Girls Basketball Notebook: Mattituck’s defense gets job done
The way basketball coaches see it, there’s no defense for not playing defense. A player’s shooting touch can come and go, they reason, but defense is about effort. There was no question the defense —...
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Girls Basketball: St. Anthony’s transfer gives Porters shot in the arm
The purple sneakers Gianna Santacroce wore were a perfect match for the purple, gold and white uniform of her new high school girls basketball team, Greenport/Southold. “I did not coordinate it,...
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Girls Basketball: Demirciyan, Santacroce lead Porters into finals of playoff...
When the entire high school sports landscape shut down last spring, Adrine Demirciyan never slowed down. The dynamic Greenport/Southold guard kept training to improve her game and prepare for an...
View ArticleFall sports make their winter start
Fall has arrived! Well, in actuality, it’s still winter, but in terms of Long Island’s rejuggled high school sports calendar, Monday was the first day of the fall sports season. “We’ve been waiting...
View ArticleSound View looks to add new signage as traffic calming work continues
The owners of the Sound View hotel and Halyard restaurant in Greenport are looking to install three new signs to help drivers better identify the property, where roadwork has been ongoing as part of a...
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Field Hockey: Porters goalie stellar in county final loss
Dylan Reilly didn’t have to be a soothsayer to expect to see a lot of shots headed her way in the Suffolk County Class C field hockey final Monday evening. The Greenport/Southold goalie has been...
View ArticleGirls Basketball: Port Jeff snaps Porters’ 9-game win streak
Sometimes shots don’t go down and teams lose. It happens, as sure as a Lola Idir three-point shot. Greenport/Southold’s girls basketball team lost Monday. By gosh, it’s been a while. In fact, it was...
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Girls Basketball: Patient Porters claim their first county title in 33 years
If the Greenport/Southold girls basketball team has one thing, it’s patience. In spite of a snail’s-pace start to Saturday’s Suffolk County Class B final in which the two teams combined for a...
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Girls Basketball: Defense reigns as Porters fall to Port Jefferson
Points were at a premium as both high school girls basketball teams ratcheted up their defense. It was to be expected, though, this being the playoffs. You know what they say about defense and...
View ArticleGirls Basketball: Locust Valley’s win streak doesn’t intimidate Porters
So, Locust Valley it is. As to be expected, that will be Greenport/Southold’s opponent in the Long Island Class B girls basketball final Wednesday at Shoreham-Wading River High School. Yes, that...
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Girls Basketball: Locust Valley brings too much for Porters to handle
When the fourth quarter began Wednesday, Greenport/Southold’s best player, Adrine Demirciyan, wasn’t on the basketball court. The senior was standing behind the team bench, sobbing in the arms of...
View ArticleGirls Volleyball: Santacroce serves up a winner for Porters
Bits and pieces of Hannah Santacroce may be found on volleyball courts throughout Suffolk County League VIII. That’s the way the Greenport/Southold setter plays in the team’s 5-1 system. Santacroce...
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Field Hockey: Reilly has been stellar in goal for Porters
Dylan Reilly doesn’t mind seeing a lot of shots come her way. That’s a good thing because the Greenport/Southold goalie is being kept busy this season. “The more shots, the more practice, the better I...
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Girls Volleyball: Tuckers feel at home at Cutchogue East
When a tornado tore through Mattituck Sept. 25 and damaged the roof over the high school gym, the Mattituck girls volleyball team was left homeless. Not for long, though. The Tuckers fortunately had...
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Field Hockey: Porters break goal drought on emotional Senior Day
Emotions are funny things. One can’t always predict how he or she is going to feel about something until it happens. Sometimes a person thinks those emotions can be controlled and then the emotions...
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Field Hockey: Reilly’s spectacular with 33 saves in county final defeat
“Save, Dylan Reilly!” Those words were announced time and time again over the public-address system at Newfield High School’s Nick DeCillis Field during Saturday’s Suffolk County Class C field hockey...
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Girls Basketball: McFarland leads Porters to victory over Southampton
It was the Brienna McFarland show at Greenport High School Friday night and she put on her best performance to date. After a sluggish first half in which Greenport/Southold trailed Southampton by...
View ArticleGreenport’s new mayor and trustees take office Monday
Incoming Greenport Village Mayor Kevin Stuessi said in an interview last week that he aims to lift restrictions on development in the village’s commercial zones by Labor Day. “My goal is to complete...
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Village moves to demolish abandoned houses
Several abandoned homes in Greenport Village have been declared public safety risks, boarded up and surrounded by fencing, after it was determined that a group of homeless people from the area were...
View ArticleSouthold Town judge lifts preliminary injunction that shuttered new Greenport...
A Southold Town justice on Wednesday vacated a preliminary injunction she had issued over the weekend that allowed Greenport Village to shut down a restaurant which the mayor said was in violation of...
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