“Seek Line” Drills Pawling, 5-1. Encarnacao Conroy Sigona Create 4 of 5 Goals.

WPCNR PRESS BOX. By “Red Light” Bailey. December 1, 2006: For the first two minutes and 40 seconds of this game there was end to end action. Charlie Pavarini put an end to that.


 



 


Number 14,  Charlie Pavarini’s slick conversion flying in off left wing and taking a laser, stick-to-the-blade pass from Ryan McGee to Charlie from behind the goal set him up real nice about 15 feet out. He nailed it,  beating  the Pawling tender high left and tight inside with a forehander at 4:18 of the First Period  at Ebersole Rink Thursday night to start a workmanlike 5-1 Tiger win. Here Pavarini has lofted the puck behind the Pawling goaltender into the left side of the net. Ryan McGee who created the goal is just behind the goal line. Then the “Seek Line” of Phil Sigona, Tim Conroy and Rui Encarnacao took over the ice. Photo, WPCNR Sports


 





With the Tigers on the Power Play after a foolish “Hit From Behind” Pawling penalty, at 5:36 in, Phil Sigona took an errant shot from Rui Encarnacao on left wing in the far corner. Phil tentatively skated in along the goal line with no defenseman picking him up and took on the goaltender at point blank range. Phil savagely jammed the rubber in on the right side of the net through the tender’s pads between the legs, for a 2-0 lead 1 minute and 28 seconds later at 7:46 of the First.


 


The Tigers got careless at the 11:06 of the period and allowed Pawling’s Kevin Gaughran swooping in on right wing after taking a cross-ice pass from Bill Vitro to beat Mike Camberari off balance to make it 2-1 with 3:54 to go in the period.


 



 


With Pawling slowing down because of the furious pace, Rui Encarnarcao received a pass from Phil Sigona(Number 8) from the left hand corner behind the goal taking the feed about 30 feet out. Rui skated across ice above the circles, uncontested and fired his whip forehander at waist level past goaltender Schwartz to Schwartz’s right who appeared handcuffed by the hummer. Looking at this shot, Rui (Number 9) is about to fire the black laser and the goaltender appears screened by his own defenseman. Photo, WPCNR Sports


 


 


There was 1:57 to go in the period and it ended that way, 3-1 White Plains. Mike Cambareri’s goal-tending was outstanding in the First Period especially in the first two minutes and the last 7, making 4 very difficult saves to start the game on close-in shots caused by ill-advised cross ice passes and clearing attempts that did not clear.


 


In the second period, Pawling’s attack was consistently stymied by better positioning by the WP defensemen, Fairhurst, McCarrick and the relentless forechecking of White Plains forwards.  Pawling managed only 5 shots on goal. Meanwhile White Plains pressed the action on three power plays with the Orange and Black converting on power play number 3 with Tim Conroy sweeping in a loose puck to the left of the new Pawling goaltender, Andy Bardua.


 



 


The Mucker Mops Up! After Pawling’s Andy Bardua had made the initial save, Conroy’s work behind the net to set up an initial shot from the goaltender’s right by Encarnarcao, leading to the bound off the goalies pads and Conroy poking and badgering and whacking, swept it in for a 4-1  White Plains lead with 5:51 to go in the second period. It broke open the game. Rui Encarnacao celebrates! Conroy (12) just behind Pawling defenseman celebrate the hardwork. The puck is just to the left of the goaltender’s extended leg. Photo, WPCNR Sports


 


The third period saw the Tigers ice it early when Rui Encarnarcao notched his second goal of the night on assists from Conroy and Steve McCarrick just 2 minutes and 24 seconds into the period to make it 5-1. Rui’s second goal was very much like his First Period score, a blast from out front between the circles.


