Our Journal News staff did a great job putting together video highlights from Friday night’s state quarterfinal action.

I can’t figure out a way to embedd the four videos without having them all start rolling when you click on the blog (which I know you all hate). So to watch them, you should just go directly [...]

Four Section 1 teams went into last night’s state quarterfinals. Only two survived.

It’s not all that surprising, either. I knew Bronxville and Nanuet would continue to cruise, and I felt Eldred was slightly better than Tuckahoe. And had I known before the game what I found out about Roosevelt after it, I probably wouldn’t have [...]

Follow both of the afternoon football games: Bronxville vs. Ellenville at Dietz Stadium in Kingston and Tuckahoe vs. Eldred at White Plains:

Want to impress your friends and family with extensive Section 9 football knowledge? Yeah, I know that was a silly question. Of course you do.

In today’s Journal News I had a breakdown of all five teams facing Section 1 in this weekend’s state quarterfinals. The headline of the coverage was Saturday’s showdown between New Rochelle [...]

There will be two Iona Prep players at Vermont next season.

Sandro Carissimo is the latest to commit. The 6-foot-2 senior made his oral commitment to play for the Division I Catamounts, joining 6-foot-5 Iona Prep forward Brian Voelkel on the recruit list.

Carissimo and Voelkel led Iona Prep to a CHSAA city and state championship. The [...]

There aren’t many games this weekend. But there certainly are some big ones.

I’ll pick the games in reverse order this week, starting with non-playoff and bowl games and doing down to, well, the biggest game in the state:

Fordham Prep 21, Chaminade 17
Hackley 27, Kingswood-Oxford 6
Rye Country Day 28, Hopkins 27
Stepinac 35, Xavier 12
Harvey 20, New [...]

I inquired with my editors this week but was informed last night that we will not be broadcasting any of the weekend’s football action on lohud.com.

There’s still resistence and concern from Section 1 regarding the use of live streaming of video of high school athletes. They’re also worried about how much the broadcasts could impact [...]

The next four Game Balls are here. The Player and Coach of the Week will be revealed on tonight’s edition of Varsity Central Chat, which starts at 7 p.m. Click here to watch.

5. Greg Caneparo, Nanuet: As I wrote in my Tuesday “Fifth Quarter” article, Nanuet suffered its first serious injury of the season in [...]

We’ll do these quick so we can release the Player and Coach of the Week on tonight’s edition of Varsity Central Chat. I tried to mix the bowl games in with the CHSFL playoffs and Section 1 championship games. Here’s what I came up with:

Honorable mention: Derrick Hunter, Arlington; P.J. Castracucco, Tuckahoe; A.J. Pritchett, Roosevelt; [...]

We’ll be live in our studio tonight at 7 p.m. for Varsity Central Chat: State Tournament Edition. Click here to watch live.

I’ll recap last weekend’s thrilling Section 1 championships and give a preview of the state quarterfinal opponents for all five local teams.

Don’t worry, I’ll be posting this week’s Game Balls very shortly and will [...]

I spoke for a while last night with Rye senior Brendan Nagle, who last week orally committed to play next season for Elon College.

Elon is a premier Division I-AA school in North Carolina. Click here to find the team’s website. Currently, Elon is 8-1 and ranked sixth in the nation in the Football Championship Subdivision. [...]

We’ll introduced a new weekly feature in Tuesday’s edition of Journal News and on lohud.com called “The Fifth Quarter.”

It’s essentially a wrap-up of the weekend in high school football (and in the winter, basketball). You can read it by clicking the link here.

Tuesday’s version highlights a Nanuet backup who starred on Saturday night, history made [...]

Here’s the official schedule for this weekend:

State quarterfinal schedule
Friday
at White Plains High School
Class D
Tuckahoe (5-3) vs. Section 9’s Eldred (9-1), 4:30 p.m.
Class B
Nanuet (9-0) vs. Section 9’s O’Neill (7-3), 7:30 p.m.
at Dietz Stadium, Kingston
Class C
Bronxville (9-0) vs. Section 9’s Ellenville (9-1), 4 p.m.
Class A
Roosevelt (8-1) vs. Section 9’s Cornwall (7-2), 8 p.m.

Saturday
Class AA
at Dietz Stadium, [...]

It was a long weekend up at Mahopac. Before I hit the pillow and sleep for a few days, let’s take a quick look back on what went down on Section 1 Championship Weekend:

Class D: Tuckahoe 21, Haldane 12

The game gets little atttention and, when one of the team’s playing is 0-7, it gets even [...]

Follow the last game here: