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05.09.2020 COVID-19

High school seniors feel pain of lost spring season

While home in quarantine, Mattituck High School baseball player Emmet Ryan was watching “Moneyball,” the 2011 film about the Oakland Athletics and their former general manager, Billy Beane, currently...

05.05.2020 COVID-19

Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League cancels 2020 season

The Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League will not play ball in 2020. The league’s 13th season will have to wait until next year. On Monday afternoon the HCBL announced that...

05.01.2020 COVID-19

Tribute planned to honor high school senior athletes at 8:20 p.m. Friday

School districts across Suffolk County are planning a tribute Friday night to honor the high school student-athletes who lost out on their final senior seasons. The theme is “Turn...

04.30.2020 COVID-19

Riverhead Raceway cancels all events for May, faces uncertain future for rest of season

Another sports casualty of COVID-19 was announced Wednesday morning. Federal and state restrictions put into place because of the coronavirus pandemic prompted Riverhead Raceway to cancel all of its...

04.21.2020 COVID-19

Section XI officially cancels high school spring sports season

The novel coronavirus pandemic has taken another victim: the spring high school sports season. What some had expected and feared has transpired. The spring season for high school sports...

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04.19.2020 COVID-19

Waiting game to decide fate of 13th Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League season

The waiting game continues. Watch and wait. That’s the name of the game for the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League these days. The HCBL’s 13th season is scheduled to start...

04.16.2020 Sports

Riverhead’s arguably best girls lacrosse team may never get to play

Expectations and hopes were sky high. Big things were foreseen for the Riverhead High School girls lacrosse team in 2020. Even on the final day of the 2019 season,...

04.09.2020 Sports

Girls Track and Field: Yakaboski will run for Lehigh

Through her reading as a freshman, Christina Yakaboski recalled coming across the famous line, or a variation of it, penned by Scottish poet Robert Burns in the 1700s: “The...

04.02.2020 COVID-19

Local Little Leagues determined to play ball in 2020

This is ordinarily a big time of the year for Little Leagues, but these are not ordinary times. Little Leagues have been stopped by something much bigger: COVID-19. Under...

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...

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