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Local Rowers Continue to Impress

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Pelham Community Rowing Association Wraps-Up Winter Training

Pelham Community Rowing Association (PCRA) recently completed its winter season with its First Annual Ergathon on Saturday, March 3, in Glen Island, NY. Challenged with raising $20,000, rowers completed a 90-minute marathon on the indoor rowing machine, the ergometer. Almost 90 rowers rowed 1.5 million meters in total while their parents; siblings and PCRA’s Masters (adult rowers) cheered them on.

PCRA’s rowers from more than 10 area middle and high schools surprised even themselves by raising a whopping $34,800. As a result, the club is purchasing two brand new, state-of-the-art, hand-laid, carbon fiber racing shells. The purchase of these shells could not come at a better time as PCRA is experiencing explosive growth, doubling in size in just the past two years.

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To consolidate the teams’ growing reputation, PCRA athletes spent the winter training hard indoors on ergs and at the gym doing cardio and weight lifting circuits. Twenty-six PCRA rowers competed in the 28th C.R.A.S.H.-B Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships, the world’s largest and oldest such event, held at Boston University’s Agganis Arena on February 19th. 

During the all-day event, 2,300 competitors from all over the world raced against the clock on ergometers. Rowers competed for the fastest times in their age groups and weight class over a 2,000-meter distance.

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In the highly competitive junior women’s open-weight class, Yasmine Hemida, a senior at Mamaroneck High School, took 18th place out of a field of more than 200 competitors, with an outstanding 2K time of 7:28. This was no surprise, as she had handily won US Rowing’s satellite indoor ergatta, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, held at PCRA just the week prior.

Just behind her in the same race, was sophomore Liliane Lindsay, who had taken 2nd place at the Massacre, while placing 26th at the C.R.A.S.H.-B’s, with a time of 7:32. 

Scarsdale High School senior Ian Klein, claimed first place in the men’s lightweight event at the Massacre, and an equally impressive 22nd at the C.R.A.S.H.-B’s. Klein will be rowing for Harvard University’s lightweight program next year.

This spring, PCRA Youth will be competing at several regional regattas as a warm up to the highlight of their rowing season, the New York State Scholastic Championships. They are looking for their best showing ever, as well as hoping to qualify several crews for the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships, held this June in Oak Ridge, TN.

CYP Tournament Tips Off

The Catholic Youth Program began after World War II to give the boys coming home something to do, tonight the program will show how much it has evolved as they will host the 66th annual tournament at Our Lady of Mercy School on Washington Street in Port Chester.

For the fourth year the tournament will be in memory of former chairmen William R. Gallagher.

Today the tournament acts a showcase for some of the best high school players in the nation. Past NCAA tournament heroes like Kemba WalkerLorenzo Charles and Bobby Hurley have played in these games, even hall of famers like Chris MullinLarry Brown and Steve Young (yes that Steve Young) have participated. 

“Some of the kids you’ll see this year, you will be seeing next year in college and in the pros,” said tournament chairmen Joe Bellofatto.

This year there will be 12 teams competing starting tonight at 7:15 p.m. and continuing until the championship game on Tuesday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. This year’s teams come from Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and New York City. Admission for the event is $5 for adults and $3 for children.

College Sports Notebook:

The Manhattanville softball team made a big statement last night as they swept the defending conference champions in a double header at Manhattanville. The Valiants won the first game 2-0 behind a complete game shut out from Alyssa Taylor; offensively Taylor and Katie Pitcher each had two hits and an RBI in the win.

Manhattanville also won the second game 5-3 as Kristen Rodopoulos won the game in three innings of relief. Jessica Van Galen took care of the bulk of the offense as she had two hits a walk and two runs in the win.

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