 



Mike Cambareri padding aside a point blanker from the right wing in the Third Period. Photo, WPCNR Sports


 



Cambareri sticks away another in the Third Period. (Seen through the scarred, scratched, and badly-in-need-of-replacing rinkside glass.) Photo, WPCNR Sports


 


 


 


Tiger Paws: The “Seek Line,” so dubbed by WPCNR because they “seek out” the puck, and it is a play on Phil Sigona’s name, had a great hockey night. Encarnarcao’s 2 goals gives him 6 for the season with 5 assists, Tim Conroy’s goal and assist gives him 2 goals for the season, plus 8 assists, and Phil Sigona’s goal and assist gives him 7 for the season with 3 assits… Mike Cambareri made 24 saves, Pawling’s two goaltenders handled 39 shots…Charlie Pavarini who got things started notched goal number 2 for his season…White Plains moves to 4-1. Next home game is Thursday night on Ebersole Ice, 5:15 P.M.


 


The WPCNR Stars of the Game are the three members of the Seek Line:  No 1, Rui Encarnarcao, Number  2, Tim Conroy and Star No. 3, Phil Sigona — the line that works for each other, scores together.


 

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3 Stepinac Students – 1 a Football Player, Accused of Robbing Companion Student




WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. December 1, 2006 UPDATED December 4, 2006 11:30 P.M. EST: Chief James Bradley of the White Plains Department of Public Safety reported today to WPCNR that a 15 year old student accompanied by his parent (to police headquarters) that he was a victim of a robbery on the #60 bus (which picks up in front of Stepinac High School on Mamaroneck Avenue) the day before Thanksgiving Day. One of the victim’s 3 alleged assailants all from Stepinac starred for Stepinac in the Turkey Bowl the next day.


 


Chief Bradley said the student victim left the Stepinac school Wednesday, November 22 at 11:00 A.M.  as part of early dismissal that day. The Chief reports to WPCNR “while en route to his destination his IPOD and cellphone were taken by three other students through intimidation and physical force. The victim was able to provide sufficient information to the investigating detectives for identifications of all three defendents.”


 


Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety Daniel Jackson, commenting to WPCNR today said identification issues were the reason arrests could not have been made sooner.


 





 


The Chief did not say whether the identities of the accused assailants were known to police last Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving Day.


 


One of the students was identified by The Journal News as Rashaad Slowley, of Mount Vernon,  the halfback for the Stepinac High School football team who on the following day after he was identified as an alleged participant in the robbery, played and lead Stepinac to victory in the Turkey Bowl Game. Slowley, 16, and fellow students at Stepinac, according to the Journal News account, Andrew Ricketts, 16, of Hartsdale, and  Viktorr Gaba, 17 of Greenburgh were arrested Monday and charged with second-degree robbery, a felony, and third-degree assault, a misdemeanor.


 


WPCNR has issued a followup question with the police why – if the alleged assailants were identified Wednesday – were they not arrested until five days later according to the Journal News report. Deputy Commissioner of Daniel Jackson told WPCNR Monday afternoon at Police Headquarters that there were some “identification issues” that could not be resolved that Wednesday evening, and that the police would not have delayed the arrests for a football game.


 


WPCNR asked Deputy Commissioner Daniel Jackson why the bus driver did not immediately report the violent incident to the police – his dispatcher – or the Westchester County Police. Mr. Jackson wrote WPCNR I should check with the County Department of Transportation for the bus driver protocol when a violent incident is taking place on a county bus.


 

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White Plains Little League for 2007 Registration is Open for Biz Online, Inperso

WPCNR PRESS BOX. November 30, 2006: It’s sign up time for White Plains Little League for the 2007 Spring Season for baseball and softball. Children born between May 1, 1991 and December 31, 2001 are eligible to play. Parents can sign their young players up online at www.whiteplainslittleleague.com, or by filling out a Registration at the Department of Recreation and Parks, or by mailing in a Registration to the White Plains Little League. Cost is $85 for a children 5 to 8 years of age and $110 for children 9 to 15. In-person registration will be held January 6, 2007 from 9 AM to 1. However the vast majority of registrants find it much more convenient to register on line where you can pay by Mastercard or Visa. Registrants after January 15 will be assessed a late fee. The site also contains a calendar of events. 


Little League Action at Gedney Field, April, 2004. Photo, WPCNR Sports Archive.

