Daily Sports Digest: Eastchester’s Season Ends In Overtime

The Top Spot:

The 18th seeded Eastchester girl’s basketball team was down going into the fourth quarter but the Eagles were able to battle back to force the game into overtime against the 15th seeded Poughkeepsie Pioneers on Wednesday night.

The Pioneers outscored the Eagles 14-4 in the extra session to take the game 55-45 and advance to face second seeded Tappan Zee on Friday.

Poughkeepsie was led in the game by Elantra Meaus who picked up a game high 24 points and Kwatasi Storts who added 15. Eastchester’s Gabrielle Pinto led the Eagles with 13 points and 30 rebounds in the loss, Olivia Heffernan scored 11.

Yesterday’s Results:

Sport: Boys Winter Track and Field (Wednesday)

Game: Section 1 Class B Championships
Score: Full Results

Highlights: Pearl River came in first with 101 points and Rye finished in second with 80, Eastchester finished in 13th.

The Eagles finished in sixth in the 4 x 200 meter relay with a time of 1:40.44, and Frederic Delran finished in ninth in the 300 meter dash with a time of 38.77.

Sport: Girls Winter Track and Field (Wednesday)

Game: Section 1 Class B Championships
Score: Full Results

Highlights: Pearl River won the championship and Nanuet and Harrison finished a distant second and third place in the contest. Eastchester finished in ninth place tied with Nyack.

Rachel Berk won the 300 meter dash with a time of 42.63 and came in third in the 55 meter dash finals with a time of 7.64. 

Sport: Boys Skiing (Wednesday)

Game: Section 1 Championships

Highlights: Bronxville’s Petey DeJoy finished seventh in Skimeister to qualify for states with a time of 160.60.

Sport: Boys Swimming and Diving  (Wednesday)

Game: Section 1 Championship Finals
Score: Full Results

Highlights: Bronxville’s John Paul Flangos finished in third in 1 meter diving.

Today’s Schedule:

In boys basketball, (19) Harrison heads to (3) Eastchester at 7 p.m.

In boys basketball, (10) Bronxville heads to (7) Briarcliff at 7 p.m.

In girls basketball, (15) Bronxville heads to (2) Blind Brook at 5 p.m.

Weekly Sports Poll:

Earlier in the month the Baseball Hall of Fame started a drug education program for students and young adults. “Be A Superior Example” or “BASE” will work with the Taylor Hooton Foundation and the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society in an effort to promote a healthy lifestyle for young athletes that is completely free of performance enhancing drugs.

"It is through the education programs that we are able to fulfill our mission of providing context to the issues that have faced our game, as a reflection of American history, throughout its history," Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said to the Associated Press.

In the upcoming months Idelson and the Hall of Fame are hoping to conduct a nationwide survey, hold a summit in Cooperstown and begin a national registry for people pledging to live a PED free lifestyle.

Since 1936 voting for the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York has been an integral part in the Major League Baseball season. This year controversial figures like Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens will be appearing on the ballot for the first time. Now the only question is should this trio of notorious superstars be allowed into baseball’s hallowed halls? Or should they be left out of Cooperstown like so many others?

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