and the Top 10 will drop after I return from today’s Mamaroneck-Scarsdale game, so probably around 2 or 3 p.m. In the meantime, here are yesterday’s results to hold you over.

Of note:

— Hourihan leads Lakeland to the Hen Hud tourney title.

— Clarkstown South wins again (seven straight).

— Valhalla slays its first unbeaten, Bronxville, and now must contend with unbeaten Tuckahoe today.

— More Dan Zlotnick dramatics lead to Somers’ 5-4 win over Greeley in the seventh

— Jimmy Brennan of Suffern shut out Pearl River.

— Yorktown has its seven-game winning streak snapped by Lourdes.

— And Jack Newton has the best individual day of the season to date: 6 for 6, the cycle, and nine RBI. … That’s not a day Jack…that’s half a season!

Lakeland 13, Hen Hud 1: In the championship game of the Hen Hud tournament, Jon Cosenza went 4 for 5 with three RBI. Tournament MVP Brendan Hourihan, went 3 for 3 with one RBI. Mike Tandy drove in the Sailors’ run.

Clarkstown South 10, Valley Central 0: In the third game of pool play in the Kingston tournament, Jordan Kolinsky pitched a one-hitter -a single in the top of the first. Alex Lorenc went 2 for 2 with three RBI. Frankie Salerno went 2 for 3.

Nyack 4, Albertus Magnus 3: At Albertus, Steve Bonanno scored the go-ahead run on a fielder’s choice groundout in the top of the seventh. Teammate Joe Barone went 2 for 3 with two RBI. Ryan Sullivan had two hits and scored twice for the Falcons.

Eastchester 10, Greenbrier East 1: In Riverside, West Va., winning pitcher Andrew Nickoletos allowed one hit and struck out nine in 5 1/3 innings. Dave Perlleshi went 3 for 4 with a triple, a home run, and four RBI.

John Jay 9, Byram Hills 3: At Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando, FL, Ray Maggi went 3 for 3 and scored two runs. Casey Friedricks, Ethan Fedida and Joe Mandel each had a hit for the Bobcats.

Somers 5, Horace Greeley 4: At Somers, Dan Zlotnick had the winning double with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Zlotnick went 3 for 4 with two RBI.

Nanuet 8, Irvington 3: At Irvington, Sean Carter had two RBI for the Golden Knights. Ryan Denis went 2 for 3 withan RBI for the Bulldogs.

Tuckahoe 9, Dover 6: At Tuckhoe, Matt Strickrodt hit a two-run homer in the first, and Joseph Melendez had a three-run homer in the second. Chris Boyer went 3 for 4 with a double and a triple, two RBI, and two runs.

Panas 13, Croton-Harmon 1: At Panas, Mike Parish and Darian Brown each went 3 for 4. They combined for five RBI. Bob Dusconi drove in the Tigers’ run.

Hackley 4, Columbia Prep 2: At Hackley, winning pitcher Christian Dipietrantonio struck out 12. William Greenberg went 3 for 3 with two RBI and a run.

Rye Neck 24, Pawling 1: At Rye Neck, Jack Newton went 6 for 6 with nine RBI. He hit for the cycle (two singles, two doubles, triple, homer). Bennett Pisaniello went 4 for 5 with three RBI and four runs.

Valhalla 10, Bronxville 8: Joe Annunziata went 3 for 4 with a double, three RBI and three runs for the Vikings. Luke Devlin went 3 for 4 with two triples, three RBI and two runs for the Broncos.

Lourdes 4, Yorktown 3: At Lourdes, Chris Rohle and Kevin Treanor each had two hits for the Cornhuskers.

Suffern 9, Pearl River 0: At Pearl River, winning pitcher Jim Brennan struck out 10, and also went 3 for 4 with four RBI.

North Rockland 9, Kingston 5: In the third game of pool play in the Kingston tournament, Bill Lonergan went 3 for 5 with three RBI and three runs.

Someone asked about Mamaroneck vs. Don Bosco, or as you could also dub it, No. 1 in New York vs. No. 1 in New Jersey.

The teams are set to meet at Bosco in Ramsey, N.J. on Saturday, May 3 at 3 p.m. It’s an SAT day, so the Mamaroneck players will be hurrying over after the test.

