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Softball: Tuckers don’t fall to Babylon without a fight
PANTHERS 14, TUCKERS 8 After falling behind, 13-1, Mattituck’s softball team mounted a seven-run rally in the fifth inning to make things interesting before losing its final game of the season to undefeated Suffolk County League VII champion Babylon, 14-8, on Wednesday. Visiting Babylon (17-0, 15-0), which could post the first undefeated...
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Softball: Clippers shut out by Center Moriches’ Nolan
RED DEVILS 6, CLIPPERS 0 As the softball regular season draws to an end, so do the high school playing careers of seniors. The fortunate among them have the playoffs to look forward to. For others, such as Southold/Greenport’s two seniors, catcher Erin Creedon and third baseman Alexis Reed, it means...
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Auto Racing: Rogers, driving back-up car, roars from 21st to first
RIVERHEAD RACEWAY Tom Rogers Jr. of Patchogue barnstormed his way from a 21st starting spot to sweep the Twin 30 NASCAR Modified features at Riverhead Raceway on Saturday night. Rogers was forced to a back-up car when his Chevy suffered an broken axle, forcing him to drive his family-owned car and having...
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Baseball: Southold to face Pierson/Bridgehampton in finals
If the Southold baseball team is to win a Suffolk County championship this year, it will need to do something that no other team has been able to do this year: take two games from League IX champion Pierson/Bridgehampton. Southold (13-7) and Pierson/Bridgehampton (18-2) will face each other in a best-of-three...
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North Fork Outdoors: There are options to winter flounder
With the demise of the winter flounder fishery now in its second decade, anglers have pretty much come to terms with the loss of our once reliable treat for the springtime table. Fortunately for those who grew up fishing freshwater, substitutes are readily available — the ubiquitous “pan fish” found...
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Softball: Southampton shows no mercy against Mattituck
MARINERS 14, TUCKERS 2 (5 INNINGS) Coaches are instructors and players are pupils. That doesn’t mean, as Rick Hinrichs has found, that a coach cannot learn from his players. In what has been a trying season for Hinrichs’ Mattituck softball team, the Tuckers have had an impact in changing his outlook on...
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Meet the Drivers: #66 Shawn Solomito
Meet the Drivers is a new feature from the Suffolk Times, where we'll highlight one driver from Riverhead Raceway each week. The racing season kicked off May 5. Name: Shawn Solomito Age: 23 Division: Modified Top 3 Sponsors: Amce Sanitation, SS Motorsports, Empower Capital While only 23, Shawn Solomito is a veteran driver who's been...
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Column: We can’t ignore kids and concussions
A few weeks ago, my dad apologized for all the smoking he did in the house back when I was a kid. “We just didn’t realize,” he said as we watched the little girl on the anti-smoking commercial cough into a room thick with secondhand smoke. I’ve heard that refrain many times...
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Baseball: Porters drop doubleheader; end year 5-15
KNIGHTS 10, PORTERS 9; KNIGHTS 6, PORTERS 1 (6 INNINGS) The Greenport High School baseball team closed out its season on Friday, dropping both ends of a Suffolk County League IX doubleheader to host Smithtown Christian. Despite senior Michael Reed’s grand slam in the second inning, the Porters lost to Smithtown Christian,...
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Baseball: Southold dashes Port Jefferson’s playoff hopes
FIRST SETTLERS 10, ROYALS 1 Never underestimate the motivating factor of revenge for a baseball team, nor, for that matter, the allure of a beneficial playoff seeding. After being eliminated from playoff contention by Port Jefferson the past two years, Southold returned the favor on Friday. The playoff-bound First Settlers broke open...
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Baseball: Southampton beats Tuckers to get into playoffs
MARINERS 10, TUCKERS 1 In one of those interesting twists of baseball fate, the Southampton Mariners and the Mattituck Tuckers crossed paths once again — this time on the final day of the regular season for both teams. Back on April 4, Mattituck overcame a 3-0 deficit to post a 5-3 victory...
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Sports Briefs: Maysonet wins Athletic Director’s Award at Stony Brook
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Maysonet wins A.D.’s award Stony Brook University running back Miguel Maysonet of Riverhead was a recipient of the Athletic Director’s Award for his contributions to the team at the school’s annual awards ceremony on Monday night. COLLEGE WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD: Budd wins conference title Alexandra Budd, a sophomore at...
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Baseball: Port Jefferson-Southold series has playoff feel to it
ROYALS 7, FIRST SETTLERS 6 The playoffs have begun. Well, not officially, but the resumption of the Suffolk County League VIII baseball series between rivals Port Jefferson and Southold has brought with it a postseason atmosphere. It’s a dramatic showdown with a lot at stake, especially for Port Jefferson. Although Southold has...
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Riverhead Raceway: Solomito just loves opening night
Timmy Solomito of Islip scored his second straight opening night victory when he topped the second segment of the Twin 30 NASCAR Modified features on Saturday night at Riverhead Raceway. Dave Brigati of Calverton, who was second, said: “I did all I could to pass Timmy. I hope the fans liked...
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Golf Gazette: A hero for whom cell phones and golf courses don’t mix
Most of us have had a few heros in our lives. It may have been an athlete. Perhaps a movie star. Maybe a political figure. Come to think of it, scratch the last one. My first hero was “The Duke of Flatbush,” Duke Snider, who played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers...
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Boys Tennis: Longwood finishes on winning note, beating Clippers
LIONS 6, CLIPPERS 1 Before it applies the finishing touches to its season, the Southold/Greenport boys tennis team decided to take a peak into its future. Next year the Clippers be looking for a new first singles player. Josh Robinson, a third-year varsity player who has been the team’s top singles player...
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Spectator injured as metal bar clears safety fence at Riverhead Raceway
A spectator at Riverhead Raceway was struck in the chest by a metal "nerf bar" Saturday night after it jarred loose from the side of a race car during a collision and flew over the safety fence and into the crowd, witnesses said. The incident occurred around 9 p.m. after two...
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Start your engines, Riverhead Raceway season begins tonight
The 2012 Riverhead Raceway season kicks off tonight with 180 laps of scheduled feature event racing. Defending modified points champion Justin Bonsignore of Holtsville will begin his title defense as John Fortin, John Beatty Jr. and Shawn Solomito, among others, look to take the title away. Saturday night’s lineup includes Figure 8’s,...













