LAKE HUNTINGTON -- The Sullivan West Bulldogs sent their boys basketball seniors off on a high note, winning their season finale over rival Tri-Valley, 34-25.
The Westies were down 15-12 at half, but had a good third quarter outscoring the Bears 15-4 with Cody Powell scoring 10. Powell led the ... read more

MONTICELLO -- “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” It seems no matter what the sport or arena of life he was referencing, the late John Wooden, UCLA's iconic men's basketball coach, had something profound and apropos to contribute.
This particular ... read more

Published March 2, 1982

STONE RIDGE - It's number Seven for Floyd Emery. The Liberty coach guided the Indians to their seventh basketball championship with a 58-44 victory over Marlboro Saturday night at Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge. The Indians beat Marlboro last year for ... read more

Tri-Valley 39
Manor 26

GRAHAMSVILLE -- This vastly abbreviated basketball season is just about over. March 1 ushers in the postponed fall season and thoughts will turn to whether soccer and football will really materialize. Certainly cross-country and volleyball will ... read more

Sullivan West 55
Seward 41

LAKE HUNTINGTON -- “Time is free but it's priceless. You can't own it but you can use it. You can't keep it but you can spend it but once you've lost it you can never get it back.” So goes the adage that sums up how time flies by and its ... read more

MONTICELLO -- With only four days left to the basketball season, Monticello had to cancel its remaining games due to the positive testing associated with two individuals associated with the team. In a season that will be long regarded as notorious for its fits and starts, its uncertainty, its ... read more

CHESTER -- The Comets lost their season opener to Chester, 66-30, on Saturday.
“For the first game of the season, the team got off to a rough start. As the game progressed we got better. I am proud of the effort and toughness the team showed,” said Fallsburg Boys Basketball Coach Lionel White. ... read more

O'Neill 74
Sullivan West 45

LAKE HUNGTINGTON- “When sorrows come, they come not (as) single spies, but in battalions.”
In just so many words did Hamlet inform his close friend Horatio of the way things seem to pile on when adversity strikes in the iconic Shakespearean ... read more

ROSCOE -- “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor echoed throughout the “Coach” Fred Ahart Gymnasium on Friday night as the Roscoe Blue Devils warmed up before their season opener against the S.S. Seward Spartans.
It was the first Roscoe varsity boys basketball game in several decades not coached by ... read more

Published February 23, 1999

BRIDGEVILLE - Monticello pulled off the rare feat of winning both the boys' and girls' Section IX alpine ski titles on Friday at Holiday Mountain.
How rare is it? Veteran Monticello coach Warren “Buddy” Goldsmith can't even remember the last time it happened. ... read more

Minisink Valley 52
Monticello 43

SLATE HILL - Matchups between rival schools often favor one over the other. Those imbalances can be a factor of any number of things including size, experience, depth, free throw shooting acumen, fouls and above all else, style.
For ... read more

The Honesdale Varsity Boys Basketball team, back row from left, Conner Coar, Paul Meagher, Jeb McCormick, Jake Lyle, Kane Rogers, Austin Borsdam and Kole Fries. Front row, from left, Aiden laterette, Chase Cummings, Karter Kromko, Nate Hugaboom, Sam Jones and Jeffery Delgado.

Sportsman Outdoors

The Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs of Sullivan County held their February monthly meeting at the Conservation Club's clubhouse. Only nine Federation delegates were in attendance.
Retired DEC officer Carl Lindsley reported on the recently submitted NYS budget by Governor Cuomo. Of concern was ...read more

Further Review

Please don't think I'm pulling a sudden escape like the Baltimore Colts did 35 years ago when they fled to Indianapolis in the middle of the night. But this will be my last Further Review column. After 10 years, more than 500 columns and 350,000 words, I'm turning out the lights. I always said to ...read more

Golfing Highlights

Bryson DeChambeau is now the U.S. Open Champion.
He has riveted spectators with his unique golf swing and style. He has introduced the golf world to the Single Plane address position that was promoted by the great Moe Norman and now the Graves Golf Academy.
Interesting, all those skeptics of ...read more

Streamside

Some fishing is said to be better than others, but from this trout fisher's view, there is no such thing as “bad” fishing! From time to time when meeting and getting to know someone, the question of favorite pastimes arises, and the subject of fishing comes up. If the person hasn't, or doesn't ...read more

Bowling Highlights

Bowling is the fastest-growing high school sport this decade but no high school in Sullivan County offers this sport which is very popular in Hancock Central just across the county border in Delaware County.
The bowling industry provides more than $6 million in scholarships each year.
“High ...read more

Raceway Wrap

WHITE LAKE -- It was ‘Music Night', sponsored by Frank Stevens Roofing, at Bethel Speedway last Saturday. The night was highlighted by the ‘Detroit Iron 35' which was a special race for the fan popular street stock division. Track Championship races also continued to gain attention as there are ...read more

Friday, February 28

High School

Indoor Track

Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Monti, Sull West, Tri-Valley @ OCIAA West Point, 6 pm