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Field Hockey Preview: Waves face life after Coleman
Even though they didn’t have Rease, the Riverhead Blue Waves didn’t fall into pieces. The Riverhead field hockey team learned how to play without midfielder Rease Coleman last season after she...
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Football Preview: Arline, No. 1 SWR seek more titles
Fall is right around the corner. One can sense it. Temperatures are getting a little cooler, the air has a crispness to it and the sounds of football can be heard. “It’s a great time of the year,”...
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Girls Soccer Preview: SWR’s shooting high in 2019
Adrian Gilmore has some lofty goals for the Shoreham-Wading River girls soccer team. Not only does that include winning the Suffolk County Class A title, but the Long Island one as well. That LI...
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Boys Soccer Preview: Waves focus on one touch at a time
Riverhead boys soccer coach Evan Philcox has a simple goal this season in Suffolk County League I. It isn’t necessary qualifying for the Class AA playoffs, but worrying about what is in front of his...
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Girls Volleyball Preview: New setting for SWR
For the past four years, the Shoreham-Wading River High School girls volleyball team was all set at setter. With the graduation of All-Conference setter Katlynn McGivney, a four-year varsity starter,...
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Boys Soccer: Riverhead’s home opener ends in heartbreak
What position does Ian Lull play? It’s a simple question that requires a bit of an involved answer. On paper, Lull is a central attacking midfielder for the Riverhead High School boys soccer team....
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Thomas Riccio, 77, remembered as legend of Long Island wrestling
While most parents mingled around the start and finish lines during a cross country race, Debbie Riccio Giordano was always on the lookout for her father. As she navigated the middle of a 3.1-mile...
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Greenport man acquitted of top manslaughter charge in fatal overdose case
A Greenport man who prosecutors said knowingly sold heroin laced with fentanyl that caused a fatal overdose in Riverhead was acquitted of second-degree manslaughter Thursday. Suffolk County Court...
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Coffin race confirmed to return for Halloween Festival Oct. 26
The coffin race is back! A group of volunteers headed by Kevin Zaneski of Aquebogue has agreed to run the race in this year’s Halloween Festival organized by the Riverhead Business Improvement...
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Football: Daniels sparks Waves’ first D-I win
On an historic day for the Riverhead High School football program, Albert Daniels showed his true colors: red, white and blue. Put the emphasis on blue. Wearing his new, neat looking red, white and...
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Girls Cross-Country Preview: Strong Riverhead’s in a strong league
Under ordinary circumstances, in another year, this Riverhead High School girls cross-country team would have been seen as a sure bet for a league championship. Coach Justin Cobis said it’s the best...
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Boys Cross-Country Preview: SWR’s Zelin seeks third state visit
Bob Szymanski remembers Adam Zelin as a youngster, participating in a Shoreham-Wading River youth track and field program. What Szymanski recalls is the evident enjoyment Zelin got out of it. “He...
View ArticleBoys Golf Preview: A banner may be in Riverhead’s future
This could be the year. The Riverhead High School gym doesn’t have a boys golf championship banner hanging from its walls. Maybe, just maybe, that can change this year. That’s Steve Failla’s hope,...
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PBMC plans ‘joint venture’ with ProHealth for expanded oncology center
Peconic Bay Medical Center is seeking town approval to convert a portion of the old P.C. Richards appliance store on Route 58 into a cancer care center. The Riverhead Planning Board reviewed a...
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Girls Soccer: McIntosh, the apple of Riverhead’s eye
Continual pressure has a way of wearing down a defense, like water pounding against a dam wall. First small cracks begin to form, then bigger cracks and then, finally, the dam bursts. And so it can be...
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Football: Brentwood cramps Riverhead’s style
Riverhead High School athletic trainer Chris Hildebrandt had one final pickup to make after Saturday’s football game. As athletic director Brian Sacks climbed into Hildebrandt’s golf cart at Coach...
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Field Hockey: Time flies by for Goodale
Even now, five years later, when Riverhead coach Cheryl Walsh-Edwards looks at Katie Goodale, she still sees the face of the young blonde girl who tried out and made her field hockey team as an...
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Football: Riverhead wins with shutout defense
For the most part, you win some, you lose some in high school football. Riverhead experienced both a big win and a big loss on Saturday. The win was a 21-0 shutout of Sachem North at Coach Mike...
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Football: Blue Waves improve to 3-1 with win against Bay Shore
Looking back, William Berkowsky said he wishes he had played football throughout his high school career. He grew up playing PAL with many of his current teammates on the Blue Waves. But when an injury...
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Girls Tennis: Riverhead nets first league title since 1991
The smiles and laughs were as plentiful as the tennis balls on the Riverhead High School courts during Tuesday’s practice. Some players were even dancing and singing. “That’s the way it is every day,”...
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