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Wrestling: Filipkowski aims for state podium

By Joe Werkmeister | 02/22/2012 8:00 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

Wrestling in a 4,000-seat arena like the one at Stony Brook University can be a thrilling experience for high school wrestlers. Competing at the 15,000-seat Times Union Center in Albany is something all to itself. Two Mattituck/Greenport wrestlers will get their first taste of what it’s like to compete on the...

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Girls Basketball: Busso’s 16 points help Southold win C-D game

By Bob Liepa | 02/21/2012 8:42 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK CLASS C-D FINAL | FIRST SETTLERS 48, INDIANS 35 The John A. Danzi Athletic Center at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue has become a familiar place for the Southold girls basketball team. It certainly is well known to their coach, Katie Hennes, who played in several dozen games and participated...

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Girls Basketball: Southold rolls to Suffolk Class C championship

By Michael Lewis | 02/21/2012 12:05 AM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK CLASS C FINAL | FIRST SETTLERS 46, WHALERS 19 Southold captured the Suffolk County Class C girls basketball title with a 46-19 victory over Pierson/Bridgehampton at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue on Monday night. Junior forward Melissa Rogers scored 6 of her game-high 14 points in the first quarter as the...

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Boys Basketball: Bridgehampton freshman stings Porters in county final

By Bob Liepa | 02/20/2012 9:10 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK CLASS D FINAL | KILLER BEES 73, PORTERS 50 The Bridgehampton boys basketball team had waited long enough. It had been 12 years — 12 long years — since the team’s last Suffolk County championship, so when the Killer Bees claimed their first county crown since 2000 on Monday, it...

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BLOG RECAP: Southold takes down Pierson for Class C title

By Joe Werkmeister | 02/20/2012 7:44 PM | Featured Stories, Sports

The top-seeded Southold girls basketball had little trouble taking out No. 2 Pierson/Bridgehampton Monday night to clinch the Class C county championship, 46-19, at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue. Southold advances to play a non-elimination game against Class D champion Shelter Island Tuesday back at St. Joseph's. The First Settlers will...

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BLOG RECAP: Greenport falls 73-50 in Class D finals

By Joe Werkmeister | 02/20/2012 3:45 PM | Featured Stories, Sports

The Greenport boys basketball team fell 73-50 Monday afternoon against Bridgehampton in the Class D county championship game at Suffolk Community College in Selden. The Porters were aiming for their seventh title in the last eight years. Instead, the Killer Bees — a basketball dynasty in the '80s and '90s —...

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North Fork Outdoors: Sometimes form follows function in the dog world

By Martin Garrell | 02/19/2012 3:00 AM | Sports

It’s always interesting for dog owners to visit the Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden. For all the pomp and circumstance, for all the brushes and powder, there are some real dogs in the rings, dogs that perform tasks other than striding on lead and posing with perfect...

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Girls Basketball: An eighth-grader’s 22 points help sink Tuckers in semifinal

By Bob Liepa | 02/18/2012 5:18 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK CLASS B SEMIFINAL | BAYMEN 63, TUCKERS 44 By halftime, Hampton Bays was leading Mattituck by 5 points, 27-22. It was a lead the Baymen couldn’t feel too good about, and a deficit the Tuckers couldn’t feel too bad about. However, by the time the Suffolk County Class B Tournament semifinal...

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Basketball: Playoff brackets released, No. 1 Southold to play for county crown Monday

By Bob Liepa | 02/16/2012 9:00 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

The Southold girls basketball team’s first playoff game will be for a Suffolk County title. The First Settlers (13-5) received the No. 1 seed in the Suffolk Class C Tournament when Section XI released the brackets on Thursday. They will play the winner of tomorrow’s outbracket game between No. 2 Pierson/Bridgehampton...

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Boys Basketball: Gavin Dibble’s 10 treys sets Greenport record

By Bob Liepa | 02/15/2012 8:10 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

PORTERS 81, INDIANS 30 The Greenport boys basketball team didn’t grab a league championship, but it does have a new individual record for the most 3-point field goals in a game. Greenport’s bid for a share of the Suffolk County League VIII title on Wednesday night became an afterthought thanks to a...

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Girls Basketball: Southold caps perfect league season for new coach

By Bob Liepa | 02/14/2012 9:25 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

FIRST SETTLERS 40, WHALERS 18 Twelve wins, no losses. That league record has a nice ring to it for the Southold girls basketball team. The First Settlers closed out their regular season with a 40-18 trouncing of Pierson/Bridgehampton on Tuesday night, leaving the Suffolk County League VIII champions with a 13-5 record, 12-0...

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Golf Gazette: So far it’s been a fine golfing winter

By Jay Dempsey | 02/14/2012 3:00 AM | Sports

Come on now, stop your complaining. We managed to avoid winter until the third week of January and that was a short-lived snow event. That’s pretty darn good in my book. For those of us who hold down the fort on the North Fork during the winter months, we have...

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Boys Basketball: Seniors lead Southold in must-win game

By Bob Liepa | 02/13/2012 9:45 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

FIRST SETTLERS 73, PORTERS 60 Never underestimate the power of Senior Night. It can be a mighty motivating force for a high school player, and yet, the Southold boys basketball team had plenty of other motivation in its tank on Monday night. Facing a must-win game, the First Settlers did just that. Winston...

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Photos: Mattituck wrestlers finish second in Division II

By Joe Werkmeister | 02/12/2012 10:52 AM | Featured Stories, Slideshows, Sports

Three Mattituck wrestlers won county titles Saturday and the Tuckers finished second as a team behind Bayport-Blue Point. Click here for a full recap. GARRET MEADE PHOTOS...

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Wrestling: Once again, Filipkowski is a champion’s champion

By Bob Liepa | 02/11/2012 10:48 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

Perhaps no other wrestler had as good a chance of winning a title in the L. Robert “Doc” Fallot Section XI Division II Championships as Tomasz Filipkowski. But even the Mattituck/Greenport junior confessed to feeling nerves Saturday in the 170-pound final. “It’s still nerve-wracking, you know, the county finals,” Filipkowski said....

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RECAP: Three Mattituck wrestlers win county titles

By Joe Werkmeister | 02/11/2012 3:15 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

Four Mattituck wrestlers advanced to the Division II finals Saturday afternoon at Stony Brook University and three emerged champions to advance to the state championship in Albany. Eighth-grader Lucas Webb won the 99-pound title against Jake Palma of Bayport-Blue Point. He won a 3-0 decision. Defending county champion Tomasz Filipkowski won his...

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Girls Basketball: Tuckers seal playoff place, Wilcenski sprains ankle

By Bob Liepa | 02/10/2012 9:39 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

TUCKERS 56, WARRIORS 41 Mission accomplished. The Mattituck girls basketball team could say that after securing its fifth playoff berth in seven years Friday night. True, the Tuckers got the job done with a 56-41 defeat of Wyandanch, but, perhaps characteristic of this up-and-down season for them, it came with some bumps...

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Girls Basketball: Southold sends its coach off with a victory

By Michael Lewis | 02/09/2012 10:45 PM | Sports

FIRST SETTLERS 62, CRUSADERS 22 Southold coach Amanda Barrilo could not have gotten a better send-off from her girls basketball team on Thursday. In Barrilo’s final game as coach, the First Settlers recorded a 62-22 victory over visiting Smithtown Christian, clinching sole possession of first place in Suffolk County League VIII. It...

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