Daily Sports Digest: Register for Port Chester Youth Baseball

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Registration is now open for the 2012 spring season for the Port Chester Youth Baseball League.

All of the forms including registration, medial release and other handouts can be found on the league’s website.

The website also contains important information regarding the Babe Ruth baseball program for players ages 13-15, sponsorship information and a link to sign up for new text message and e-mail alerts from the PCYBL regarding updates and changes to the schedule.

College Sports Notebook:

Chargers bow in Mulligan Memorial

The Dominican College men's basketball team had a five-game winning streak snapped by the visiting Rams of Philadelphia University, 51-49, in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) play on Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center in Orangeburg. 

During halftime, Dominican College honored the memory of Bobby Mulligan and awarded the 25th annual Bobby Mulligan Memorial Scholarship to junior Preston Smith of Mays Landing, NJ.

Senior Mike Calzonetti of Gloucester, NJ, gave Dominican a 24-21 lead at halftime, but despite three Chargers in double figures--led by Leon Porter of Laurel, MD, with 15 points--the Rams prevailed when a shot at the buzzer fell short for the host,.

Center Cory Quimby of Otisville scored 14 points and pulled down 13 rebounds for his 16th double-double of the season.

Dominican, which stands 14-8 overall and 7-7 in the CACC, visits Caldwell (NJ) College tonight at 8 p.m., and then hosts Holy Family University on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Tear it up

New York University’s Tear It Up! schedule continues on Friday with a basketball doubleheader against University Athletic Association (UAA) foe University of Chicago.

The Tear It Up! is also the Violets’ Student Athlete Advisory Committee’s (SAAC) fifth annual Pink Zone event. SAAC will be raising money and awareness for breast cancer research, with all of the proceeds going to the Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation. Last year, SAAC raised more than $2,500 through its Pink Zone event.

The Tear It Up! and Pink Zone events start at 5:45 p.m. at the Jerome S. Coles Sports Center at 181 Mercer Street. The women’s basketball contest against the second-ranked Maroons tips off at 6 p.m., while the men’s squads tip off at 8 o’clock.
The Violet women (10-12, 2-9) will be looking to end Chicago’s (22-0, 11-0) 40-game regular-season winning streak, the longest current in Division III. The NYU men (18-4, 7-4) will be trying to stay in the hunt for the UAA crown.

Max Wein of Purchase, a junior forward, is averaged 6.6 points and 4.4 rebounds per game for NYU, to go along with 45 assists and 31 steals.
All NYU students in attendance will receive food and a T-shirt with a $5 donation to Miles of Hope.

Go Billy Go

Billy Watterson of Pound Ridge stood out again for the Brown University wrestling team as it took on Ivy League rival Penn, and Drexel at the Pizzitula Sports Center in Providence, RI.

Watterson, a sophomore, earned two victories at 125 pounds. The John Jay graduate topped Franco Ferriana of Drexel, 6-4, before posting a 20-6 majority decision against Karim Shafi of Penn.

The Bears, 6-6 in duals, bowed to Drexel, 23-13, and then lost to Penn, 30-7.

The Bears hope to rebound at Columbia University on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Academic honors

Sarah Callagy of Poughkeepsie, for a third time, and Keeley Bateman of Pearl River, for a second time, join two other members of the St. Thomas Aquinas College cross country team to receive recognition as Division II all-Academic honorees.

Also honored, for the first time, are Joseph Chgewidden of Hamburg, NJ, and Michael Galonski of Newton, NJ.

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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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