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As the Yankees prepared to take on the Angels, high school bowlers, some in homemade uniforms, battled at Ball Park Lanes in the Bronx

Two teammates shared a pair of headphones as they lustily sang along to Jay-Z’s newest anthem. Another group tried not to get caught sizing up the competition, while a few others flirted with girls who came to watch the Friday night showdown in the Bronx.

No, not the Yankees game — that was later, and across the street. This was a public school bowling match, six high schools battling across 15 lanes in a bowling alley that has seen Yankees dynasties rise and fall like so many clusters of bowling pins.

As the high-schoolers laced up their red-and-blue shoes, the Yankees prepared a block away for the opening of the American League Championship Series — perhaps the biggest game the storied franchise has played since 2004. The Yankees contest added extra sizzle to the midseason bowling match.
“It’s exciting,” said Jose Suncar, coach of the A. Philip Randolph Campus High School team. “We should be ready to compete, just like the Yankees and Angels — no matter the weather.” Read more..

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Bronx Science had no reason to pitch to Riverdale/Kingsbridge junior shortstop Nelyssa Rosario. Not in the fourth inning. Not with two runners on. Not ahead by four runs.

“She’s just an unbelievable hitter,” Wolverines coach Tom Morris said.

So, Morris called for pitcher Kelly Chewens to intentionally walk Rosario. The sophomore hurler had the right idea on the first pitch, but the second one she threw directly over the plate and Rosario belted a three-run home run.

RKA got within one run on the homer, then took the lead in the fifth, but Bronx Science tied the game up in the sixth and went ahead in the seventh in what was a wild, 14-11 road win against Riverdale/Kingsbridge on Tuesday in PSAL Bronx A softball.

“It was a lot closer than it needed to be,” Morris said. Read more..

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Virginia-bound guard China Crosby ran the point for the West team, which beat the East, 69-68, on Wednesday night on the campus of the University of Miami

Most high-school hoops stars view the McDonald’s All-American Game as a chance to be on television, a few minutes in the limelight. Not China Crosby. The Manhattan Center girls’ basketball star called her days down in Coral Gables, Fla., “a lesson learned.”

“It’s not just about basketball,” Crosby said. “We had people telling us, ‘Just don’t get a big head about the game – remember where you came from.’” Read more..

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Cynthia “Ceez” Keteku, 18, of the Bronx, at the Chelsea headquarters of Urban Word

It was a rainy Friday evening in Chelsea, and nobody wanted to go home, preferring instead to spit poems from the depths of their tortured teenage souls.

 The finals of the New York Knicks Poetry Slam Program were in four days, and a handful of high school poets from around New York City had gathered at the headquarters of Urban Word, a literary arts organization for young people, to cheer Tia-Moné Llopiz as she cried out again in eloquent anguish over her mother’s death.

They needed to hear Cynthia Keteku, known as Ceez, come to grips with her girlfriend’s dumping her for a boy. Read more..

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