Field Hockey Preview: New Porters coach sees big picture
Kaitlin Daniels is looking at the big picture. It isn’t a win-loss record she is most concerned about heading into her first season as the Greenport/Southold high school field hockey coach. What...
View ArticleGirls Volleyball Preview: Tuckers loaded with experience
The final, lasting — and amazing, really — images of Mattituck’s 2016 high school girls volleyball season are of the Tuckers trading blows and going toe to toe with perennial power Elwood/John Glenn...
View ArticleBoys Golf Preview: Mattituck coach sees ‘wide open’ race
If the Mattituck High School boys golf team is to be dethroned, this might be the year. Maybe. Returning only two players from its lineup, this might be the year for Mattituck (12-1 last year) to...
View ArticleGirls Volleyball: With Porters, just about everything is new
You know that new car smell? Greenport/Southold has a new volleyball smell. Evidence of that newness is seen from the new gym floor on the Porters’ home court at Greenport High School to the school’s...
View ArticleField Hockey: Porters’ new goalie is learning on job
Playing as a field hockey goalkeeper wasn’t on Ella Mazzaferro’s radar before this year. “I was completely against it in junior high,” she said. “I was like, ‘I’m not doing this.’ ” The recruiting...
View ArticleField Hockey: Porters snap drought with six goals
The drought ended, the dam burst and a torrent of goals flooded in. Who would have thought? Perhaps not even the players on the Greenport/Southold high school field hockey team themselves could have...
View ArticleGirls Volleyball: First win still eludes Porters
What may be the longest road trip in Suffolk County high school sports continues. The Bishop McGann-Mercy girls volleyball team is a team without a home. Because of work being done in Mercy’s gym, the...
View ArticleBoys Winter Track: Pasko, not feeling his best, takes second in 55
As with just about any sprinter, Max Pasko felt he could have run faster. However, there were extenuating circumstances. The Greenport/Southold sophomore has been dealing with shin splints and...
View ArticleGirls Winter Track: Mattituck relay team races to league title
Before Bella Masotti had even been handed the baton for the second leg of the 4×200-meter relay, she had already handled quite a workload in the Suffolk County League V Championships Sunday. The...
View ArticleBoys Track and Field: Nyilas, Demchak lead Tuckers
The new Mattituck High School boys track and field coach, Kris Ocker, knows there are no shortcuts in the sport. A direct correlation can be made between training and performance. “Track is tough,...
View ArticleGirls Track and Field: Dinizio leads charge for Mattituck
This has been a good run for the Mattituck High School girls track and field team. Coach Chris Robinson sees no reason for it to end just yet. Mattituck ran through all six of its Suffolk County League...
View ArticleGirls Track and Field: Race walker can twirl baton, too
When she first tried the event, Blayr Corazzini was like many who knew little or nothing about the 1,500-meter race walk. Walking? Anyone who can walk can race walk, right? Er, not really. It was...
View ArticleGirls Track and Field: Tuckers qualify for finals
Two Mattituck High School girls qualified for the finals in individual events as did one of the school’s relay teams Monday in the track and field division championships at Connetquot High School....
View ArticleTrack and Field: Mattituck’s Lake wins 400-meter hurdles
Mattituck senior Justin Lake claimed first place in the 400-meter hurdles in the two-day boys division championships that concluded last Thursday at Hampton Bays High School. Lake won the Division III...
View ArticleTrack and Field: Relay team’s secret is in handoffs
Handoffs may be the Mattituck High School girls 4 x 100-meter relay team’s greatest strength. That’s ironic because a handoff nightmare spelled the end of its season last year. Because of a handoff...
View ArticleField Hockey: Porters have a lot of new faces
Brittany Walker, the longest-serving member of the Greenport/Southold high school field hockey team, must have looked around at the start of the team’s first preseason practice on Monday morning and...
View ArticleField Hockey Preview: Daniels looks beyond W-L record
Kaitlin Daniels is looking at the bigger picture. The Greenport/Southold high school field hockey coach judges success by more than a win-loss record. For her, the team’s improvement and the growth of...
View ArticleGirls Volleyball Preview: Tuckers return to Class C
The Mattituck High School girls volleyball team is back in Class C. The Tuckers must be A-OK with that, no? “Can I tell you at the end of the year?” coach Frank Massa answered. “No, I’m generally OK...
View ArticleBoys Golf Preview: Champion Tuckers remain intact
Last year coach Paul Ellwood described his Mattituck High School boys golf team as being “super young.” Well, the Tuckers grew up awfully quickly. With only two returning players from the previous...
View ArticleGirls Volleyball: Porters get a taste of victory
Winning high school girls volleyball matches is a learned behavior, something Greenport/Southold has been working at in recent years. That work finally came to fruition on Sept. 7 when Greenport...
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