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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...

02.15.2020 Sports

Cheerleading: Countdown ends in tears for SWR seniors

The unofficial countdown to the end of the Shoreham-Wading River cheerleading team’s season — and the high school careers of its five seniors — began a week earlier. With...

02.15.2020 Sports

Wrestling: SWR’s Jablonski secures first county title

The lights in the Center Moriches High School gym were dimmed, a spotlight hanging over the wrestling mat glared down and the announcement was made, “Ladies and gentlemen, your...

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02.13.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: It just wasn’t Riverhead’s day

With 1 minute and 42 seconds remaining in his Riverhead High School basketball career, emotions ran high for Jahquel Blount and some of his teammates. After he was taken...

02.10.2020 Sports

Girls Basketball: Korzekwinski-led SWR comes through down stretch

Every year it seems the Shoreham-Wading River High School girls basketball team endures this recurring disappointment in the Suffolk County Class A Tournament. The Wildcats would earn a playoff...

02.09.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: Sharpshooting Hauppauge takes down SWR in playoff opener

Bricks were laid when the building that houses Hauppauge High School’s neat, second-floor gym was built. However, bricks weren’t a part of the foundation for the Hauppauge boys basketball...

02.08.2020 Sports

SWR standout Xavier Arline follows his dreams to play football, lacrosse at Navy

As Xavier Arline put it, kids on Long Island are born with a lacrosse stick in their hands. That holds true in a community like Shoreham-Wading River where the...

02.07.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: Pope drains 8 treys on Riverhead’s Senior Night

Ice T for three! The basketball player they call Ice T was red-hot. Te-Andre Pope could also have been called Mr. Three on Thursday night, and not just because...

02.04.2020 Sports

Wrestling: Moore is wrestling boys, and winning for Riverhead

In wrestling, girls aren’t supposed to beat boys. Not so fast. Katie Moore may have a thing or two to say about that. Moore isn’t only a wrestling veteran,...

02.03.2020 Sports

Girls Basketball: SWR comes up short on senior day

Picture this: Anyone who walked into the Shoreham-Wading River High School gym during the school day Monday was in for a surprise. After entering through the main entrance, it...

02.01.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: Riverhead senior wears No. 24 to honor Kobe; Blue Waves’ comeback falls just short against Bay Shore

For the current generation of high school basketball players, NBA icons like LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kyrie Irving are the face of the sport, the kind of athletes...

01.31.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: Amityville clinches league title at SWR

A photographer, taken aback by the height of the tall Amityville High School boys basketball players, asked one of the team’s coaches what they feed the Warriors. “Sunshine and...

01.30.2020 News

Charles Manning’s long journey to LSU began in Riverhead

There was a time, in the early months of his senior year of high school, when Charles Manning was unhappy. Monday through Friday, his alarm would go off around...

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