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Track & Field: Mattituck junior places fifth in pentathlon

By Joe Werkmeister | 05/22/2013 9:49 PM | Just In, Sports, Top News

In her first competition since injuring her ankle April 20, Mattituck junior Shannon Dwyer returned to the track for the Division III Championship and fought her way to a fifth-place finish in the pentathlon. Over the two-day competition between Monday and Wednesday, Dwyer tallied 1,987 points. "She might be one of the...

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Baseball: Tuckers bring out the bats to KO Center Moriches

By The Suffolk Times | 05/22/2013 7:23 PM | Sports, Top News

Joe Tardif went 4 for 5 and scored four runs, Marcos Perivolaris drove in four runs, and Mattituck eliminated Center Moriches from the Suffolk County Class B Tournament, 11-7, on Wednesday. James Nish added two runs batted in for the third-seeded Tuckers (15-8) at Center Moriches High School’s Coach Paul Gibson...

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Mattituck softball, baseball teams travel to Center Moriches

By Joe Werkmeister | 05/22/2013 12:00 PM | Sports

It's Mattituck vs. Center Moriches today. In baseball and softball. Both teams will play 4 p.m. playoff games today and the baseball team will need a win to keep its season alive. The Tuckers, seeded third in the Class B bracket, will play a rematch of the first round, which the...

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Track and Field: SWR’s Udvadia, Fleming score triumphs

By Bob Liepa | 05/21/2013 9:18 PM | Sports, Top News

DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS It was typical Ryan Udvadia. After the Division III 3,200-meter final started, the Shoreham-Wading River junior was hanging well back in the bottom third of the field, as if toying with the opposition, who surely knew what was coming. Early in the third lap, Udvadia made a tremendous move, passing...

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Baseball: Mattituck keeps its postseason alive

By Michael Lewis | 05/20/2013 9:38 PM | Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK COUNTY CLASS B TOURNAMENT | TUCKERS 13, PANTHERS 5 The Mattituck baseball team survives to play another day. In a game in which every Tucker reached base safely, Mattituck eliminated Babylon as it recorded a 13-5 home victory in the Suffolk County Class B double-elimination tournament on Monday. The Tuckers (14-8) will...

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Southold headed to loser’s bracket after win

By Bob Liepa | 05/20/2013 7:26 PM | Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK COUNTY CLASS C TOURNAMENT | WHALERS 2, FIRST SETTLERS 1 As far as losses go, this one felt pretty good. At least that’s how it sounded, listening to the Southold First Settlers following their playoff defeat on Monday. Of course, one must keep in mind a few things. First of all,...

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Auto Racing: After three years, Brode breaks into victory lane

By The Suffolk Times | 05/19/2013 12:55 PM | Sports

RIVERHEAD RACEWAY ROUNDUP Howie Brode of East Islip snapped a nearly three-year winless spell when he swept the Twin 30 NASCAR Modified feature events at Riverhead Raceway on Saturday night. Threatening skies forced the features to be moved up in the track’s running order because of unexpected rain showers all around the facility. That...

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Baseball: Despite batting out of order, Southold prevails

By Michael Lewis | 05/17/2013 10:12 PM | Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK COUNTY CLASS C TOURNAMENT | FIRST SETTLERS 15, ROYALS 7 Crazy game, this baseball. One inning you’re a potential goat after the opposing team finds you batting out of order. The next inning you’re the hero after driving in the winning runs. Take, for example, what happened to eighth-grader Dylan Clausen...

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Burt pitches no-hitter — and Mattituck loses

By Bob Liepa | 05/17/2013 6:48 PM | Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK COUNTY CLASS B TOURNAMENT | RED DEVILS 1, TUCKERS 0 A question over whether or not Mattituck pitcher Cameron Burt threw a no-hitter hung over the Tuckers’ first playoff game on Friday. When the dust finally settled, though, it was determined later that evening that the junior right-hander had thrown...

