Let the Games begin
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- July
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Not only have I returned from sunny Saint Lucia boys and girls, but so, too, have the Empire State Games, which are back (albeit not from a Honeymoon) to add a little excitement to our summer.
Last we saw them the Hudson Valley girls fared pretty well despite the stifling confines of Westchester Community College (no air conditioning). The scholastic girls won the silver, falling to Shenise Johnson and Rochester in the gold-medal game, and the open team won the gold.
Both should have a good chance again, Porsha Postell or not. Johnson is gone and the HV scholastic team has returned a few of its best players from a year ago. The open team is truly loaded, and with its contingent of D-I players from the area it should at least make it to the gold medal game.
For all the latest on the ESGs, you can log on to our Empire State Games blog and for news, photos and videos of the events you can check our our ESG home page.
Both women’s teams open with NYC, the scholastic at 2 p.m. and the open at 8 p.m. They each play Adirondack on Friday and Central on Saturday, with the medal games set for Sunday morning.
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of 2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting, Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University, where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in history.
Any news from 2:00 game vs. NYC?? Updates would be great!!
total domination by hv crushed them by i believe 59 eveyone played and all did well. congrats
HV 101 NYC 42
Coach Salad Ricci's team dominated on offense which is no surprise but they seemed to also do well on defense which is a surprise. Someone must have altered him before the game that indeed "Defense Wins Championships"!
not for nothing these kids play like a team and rumor has it they actually like each other and guess what love their coaches sorry no gossip here class team class act class coaches sounds like a winner to me.
Porsha who? give me class acts aka Walker, Blair, Tancredi who could ask for more congrats girls go for the gold!!.
Did play a lil sloppy in beginning it must have been nerves but afterwards had all the components to win the gold! go HV
Best ten players around go out and show ur stuff congrats