03.22.2020 COVID-19 Free, discounted rounds of golf offer a way to beat the quarantine blues A golf course is a place where someone can go outside for a breath of fresh air and find peace … while adhering to social distancing, of course. During...
03.17.2020 COVID-19 Shock, relief mix for college athletes after abrupt end to NCAA season It’s hard to imagine any athlete never having heard, “Play every game like it’s your last.” That phrase took on added meaning last week when the coronavirus pandemic shut...
03.13.2020 COVID-19 Coronavirus concerns put sports on hold The intersection of real life and sports has turned March madness into March sadness. From professional sports to college games, right down to athletics at the high school and...
03.10.2020 Sports Girls Track and Field: Garcia runs her fastest 3,000 at state meet One runner is faster than the next at the New York State Indoor Track and Field Championships. No slowpokes here. The fastest even make the others faster. A personal...
03.09.2020 Sports Girls Track and Field: Deraveniere puts nervous energy to good use So much of this all was new to Kristina Deraveniere. A big track and field meet, the biggest of her young life. A jam-packed arena. Medals and prestige —...
03.08.2020 Sports Track and Field: Parker expands his medal collection Tyreek Parker has two shiny new additions to his medal collection. The Riverhead High School senior has won some nice medals before, but the two newest additions wrapped around...
03.07.2020 Sports Boys Track and Field: Wehr medals in state high jump So, where was Wehr at? There were two answers to that question Saturday. Moments after Blake Wehr had finished competing in the high jump in the New York State...
03.04.2020 Sports Wrestling: SWR’s Jablonski grabs fifth at state tournament Emerging from a tunnel and into the bright lights of Times Union Center in Albany, with several thousand screaming fans following the action on eight mats, can be mesmerizing....
03.02.2020 Sports Girls Winter Track: SWR’s Garcia doesn’t tire from challenges Nicole Garcia will be busy Saturday at the state indoor track and field championships. She will run two events covering 4,500 meters that day at the Ocean Breeze Athletic...
03.01.2020 Sports Boys Winter Track: SWR’s Wehr wins high jump at LI Elite Meet Before Blake Wehr had even come close to his first day as a track and field athlete two years ago, he approached Shoreham-Wading River coach Joe Mordarski and made...
03.01.2020 Sports Boys Winter Track: Riverhead’s Parker hurdles to first at LI Elite Meet Compared to the short time it took to complete the 55-meter hurdles final, the seconds spent immediately afterward waiting for the results to be posted on the St. Anthony’s...
02.28.2020 Sports Girls Winter Track: Deraveniere makes her mark in 600 Kristina Deraveniere remembers as an eighth-grader walking by the Riverhead High School track and field record board every day. The numbers that caught her eye were for the school...
02.27.2020 Sports Boys Winter Track: Riverhead’s Parker hurdles over obstacles In one sense, Tyreek Parker looked like a natural to be a hurdler, with his athleticism and speed. In another sense, though, he was an unlikely hurdling candidate. His...
02.26.2020 Sports Koretzki, Szymanski have HOF connections Slowly, but surely, a theme emerged during the press conference that introduced the 2020 class of the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame at Watermill Caterers in Smithtown on...
02.24.2020 Sports Wrestling: The word is Jablonski’s ready Whoever, whatever awaits Craig Jablonski at the New York State Public High School Athletic Association wrestling championships this week, he’ll be ready. That’s the sense one gets after talking...
