Marlboro’s Jack Buzzurro runs the football as Highland’s Trevor Coates tries to make the tackle during Friday’s Black and Blue Bowl football game at Dennis Burkett Field at Marlboro High School.

Late TD lifts Dukes in Black and Blue Bowl

Marlboro football coach Ryan Brooks has spent the last few years trying to get L.J. German to come out for the team. This is the year the Marlboro High School senior responded, and two games in, …

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Jack Buzzurro (22) leaps over the pile for a gain of 6, part of his 100 yards for the day.
It was a big night for the Marlboro Iron Dukes. The defense forced five turnovers and scored 26 points in the first half on their way to a 39-3 over the Spackenkill Spartans in a non-league …
Huskies rip Ellenville, 8-1 Sophie Valentino scored four goals, leading the Highland Huskies to an 8-1 win over Ellenville in a Mid Hudson Athletic League Division III girls’ soccer game on …
Marlboro’s Jake Brown turns the ball downfield as Red Hook’s Giacomo Buitoni (10) pursues during a MHAL Division II boys’ soccer game on Sept. 12, 2023, at Marlboro High School.
When Jim Ventriglia came back to the Marlboro boys’ soccer team, the program was in disarray. He coached the team for about a half-decade and made a sectional contender out of them, even …

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Marlboro’s Emily Hite sends the ball over the net during a non-league volleyball match on Oct. 11, 2023, at Marlboro High School.
It’s a season of change on the volleyball court as both the Highland Huskies and the Marlboro Dukes will have new coaches for the 2024 season. They may be new, but they are familiar at the same …
Highland’s Ella Fuller returns the ball during the MHAL girls’ tennis championship meet on Oct. 11, 2023, at FDR High School in Hyde Park.
Two area tennis teams are in different places this season as the Marlboro Dukes lost one of their top players while the Highland Huskies lost five of their seven starters after last season. …
The Marlboro Iron Dukes assemble before Friday’s football practice at Marlboro High School.
The Marlboro Iron Dukes got reacquainted with the Section 9 Class B championship football game last season. Then they ran into a roadblock. The Port Jervis Raiders, who won the championship …

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The Marlboro softball team, which won a state championship, was one of 19 Iron Duke teams to be named a scholar-athlete team, helping the school be named a School of Excellence by the NYSPHSAA.
Marlboro High School had 19 teams qualify as scholar-athlete teams and were named a School of Excellence by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association on July 26. Marlboro is one …
The Marlboro Iron Dukes during Saturday’s Orange County Youth Football League Division 2 scrimmage
Orange County Youth Football League teams have been practicing on a near nightly basis since Aug. 1, with area training camps culminating in last weekend’s 2024 Scrimmage Weekend. The …
The Marlboro 9U Mighty Marlins traveled to Aberdeen, Md., on Aug. 10 and 11 to play in the Turn Two Tournament at the Ripken Experience. They went 1-2 to finish 13th.
The result wasn’t what they wanted, but the Marlboro Mighty Marlins 9U baseball team got a taste of the big stage when they traveled to Aberdeen, Md., to participate in the Cal Ripken …

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The Marlboro Marlins 12U baseball team is shown at the Cooperstown Dreams Park in early August.
The Marlboro Marlins 12U baseball team skipped the Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League playoffs for something much more special this summer. The Marlins traveled to the Cooperstown Dreams …
Cali Roloson competes at the Excel Nationals in Norwood, Massachusetts.
      Highland resident Cali Roloson recently sat down with the Southern Ulster Times to describe her rewarding figure skating journey on ice.   Cali said …
Marlboro’s Alexa Trapani won Ulster County Women’s Golf Association (UCWGA) Championship. She is shown with her father, Gary Trapani, after the Section 9 championships at Apple Greens in May.
Alexa Trapani continued her strong golf season, winning the Ulster County Women’s Golf Association championship on July 28 by 33 strokes. Trapani finished with a three-day score of 230, …

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The Mid Hudson girls Basketball Coaches Association of New York Summer Hoops Festival team: front, from left, Reese Girardi (Warwick), Ava Scaturro (Kingston), Riley Landisi (Beacon), Gabby Murphy (Marlboro),Zoe Mesuch(Wallkill), Madison Fileen (Monroe-Woodbury), T.T. Burden (Newburgh); back from left, head coach A.J. Higby (Wallkill), Sam Callahan (Highland), Lila Lovgren (Our Lady of Lourdes), Maggie Bishopp (Valley Central), Ketura Rutty (Pine Bush), Leticia Watson (Pine Bush), Assistant Coach Michelle Bouffard (Pine Bush), Assistant Coach Andrew Occhi (Onteora).
The Mid Hudson girls’ team lost their semifinal game at the Basketball Coaches Association of New York Summer Hoops Festival at Johnson City High School on Sunday. Mid Hudson nearly erased all …
Marlboro Marlins shortstop Justin Cavanagh celebrates the call after tagging out the Hudson Valley Storm’s Braeden Farrell during Wednesday’s Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League 12 game on Wednesday at Town of Newburgh Little League.
The Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League regular season ended early last week, and the summer playoffs began Friday and Saturday. The Marlboro Mighty Marlins 9U team earned the third seed in …
Photos courtesy Sara Round The Newburgh Nuclears pose with the District 9 American Legion Baseball Junior trophy on Sunday at Marlboro High School.
It’s been a long time since the Newburgh Nuclears have hoisted championship gold. That trend ended on Sunday, as the Nuclears defeated Kingston Post 150, 9-0, to win the District 9 Junior …

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