Your final four primer
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- June
- 13
I’m about to leave for Binghamton and basking in the afterglow of the best round of golf I’ve ever played. For those of you who play, you know the feeling. I can tell you about four minutes after I returned home my fiancee was already sick of hearing about it.
Anyway, this is a big weekend for Westchester baseball. It is the first time since the LoHud had a regional champ (1973, Eastchester and Valhalla) that three Westchester programs are headed to the final four. Pretty amazing, and even more so for Mamaroneck. The Tigers can become the first Westchester school from the largest classification to win a state title.
(And, of course, all three, Mamaroneck, Kennedy and Keio, will vie for state title numero uno.)
Here’s a look at all three matchups, including sites, directions to those sites, team records, and possible championship-game opponents:
Class AA state semifinal
Mamaroneck (28-2) vs. Section 2’s LaSalle (27-0)
When: Tomorrow, 1 p.m.
Where: Union-Endicott High School, Endicott
How to get there: Take the New York State Thruway to Exit 16 (Harriman). Take Rt. 17 West through Binghamton. Take Exit 67 N (Rt. 26 North) toward Endicott. Take the 17-C East ramp toward Endwell. The school will be on your left.
What’s next: The winner will play the winner of the other semifinal between Section 8’s Massapequa (22-6-1), the 2006 state champion, and Section 5’s Hilton (25-4) for the state championship at 4 p.m. at Union-Endicott High School.
Class B state semifinal
Kennedy (26-3) vs. Section 6’s Gowanda (22-5)
When: Today, 1o a.m.
Where: Broome Community College, Binghamton
How to get there: Take the New York State Thruway to Exit 16 (Harriman). Take Rt. 17 West to I-81 North. Take Exit 5 (Front St.) and turn right off ramp onto Front St. The college will be on your left.
What’s next: The winner will play the winner of the other semifinal between Section 3’s Christian Brothers Academy (24-4) and Section 2’s Chatham (25-3) for the state championship at 4 p.m. at Broome Community College.
Class C state semifinal
Keio (17-11) vs. Section 5’s Honeoye (24-5)
When: Tomorrow, 1o a.m.
Where: Conlon Field at MacArthur Park, Binghamton
How to get there: Take the New York State Thruway to Exit 16 (Harriman). Take Rt. 17 West through Binghamton. Take Exit 4S (Rt. 7) toward Binghamton. Merge onto Rt. 363 West. Take Vestal Parkway (Rt. 434) West. Take the Conklin Ave. ramp and turn left onto Conklin Ave. It will become Pennsylvania Ave. Turn right onto Vestal Ave. and continue until you come to MacArthur School and track.
What’s next: The winner will play the winner of the other semifinal between Section 4’s Thomas A. Edison (21-4) and Section 2’s Fort Plain (26-3), the reigning state champion, for the state championship at 4 p.m. at Conlon Field.
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in
March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of
2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has
since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting,
Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his
fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning
fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and
insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh
graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University,
where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in
history. 
Jake Thomases has covered baseball, hockey, girls basketball, and girls soccer for the Journal News since arriving in 2003. He previously interned at The Poughkeepsie Journal while attending Vassar College. He is socking money away under his mattress to buy the Knicks, at which time he will trade Jerome James to Cleveland for a ham sandwich.
Will someone be broadcasting the semifinals and finals on the internet?
In other words, how can we know what's happening?
I will have live updates from all three games on the blog. Not sure if they're being broadcast. Ill yet to ducd out.
Keio and kennedy are private schools playing in the public school playoffs….tainted.
Lasalle is a private school playing mamaroneck. Tainted if Lasalle wins.
NY state are morons. They just love taking the money that the private schools pay to play in public school leagues. Then they wind up winning public school states. Just stupid.
It takes away from the fact that the championship team should be comprised of kids who all go to the same school based on where they live… not because they are catholic, or Japanese or anything else.
Hye, Just stating facts.
come to think of it, you bring up an interesting point. We here at port jeff did not play any PUBLIC schools before we were beaten by Keio.
We beat Mercy HS- 2 games to none – a Catholic School- for Suffolk title.
We beat Friends Academy- Private Quaker school- for LI Championship
We lost to Keio -Japanese students from all over Japan.
Three rounds- no public school opponents.
Weird!
Anyway, why does Channel 12 not broadcast these types of events, like the entire game, not just snippets of the game. Or channel 19 RNN? I see on MSG they televise the Lacrosse championships. Whenever a section 1 team makes it to the final 4, someone should broadcast it. Many people are very interested in the games, but most people are not interested enough to drive 3-4 hours one way, and turn around and drive back another 3-4 hours back home in the same day.
The Mamaroneck hockey team beat an undefeated #1 ranked in the state team in Suffern this year. The baseball team will do the same thing this year in beating #1 ranked in the state, undefeated LaSalle.
So Chatham is the only school in the final 4 that's public? Sheezzz… doesn't say much for Island players…