08.01.2011 Sports Flashback: Cats Claw MacArthur for L.I. Title This story was originally published in the June 11, 1992 issue of the Riverhead News-Review after the Shoreham-Wading River softball team won the Class B Long Island Championship. It...
08.01.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: At Miller Place, scoring goals became routine for Panasci, Wojcik Melissa Panasci’s father, Sam, didn’t know the first thing about the intricacies of field hockey. But he knew his daughter loved to play the game. So nearly every day...
07.31.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #18: Alicia Conquest’s surname says it all Alicia Conquest played basketball Tuesday. Now 35 years old and teaching in West Philadelphia, the former Longwood basketball great laced ‘em up for a friendly game with other members...
07.31.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Kaczmarski’s forgotten season at Longwood Alicia Conquest is largely considered the greatest Longwood High School girls basketball player. Cheri Eleazer is the school’s all-time leading scorer. But neither of those All-Long Island players would...
07.30.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #19: Gymnastics all in the family for Judge The memory of exactly how the news trickled down to JoAnna Judge has since faded away. As most information spreads these days, it probably came from Facebook; soon after...
07.30.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Quarter-century later, Southold’s O’Brien still Suffolk scoring king Bob Feger still has the old Suffolk Times stories from the Southold boys soccer team’s state championships in 1984 and 1985 hanging on his wall. Then a newcomer to...
07.29.2011 Sports Greatest Athletes #20: Edwards, Creighton forever linked Al Edwards and Ryan Creighton. Ryan Creighton and Al Edwards. The names are inextricably linked in Greenport High School boys basketball history. Not only are they the Porters’ top...
07.29.2011 Sports Flashback: THE shot … Edwards breaks record This excerpt is from a story originally published in the March 12, 1971 edition of The Suffolk Times, days after Al Edwards set the Suffolk County boys basketball scoring...
07.29.2011 Sports Flashback: Creighton is scoring king This story was originally published Feb. 19, 2009, the week Ryan Creighton became Long Island’s all-time leading boys basketball scorer: The gold-colored sheets of construction paper were numbered from...
07.29.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Latney leads a stellar cast of ballers While Al Edwards and Ryan Creighton are the only two local boys basketball players to crack our list of the 20 Greatest Athletes in area history, there is actually...