PUTNAM VALLEY – Maggie Caputo, Kate Mulqueen, Erin Moynihan, and Katelyn Flanagan drove in three runs each as the Putnam Valley High School softball team hammered North Salem, 23-4. The game was called after five innings due to the mercy rule. Maddy Mauri had two RBI for the Tigers. Bella Soto and Mia Mazzullo had their first varsity hit and RBI, respectively. Mulqueen notched her 200th career strikeout in the win. PV later lost to crosstown rival Haldane, 16-3, in another ga

In almost 40 years of covering Section 1 high school sports, I have probably heard it 400 times – private schools have an unfair advantage. Demographically, they can draw from a wider range than public high schools. They have greater financial resources. They can recruit. The list goes on and on. It goes all the way back to when I first started my career, when Poughkeepsie-based Our Lady of Lourdes High School was winning nine state championships in the 1980s and 90s in girls