BASEBALL: Hamptons Collegiate Baseball players listed among top prospects
Posted: 09.01.2010 Hamptons Collegiate Baseball made its mark in the 2010 season, and more evidence of that came out Tuesday when Perfect Game USA released its top-25 prospect list for the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. Eight of the top 10 players were from the league's five-team Hampton Division, with 15 spots in the top 25 being taken up by East End players altogether....
GIRLS SOCCER: Tuckers brave the heat as they prepare for new season
Posted: 09.01.2010 BY CHUCK ADAMS | CONTRIBUTOR It was 8 o'clock on Monday morning, the first day of high school girls' soccer practice. As his team ran around the track at Mattituck High School, Tuckers Coach Ed Barbante was looking to see if his players heeded his words. At the end of the last school year Barbante encouraged his players to train over the...
FOOTBALL: Porters know they have a special player in Malone
Posted: 08.31.2010 BY BOB LIEPA | SPORTS EDITOR A surefire way to tell if there is something wrong with the Greenport / Southold / Mattituck / Shelter Island high school football team this season would be to look at the sideline. If Ryan Malone is standing on the sideline or sitting on the bench, observing the action on the field, something is seriously wrong. That should not happen. Malone is...
FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Porters will soon find out where they stand
Posted: 08.31.2010 BY BOB LIEPA | SPORTS EDITOR When it comes to Suffolk County Division IV football, the usual suspects can be regarded as the powers of the division: Babylon, Mount Sinai , Elwood/John Glenn, Bayport-Blue Point. But where does Greenport / Southold / Mattituck / Shelter Island fit in the equation? Judging by their No. 8 seed in the 12-team division, the Porters will be on the playoff bubble. For...
GIRLS TENNIS: Christy sees upside in Mattituck's top singles player, Bundrick
Posted: 08.31.2010 BY BOB LIEPA | SPORTS EDITOR The secret to Erica Bundrick's development as a tennis player really isn't a great surprise. "She plays all the time," said Jenny Smith, Bundrick's best friend and teammate on the Mattituck High School girls' tennis team. That has helped taken Bundrick to where she is as the Tuckers' top singles player. Who the junior plays against...
MEN'S SOFTBALL: Loose Caboose comes up big in a tight spot
Posted: 08.30.2010 BY BOB LIEPA | SPORTS EDITOR On the same night that the Riverhead Men's Softball League regular season came to an end, the playoffs essentially started. High drama was on the schedule Monday night, along with a regular-season-ending doubleheader that carried immense playoff implications for the three teams involved. One of those teams, Loose Caboose, rose to the occasion and seized its...
FOOTBALL: Back from lacerated kidney, Stepnoski's ready to hit
Posted: 08.30.2010 BY BOB LIEPA | SPORTS EDITOR Talk about toughness, Pat Stepnoski has it. Any doubts? Check out what happened to Stepnoski last year. In Bishop McGann-Mercy 's fifth football game of the season, Stepnoski was trying to catch the game's opening kickoff against Wyandanch when the ball bounced off his shoulder pads and ricocheted in front of him. Stepnoski's instinct was to recover...
FOOTBALL: Football was there for Carter, and now he's there for Riverhead
Posted: 08.30.2010 BY BOB LIEPA | SPORTS EDITOR Kurt Carter was going through a rough stretch this past winter. His parents were in the process of getting a divorce, and it was a difficult time for him. Through all that difficulty, though, there was always football, and that helped. "This probably kept me out of trouble in the winter because it gave me something...
