Setting Effort By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It was business as usual for the state-ranked powers that be upon the Section 1 grid circuit. No.4 Class AA
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Briarcliff Falls to Lourdes on PKs in NYSPHSAA Opening Round By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays YORKTOWN HEIGHTS – And then there was one: HALDANE is the last Examiner-area soccer team standing after Coach Ahmed Dwidar’s state-ranked (No.5) Blue
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Horace Greeley, Putnam Valley Put up Valiant Fights in Finale Setbacks By Tony Pinciaro Kayla Jennings and her LAKELAND volleyball teammates noticed something was missing while looking at the program banner in the school gymnasium. While the volleyball team has
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