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Mark your calendars…for the fourth straight year, the annual “Never Forget Heroes Classic” baseball game between the NYPD and the FDNY returns to Clover Stadium in Pomona. This year’s classic will be played on Saturday, September 9th. The game is held each year in memory of those who died responding to the World Trade Center attacks of September 11th, 2001.

The New York Boulders hosted the Ottawa Titans for the Frontier League’s Eastern Division Wild Card single-elimination game last night in Pomona. The Boulders’ bats were pretty quiet most of the game, in their quest for 13 wins in a row. With two out in the bottom of the ninth, second baseman Gabriel Garcia came to the plate to try and get things going…

And that was “Bryant Avenue” Bob Trivero of “The Doo Wop Dream Machine” — heard on WRCR AM 1700 and WRCR.com on Friday nights — with the call from section 107 at Clover Stadium. The Boulders lost, 8-2, and for them the season is done.

The New York Boulders host the Frontier League’s Eastern Division Wild Card Game against the Ottawa Titans tonight at Clover Stadium in Pomona. It’s a single-game elimination match-up with the winner facing the Quebec Capitals in the best-of-three Divisional Series on Friday.

The New York Boulders went into the weekend tied for second place with the Ottawa Titans in the Frontier League’s Eastern Division. They played a three-game series against the Three Rivers Eagles in the final games of the regular season. The Boulders won Friday, 8-7, they won Saturday, 13-10 in ten innings, and then they won Sunday, 8-5, for the sweep and their 12th win in a row. When the dust cleared, the Boulders took second place all to themselves and will host the Wild Card game at Clover Stadium against the Titans Wednesday night at 7pm.

North Rockland’s varsity football team has a new coach for the first time in a decade. That’s when Coach Joseph Casarella was replaced by Tom Lynch. James Hickey was the team’s quarterback when he was a North Rockland student at the beginning of the century, and worked under Tom Lynch, who passed away last December. Hickey is now the 2004 graduate-turned-head coach. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kris Felicello says Coach Lynch’s spirit will live on in Coach Hickey…

Prior to joining North Rockland, Hickey coached at William Paterson University and at Don Bosco Prep and Randolph High School in New Jersey. He also played college football at C.W. Post and Bryant. The team’s opener tomorrow is a home, non-conference game against Monroe-Woodbury at 1pm.