Author: Andy Jacobs

As gifted athletically as he is, and as many intangibles he provides on the court, Our Lady of Lourdes senior guard Kevin Townes had only scored a single point up until the moment he rose in the air to shoot

Jackie Contento took her last walk back to the Briarcliff bench with just under a minute remaining on Saturday evening and the Bears’ quest for a Section 1, Class B championship all but over. She was hugged quickly by each

Several weeks into the 2016-17 season, the Pleasantville boys’ basketball team had already dropped three of its first seven games and there really wasn’t a growing suspicion the Panthers, despite the presence of one of the area’s most talented players,

The 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

Grace 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

As 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

Even 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,”

Kris Matts didn’t need any help remembering what happened the previous time his Fox Lane girls’ basketball team had faced Yorktown this season, nearly three weeks ago. “The first game we played these guys, we lost by one and we

In a game featuring two of the top guards in Section One, Pleasantville’s Mike Manley and Valhalla’s Kevin Kelly, it’s not hard to overlook the contributions being made by some of their teammates. Take the Panthers’ Jeremy Stone, for instance.