05.05.2020 COVID-19 Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League cancels 2020 season The Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League will not play ball in 2020. The league’s 13th season will have to wait until next year. On Monday afternoon the HCBL announced that...
04.02.2020 COVID-19 Local Little Leagues determined to play ball in 2020 This is ordinarily a big time of the year for Little Leagues, but these are not ordinary times. Little Leagues have been stopped by something much bigger: COVID-19. Under...
03.17.2020 COVID-19 Shock, relief mix for college athletes after abrupt end to NCAA season It’s hard to imagine any athlete never having heard, “Play every game like it’s your last.” That phrase took on added meaning last week when the coronavirus pandemic shut...
03.11.2020 Sports Baseball: Sun shines on O’Sullivan’s first day as Mattituck’s new coach A new era of Mattituck High School baseball — the first day of the Dan O’Sullivan era — began Monday in splendid sunshine and calm weather that saw temperatures...
12.30.2019 Sports Top Sports Stories 2019: Changing of the guard at Mattituck baseball The Mattituck High School baseball team underwent a changing of the guard in 2019. Steve DeCaro, who had coached the Tuckers for 16 years, compiling a 238-139-1 record, with...
12.02.2019 Sports Challenger Division to provide opportunity for kids with special needs A video of an Iowa wrestler pinning his opponent went viral last week as media outlets like ESPN shared the heartwarming moment. The student has cerebral palsy and his...
07.14.2019 Sports Baseball: Tardif relishes moment to play in HCBL all-star game When he wasn’t mowing down batters on the mound during his high school career at Mattituck, Joe Tardif was tracking down balls in center field for the Tuckers. As...
05.29.2019 Sports Baseball: Center Moriches sweeps Tuckers in finals Gene Rochler’s marriage came to an end Wednesday. Well, one of his marriages did. Married to baseball coaching — as well as his wife, Nancy — for 40 years,...
05.28.2019 Sports Baseball: Center Moriches powers past Mattituck in Game 1 of county finals The road to the Suffolk County Class B title has run squarely through two schools in recent years: Mattituck and Center Moriches. Since 2014, the Tuckers have won three...
05.21.2019 Sports Baseball: Tuesday just wasn’t Mattituck’s day Gliding on the air currents high above the Mattituck High School varsity baseball field, a turkey vulture was scanning the scene for an easy meal. Meanwhile, down below, Babylon...
