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Girls Basketball: Read, Gehring return to Mercy, leave disappointed
December 12, 2013
Boys Basketball: Mercy wins game made memorable by its oddness
December 12, 2013
Track & Field: Riverhead girls eye another 4 x 800 title
December 11, 2013
Education
Common Core math homework causes frustration in Riverhead
December 10, 2013
Early dismissal at SWR; Riverhead after school activities cancelled
December 10, 2013
School board considering direct deposit mandate
December 10, 2013
Business
Economic development awards: Who's getting money on the North Fork
December 11, 2013
Fire on the water? Town seeking grants to make it happen
December 9, 2013
Editorial: Shop locally this holiday season
December 6, 2013
Community
Suffolk County Historical Society offering grants to local groups
December 11, 2013
BOCES students raise funds for Kent Animal Shelter
December 10, 2013
Town to dedicate gazebo to former finance administrator
December 10, 2013
Obituaries
William DeWitt Titterton
December 10, 2013
Janet Pelosi
December 10, 2013
Arthur T. Schoedel
December 10, 2013
Real Estate
Real Estate Transfers
December 10, 2013
Real Estate: Preparing your yard for the deep freeze
December 1, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
November 24, 2013
Opinion
Letter: Why shop anywhere but local this year?
December 8, 2013
Column: Riverhead’s rich tradition of silly news
December 8, 2013
Editorial: Shop locally this holiday season
December 6, 2013
Baseball
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Baseball: Pimentel’s no-hitter is SWR’s second in nine days
Kevin Pimentel had an arm in the Shoreham-Wading River baseball team’s second no-hitter in nine days on Wednesday. The junior tossed a no-hitter in a 4-0 win over visiting Elwood/John Glenn. Pimentel had eight strikeouts and four walks, according to msgvarsity.com. On April 16, Pimentel shared a no-hitter with Brian Klemfuss in...
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Two SWR pitchers team up for no-hitter
WILDCATS 20, WARRIORS 0 In the Shoreham-Wading River bullpen, there's an expectation for every pitcher to be ready whenever his number may be called. On Tuesday, with the Wildcats facing the weakest team in the league, coach Sal Mignano planned to limit starter Keven Pimentel to leave open the possibility of...
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Baseball: Mercy feels full blast of Mattituck offense
TUCKERS 12, MONARCHS 2 Bats can do a lot of damage, especially in the hands of the Mattituck Tuckers. Any doubt about that? Look at what Mattituck did on Tuesday when it opened its three-game League VIII baseball series against Bishop McGann-Mercy: 15 hits, two home runs (one from the No. 9...
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Baseball: Another game, another no-hitter for Crohan
BLUE WAVES 4, COUGARS 0 Riverhead coach Rob Maccone stepped out of the dugout for a brief moment during the fifth inning Tuesday against Centereach. When he walked back toward the bench, the Riverhead fielders were already jogging back into the dugout. "That was the inning?" Maccone said incredulously. When senior Matt Crohan is...
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Baseball: Monarchs have another Pascale who hits, too
With a new position, a good deal of pressure and responsibility has been placed on Marco Pascale’s shoulders. Then again, it shouldn’t be anything that Pascale cannot handle. Following in the footsteps of his older brother, Rocco, one of the best hitters the Bishop McGann-Mercy baseball team had seen in its...
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Preview: Opening day for local baseball season
His team a year older and a year wiser, Riverhead High School baseball coach Rob Maccone hopes the experience his returnees accrued will boost the Blue Waves into the playoffs. Riverhead (8-12) missed the postseason by three games last year. “The experience they got last year, that’s a big plus,” Maccone said....
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EPCAL ballfields to be named for fallen Wading River soldiers
A pair of new ballfields at the Enterprise Park at Calverton will be named in honor of two highly decorated Wading River soldiers who gave their lives defending their country. The Riverhead Town Board is planning to name one of the two fields at the new park after U.S. Army Sergeant...
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Hamptons Collegiate Baseball forms own league
For five summers, Hamptons Collegiate Baseball has provided baseball action to seven communities on the East End of Long Island. Another chapter will begin next summer as the organization becomes a league of its own, the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League (HCBL). The organization said earlier this month it will continue its...
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Five Riverhead athletes sign letters of intent
When the Riverhead baseball team took the field for Senior Day in the spring of 2011, all but one player in the starting lineup was a senior. On the mound, the Blue Waves handed the ball to Matt Crohan, who happened to be the only sophomore on the varsity team...
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Letters: Iron Pier handicap ramp needs to be repaired
JAMESPORT It’s about respect The Iron Pier handicap ramp to the beach is covered with sand up to the handrails and has been this way all season. After a number of calls to the recreation department and advising them of this condition, as well as handicap and disability laws, the deplorable conditions...
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Baseball: Crosser finds there is life after injury
To spectators who didn’t know better, it wasn’t anything special, just a typical baseball play, the sort that can happen several times a game. But to Joe Crosser, it was a major step forward in his recovery as a baseball player. Crosser was a baserunner at first base when a teammate...
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Sports Desk: Hamptons Collegiate Baseball has been a hit
I have to admit that when I first heard about this idea of forming a summer league for college baseball players from throughout the country who would spend their vacation months on eastern Long Island, living with host families and playing in what would be a showcase league for pro...
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Baseball: No longer a ‘big fish,’ Hansen adjusts to college ball
Shaun Hansen might be the perfect example of the big fish-little pond syndrome. During his high school playing days for the former combined Southold/Greenport baseball team and then Southold and Greenport separately, Hansen was a dominant force as both a hitter and a pitcher. He was a monster at the plate...
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Baseball: Southampton bats break down Tomcats in division finals
HAMPTON DIVISION FINALS, GAME 2 | BREAKERS 12, TOMCATS 4 In the quirky world of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League postseason, where up can be down and down can be up, playoff seedings don’t count for a heck of a lot these days. The top two seeds in the Hampton Division...
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Baseball: Tomcats drop Game One of Hamptons finals
The Riverhead Tomcats dropped Game One of their best-of-three series with the Southampton Breakers 6-2 Wednesday. The series will decide who wins the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball Division championship. You can read a recap on the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball Division's GameChanger page....
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Baseball: Tomcats sweep Shelter Island to advance in playoffs
In unison, the fans lining the field at Shelter Island High School rose to a crescendo, clapping and cheering their Bucks as they began the bottom of the ninth inning Monday. Trailing by three runs, their season on the line, the Bucks needed a miraculous inning to extend their inaugural season....
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Baseball: Tomcats visit Shelter Island when playoffs begin Monday
The Shelter Island Bucks will host a semifinals doubleheader against the Riverhead Tomcats as the postseason opens in the Hampton Collegiate Baseball Division Monday. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Fiske Memorial Field. The Bucks enter the playoffs as the No. 1 seed in just their first year. They finished...
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Baseball: Lots of possibilities when Hamptons playoffs start Monday
All the Shelter Island Bucks know for sure is that their first series in the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball playoffs will begin Monday. And even those plans can be altered by Mother Nature. As for who the Bucks will play, that won't be determined until Sunday night. What the first-place Bucks do know...
