02.16.2022 Sports Boys Basketball: Greenport’s sad ending comes with tears When the end comes, it’s hard. There’s really no way to predict how one is going to feel when it’s time to say goodbye to players, to a team....
02.12.2022 Sports Boys Basketball: Ex-Settler coaches Pierson to playoff win over alma mater Pierson has a way of giving its basketball-playing opponents a whale of a difficult time. The Whalers are deadeye shooters, tenacious rebounders, ball-hawking defenders who seemingly pick off passes...
02.15.2020 Sports Boys Basketball: Grathwohl’s three-pointer lifts Southold to thrilling Class C county title “I got this.” Those were the words Southold senior guard Nick Grathwohl said to his teammates during a timeout with 11 seconds left in the Suffolk County Class C...
01.16.2019 Sports Boys Basketball: Jude Swann’s career-high 41 points gives him 1,000 Jude Swann must feel as if he had won the lottery twice. Once again, his magic number came up: 1,000. Within a span of nine days, Swann collected his...
12.27.2018 Sports Boys Basketball: Mattituck’s X-Man is spot on X marks the spot. The spot just happened to be the cylinder of the basket, and Xavier Allen was spot on with his shooting.
02.16.2017 Sports Girls Basketball: Southold’s season of resurgence comes to end There will be plenty of outstanding memories for the members of this year’s Southold/Greenport girls basketball team. There was the playoff-clinching victory over The Stony Brook School last Saturday....
02.08.2017 Sports Boys Basketball: Porters clinch League VIII title outright One by one, the Greenport High School boys basketball team players and coaches climbed up the purple ladder in the school gymnasium at the basket on the south end...
01.05.2016 Sports Boys Basketball: Porters are burned by Pierson’s red-hot shooting It was freezing outside the Greenport High School gym, with temperatures dropping in the 20s. Inside the gym, Pierson’s boys basketball team was on fire.
01.05.2016 Sports Boys Basketball: Good luck finding a seat on this bench It made for an unusual sight last month when Southold settled in for a non-league boys basketball game at Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan High School. What was so strange about...
01.02.2016 Sports Boys Basketball: First Settlers start new year with a loss The emergence of Greg Gehring revitalized Southold’s offense and gave the First Settlers a high school boys basketball tournament title over the holiday break. But not even Gehring’s inspired play,...
