While the rest of the Riverhead High School football players were spread out in separate groups, working on their position-specific drills Monday morning, R.J. Kocan was off to the side doing his own thing by himself. He kicked field goals, punted and worked on kickoffs. READ
It was a somber group of Riverhead High School football players who marched in double file from Coach Mike McKillop Memorial Field to their school to turn in their equipment. They didn’t want their season to end, but that is what happened to the Blue Waves on Saturday.
Even with the pain of a tantalizingly narrow defeat, even with the dent that put into the Riverhead High School football team’s playoff chances, the Blue Waves had to acknowledge they had just participated in a great game.
When it comes to dynamic high school football players, consider Darnell Chandler.
Chandler is about as complete a player as they come, and that all works to Riverhead’s benefit. READ
Riverhead was in blue and white heaven.
Plenty of blue and white was on Coach Mike McKillop Memorial Field Saturday for the latest in the Blue-White Cup series between Copiague and Riverhead, the high school football teams located the furthest west and furthest east in Suffolk County that wear blue and white school colors. READ
Jharvis Gilliam’s season is over.
Gilliam, a first-string junior cornerback for the Riverhead High School football team who also plays running back, injured his thumb in practice last week. That not only sat him out for Riverhead’s 12-7 home-opening victory over Smithtown East on Saturday, but for the remainder of the season as well. READ
No one likes to lose or get beaten badly, but it’s not the worst thing in the world.
That was the message Riverhead High School football coach Leif Shay delivered to his players following their 35-point loss to Centereach last week. READ
As difficult as Saturday’s high school football game was for Riverhead, it was considerably harder for Alec Kiernan.
And Kiernan played for Centereach, which breezed to victory. READ
