Shoreham-Wading River’s postseason adventure has come to an end, and it took a high school girls basketball team similar in style to the Wildcats to end it.
Harborfields plays a relentless, pressure defense.
Sound familiar?
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It took a while for the Shoreham-Wading River High School girls soccer team to get rolling on Tuesday, but once the Wildcats did, they were difficult to stop. READ
Steve Wiendler, carrying the ball forward, collected 10 ground balls and an assist for Shoreham-Wading River in its season-opening win over Harborfields. (Credit: Garret Meade)
WILDCATS 18, TORNADOES 9
The game ball from the Shoreham-Wading River High School boys lacrosse team’s first game of the season didn’t go to anyone who scored a goal, made a pass or dug up a ground ball. It didn’t even go to a player holding a stick.
After the Wildcats handed Harborfields a sound 18-9 thumping on Thursday, one of their assistant coaches, Dan Luciano, presented the ball to Mike Taylor, who made his debut as a varsity coach.
“Hey, it’s your first varsity win,” Taylor recalls Luciano telling him. “You got to take the game ball.”
Shoreham-Wading River’s Shannon Rosati looks for an opening in Harborfields’ defense during Wednesday night’s county semifinal. (Robert O’Rourk photo)
SUFFOLK COUNTY CLASS A SEMIFINAL | TORNADOES 58, WILDCATS 46
Shoreham-Wading River made top-seeded Harborfields sweat for most of the game, but fell short in pulling off a major upset in a Suffolk County Class A girls basketball semifinal on Wednesday night.
The No. 4 Wildcats dropped a 58-46 decision in Greenlawn. (more…)
