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11.08.2022 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Mattituck falls in decisive fifth set of county final, ending Massa’s 36-year career

One by one, several puffy-eyed members of the Mattituck girls’ volleyball team solemnly walked out of Room 268 at Hauppauge High School on Monday night. The two-time defending champions...

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...

10.13.2022 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...

11.20.2021 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Tuckers find fun, but no wins in Glens Falls

If you can’t beat them, well, just roll with it and have fun. That seemed to be Mattituck’s attitude in pool play Saturday in the New York State Public...

11.13.2021 Sports

Girls Volleyball: LI champ Tuckers punch ticket to Glens Falls

Next stop: Glens Falls. The Mattituck girls volleyball team will reach its ultimate destination, Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls for the New York State Public High School Athletic...

11.04.2021 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Wild comeback caps Tuckers’ 10th county title

“Brush it off.” That’s the saying the Mattituck girls volleyball team uses when it makes a mistake or hits a rough patch. “If you’re in like a bad mood...

10.11.2021 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Tuckers have a lot at stake next two matches

Don’t look too far ahead. It’s an old coaching cliché and sound advice, except for one thing: Sometimes it can be so difficult not to look ahead. In the case of...

04.24.2021 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Mattituck’s ‘cool cats’ earn a ‘C’

The shirts that the Mattituck High School girls volleyball players wear during warmups are unorthodox. They are T-shirts with the words “Cool Cats & Kittens” emblazoned on them along...

04.03.2021 Sports

Girls Volleyball: Young’s 15 assists, Foster’s 14 kills push Mattituck to victory

It’s a volleyball question for which there may be no simple answer: Who benefits more in a setter/hitter relationship? Perhaps there isn’t an either/or answer. It’s a symbiotic relationship....

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