12.03.2014 Sports Girls Basketball Preview: Riverhead’s first goal — get healthy From ankle to hamstring to foot injuries, the Riverhead girls basketball team has one mission at the start of the 2014-15 season: get healthy. The Blue Waves, a team...
08.07.2014 Sports Girls Basketball: Blue Waves close out summer league 10-2 FALCONS 30, BLUE WAVES 26 More often than not, summer league basketball games wind up offensively challenged. Teams run few, if any, set plays. There are limited time-outs to...
08.05.2014 Sports Girls Basketball: Riverhead has a gold medalist in Dunn The members of the Riverhead girls basketball team are a good group, as their record indicates. They all bring their own individual talents and abilities to the table. What...
07.15.2014 Sports Girls Basketball: Young team starting to find its way It’s been only five months since the end of the high school basketball season, yet Riverhead coach Dave Spinella has already seen his team grow by leaps and bounds....
01.14.2014 Sports Girls Basketball: Lions roar back from 11-point hole against Riverhead LIONS 52, BLUE WAVES 47 Growing pains were to be expected. But they still hurt. And none more than Tuesday night. For 28 minutes, the Riverhead girls basketball team...
12.04.2013 Sports Girls Basketball: Youth movement in Riverhead At times this year, the Riverhead girls basketball team may field a lineup on the court that features no one older than a 10th-grader. A youth movement that began...
11.26.2013 Sports Offseason work paying off for Riverhead girls One night a few years ago, Dave Spinella ran into former Riverhead principal John Merone at the movies. Spinella learned that the Merones’ son, Adam, was working with the...
07.22.2013 Sports Girls Basketball: Riverhead’s ‘mystery team’ finds life after Allen So, apparently there is life after Shanice Allen. Not only that, but it might not be a bad life. The Riverhead girls basketball team lost a lot this past...