Girls Basketball: Mattituck opens league season with blowout win
Mattituck’s Katie Hoeg, pictured against Southold Monday, scored eight points in the league opening win against Southampton Thursday night. (Credit: Garret Meade) TUCKERS 46, MARINERS 15 The tide can...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Fedun sparks Mattituck to first league win
TUCKERS 68, ROYALS 40 Daniel Fedun didn’t know what to expect this season making the jump from JV to varsity. His role, he figured, would be a hustle guy, the kind of player whose work doesn’t always...
View ArticleMattituck News: Holiday concert Thursday in H.S. auditorium
’Tis the season for friends and family to reconnect and catch up. Andrew Ennis has been studying abroad in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, since August and will return today, Dec. 18. He is currently studying...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Tuckers enjoy payback against Wyandanch
Dan Fedun of Mattituck goes up for a shot while being defended by Wyandanch’s Mikey Lamb. (Credit: Daniel De Mato) TUCKERS 66, WARRIORS 53 Mattituck avenged an elimination loss from last year’s Suffolk...
View ArticleCops: Man was riding dirt bike without license
A helmetless Mattituck man with a revoked driver’s license was arrested Friday after police observed him riding an unregistered and uninsured dirt bike on Pike Street, Southold Town police said....
View ArticleNo. 8 Sports Story of the Year: The Christy era ends
Jim Christy coached tennis for 33 years. (Credit: Garret Meade) A momentous change came to the Mattituck High School girls tennis team this year when Jim Christy retired as the Tuckers’ coach after 33...
View ArticleNo. 7 Sports Story of the Year: A coaching legend passes on
The 1977-78 Mattituck boys basketball team, led by coach Jack Hussnatter (seventh from the right). (Credit: file photo) Jack Hussnatter, a Mattituck coaching legend, seemed to have been cut from the...
View ArticleNo. 6 Sports Story of the Year: A deep playoff run
Joe Tardif pitches in a game earlier this year. (Credit: Garret Meade) The Mattituck High School baseball team had hoped that 2014 would be the year it won its second regional title and first since...
View ArticleNo. 4 Story of the Year: Two beloved locals struck and killed
Friends of Kaitlyn Doorhy at a vigil in August. (Credit: Jen Nuzzo) The North Fork was rocked this year by the accidental deaths of Kaitlyn Doorhy, 20, of Mattituck in August and Howard Meinke, 86, of...
View ArticleNo. 3 Sports Story of the Year: An ‘amazing’ volleyball season
Mattituck middle hitter Emilie Reimer. (Credit: Garret Meade) In recent years, another high school girls volleyball season has come to mean another trip to Glens Falls for the state tournament for...
View ArticleNo. 2 Sports Story of the Year: Former Tucker becomes a Ray
Steve Ascher was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 17th round this year. (Credit: SUNY/Oneonta athletic department) The boy who grew up as a Yankees fan may one day get to pitch in Yankee Stadium —...
View ArticleNo. 1 Sports Story of the Year: Mattituck’s team for the ages
The celebration was on after Mattituck’s 3-0 win over Beekmantown in the Class B state finals in November. (Credit: Michael Lewis) Mattituck High School has competed in boys soccer since 1936. That’s a...
View ArticleThey’re tired of waiting for bus shelters in Southold Town
(Ethan Sisson, a junior at Southold High School, demonstrates with other students from Project Bus Stop. The civic group has been pushing for more bus shelters across Southold Town for three years....
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Rough start to the new year for Mattituck
One thing is certain: Mattituck’s 81-51 loss at Center Moriches won’t be in any of the Tuckers’ highlight videos at the end of the season. In their first game of the new year, the Tuckers could not...
View Article2014 Sports Person of the Year: Mat Litchhult
Matt Litchhult coaches a practice in 2014. He went out on top this year, stepping away from coaching days after winning a state title. (Credit: Garret Meade, file) Few people — very few people — in...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Tuckers run away to win in Hampton Bays
TUCKERS 69, BAYMEN 31 Coming off two games in which his Mattituck High School boys basketball team did not play to the level that he would have liked, coach Paul Ellwood heard concern in the voice of...
View ArticleGirls Volleyball: Mattituck’s Reimer commits to SUNY/Cobleskill
Mattituck middle hitter Emilie Reimer. (Credit: Garret Meade) The SUNY/Cobleskill Department of Sports & Exercise announced Tuesday that Mattituck High School standout middle/outside hitter Emilie...
View ArticleGirls Basketball: Tuckers fall after their shots don’t
Port Jefferson’s Jillian Colucci and Mattituck’s Courtney Penny reach for a rebound. (Credit: Garret Meade) ROYALS 50, TUCKERS 44 Putting a basketball through a hoop that is 18 inches in diameter is...
View ArticleTaylor Gildersleeve of Mattituck stars in Lifetime’s ‘Sugar Daddies’
Taylor Gildersleeve (right) in ‘Sugar Daddies.” (Credit: Courtesy Photo) Taylor Gildersleeve, a 2009 Mattituck High School graduate, stars in a new Lifetime movie called “Sugar Daddies.” Ms....
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Mattituck uses 22-2 run to take down Mercy
Mattituck’s Ryan Mowdy blocking a shot while Bishop McGann-Mercy’s Eddie Kneski (15) and Joe Jeskie (3) watch. (Credit: Garret Meade) TUCKERS 66, MONARCHS 58 More than a few eyebrows may have been...
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