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Spring Softball Preview: Stella Maris Aims For Title
By Elio Velez
      Stella Maris has inched ever so closer in the past two years in trying to reach their goal to win the Brooklyn/ Queens CHSAA diocesan title. Lady Flippers head coach Jim De Angelo has had a bird's eye view of the improvement his team has made.
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Former BCHS Basketball Stars Reach NJCAA Championship Title Game
By Elio Velez
      Two former Beach Channel High School basketball teammates, Michael Hines and Dwayne Messam, had exciting conclusions to their college basketball season. For Dwayne Messam, his season at Monroe Community College in Rochester ended in heartbreak.
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New York Islanders Slim Playoff Hopes Remain Alive
By Brian Bohl
      UNIONDALE, NY- Perhaps all it did was delay the inevitable. The Isles staved off elimination and in the process prevented a heated rival from clinching a playoff berth on their home ice during last Tuesday's 3-2 shootout victory over the Rangers.
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Golf Tournament Planned to Support SJEH
      The planning for the 13th Annual St. John's Invitational Golf Tournament occurred at the March 27, 2007 meeting of the Development Board. The tournament will be held on Monday, May 14, 2007, at the Woodmere Club in Woodmere, NY. All proceeds will benefit the Emergency Department and cardiac, ...
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Rockaway Beach Volleyball League Holds First Meeting
By Joe McGivney
      On Wednesday, 3/28, Punxatawny Cubby and Jimmy Mack came out of their houses, saw their shadows and immediately headed over to the Kerry Hills Pub for the first volleyball meeting of the year. There they met up with dozens of their compatriots from the Rockaway Beach Volleyball League, who ...
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Rockaway Beach Special Olympians Go Winter Skiing
By Joe Featherston
      The St Camillus Special Olympics - Rockaway Beach Special Athletics team- recently spent a wintry weekend at Ski Windham. On Friday, the athletes and their families participated in a night of tubing and pizza. On both Saturday and Sunday, the athletes spent the day skiing under the instruc...
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Graybeards B-Ball At SFDS
      The GrayBeards basketball team will take on the visitin Harlem MagicMasters on the hardwood floor of St. Francis De Sales Gymnasium on April 21. Tickets for the event are $10 each. The gymnasium doors will open at 1 p.m. The charity basketball game is scheduled for 2 p.m. St. F...
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Avery Ignites Rangers Renewed Drive For NHL Playoffs
By Joe McDonald Sports Columnist
      NEW YORK - Although bigger names changed addresses at the trading deadline, it was the Rangers February 5 move with the Los Angeles Kings that's paying the greatest dividends.
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NYCHA Youth Attends College Lacrosse At St. John's
     It was another great day and another great lacrosse experience for 100 New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) youth (pictured) who attended the St. John's vs. Rutgers lacrosse game this past Saturday. The NYCHA would like to congratulate the St. John's team for winning its first conference (ECAC) g...
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Broad Channel Athletic Club Searches For Photos
      The Broad Channel Athletic Club has initiated a new website at www bcacny.com and has started two new forums for visitors to view. One forum is titled "BCAC Yesteryear" and the other forum is "Where Are They Now?" The BCAC is looking for people to send their photos of the days when they played ba...
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Fisheads Host Playoff Game At Aviator Complex
      The Rockaway Fisheads are gearing up for their first round playoff match to be played underneath the bright lights of Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn on April 15. The Rockaway rugby team will play their first Northeast Rugby postseason match at the sparkling new facility on the grounds of Floyd...
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STM Intermediate Boys Win Queens Basketball Championship
      The St. Thomas More Intermediate B Basketball team won the Queens championship on March 25 in a hard fought game against Immaculate Conception. St. Thomas More had a 15 point first half lead, but Immaculate cut the lead to three points in the second half. The boys hung tough just as they did all y...
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RSA Plans For Trip To Friendship Gam
      The Rockaway Sports Association is once again planning their third trip to Vegas for the 2007 NYC vs. Las Vegas Friendship Games.
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