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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.
E-mail Josh Thomson at jthomson@LoHud.com
Mamaroneck CF Matt McGovern has, indeed, chosen to play his college ball at Boston College. I got confirmation from Chap earlier tonight and I talked to Matt before on the phone.
Here's how he came to the decision:
He told me he received an offer from St. John's in the spring, around the same time Sean Hagan [...]
SOUTH CAROLINA!
That's right folks. I asked for commitments in today's earlier post and I get probably the whopper for the Class of '09 — John Jay SS Anthony Iacomini has given his verbal to the University of South Carolina, which finished last year 40-23 and advanced to the regionals of the College World Series.
I spoke [...]
I heard from Carmel CF/P Zack Graczyk, who has given his commitment to play ball for C.W. Post, which, as many of you probably know, is a Division II program on Long Island. C.W. Post (29-27) advanced to the Northeast Regionals of the D-II College World Series this spring.
Graczyk, who led Carmel in homers and [...]
Dan Zlotnick (above), LHP/OF, Somers — Vermont
Tyler Donovan, C, Iona Prep — Winthrop
Mike Mercurio (right), SS, Kennedy — [...]
Tony Pinciaro has the breakdown of how HV was awarded the gold. You can read it here.
(UPDATE, 7/27, 3:30 p.m.) I talked to Tony myself and here are a few things I learned:
HV was up 16-2 on Western in the seventh inning of Saturday morning's game before surrendering seven runs to make the score appear [...]
Hudson Valley had a lead part way through the gold-medal game in Binghamton when the Union-Endicott field was flooded. The remainder of the game was canceled and Hudson Valley was awarded the gold medal, its first under head coach Steve Greller in nine years.
The details are still coming in, so log on to our ESG [...]
Hudson Valley will play for gold at 6 tonight by virtue of Adirondack's loss earlier today and HV's win over Western, 16-9. HV saw it bats finally awaken after three quiet games following a 14-run outburst over Adirondack in the opener.
Colleague Tony Pinciaro will cover tonight's game and will have all the details here. Check [...]
The Hudson Valley baseball team fell to 2-2 after a 3-0 loss to defending gold medalist Long Island this afternoon. HV had won on a shutout of its own in the earlier game behind Suffern ace Robbie Aviles, who outdueled Mount St. Michael senior Thomas Cardona 3-0.
Still, HV's predicament is this: It must beat Western [...]
HV beat Adriondack 14-2 in its opener behind Andrew Benkwitt of Mamaroneck and four RBI days by Anthony Iacomini of John Jay and Mike Orefice of Ketcham (below, rounding third after a two-run HR). HV then lost in extras to Central, but the box hasn't been posted yet. You can get the results here [...]
For all the latest on the ESGs, you can log on to our Empire State Games blog and for news, photos and videos of the events you [...]
 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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