PATCHOGUE – Before Marlboro’s Class B opening-round state tournament game against Valhalla on Tuesday, coach Jen Veronesi promised her team she would do a back flip if they won. Marlboro beat Valhalla 11-5. However, Veronesi didn’t channel her inner gymnast. But Veronesi agreed to pull off, not a back flip, but a double back flip [...]
PATCHOGUE – We all knew Marlboro pitcher Aubrey Bianco was good, but in the postseason, she’s taken it to another level. That’s right, Aubrey Bianco has become a hero. Her latest performance helped Marlboro defeat Babylon 8-3 in the quarterfinals of the Class B state tournament on Wednesday at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue. After [...]
PATCHOGUE ¬– Marlboro keeps hitting the cover off the ball – and winning! The streaking Iron Dukes advanced to the Class B state semifinals with another convincing win, 8-3, over Babylon on Wednesday at St. Joseph’s College on Long Island. Marlboro scored three runs in the top of the first inning, only to give Babylon [...]
Marlboro spotted Valhalla four runs in Tuesday’s opening-round Class B state tournament game at Rhinebeck High. Not a problem. Young Marlboro came storming back to pick up an 11-5 win – scoring five runs in the sixth inning to put it away. And, so, the winning streak continues. Marlboro (21-1) has now won 13 games [...]
SLATE HILL – Two historic Section 9 softball runs on Monday at Minisink Valley. Pine Bush and Wallkill both lost close opening-round state tournament games by the score of 2-0. In Class AA, Pine Bush lost to Union-Endicott. Maine-Endwell put away Wallkill in the Class A bracket. Separated by about 10 miles, Pine Bush and [...]
SLATE HILL – What a wild day it was at Minisink Valley on Saturday for the Section 9 Class AA, A and D softball championships. The highlights? Well, there were many. Fourth-seeded Pine Bush claimed its first-ever Section 9 title, overwhelming sixth-seeded Middletown 9-1 in the Class AA championship behind a four-hitter by freshman Michaela [...]
Section 9 coaches girls’ lacrosse all-star teams First team Goalkeeper Valley Central senior Danielle Falco Millbrook junior Taylor Goodwill Red Hook senior Clare Troy Midfielder Middletown senior Cassandra Saint-Vil Cornwall freshman Penelope Combs James I. O’Neill senior Alexa Lilos Red Hook junior Lindsay Hobson Red Hook senior Daniela Ouro Kingston senior Alison Badalato Kingston freshman [...]
So what if Pine Bush first baseman Alyssa Hasbrouck was facing the best pitcher in Section 9, Valley Central ace Cindy Connoly, with the game on the line. Hasbrouck can handle the bat and she was swinging for the fences with two outs in the seventh inning Thursday night. Even her coach, Mike Mancuso, gave [...]
Just call it an upset special, Part II Sixth-seeded Middletown, a three-win team last season, continued its remarkable postseason run by beating second-seeded Roosevelt 1-0 in a Section 9 Class AA semifinal in Hyde Park behind a three-hitter by freshman pitcher Allison Marcano. The Middies scored their run in the seventh inning on two errors. [...]
The storyline in Section 9 girls’ lacrosse is seemingly the same every year: Can anyone beat Kingston? For the last seven years, the Tigers have answered that question with a resounding no. Kingston’s latest victory in the Class A championship came on Tuesday when the Tigers put away Warwick 17-12. Next up for Kingston? The [...]
