02.22.2020 Sports Boys Basketball: Center Moriches’ ‘O’ leads to Southold ‘L’ The Southold players had heard a lot about Center Moriches, the Suffolk County Class B boys basketball champion that is a virtual scoring machine, fully stocked with talent and...
02.21.2020 Sports Girls Basketball: Tuckers fall when their shots don’t There’s just something about Port Jefferson. Maybe it’s the Royals’ sharp shooting skill. Or their tenacious defense. Or their strength in grabbing rebounds off the boards. Then again, it...
02.18.2020 Sports Girls Basketball Notebook: Mattituck’s defense gets job done The way basketball coaches see it, there’s no defense for not playing defense. A player’s shooting touch can come and go, they reason, but defense is about effort. There...
02.15.2020 Sports Wrestling: Three Tuckers crowned county champs The lights in the Center Moriches High School gym were dimmed, a spotlight hanging over the wrestling mat glared down and the announcement was made, “Ladies and gentlemen, your...
02.14.2020 Sports Girls Basketball: Experience helps Tuckers beat Porters in playoff battle of local squads Experience counts. Especially when it comes to the playoffs. Mattituck is a perennial player in the high school girls basketball playoffs, which are a different animal than the regular...
02.12.2020 Sports Wrestling: This Mattituck girl is a champion The Mattituck/Greenport/Southold high school wrestling program has had female wrestlers before, just not one quite like Ansley Hanus. What Hanus, a freshman, did Sunday was become the first female...
02.12.2020 Sports Boys Basketball Notebook: ‘X’ made his mark with Tuckers Undoubtedly, this was not the way the X-Man wanted things to end. Possibly the greatest career in Mattituck High School boys basketball history wrapped up Monday night in Southampton’s...
02.11.2020 Sports Boys Basketball: Southampton stops Allen, Tuckers in Class B playoffs The irony was inescapable. Mattituck’s Xavier Allen, the top basketball scorer on Long Island this season, was having trouble scoring. It was an unusual sight. At halftime, Allen had...
02.05.2020 Sports Girls Basketball: Porters pray for home playoff game There’s no place like home. That’s surely the case with the Greenport/Southold girls basketball team. The Porters say they are a better team when they play in the familiar...
02.02.2020 Sports Wrestling: Mattituck’s Suglia joins century club Colby Suglia said that when he first took up wrestling, 100 career wins wasn’t even a thought. “At that point, I could care less,” he said. It’s funny how...
