Bob Liepa, Author at The Suffolk Times

01.24.2020 Sports

Greenport inducts its first Hall of Fame class

Ryan Creighton was home washing dishes when he received the good news. He received a phone call from athletic secretary Joan Dinizio, who told him he was among five...

01.24.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: Southold’s Grathwohl breaks 1,000 points

Nick Grathwohl’s winding road to 1,000 career points is over. When the Southold High School basketball player reached his destination, it was as sweet as he could have imagined....

01.22.2020 Sports

Wrestling: SWR holds off Mattituck to reach Division II final

The connections between the Mattituck/Greenport/Southold and Shoreham-Wading River wrestling programs are strong. Two of Mattituck coach Cory Dolson’s assistants, Nick Fioretti and Peter Delise, both wrestled for SWR. In...

01.21.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: Grathwohl, 9 points shy of 1,000, fouls out early

Before the opening tip-off, Lucas Grigonis confessed to a feeling of unease. The small Smithtown Christian School gym, with its loud fans seated so close to the basketball court...

01.20.2020 Sports

Boys Winter Track: Southold’s Latham, Torrento are good motivators

Southold/Greenport sprinters Kenny Latham and Jorge Torrento are like a mini-team within a team, making each other better. The two seniors employ dramatically different motivational techniques, too. To explain...

01.18.2020 Sports

Girls Winter Track: Mattituck 4×200 team races to league title

In recent years, the 4×200-meter relay team had been the pride and joy of the Mattituck High School girls winter track team. For a good deal of this season,...

01.17.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball Notebook: Tuckers off to a great start

The Mattituck High School boys basketball team had won its first 12 games this season before its 102-68 loss to undefeated Center Moriches Tuesday night. “It’s the best start...

01.15.2020 Sports

Wrestling: Tuckers pin down share of league title

The Mattituck/Greenport/Southold wrestling team isn’t built for dual meets, but that hasn’t stopped the Tuckers from winning a league dual-meet championship. Mattituck clinched at least a share of the...

01.15.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: Allen nets 41 for Mattituck in clash of unbeatens, cousins

When they were youngsters, the two cousins played basketball together. On Tuesday night, Mattituck’s Xavier Allen and Center Moriches’ Ahkee Anderson played against each other in a clash of...

01.14.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball Notebook: Carr’s chairman of the boards for Southold

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Southold’s 50-38 non-league boys basketball win at Port Jefferson Monday night was Nick Carr’s rebounding. Carr came down with one rebound after another...

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