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Softball Preview: Loss of pitcher a blow to Tuckers
Pitching, pitching, pitching. The importance of pitching in high school softball cannot be overstated. No matter how you cut it, a team’s success always comes down to pitching. Kim Gerstung knows that...
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Boys Tennis Preview: There’s no place like home for Clippers
Well, you can go home again after all. At least that’s true for the Southold/Greenport high school boys tennis team, which will play all six of its home matches this season on the four courts at...
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Boys Track & Field: Mattituck coach wants everyone contributing
Jack Dufton, one of the greatest track and field athletes Mattituck High School has seen in recent memory, has moved on. He is now running for Amherst College in Massachusetts. Life after Dufton will...
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Baseball Preview: Southold making a pitch for Binghamton
Dylan Clausen, Luke Hansen and Pat McFarland. It’s quite a starting pitching rotation, the best Mike Carver has seen in his 16 years as coach of the Southold High School baseball team. “We’ve had some...
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Girls Track and Field Preview: Pfennig’s farewell season
The Mattituck High School girls track and field team has fond memories of 2016. After all, it was the year that brought the Tuckers their first league championship in 16 years. A remarkable 73-73 tie...
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Mattituck mother, colon cancer survivor advocates for early screening
Donna Farley was 28 weeks pregnant with her third child in 2013, when she noticed that something was different this time — and not in a good way. Ms. Farley was experiencing abdominal pain that...
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New businesses open on Main Road in Mattituck
About a year and a half after developer Paul Pawlowski purchased the vacant Hudson City Savings Bank and surrounding property in Mattituck, three of six spaces in the buildings are ready for...
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Baseball: Pitch counts aren’t as simple as 1, 2, 3
The counting has begun. As in counting pitches. The number of pitches thrown by high school baseball pitchers is now official business, as per new regulations issued by the New York State Public High...
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Girls Track and Field: Mattituck’s depth too much for Mercy
It’s not something that is seen every day, an athlete from one team cheering on an athlete from another team, a rival team at that. But there was Kait Butterfield of the Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan...
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Sports Desk: The Mahon Cave will take your breath away
“WE INTERRUPT THIS FAMILY FOR BASEBALL SEASON.” So reads the quaint sign, decorated with a baseball and bat, hanging by the front door of the Mahon family residence. It says a lot about one of the...
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Baseball: Mattituck’s Kent prevails in pitching duel
A pitcher’s duel. When high school baseball teams send two top pitchers like this to the mound, it’s bound to happen. Brendan Kent loves them. For one thing, they help keep a pitcher’s focus sharp....
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Developer to pay fee instead of building affordable housing in Mattituck
The developers of a 12-lot subdivision on 36 acres Mattituck won’t have to create any affordable housing in connection with that project, despite a Southold Town requirement that residential...
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Baseball: Mattituck grad, Ascher, signs with Colorado Rockies
Getting into the major leagues isn’t easy. That point has been driven home to Steve Ascher, who said he has learned a lesson: “not to take anything for granted.” Ascher, a 23-year-old lefthanded...
View ArticlePedestrian injured after being struck by SUV in Mattituck
A Mattituck man was seriously injured after he was struck by an SUV crossing Main Road in Mattituck, Southold Town police said. Ismael Ochoa, 50, was crossing the street after exiting the S92 bus....
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Baseball Notebook: Claire’s journey from Mattituck to South Bronx
The bus ride from the South Bronx to Mattituck was two hours long, but it might as well have been a world away. It would be hard to find two more disparate places than the concrete jungle that is the...
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Mattituck runner signs with D-I Monmouth
Sometimes when members of the Mattituck High School girls track and field team are sweating through a tough workout, coach Chris Robinson poses a question for them: Does anyone want to do Melanie...
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Softball: Mercy prevails over Mattituck in slugfest
A high school softball game that was basically all about offense came down to pitching and defense for the final at-bat. Bishop McGann-Mercy had seen what had been a 13-6 lead in the fifth inning...
View ArticleBoys Tennis: Waggoner serves up another win
It all starts with the serve. In order to score a point, a tennis player needs to be able to put his serve in play. That can be a lot easier said than done, as was evidenced Monday in the first singles...
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New vicar will lead two North Fork churches
The Episcopal Diocese of Long Island named the Rev. Roger Joslin as vicar of both Church of the Redeemer in Mattituck and Holy Trinity Church in Greenport, establishing a North Fork Episcopal...
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DEC closes local waterways in Mattituck to harvesting gastropods
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has temporarily banned harvesting marine gastropods, including whelk, conch and moonsnails, in Deep Hole Creek in Mattituck effective...
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