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08.03.2020 Sports

Riverhead Raceway: Rogers first in Modified opener

It may have come three months later than expected because of COVID-19, but opening night Saturday found anticipation and excitement in the air at Riverhead Raceway. When the checker...

07.29.2020 Sports

SWR’s Cutinella returns to state committee

Shoreham-Wading River High School junior Carlie Cutinella will return as a member of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for the 2020-21 school...

07.27.2020 Sports

Racing returns to Riverhead Raceway with Super Sunday Enduro Series

The longest offseason in Riverhead Raceway’s 70-year history came to an end. The track ushered in its 2020 season with a Super Sunday Enduro Series program. Former Street Stock...

07.25.2020 COVID-19

Baseball: Riverhead Little League says, ‘Play ball!’

Even back during the darker days of the COVID-19 crisis in New York, Riverhead Little League’s leadership had remained steadfast in its conviction that, one way or another, it...

07.17.2020 Sports

Wrestling: Anderson honored for award-winner character

The Thomas Fehmel Memorial Scholarship is normally presented in an auditorium in front of a large number of people. But these aren’t normal times. So, it was a more...

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07.16.2020 COVID-19

Start of fall high school sports season pushed back to late September

The earliest high school sports will resume in New York is Sept. 21, according to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. The decision to delay the...

07.13.2020 Sports

With season canceled, wood bat tournament gave SWR seniors one last chance to play ball together

When it was over, the Shoreham-Wading River baseball players tipped their caps to their counterparts from Hauppauge. Sure, it was thoroughly deserved, but it was also part of the...

07.11.2020 COVID-19

Baseball in fall? Football in spring? COVID-19 Task Force outlines scenarios for sports to resume

The waiting game remains, but that doesn’t mean state athletic officials haven’t set about trying to figure out a game plan for high school athletics in the coming school...

07.03.2020 Sports

News-Review honors 2019-20 Athletes of the Year

Winning an athlete of the year award is a special achievement, but to win it twice is really nice. Shoreham-Wading River senior Xavier Arline and Mattituck senior Mackenzie Hoeg...

07.03.2020 Sports

Athletes of the Year: The complete list

The following is a listing of all The Riverhead News-Review Athletes of the Year winners since the award was initiated 36 years ago: 2019-20: Christina Yakaboski (Riverhead), Albert Daniels...

07.02.2020 Sports

Hall of Fame induction ceremony pushed back to 2021

Wait till next year. That is what the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame will do. For the second time in three-plus months, the Hall of Fame has rescheduled the...

06.30.2020 Sports

Girls Soccer: SWR receives state championship rings

By popular demand, the patient Shoreham-Wading River High School girls soccer team finally received its state championship rings. Those rings had been sitting in coach Adrian Gilmore’s basement since...

06.20.2020 COVID-19

Riverhead Raceway announces plans to start its 70th season later this summer

The familiar roar of the engines, a soundtrack to Saturday evenings in Riverhead, will return this summer. Riverhead Raceway announced that racing will resume in July, with the first...

06.18.2020 COVID-19

Riverhead Little League will play ball in 2020 after governor announced some sports can resume

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...

06.14.2020 COVID-19

Low-risk youth sports can resume in early July, governor announces

Low-risk youth sports have been given the green light to resume next month in New York for regions in Phase 3 of the NY Forward reopening plan, Gov. Andrew...

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