Softball Headlines

• PSAL Queens A-II softball preview: Bryant looking for more success in coach's 30th year

  March 19, 2010

  More than 50 former players showed up at Bryant HS on Saturday to celebrate the start of coach Wally Hausdorf’s 30th season on the softball diamond. Players from his 1985 team...

• PSAL Queens A-I softball preview: Bayside's boppers leading the way

  March 19, 2010

  Bayside softball is known for its pitching. Year after year, coach Steve Piorkowski, a windmill teacher, has put a team out there with a strong hurler. This season, though, the...

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  Judges jostling to be among PSAL's best again

  March 19, 2010

  Cardozo got its feet wet last year. The Judges made their first appearance in the semifinals in coach Larry Alberts’ 24 years at the Bayside school. And, more importantly, they...

• CHSAA Bronx softball preview: Quinones, Rondon lead rebuilding Spellman

  March 18, 2010

  Dan Crane isn’t one to put expectations on his teams. Even a year ago, with a squad chock full of seniors, he was cautiously optimistic because of a lack of a proven starting...

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  Revamped Preston looks to claim third straight league title

  March 18, 2010

  Nicole Cavigliano was feeling her age at Preston’s opening practice. “The first practice back, all of us said this feels so weird,” the senior shortstop said. “We feel so old...

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  CHSAA Staten Island softball preview: Hill sees playoffs as 'must'

  March 18, 2010

  St. Joseph Hill was one of the late-season surprises in CHSAA Staten Island. The young Hilltoppers came on strong and beat Notre Dame Academy in a tibreaker game for the final...

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  PSAL Staten Island A softball preview: Falcons look to fly again

  March 18, 2010

  Dia Cascone was the face of Susan Wagner softball for three years and it was no coincidence that the Falcons made the final four in each of those seasons. She’s still heavily...

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  Personnel different, goal the same for six-time champ Tottenville

  March 17, 2010

  The Tottenville dynasty is on its last legs. The Pirates lost five superb starters from a team that won its sixth straight PSAL Class A title and the talent level has dropped...

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  Vocal, veteran Mavericks ready to make noise

  March 17, 2010

  There might be some extra noise around the Moore Catholic softball team and will have nothing to do with it losing just one starter from a team that lost in the CHSAA Archdiocesan...

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  'Hunted' Vikings eye elusive CHSAA state championship

  March 17, 2010

  Talk of a return trip to the CHSAA state playoffs and the thought of an elusive title aren’t shied away from at St. Joseph by the Sea. The Vikings lost in the final to St. John...

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  PSAL Bronx A softball preview: Senior sluggers lead RKA

  March 17, 2010

  Bob Finz has two very big reasons to be confident in his team’s chances of winning PSAL Bronx A: Jane Witkowski and Nelyssa Rosario. “I think we’re going to be strong,” the...

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  Palmeri leads reloaded Stanners in quest to repeat

  March 16, 2010

  Maria Palmeri has plenty falling on her shoulders so early in her high school career. The sophomore has to move from a blossoming freshman to one of the Archbishop Molloy softball...

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  Wolverines softball hunting down next step

  March 16, 2010

  Bronx Science won the PSAL Bronx A title last season in just its fourth season since coming up from the ‘B’ league. But the Wolverines have their sights set higher now. They want...

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  CHSAA Queens softball preview: Youthful Terriers want to keep old bite

  March 16, 2010

  There are plenty of new faces on the St. Francis Prep softball team, but the expectations around the Terriers haven’t changed. “I won’t let them think that, ‘Oh because we are...

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  Players, coaches react to softball suit

  December 16, 2009

  A lawsuit against Francis Lewis coach Bryan Brown has drawn the ire of those in the New York City high school softball community. Lewis sophomore Alina Cerda, 15, claims she...

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  Kearney windmiller signs with Bridgeport

  December 07, 2009

  Tiffany Irrera didn’t want to go far from home. So over the summer the Bishop Kearney pitcher sent her highlight film to colleges from conferences, one of them being the ECC, no...