I’ve already confirmed with Mike Chapiarelli that his ace, Sean Hagan, will take the mound. He pitched four innings yesterday vs. Mount Vernon, and is slated to pitch Monday against John Jay-East Fishkill and Saturday against Bosco. If he wins Monday, the St. John’s-bound Hagan will head into Saturday’s matchup with a perfect varsity record.

Both teams are all over local, state and national polls. Don Bosco is ranked No. 5 in the nation by USA Today, and No. 1 in the East. Mamaroneck is unranked by USA Today in the national poll, but is currently ranked No. 3 in the East.

Additionally, both are included in College Baseball Newspaper’s national poll. Bosco, which fields a roster of seven Division I players, is No. 1 overall, while Mamaroneck is No. 17.

Of course Bosco’s cleanup hitter and starting third baseman is Suffern’s own Steve Proscia (right), who started there for the Hudson Valley team at the Empire State Games and has since signed a NLI with the University of Virgina, the alma mater of Nationals 3B Ryan Zimmerman. Proscia batted over .500 last year and slugged 10 home runs for the Ironmen.

In addition to Proscia, Bosco features a LHP headed to Duke who touches 90 m.p.h. and a RHP headed to Boston College who had filthy breaking stuff. For more on Bosco’s endless list of D-I players, check out this preseason video done by former colleague Andrew Gross.

I’m headed over to Ramsey next weekend for the game. I find it fascinating — the type of event you see local basketball or lacrosse teams compete in, but something you rarely see from a LoHud baseball team.

If Mamaroneck enters the game unbeaten and wins, it will garner serious attention from pollsters across the country. The Tigers already earned a lot of buzz by winning the Buckeye tournament in Ohio last summer; this would only add to that.

I’m curious: Are people (especially fans with no connection to Mamaroneck) excited about this game? Is it a worthy test? Can Mamaroneck compete against a team with seven D-I players?

Good questions. Soon enough we’ll know the answers.

Just a quick reminder that we’ll be back on Varsity Central Extra tonight from 6:30-7 p.m. on RNN (either Channel 6, 19, or 20). Potential topics of discussion are:

— Tomorrow’s Mamaroneck-Scarsdale League I-A tilt

— Has Pelham become the favorite in Class A?

— With Somers and North Rockland set to meet on Saturday, how are the two defending champs doing so far and are they still potential repeat champs?

— How good is League I-C?

— Also, we’ll have a feature on Nanuet senior Steve Prosapio, who is one of the best players in Rockland County.

If you want to chime in on the conversation, give us a call at 1-888-RNN-CHAT. We’ll be taking phone calls during the show, so I hope to hear from some of you out there. We haven’t had a great response so far.

UPDATE 10:03 p.m. — If you want to check out the show, you can click on this link. After that click on the 6:30 tab to watch VC Extra.

—Two days after John Jay-East Fishkill turned Mahopac’s first loss into its first losing streak, the Indians bounced back to swin 7-6 yesterday. Pat Farina had a pinch-hit three-run homer in the seventh and Anthony Castellitto added a solo job as they put up a four spot in the seventh.
—Mahopac was helped by Carmel’s 10-6 win over Arlington, which dropped to 8-2 (same as Mahopac). Carmel trailed 6-0 until it got, among other things, three RBI from Zack Graczyk. Graczyk’s universe-leading RBI total rose to 35.
—Congratulations to Nyack and new coach Erik Lazerus on picking up the first win of the season, 9-8 over Port Chester. It’s not as bad as it sounds. Nyack had played only five games, three of which were to very tough opponents. One game ended in a tie. So there’s still time to catch up. Whether there’s time to make me look good about picking it as a team to watch in Class A, I don’t know. Here’s the bright side if you’re a fan. Andrew Wanamaker and Steve Bonanno, the most established players, aren’t hitting at all and are pitching even worse. Both have ERAs over 10. Unless they’re hurt, that won’t continue.
—Yorktown won its eighth straight, 8-7 over Lourdes. Mamaroneck took its ninth straight, 14-2 over Mount Vernon.

Quick note: The left hand of Stepinac MASHER Alex Maruri is fine. He had an X-ray last week after he was hit on the knuckle by a pitch from Alex Adami, but the X-ray was negative.

But is he OK, you may ask? Well, yesterday the Elon-bound slugger went 2 for 2 with two RBI and two runs scored. The day at the plate included a 400-foot walkoff home run to beat Cardinal Spellman in the bottom of the eighth inning.

So, yeah, he’s OK.

