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Girls Basketball: Wins, and letters, pile up for Mattituck
The Mattituck Tuckers have dug their spoon deeper into the alphabet soup known as the Suffolk County high school girls basketball tournament, and they like the taste of those ABCs. This is all...
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Girls Lacrosse: Katie Hoeg nets 300th goal, Tuckers fly
Navigating the Suffolk County Class C girls lacrosse playoffs this year is like walking through a minefield. One misstep and — ka-boom! Just look at that field: Bayport-Blue Point. Mount Sinai....
View ArticleGirls Soccer: State champ Port Jefferson thumps Mattituck
Even before a ball was kicked at Scraggy Hill Field in Port Jefferson Tuesday afternoon, Mattituck High School girls soccer coach Rafael Morais knew his team could be in for a long afternoon. Not only...
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Girls Basketball: Marlborough is all about defense
It was about a half-dozen years ago when someone brought Steve Van Dood’s attention to a fifth-grade girl playing soccer on the playground. It was the way she was playing that was interesting. Van...
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Sports Desk: Same stage, same opponent, same result for Tuckers
Haven’t we been here before? Yes, we have. Well, not literally. Last year this game was at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue. On Monday it was at SUNY/Old Westbury. But it was the same stage of the...
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Girls Lacrosse: Vasile-Cozzo’s hat trick boosts Tuckers
The event, a series of four high school girls lacrosse games at Rocky Point High School, was called Rumble for a Cure, a fundraiser in the fight against breast cancer. It could have been called Freeze...
View ArticleGirls Soccer: Tuckers can’t topple unbeaten Babylon
If there is a Suffolk County League VII girls soccer team that can overcome the Babylon juggernaut, the squad hasn’t stepped forward yet. The Panthers claimed another victim Thursday afternoon,...
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Girls Soccer: Marlborough doesn’t score, not for lack of trying
Chelsea Marlborough tried and tried again. The Mattituck High School sweeper launched a variety of shots from a variety of angles on the field and each time came away empty-handed. After a while, the...
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Girls Lacrosse: Marlborough will be a Harvard Crimson
Perhaps it was predestined that Chelsea Marlborough would be headed to Harvard University. It was a sign of things to come three years ago, the summer before her freshman year, when a North Carolina...
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Girls Basketball: Mattituck clinches third straight league title
Senior nights are known for emotions and tears, but the only visible emotion on Mattituck’s side Friday night was joy. And there were no tears, just smiles. For good reason, too. In the final...
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Girls Lacrosse: Riley Hoeg goes from feeder to scorer
Call it the life of Riley. Well, the new lacrosse life of Riley Hoeg. Although she always had scoring ability, Hoeg was known to Mattituck/Southold primarily for her passing skills. That has changed....
View ArticleGirls Lacrosse: Tuckers are aiming high this season
Nowadays, the Mattituck/Southold girls lacrosse players can chuckle at the memory. Once upon a time, though — not all that long ago, really — the Tuckers lost a lot. Wins were hard to come by for the...
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Girls Lacrosse: Mount Sinai tops Tuckers in OT
Patience is not only a virtue, but to play winning lacrosse, it just may be a necessity. Both coaches clearly understood that, spending a good deal of their time on the sideline Saturday morning,...
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Girls Lacrosse: Hoeg’s save with :02 left sends Tuckers to their first state...
South Jefferson did a remarkable job of defense, face guarding Mattituck/Southold’s Riley and Mackenzie Hoeg in Friday’s New York State Class D girls lacrosse semifinal. The Hoeg sisters, who have...
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Girls Lacrosse: Tuckers dominate state finals to win first championship
First they survived, and then they thrived. That was the interesting path Mattituck/Southold took to its first high school girls lacrosse state championship. Bronxville has made an indelible mark on...
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