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Professional baseball returns to Rockland…the New York Boulders’ campaign for a championship, something they haven’t had in a decade, gets underway tonight with the first game of the Frontier League’s season on the road against the Jersey Jackals. Manager T.J. Stanton says he’s got a good lineup ready to take the team into the playoffs and beyond, with a sharp eye trained on perennial powerhouse, the back-to-back two-time champion Quebec Capitals…

All-Star Boulders outfielder Chris Kwitzer, who was named the Frontier League’s “player of the week” to start the month of August last year, agrees, Quebec is the team to beat…

WRCR will be broadcasting the Boulders home games again this year. The Boulders begin a three-game home stand tomorrow night against the New Jersey Jackals. Go to NYBoulders.com for more information.

The Yankees yesterday announced that broadcasting legend John Sterling has retired, his last game was last week, a Yankee win against Toronto. Sterling joined the Yankees’ broadcast in 1989, calling 5,420 regular season and 211 post-season Yankees games. This season was his 36th in the booth, and 20th working alongside Suzyn Waldman. Five years ago, Sterling was the guest speaker at the Boulders Community Fund luncheon at the New York Country Club in Spring Valley. Sterling recounted a chance meeting one day with The Boss, George Steinbrenner…

Known for his thumping “The Yankees Win!” end-of-game pronouncements, his unique Yankee nicknames, and his “It is high, it is far, it is gone” home run calls, Sterling had taken on a reduced role in recent years and traveled less due to health concerns. Sterling will be recognized in a pregame ceremony at Yankee Stadium on Saturday against the Tampa Bay Rays.

The start of the New York Boulders season is about four weeks away, but the town of Ramapo is hoping to get a new multi-purpose field to replace the grass at the town’s pro baseball park, perhaps by next season. Ramapo supervisor Michael Specht says it’s not clear yet how it’ll be financed…

Team President Shawn Reilly says with a turf field, there’d be more opportunities to use it for other events…

The Boulders start the season on the road on Thursday May 8th with their home opener Friday May 9th.

The State Champion Suffern Mounties Hockey team is being honored tomorrow night with a parade. Ramapo supervisor Michael Specht…

The parade starts at 5pm tomorrow evening on Lafayette Avenue and will proceed to Washington Avenue for a barbecue. Suffern beat the Orchard Park Quakers, 6-2 Sunday in Buffalo for their second New York State Public High School Athletic Association Division I state title in three years.

The Ramapo Town Board is honoring the Ramapo-Spring Valley Division Three Midget Football Team at tonight’s town board meeting. Ramapo supervisor Michael Specht says the team won the national championship in Naples, Florida, last December…

That’s at tonight’s town board meeting at town hall at 7pm.