Here’s the story we had today on Eastchester coach Dom Cecere, who won his 600th career game yesterday.

Cecere’s Eagles won their second of the season behind Dan Sorine and a 4-for-4, four-RBI performance from blog favorite Tony Panio.

The 66-year-old Cecere has an incredible career record, 600-327-4, not to mention six Section 1 titles.

If anyone has thoughts and/or memories of Cecere, please pass them along. I played golf Tuesday morning with Kevin Devaney, who played for Cecere about 10 years ago. He was telling me about Cecere’s philosophy on bunting, so there’s already been a little reminiscing this week about the career of Section 1’s winningest coach.

Next time you get mad at a coach for abusing someone’s arm, think about this story from Japan. The baseball coach at Kawamoto technical high school allowed his starter to throw 250 pitches in, incredibly, just 1.1 innings of work. Kawamoto was down 66-0 when the coach forfeited to “protect” his guy’s arm. What, no confidence in your comeback ability?

That kid’s family should call Dr. James Andrews right now to book a reservation for Tommy John surgery in the next three months. You know it’s coming.

A few quick notes on today’s games:

— Rye Country Day’s Will Baine threw a no-hitter today in a Fairchester League win over St. Luke’s, 7-0. He had 12 K’s and only two walks, and was mobbed on the mound after recording the final out.

“It was a big win. We were tied for second place with St.Luke’s,” said Baine, a Rye resident who threw his first career no-hitter. “We had a good celebration, everyone dogpiled me on the mound.”

— Apparently no-hitters do grow on trees…or at least local ballfields in ‘08. Iona Prep threw a combined no-hitter today in an 8-0 win over LaSalle, the defending CHSAA city champs. Stephen Roche, Joe Carinha, Kevin Farrell and Dan Dilascio combined to throw a no-hitter. Brian Nasti had two RBI and a run for the Gaels.

— If the end of the Hen Hud tournament is anything like the beginning, you better all start driving to Montrose and driving there now…

Imagine this: Hen Hud beat Croton-Harmon 4-3 in 10 innings. Nick Ritornato had the winning RBI with a sac fly in the bottom of the tenth, scoring Tom Coogan. Vinny Patalano had an RBI and two hits in defeat. But the Sailors’ dramatic win was nearly outdone in the other semi, where Lakeland beat rival Panas 4-3. Jon Consenza hit a solo homer to center in the seventh to win it and teammate Brendan Hourihan pitched a complete game, striking out 13. Mike Parish went 3 for 4 with two doubles and had two RBI for Panas.

Lakeland will play Hen Hud on Thursday at 2 p.m. in the championship game. Panas will play Croton-Harmon at 11 a.m. the same day in the consolation.

A quick update: Dom Cecere did not earn win No. 600 today. His Eastchester club dropped a tough one, 4-3, to Parkersburg of West Virginia.

The Eagles return to play tomorrow against Riverside HS, their host. I’ll update you then on whether or not Cecere gets the win. Eastchester sure could use it. Today’s loss dropped them to 1-8 on the season.

Well, it certainly wasn’t easy, but Pelham persevered late to beat Valhalla 4-1. The Vikings led 1-0 until Pelham tied it on Pat Szymanski’s RBI groundout in the sixth. They then added three to break it open in the seventh. Calvin Sigelbaum (below right) had a clutch double with two outs in the seventh to score pinch-runner Jon Eicher. The Pelicans, who, by the way, are now riding a nine-game winning streak, then added two more runs, the first on a dropped fly ball, the second on MVP Zach Small’s RBI single.

The offense came through when it needed to, but the story was Pelham sophomore Zack Baker, who beat the Vikings with a four-hitter. He struck out eight and walked just two, baffling the opposition with a changeup so nasty Valhalla coach Josh Wolfson mistook it for a splitter.

Baker pitched for the JV last year but this year he’s already 4-0 and leading the team with a 2.69 ERA. I talked to the right-hander afterward and he said his job was to put up zeros until the bats woke up. That’s exactly what he did.

Senior Jake Douglass (below) was the epitome of a tough-luck loser in this one. He held mighty Pelham hitless for 4.2 innings, and allowed just five hits total in 6.2 IP, a yeoman effort for a team that needed a long start and got one.

Valhalla will move on. The Vikes face unbeaten Bronxville and Tuckahoe this week, and have a chance to establish themselves as a serious contender in Class C. I think they’re one already after today.