Author: Mike Smith

Opinion Sports

Town celebrates Cecere’s life

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are an awful lot of people who have stories about Dom Cecere. That part is hardly surprising; when you’ve been a fixture in the community for over half a century, the tales begin to pile up. But as hundreds of people gathered on Eastchester High School’s baseball field on […]

Sports

Panthers drop opener

After a rain-soaked preseason, the Rye Neck baseball team finally got on the field on Monday, April 3, to play in their first regular season contest. Although head coach Joe Carlucci admitted that a few Panthers miscues doomed the team to a 4-3 loss to Croton-Harmon, he is confident that […]

Opinion Sports

The first pitch

[dropcap]The[/dropcap] Major League Baseball calendar is set to kick off on April 3, and while every team’s fan base comes into the season with a host of questions about playoff chances, roster spots and divisional races, I’ve got another question as we wait for Opening Day. Will President Trump throw […]

Sports

Rye tops Tigers in opener

The area lacrosse season opened up on March 28, as two local squads hit the turf to kick off the 2017 campaign. Although Mamaroneck would drew first blood, it was ultimately Rye—in their first game under new head coach Steve Lennon—that would come away with the win, overcoming a slow […]

Sports

Local fighters take the stage

Only hours before prizefighter Bryant “Pee Wee” Cruz stepped through the ropes at Madison Square Garden on March 18, his stablemates at Champs Boxing Club in New Rochelle had a local showcase of their own as they faced off against a squad of boxers from Ireland at the club’s Division […]