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Register now for Bob Wall Tennis Tournament

By The Suffolk Times | 05/15/2013 8:00 PM | Sports, Top News

TENNIS: Bob Wall tournament Registrations are being accepted for the 2013 Bob Wall Memorial Tennis Tournament. The tournament, sponsored by Times/Review Newspapers of Mattituck, will be held over a six-week period this summer from the last weekend in June through the last weekend in July. A portion of the proceeds from...

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Boys Tennis: Bayport bounces Tuckers for second time in three years

By Bob Liepa | 05/15/2013 6:02 PM | Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK COUNTY TEAM TOURNAMENT, FIRST ROUND | PHANTOMS 4, TUCKERS 3 Perhaps Garrett Malave was biding his time, just waiting for the right moment to take charge of the tennis match. Perhaps he was simply adjusting to the sporadic wind, which sometimes played tricks with the ball. Through the first four games...

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Southold grad has fine freshman season playing baseball

By Bob Liepa | 05/15/2013 3:00 PM | Sports, Top News

COLLEGE BASEBALL: Clausen goes 5-3 Kyle Clausen learned early on that sleep is a precious commodity at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. After the Southold man first reported to the USMMA in Kings Park last July 5, he was being awakened around 4 a.m. to go on runs. Nowadays, though, Clausen...

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Mattituck’s Perkins fans a dozen on Senior Day

By Bob Liepa | 05/13/2013 7:31 PM | Sports, Top News

TUCKERS 7, MARINERS 1 Along with the bats, the balls, the gloves and the batting helmets, the word was spread to bring one more item for what was probably the Mattituck softball team’s final home game of the year: tissues. The Tuckers have seven seniors, all regular starters, many with deep roots...

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Boys Basketball: After 34 years, Edwards retires as Greenport coach

By Bob Liepa | 05/13/2013 1:36 PM | Sports, Top News

Following a college basketball career at East Carolina, Al Edwards returned to his alma matter, Greenport High School, as a coach, working with his former high school coach, Dude Manwaring. Edwards’ rise to becoming a varsity coach was much faster than he could have imagined. “I can’t even say I thought...

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Girls Track and Field: Tuckers walk away with personal records and medals

By Bob Liepa | 05/11/2013 3:56 PM | Sports, Top News

HAMPTON INVITATIONAL Track and field athletes love two things: personal records and medals. The Mattituck girls team walked away from the Hampton Invitational on Saturday at Hampton Bays High School with several of the former, and an envelope full of the latter. Personal records — or “prs” in the vernacular of track people...

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Girls Lacrosse: Two seniors bow out after Tuckers’ best season

By Bob Liepa | 05/10/2013 7:55 PM | Sports, Top News

GOLDEN FLASHES 16, TUCKERS 7 The Mattituck/Greenport/Southold girls lacrosse team had a rough assignment on Friday. The Tuckers had their hands full dealing with Sayville, possibly the strongest team they have faced all year. And yet, despite that, perhaps the toughest thing the team’s two seniors had to do was keep...

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Mercy girls notch fifth straight league title

By Joe Werkmeister | 05/09/2013 7:37 PM | Sports, Top News

The drive for five came to fruition Thursday. The Bishop McGann-Mercy girls track & field team clinched its fifth straight League VIII championship with an 87-57 victory at Port Jefferson to finish 6-0. Even after losing several key athletes from last year's team, the young Monarchs complied another dominant season, winning nearly...

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Boys Lacrosse: Tuckers finish season with program record 6 wins

By Bob Liepa | 05/09/2013 7:26 PM | Sports, Top News

TORNADOES 6, TUCKERS 3 They leave with no championships. They leave without having experienced a playoff game. They leave without having enjoyed a winning season. But that doesn’t mean the nine seniors on the Mattituck/Greenport/Southold boys lacrosse team bid adieu to their high school playing careers without having left an impact. Should...

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