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Sports
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Girls Lacrosse: Goalie makes debut for Tuckers in East Hampton
BONACKERS 12, TUCKERS 7 Nikki L’Hommedieu is what one might call a goalie by circumstance. The circumstance this past winter was that L’Hommedieu’s indoor lacrosse team needed a goalie, so the field player said she would give it a try. After watching her play the position, a coach told L’Hommedieu that she...
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Boys Lacrosse: Tuckers pick up their first win in Southampton
TUCKERS 16, MARINERS 4 If the Mattituck/Greenport/Southold boys lacrosse players are looking for any last-minute birthday gift ideas for their coach, he made it clear that a piece of team history would suit him just fine. Make that the first winning streak in team history. The Tuckers have the opportunity to do...
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Sports Briefs: Little Leaguer throws perfect game … and more
LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL: The perfect start Nick Ruisi, a 10-year-old pitcher, threw a perfect game for the Mets in a 1-0 Riverhead Little League boys majors season-opening win over the Cardinals on April 17. Ruisi had 10 strikeouts (three with batters looking at the called third strike) in addition to...
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Boys Lacrosse: Mount Sinai wears down Tuckers; Marino scores four goals
MUSTANGS 12, TUCKERS 1 If ever a loss made a statement, it was the one the Mattituck/Greenport/Southold boys lacrosse team took on Saturday. The Tuckers put up a fight, playing on the road against a respected Rocky Point team. Seeking an upset as well as their first win of the season, the...
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Boys Tennis: League champion Tuckers (11-0) bounce Riverhead
TUCKERS 7, BLUE WAVES 0 Mattituck is not your typical high school boys tennis team. For one thing, not many teams have three eighth-graders and a freshman in their singles lineup. For another, the undefeated Tuckers are Suffolk County League VIII champions for a second straight year. Mattituck’s 7-0 defeat of Southold/Greenport...
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Shelter Island Olympic sailor finishes second in France World Cup regatta
Shelter Island Olympian Amanda Clark and her crew, Sarah Lihan, placed second in the women’s 470 class at the International Sailing Federation’s world cup event in Hyeres, France this week, well behind the Netherlands team of Lisa Westerhof and her crew, Lobke Berkhout. Most of the teams Ms. Clark and Ms....
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Boys Track and Field: Mattituck has no medals, but it has youth on its side
WESTHAMPTON BEACH INVITATIONAL Anyone focusing on high placements or medals — or the lack thereof — for the Mattituck boys track and field team on Saturday would have missed the point. The young Tuckers are nowhere near a finished product. This is a team for tomorrow, or perhaps more accurately, two...
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Girls Track and Field: Hubbard gives Tuckers a lot to cheer about
WESTHAMPTON BEACH INVITATIONAL Desirae Hubbard has a lot going for her. The Mattituck High School sophomore is not only a fast runner and charismatic, but she has a lot of friends, not to mention what amounts to her own cheering section at track and field meets. They can be heard shouting out...
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North Fork Outdoors: Falls are part of the horseback game
Lots of outdoors persons, here and elsewhere, enjoy horses and horseback activities. And so do we. But, as in any exercise involving the outdoors, accidents are part of the game, and working with half-ton animals presents risks that are pretty specific to that activity. A couple of weeks ago at a...
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Softball: Babylon’s Giuliano holds Clippers to one hit, a Busso HR
PANTHERS 16, CLIPPERS 1 (5 INNINGS) Babylon pitcher Tiana Giuliano hurled a one-hitter on Friday, and her coach, Rick Punzone, was shouldering the blame for that hit. It was Punzone who called for Giuliano to throw a second straight changeup to the third batter she faced, and Southold/Greenport’s Nicole Busso was ready...
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Soccer: Youth soccer schism in Mattituck creates issues
These are indeed trying times for the embattled Mattituck Soccer Club and club soccer in this area. Some Mattituck players are practicing and playing in Riverhead. Some Riverhead players are practicing and playing in Laurel or Mattituck. Some Mattituck players must take two ferry rides as part of a 90-minute commute...
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Sports Desk: Philosophies, personalities play into Mattituck soccer dispute
I have to admit, part of me cringed when I first heard that there was a youth soccer battle going on in Mattituck. Youth sports, you see, can get nasty sometimes. Real nasty. Sports in general provokes a great deal of passion. But when you include youngsters in the mix, that...
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Update: Mattituck lacrosse coach was driver in hit-and-run crash
The Mattituck High School lacrosse coach was the man arrested for driving while intoxicated after striking and injuring a teen bicyclist with his vehicle late Friday night on the Peconic River bridge and fleeing the scene, according to Riverhead police. Police said the collision took place in the southbound lane of...
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Sports Briefs: Local athletes at the college level and Mookie’s coming to town
WOMEN’S GOLF: Santacroce is freshman of year Marie Santacroce of Mattituck was named the Peach Belt Conference Women’s Golf Freshman of the Year, as selected by the conferences coaches, for 2012. Santacroce led Flagler College (Fla.) in scoring average this year and became the first Flagler College female athlete in...
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Softball: McGann-Mercy strikes for 8 runs in third, rolls over Mattituck
MONARCHS 13, TUCKERS 4 The heart of the Bishop McGann-Mercy softball team lies in its four seniors who play right up the middle of the field: catcher Amanda Burriesci, pitcher Anna Crowley, shortstop Brieanne Bieber and center fielder Karlin McIntyre. It’s a good group, and all four did their part Tuesday as...
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Boys Lacrosse: New Tuckers coach sees familiar result
KINGSMEN 18, TUCKERS 5 With a new head coach in place, the winless Mattituck/Greenport/Southold boys lacrosse team started the second half of the season on Monday with an all-too-familiar result from the first half: a loss. Tim Corcoran resigned as the Tuckers coach over the weekend, said the Mattituck High School principal,...
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Softball: Mount Sinai freshman’s two-hit shutout beats Clippers
MUSTANGS 12, CLIPPERS 0 (5 INNINGS) Year in, year out, Mount Sinai produces good softball teams. That sort of consistency has earned the Mustangs respect and a nice reputation. So, it meant something for Southold/Greenport to be hanging in there for three and a half innings on Friday, trailing Mount Sinai by...
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Baseball: Tuckers get a call — and a win — at Mercy’s expense
TUCKERS 11, MONARCHS 10 The mood both before and during the early going of the game could best be described as sedate. A sadness hung over Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan High School’s baseball diamond like a cloud. It was almost palpable. The player who wasn’t there was undoubtedly on the minds of Mattituck...
