By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Class B PUTNAM VALLEY began the season at 1-8, and it looked like a third straight season of gloom and doom was on the horizon for the once-proud franchise that took the section
Read MoreBy Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays We’ve all seen it on the news. Everybody with a platform is pushing renewed COVID-19 fears and concerns with the recent statewide spikes, and rightly so, to a certain extent, because it’s real,
Read MoreSupporting our teenage son’s interest in playing America’s beloved contact sport while coping with our worst fears about it. Good morning! Today is Monday, November 22, and you are reading today’s section of Examiner+, a digital newsmagazine serving Westchester, Putnam,
Read MoreBy Andy Jacobs In an instant, the dream of a sectional championship turned into a nightmare for the Byram Hills football team on Saturday afternoon. Quarterback Ryan Frondi lofted a 25-yard touchdown pass into the waiting arms of James Moran
Read MoreBy Tony Pinciaro As the 2021 girls’ varsity soccer season is winding down toward sectionals, LAKELAND is hitting its stride. The Hornets did not have time to take a breath last week with four games, but it did not affect
Read MoreBy Andy Jacobs A lot has changed since the Byram Hills and Westlake football teams met nearly five months ago in the Section 1, Class B championship game. But one thing remained the same when the teams resumed their rivalry
Read MoreFrances Mary Devine, beloved daughter and sister, died unexpectedly at home in Pleasantville. She was 48. She was born November 25, 1972 to Frances (Conklin) Devine and Richard W. Devine Jr. in Yonkers. A lifelong resident of Pleasantville, she attended local
Read MoreLakeland Hopes to Own Class B; Carmel Looks to Build on 2020 By Tony Pinciaro Even though the pandemic delayed the 2020 fall high school sports and canceled the state championship in each fall sport, one thing remained constant —
Read MoreBy Tony Pinciaro Following a successful 2019 season, HENDRICK HUDSON Coach Rob Molfetta thought 2020 would be the year the Sailors would win their first Section 1 girls’ lacrosse title. That all changed when COVID cancelled the 2020 New York
Read MoreNo.1 Mahopac Knocks off No.16 Ossining in Class AA By Tony Pinciaro Following a Covid-impacted fall, winter and fall two high school sports’ seasons, the spring season has returned to some sense of normalcy with the Section 1 playoffs. Sectionals
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