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White Plains Pollutes Bronx River with Raw Sewage. AG Office Extracts Fine

WPCNR WHITE PLAINS UNDERGROUND. From The Attorney General Press Office. November 28, 2006: In a news release yesterday, the Office of the  New York State Attorney General  and the Department of Environmental Conservation disclosed White Plains has been polluting the Bronx River with raw sewage (“fecal coliforms”) from its stormwater drains for an unspecified period of time, and that the City has agreed to pay $56,832 into an escrow account set aside by the state for cleanup of the Bronx River in other areas not under any state mandates for cleanup.  The city has, according to the settlement,  agreed to construct sewer improvements, including, but not limited to eliminating “cross-connections,” (where sanitary sewer content leak into stormsewer lines) and private connections, to eliminate the pollution at city expense by May 1, 2007.


The city may apply for reimbursement for the cost of the sewer construction needed from the escrow fund, but it is not guaranteed.  Agreements with other cities and villages polluting were announced as well.  The city also agrees to undertake a four year monitoring program to assure the sewage leakage has been eliminated. The details from the Attorney General Press Release:


 


“Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Denise M. Sheehan today (November 28)  announced agreements with four Westchester County municipalities to stop discharging raw sewage into the Bronx River from their storm sewers.


The cities of White Plains and Mount Vernon, the Town of Greenburgh, and the Village of Scarsdale have agreed to eliminate such discharges by May 1, 2007, and to monitor their storm sewers to prevent future discharges. In addition, the municipalities together will spend more than $150,000 to upgrade their stormwater systems, and pay civil penalties.


“I commend the communities who signed these agreements for doing their part to help reclaim the Bronx River and transform it from an abused waterway into a prized public resource,” said Attorney General Spitzer.


DEC Commissioner Sheehan said: “New York State has made significant progress in protecting and enhancing water quality by enforcing against polluters. The agreements announced today with four Bronx River watershed communities will further DEC’s efforts to protect and improve important natural resources in our urban areas.”


The agreements announced today mark continued progress in the Attorney General’s Bronx River Watershed Initiative aimed at reducing pollution of the 24-mile river that flows through Westchester and Bronx Counties.


The Attorney General’s Office provided notice to the municipalities of violations for sewage discharges on August 1, 2005. Since then, the four communities have investigated and eliminated sewage discharges from some of their sewer pipes, but other discharges have continued.


The settlement agreements are the culmination of months of negotiations to ensure that the remaining sewage discharges are identified and halted, and that the municipalities pay penalties and fund projects to reduce stormwater pollution. DEC referred the violations to the Attorney General’s Office and assisted in the investigations.


The discharge of untreated sewage to the river endangers human health and the environment and violates a variety of state and federal health and environmental laws. Discharges from the storm sewers of these municipalities, while small in comparison to those by the City of Yonkers which is subject to a court order to eliminate its pollution, contribute to health risks for river users. Hundreds of members of the public, including children, regularly boat, swim and fish in the river each year.


In addition to eliminating their sewage discharges, under today’s agreements:


• The Town of Greenburgh will invest $16,524 in stormwater pollution reduction projects and pay a penalty of $1,836;
• The City of Mount Vernon will pay a penalty of $5,400;
• The Village of Scarsdale will invest $78,975 in stormwater pollution reduction projects and pay a penalty of $8,775; and
• The City of White Plains will invest $56,852 in stormwater pollution reduction projects and pay a penalty of $6,318.


Previous settlements have been reached with the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Gardens, which have fully implemented measures to cut off their pollution of the Bronx River. Last month, the Attorney General reached an agreement with Yonkers Raceway to eliminate its sewage discharges into the river. In addition, the Attorney General’s Office obtained a court order in 2004, on behalf of the state and DEC, requiring the City of Yonkers to stop discharging untreated sewage to the Bronx River. Investigations of other Bronx River polluters continue.


Once cleanups under the Attorney General’s settlements and its lawsuit against the City of Yonkers are fully implemented, most of the Bronx River is expected to achieve compliance with water quality standards, thereby minimizing the health dangers to river users. Large reductions in stormwater pollution are expected as well.


The agreements with the four municipalities were negotiated by Assistant Attorney General Philip Bein and Environmental Scientist Patricia Primi of the Environmental Protection Bureau under the supervision of Bureau Chief Peter Lehner, with assistance provided by DEC staff.”


For a transcript of the agreement between the city and the Attorney General’s Office, go to http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2006/nov/WhitePlainsAOD.pdf

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