Bob Liepa, Author at The Suffolk Times

11.03.2022 Columns

Sports Desk: After 30 years, it’s time to say goodbye

Driving along a winding highway through the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York one memorable day in March of 1992, it occurred to me that the path of life...

11.03.2022 Sports

Cross Country: Mattituck’s Zappulla tops in division

Mattituck senior Trevor Zappulla was the top Division 4 finisher in the Section XI Division Championships last Thursday at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park. Zappulla completed the...

10.29.2022 Sports

Field Hockey: Reilly’s spectacular with 33 saves in county final defeat

“Save, Dylan Reilly!” Those words were announced time and time again over the public-address system at Newfield High School’s Nick DeCillis Field during Saturday’s Suffolk County Class C field...

10.28.2022 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Pierson runs into a Mattituck wall

Blocking hard-hit volleyballs is a big part of Sofia Knudsen’s job. It’s not easy. Sometimes she finds it can be downright scary putting herself in harm’s way. “I usually...

10.20.2022 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Massa’s final season comes with league title

Several years ago, Mattituck girls volleyball coach Frank Massa made a promise to some eighth-graders who were trying to decide on what sport to play in high school. As...

10.14.2022 Sports

Field Hockey: Porters break goal drought on emotional Senior Day

Emotions are funny things. One can’t always predict how he or she is going to feel about something until it happens. Sometimes a person thinks those emotions can be...

10.13.2022 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Mattituck moves one step to closer to league title after win in Dig Pink match

The Mattituck girls volleyball team is in the pink. That could have been taken literally Thursday when the Tuckers donned personally decorated pink shirts with names and uniform numbers...

10.10.2022 Sports

Boys Soccer: Compressed schedule keeps Southold busy

There was no rest for the weary. That goes for Southold’s overworked defense in particular as well as the First Settlers in general over the final stretch of the...

10.06.2022 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Tuckers feel at home at Cutchogue East

When a tornado tore through Mattituck Sept. 25 and damaged the roof over the high school gym, the Mattituck girls volleyball team was left homeless. Not for long, though....

10.03.2022 Sports

Boys Soccer: McKenna gets passing grade for his assists

If a player on the Mattituck boys soccer team is looking for a helping hand — or, perhaps more accurately, a helping foot — the player providing that assistance...

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