05.17.2021 Sports Baseball: Composed Caputo makes Riverhead a winner Matt Caputo brought some obvious tools with him when he stepped onto the pitcher’s mound Monday. Among them were curveballs, fastballs and changeups. Less obvious, but perhaps most important...
04.03.2019 Sports Baseball: Hitting an early issue for Riverhead It’s way too early to proclaim judgment on Riverhead’s pitching-by-committee approach. A mere two games is hardly enough of a sample size. By the same token, it’s too early...
03.20.2019 Sports Baseball Preview: Brown, Widercrantz lead experienced SWR Shoreham-Wading River entered the 2018 high school baseball season with a good deal of uncertainty, and that was understandable. After all, the Wildcats had lost 17 — yes, 17!...
04.24.2018 Sports Baseball: Riverhead has no room for error It wasn’t as if things were going well for the Riverhead High School baseball team, but at the same time, they weren’t going too badly. That is, until the...
04.17.2018 Sports Baseball: Riverhead’s Chandler saves the day The way this D.J. responded to a high-pressure situation and the result it brought was music to Riverhead’s ears. The way the seventh inning of Tuesday’s Suffolk County League...
03.26.2018 Sports Baseball Preview: Heavy turnover for SWR; Riverhead eyes postseason After winning so many games last season (24 to be exact), the Shoreham-Wading River High School baseball team lost a lot — namely 16 players to graduation, seven...
03.14.2018 Sports Baseball: Riverhead pair has playoffs on their mind Baseball has been good to Scott Thompson and Darnell Chandler. The two Riverhead High School seniors will move on to play at the NCAA Division II level, but before...
04.17.2017 Sports Baseball: 3-6 league mark isn’t bad for Riverhead Considering that Riverhead had opened the season with series against the three premier baseball teams in Suffolk County League III, it was quite conceivable that the Blue Waves could...
