01.18.2022 Sports Wrestling: Two SWR wrestlers surpass century mark Pain is part of the game. Anyone who knows wrestling knows that. Still, there is pain, and then there is excruciating pain. The tale can now be told. It has...
01.11.2022 Sports Omicron variant aside, high school winter sports seem to remain relatively healthy High school winter sports are still in play. And it sounds as if it may remain that way. That doesn’t mean the COVID-19 omicron variant isn’t having an effect...
01.07.2022 Sports 2021 Sports Person of the Year: The Riverhead athlete Riverhead student-athletes may have never faced as much adversity and as daunting a challenge as they have during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s saying something: Riverhead interscholastic sports can be...
12.29.2021 Sports Sports Desk: As life remained far from normal, sports lifted spirits in 2021 For all the historic trauma the world has been through with the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 represented hope. Hope that things will get better. Hope that life would move a...
12.21.2021 Sports Wrestling: Riverhead counts on its ‘program guys’ The correlation between hard training and winning wrestling matches is a direct one. There’s no substitute for sweat equity. In other words, a wrestler gets out of the sport...
12.19.2021 Sports SWR student-athletes honored for college selections Lacrosse was once again the predominant sport at Shoreham-Wading River’s college athletic signing ceremony. A total of 13 student-athletes were honored recently for their college selections and eight of...
12.19.2021 Sports Suffolk’s winter track teams head back indoors High school boys and girls winter track in Suffolk County is back on track — indoors. An insurance issue between Section XI, Suffolk’s interscholastic sports governing body, and Suffolk...
12.18.2021 Sports After missed season a year ago, Riverhead cheerleaders don’t lose a step The clock was ticking as soon as the Riverhead cheerleaders got their full competition team together during November tryouts. In past years, the team begins preparing for its competitive...
12.17.2021 Sports Boys Basketball: Riverhead’s slow start leads to unhappy ending It was a magical four-minute spell to close out the third quarter. Riverhead was energized and so was its home crowd. The Blue Waves’ pressure defense was forcing turnovers...
12.15.2021 Sports Section XI working toward agreement to return indoor track and field meets to SCCC Suffolk County’s high school boys and girls winter track teams are without an indoor home, having been left out in the cold by an insurance issue with Suffolk County...
12.14.2021 Sports Girls Basketball: Waves are getting better, 1% at a time Some might look at the project of bouncing back from the sort of adversity the Riverhead High School girls basketball team has faced — and continues to face —...
12.11.2021 Sports Girls Winter Track: Lightning stops SWR’s opening outdoor meet A high school girls winter track meet held outdoors. An outdoor track marked off for indoor events such as the 55-meter hurdles and 1,000 meters. The first two events,...
12.08.2021 Sports Boys Basketball: SWR falls behind early in loss against Mattituck A hot shooting first quarter propelled Mattituck to a non-league victory against Shoreham-Wading River Tuesday night. The Tuckers raced out to a 25-9 first quarter advantage en route to...
12.07.2021 Sports New Wildcat Wrestling Center unveiled as SWR seeks to defend county title Joe Condon was understandably skeptical when he first heard about a plan to relocate the Shoreham-Wading River wrestling team’s gym to a new space. For a storied program, the...
11.30.2021 Sports Boys Basketball: SWR pulls away from Southold in opener Shoreham-Wading River was a changed basketball team after halftime of its season-opening game Monday night. SWR will be a different team yet again by the time it plays its...
