Girls Basketball

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

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

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

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

Up until the final buzzer last Thursday afternoon, there were no surprises for Byram Hills girls’ basketball coach Tara Ryan, whose Bobcats were facing an opponent they had already seen twice since the start of February. But just as soon

By Andy Jacobs With a matchup against top-seeded Ursuline looming, the Fox Lane girls’ basketball team’s stay in the Section 1, Class AA playoffs doesn’t figure to last very long. But the Foxes are sure making the most of the

No.5 Hornets to Visit No.4 Indians in Class A Quarterfinals By Tony Pinciaro LAKELAND was facing a difficult situation when its leading scorer, Tyler Hormazabal, was sidelined with an injury in the second quarter of its Section 1 Class A

By Andy Jacobs More than a half dozen years have passed since a Westlake girls’ basketball team last earned a league championship. But last Thursday afternoon, the 2021-22 Wildcats put an end to the drought in the unlikeliest of ways.

By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Despite its potential No.5 seed, PUTNAM VALLEY has officially become the team nobody in Class B wants to face after the visiting League III-E champion Tigers (12-7) stunned Class A WALTER PANAS, 55-52,

For a good portion of the first half last Wednesday afternoon, there was no hint at all that Caroline Barbalato was about to have her highest scoring game in a Briarcliff Bears uniform. The junior guard misfired on each of