Johnny be good.
Well, actually, Johnny was a lot more than good. How about exceptional? READ
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For the upper echelon teams in Division IV, lopsided games are to be expected. The match-ups against lower seeded teams almost inevitably end as one-sided affairs with backups running down the clock in the second half.
It’s those couple games against the fellow top seeds that define a team’s season. (more…)
Change is in the air these days with the Shoreham-Wading River High School football team. Sure, it’s a new era, the post-Matt Millheiser era. Yet, even with new players, a new coach and a new offense, one thing remains the same: a winning mentality.
The Wildcats still expect to win games. They expect the same results. They expect to go to the Long Island Class IV championship game and they expect to win that game, too.
That hasn’t changed. READ
The seed was planted early. Real early.
Echoes of the postgame celebrations of Shoreham-Wading River’s third straight Long Island Class IV football championship were still ringing when coach Matt Millheiser pulled Xavier Arline aside to give him a message. “I want four,” he told the player.
It has been almost three years since Thomas Cutinella died while playing football for Shoreham-Wading River High School in a game against Elwood/John Glenn. On Oct. 1, 2014, Cutinella collapsed on Glenn’s field. His death sent shock waves throughout Suffolk County and beyond.
Although they call him “X-Man,” he is not a superhero. But that doesn’t mean Xavier Arline doesn’t bring considerable physical weapons to the Shoreham-Wading River High School football team. READ
It starts with the lines.
Every high school football coach, including Shoreham-Wading River’s Matt Millheiser, knows that. Football can look almost easy for a team with a strong line, and remarkably difficult for a team without one.
