06.18.2020 COVID-19 Summer season in ‘holding pattern’ for North Fork Little League Baseball is coming back. At least for some leagues. Regardless of whether Major League Baseball sees the field again this year, some Little Leagues will. The Riverhead Little League...
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...
05.24.2019 Sports Softball: Mattituck freshman tosses 2-hitter in playoff win As far as two-hitters go, it wasn’t as smooth as Lilly Fogarty would have liked, but a two-hitter is still a two-hitter.
04.30.2019 Sports Softball: Picture this, a farewell to a field One might have mistaken Senior Day for Photo Day for the Mattituck High School softball team.
04.15.2019 Sports Softball: Fogarty comes armed with resiliency Lilly Fogarty’s word for the year in 2018 was “opportunity.” As an eighth-grader last season, the pitcher took her opportunities when she could get them, and even got a...
04.01.2019 Sports Softball: Babylon’s no joke; just ask Mattituck It was April Fools’ Day, but the Babylon High School softball team was no joke. Neither is Mattituck’s slugger, Jaden Thompson.
03.15.2019 Sports Softball Preview: Mattituck has quality, if not quantity Quality is what really counts, not necessarily quantity. “As long as nobody gets hurt,” Kim Gerstung hastened to add. No injuries would be a good thing for Gerstung and...
05.23.2018 Sports Softball: Mercy’s final season brings its first county title Bishop McGann-Mercy is going out like a champion. In all its years, Mercy had never won a county championship in softball before — until Wednesday, that is.
05.21.2018 Sports Softball: Southold drops close one in Game 1 Here’s a Penny for your thoughts. One of the thoughts preceding the opener to the Suffolk County Class C softball finals Monday was that this one could get ugly....
05.03.2018 Sports Softball: Southold headed back to playoffs After reaching the high school softball playoffs last season for the first time in 20 years, Southold/Greenport is headed back again. The First Settlers clinched a postseason berth Thursday...