The Valley Central girls’ wrestling team is shown on Nov. 26 at Valley Central High School in Montgomery.

A team of their own

For the past four years, Valley Central High School’s female wrestlers have had to wrestle with the boys’ team. Starting this year, they will have a team of their own. About 10 …

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The Montgomery Devils 16U travel softball team finished its fall season by winning the Northeast championship on Nov. 17 in Jackson, N.J.
The road to victory in a tournament more than two hours to the south went through a local opponent. The Montgomery Devils Red 16U softball team beat the Empire State Huskies 116U Exarchakis, 3-2, to …
The Pine Bush 200-yard medley relay team finished 26th at the New York State girls’ swimming championships on Saturday at the Webster Aquatic Center. The team of Maya Oakes, Ella Humphrey, …
Top from left, Valley Central’s Eleanor O’Neill and Rilee Kinsley are with Pine Bush’s Paige Gandolfini, Maya Oakes, Alanah Giannini, Ella Humphrey, Sadie DeGeorge and Norah Germano are shown with the rest of the Section 9 New York State qualifiers on Nov. 9 at Valley Central High School in Montgomery.
The Pine Bush Bushmen’s contingent at the NYS girls’ swimming championships is smaller, but success is still expected. A year after the Bushmen sent what coach John Barth then …

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Wallkill’s Caitlyn Murphy finished sixth at the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class B championship race on Saturday at Queensbury High School. She finished with a …
Valley Central’s Cailin Swart kicks the ball from under Goshen’s Eryn Primus as Samantha Setteducato looks on during a Section 9 Class AA girls’ soccer game.
The Valley Central Vikings had come so far, and it all ended so suddenly. Goshen’s Grace Duffy hit the game-winning goal with about five minutes to go in double overtime as the No. 1 …
Bushmen drop finale Triston Santos threw for 79 yards and a touchdown in the Pine Bush Bushmen’s Section 9 Class AA 24-7 semifinal loss to the Monroe-Woodbury Crusaders on Friday at …

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Sports
Thursday’s Section 9 Class AAA semifinal volleyball match at Pine Bush High School.
The run had to end eventually. The Pine Bush Bushmen, the longtime defending Section 9 volleyball champions, were denied a return trip to the championship game when the rising third-seeded …
Wallkill’s Caitlyn Murphy, Valley Central’s Emily Frank, Wallkill’s Mario Verruto and Pine Bush’s Raul Rosario run during Wednesday’s Section 9 Class B cross country championships.
Wallkill’s Caitlyn Murphy was in a race for second. That was good enough as there was no catching Cornwall’s Sophia Semo, who won the Section 9 Class B girls’ championship …
The Pine Bush Bushmen pose with the championship plaque after beating Monroe-Woodbury 1-0 in the Section 9 Class AAA girls’ soccer championship.
As the Pine Bush Bushmen rebuilt their soccer program over the past four years, the Monroe-Woodbury Crusaders have been the measuring stick. Then last Wednesday, the Bushmen finally measured up …

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The Pine Bush Bushmen pose after winning their seventh straight Section 9 girls’ swimming and diving championship on Saturday at Valley Central High School in Montgomery.
The Pine Bush Bushmen only had one superstar swimmer left, and she did her job. Pine Bush senior Sadie DeGeorge won two individual events and was part of one winning relay as the Pine Bush …
Wallkill’s Juan Ortega plays the ball as Saugerties’ Enzo Baldimir defends during a Section 9 Class A quarterfinal boys’ soccer game at Wallkill Senior High School’s Robinson Field.
The Wallkill Panthers were unable to stop the Beacon Bulldogs from reaching their fourth straight Section 9 championship game. Beacon’s Jake Deluise delivered what turned out to be the …
The Pine Bush Bushmen came into the Section 9 Class A field hockey championship game shorthanded. One player entered the game on crutches, and coach Samantha Schwartz was unable to attend the …

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Wallkill’s Brianna Merrill heads the ball away from Washingtonville’.
Goals come at a premium for the Wallkill Panthers. It had been almost a month since they had scored more than one in a game. During that five-game stretch, the Panthers lost three out of four, …
Valley Central’s Ayla Andrews plays the ball off her chest during Thursday’s OCIAA Division II girls’ soccer game at Goshen High School.
The Valley Central Vikings and Goshen Gladiators were playing the last girls’ soccer game of the regular season, and it seemed like everything was at stake. The Orange County …
Members of the Pine Bush swim team celebrate their OCIAA title, Saturday, at Newburgh Free Academy.
There was a short time when the Our Lady of Lourdes Warriors overtook the Pine Bush Bushmen for the lead at the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association Division I girls’ swimming …

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