By Tony Pinciaro BREWSTER faced a major question coming into the 2022-23 girls’ varsity basketball season. How would the Bears do without 2022 graduate Grace Galgano? All Galgano did was average a double-double last year (points and rebounds) and during
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By Tony Pinciaro Following a difficult loss in a 2022 Section 1 Class B semifinal to Irvington, WESTLAKE was anxiously looking forward to the 2022-23 season. Even though the Wildcats graduated three seniors, the nucleus of the team was returning.
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Raguso Goes off, Hen Hud Takes Sleepy Tourney Title By Tony Pinciaro It is always great for a team to open a new season with a couple of wins. It’s even sweeter when a team wins its own tournament in
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By Tony Pinciaro Walter Panas had a memorable 2021-22 varsity girls’ basketball season, but it was the Panthers’ final game that left them wanting more. The Panthers reached the Section 1 Class A final where they met an experienced Tappan
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State-Ranked (No.4) Tigers Fall, 61-39, to Top-Ranked Indians in Final 4 By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays TROY – When it rains it pours and when the deluge finally stopped, two-time reigning Section 1 champion Putnam Valley was fully
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Tigers Advance to 1st NYS Final 4 vs. Waterloo’s 39-Game Streak; DeChent Sets Career Scoring Mark By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Locust Valley’s size didn’t matter, its Long Island-record 54-straight wins hardly mattered. All that mattered was Section
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State-Ranked No.15 Tigers to Face Section 9 Champ Red Hook in State Tourney By Tony Pinciaro & Ray Gallagher PUTNAM VALLEY faced a daunting path toward a possible Section 1 Class B Girls’ Basketball Championship. The Tigers were seeded fifth
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Mahopac Falls to TZ in Class A Semis By Tony Pinciaro & Ray Gallagher WALTER PANAS may not have come home with the Section 1 Class A Girls’ Basketball Championship, but the Panthers stamped themselves a sectional favorite going into
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By Andy Jacobs A dream season for the Westlake girls’ basketball team ended with a nightmare. Just one win away from reaching the Section 1, Class B championship game, the Wildcats arrived at Irvington High School last Thursday afternoon and
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By Andy Jacobs If the past is indeed prologue, then the rivalry between the Briarcliff and Irvington girls’ basketball teams has become as predictable as death and taxes, the phases of the moon and the cycle of the tides. The
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