Boy’s NY hockey ban overturned

A 13-year-old New York boy who played hockey growing up in Ireland can keep playing on the girls team at his school, at least for one more season.

The decision at an appeals hearing yesterday reverses earlier rulings that claimed Keeling Pilaro’s skills as a hockey player, which he developed playing for Pembroke Wanderers in Dublin, had developed to a level superior to those of girls.

“I was jumping up and down; I was so excited when I heard. I can play,” he said last night.