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There is plenty to be admired about Yorktown’s terrific basketball season: A league title, 17 wins, a run to the Westchester County Center Final 4 and a lifetime of memories for Coach Kevin Downes’ seventh-seeded Huskers. But perhaps bigger than
Read MoreBy Tony Pinciaro & Ray Gallagher – In what might be the greatest showing in Northern Westchester/Putnam girls’ hoops history, three local teams danced the County Center dance and rode home in championship chariots; including Class AA OSSINING, Class A SOMERS
Read MoreThe Briarcliff boys’ basketball team probably can’t play much better than it did over the first five minutes of the second quarter last Wednesday evening. A 17-0 spurt that actually began with Jack Reish’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer to end the opening
Read MoreGrace Lunder sat slumped on a wooden bench just outside the Byram Hills locker room late Friday night, frozen like a statue, with her head buried near her knees. Just minutes earlier, the Bobcats’ standout goalie had dropped face first
Read MoreDave Fernandes walked out of the locker room at Scarsdale High School late Friday afternoon carrying with him more than two decades of memories as the Horace Greeley head basketball coach and a lot of uncertainty about his future. He
Read MoreAs he stood along the sideline in the final minutes of last Wednesday’s Section 1, Class B quarterfinal playoff game against visiting Westlake, Briarcliff girls’ basketball coach Don Hamlin was undoubtedly having flashbacks to last year when his young Bears
Read MoreIn what might be the strongest showing in recent history, four girls’ basketball programs from the Northern Westchester/Putnam County region will be dancing at the Westchester County Center this week, including Class AA Ossining, Class A Somers and Panas and
Read MoreIt took a few years, but Yorktown High hoopers are now, officially, cut from the cloth of their Coach, Kevin Downes. If Downes isn’t the Class AA Coach of the Year after No.7 Yorktown’s dramatic 59-58 Section 1 Class AA
Read MoreEven with her team facing a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter, Pleasantville girls’ basketball coach Myndi Hill had a pretty good inkling that Saturday’s opening-round Class B playoff game at Westlake was far from over. “Never doubted, never doubted,”
Read MoreBy Tony Pinciaro – When the final whistle sounded, signifying the conclusion of the Section 1 Division II 106-pound final, Pleasantville freshman Len Balducci walked off the mat with a huge smile and continued a family tradition. Balducci won the
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