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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.
E-mail Jake Thomases at jtthomas@lohud.com
Keio kicks off its Class C regional final in about 10 minutes. Kennedy will start an hour later. I'll be watching the Gaels while colleague Matt Ng covers Keio. We'll be sending in regular updates from our games. Check back over the next few hours as we tell you what's going on.
3:35—Keio trails 1-0 after [...]
If you want to know how Oyster Bay got to the Class B championship game, read Newsday's story here. Seems reluctant hero Billy Clark hit a grand slam with two outs in the seventh of a tie game.
Another dramatic ending in Class C, where Mike D'Auria's walkoff single propelled Port Jefferson to a 3-2 win. [...]
Originally we thought both regional finals would be at Dowling College in Suffolk County. Turns out neither one will.
Kennedy will travel to North Shore High School tomorrow at 4 p.m. to face Long Island Class B champ Oyster Bay.
Keio takes on Long Island Class C champion Port Jefferson at 3 p.m. at Stony Brook University.
[...]Our columnist Rick Carpiniello was at Monday's Somers loss. He wrote about the team's raised expectations after two sectionals titles, which is why I didn't touch on it much in my game story. You can read his take on the early exit here.
Two straight days I've watched a clutch comeback by a local team in the bottom of the seventh. The first one, in Somers's 7-6 loss to Cornwall, came up one base short. The second, Keio's 7-6 defeat of Millbrook, went all the way.
Keio turned around a 6-2 deficit at the start of the seventh inning. [...]
What an agonizing ending for the Tuskers. Down 7-4 to start the seventh inning, they rallied for two runs and put the tying run on third base before Willie Sisca swung and missed at a full count pitch to end the game. Cornwall moves on to the Class A regional final tomorrow against Maine-Endwell.
Ironically, Sisca, [...]
Boy was it brutal today. Temperatures nearly hit 100, the air was thick and humid, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky to block an angry sun. Pace University, where I was, didn't have a stick of shade anywhere around the field except for a tiny patch way out beyond centerfield. I [...]
Two teams have canceled their contests today because they feared for the safety of players and spectators. Temperatures will reach 94 degrees this afternoon and will feel like 99 with the humidity.
Kennedy and Keio, the Class B and C sectional champions, have moved their games to tomorrow. Keio will still be at Rye Neck at [...]
Every year the final Section 1 stat leaders include a bunch of players from the sectional champions. You're probably saying, "Duh, the best teams have a lot of the best players." True. But guys on championship teams have an advantage when it comes to piling up numbers—they play more games. By the time the last [...]
Those of you who want to know something about the four teams facing the locals in regionals can check out their sectional championship game stories.
In Class C, Millbrook beat S.S. Seward 8-5 for its third straight Section 9 title.
In Class B, Marlboro was up 5-1 before holding on for a 5-4 win in Section 9.
In Class A, [...]
  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. |
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