Daily Sports Digest: Mamaroneck, New Rochelle Square Off in First Round

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The Mamaroneck New Rochelle rivalry will resume tonight at 4:30 p.m. when the teams square off for the third time this season in first round action. The teams split the previous two match ups with New Rochelle winning 71-64 in January, and Mamaroneck coming out on top 58-55 in overtime earlier this month.

In the January win, New Rochelle and Mamaroneck both had four players reach double figures as Joe Clarke led the Huguenots with 19 points and Gerry McMullin led the Tigers with 18.

The Feb. 6 contest was much stingier as both teams brought their best defensive games of the season. In the extra period Mamaroneck held New Rochelle to just two points. The Tigers’ Matt Mezansky led all scorers with 20 while Clarke put in 15 for New Rochelle.

Tonight’s game will take place at New Rochelle high school at 4:30 p.m.

Today’s Schedule:

In boys basketball, (9) Mamaroneck heads to (8) New Rochelle at 4:30 p.m.

In boys basketball, (9) Rye Neck heads to (8) Valhalla at 6:00 p.m.

In girls basketball, (11) Rye Neck heads to (6) Briarcliff at 5:00 p.m.

Weekly Sports Poll:

Earlier in the month the Baseball Hall of Fame started a drug education program for students and young adults. “Be A Superior Example” or “BASE” will work with the Taylor Hooton Foundation and the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society in an effort to promote a healthy lifestyle for young athletes that is completely free of performance enhancing drugs (PED).

"It is through the education programs that we are able to fulfill our mission of providing context to the issues that have faced our game, as a reflection of American history, throughout its history," Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said to the Associated Press (AP).

In the upcoming months Idelson and the Hall of Fame are hoping to conduct a nationwide survey, hold a summit in Cooperstown and begin a national registry for people pledging to live a PED-free lifestyle.

Since 1936 voting for the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York has been an integral part in the Major League Baseball season. This year controversial figures like Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens will be appearing on the ballot for the first time. Now the only question is should this trio of notorious superstars be allowed into baseball’s hallowed halls? Or should they be left out of Cooperstown like so many others?

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