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Top Sports Stories 2018: Tuckers have a (volley)ball in Glens Falls
Perhaps few words are likely to prompt a smile from coach Frank Massa or the players on his Mattituck High School girls volleyball team like “Glens Falls.” As in Glens Falls, N.Y., site of the...
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Mattituck man, 81, reported missing to Southold Town police
Southold police are seeking the public’s help searching for an 81-year-old Mattituck man whose family has reported him missing. Officers from the Southold Police Department, the New York State Police...
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Top Sports Stories 2018: Dwyer leaves mark on Mattituck
It’s safe to say that Liz Dwyer made her mark on the Mattituck High School girls basketball team. And while Dwyer’s senior tour last season didn’t end up exactly where she wanted, she and her...
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Divers continue search for missing Mattituck man
Police and fire marine units continue to search along the Long Island Sound shore and Mattituck Creek for an 81-year-old man who was reported missing Sunday evening. Richard Hart, a resident of...
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Top Sports Stories 2018: Mattituck girls run for glory
Some things can just be counted on when fall arrives. Temperatures drop, leaves change colors and the Mattituck High School girls cross-country team wins championships. At least that’s the way it has...
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Body of missing man recovered in Mattituck Thursday
The body of Richard Hart, a Mattituck man who had been missing since Sunday, was found on the shore of Mattituck Inlet Thursday morning, Southold Town police said. Mr. Hart, a resident of Westphalia...
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Boys Basketball: Mattituck’s X-Man is spot on
X marks the spot. The spot just happened to be the cylinder of the basket, and Xavier Allen was spot on with his shooting. Allen, Mattituck’s own X-Man, had a hot hand from the start, finding the mark...
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Top Sports Stories 2018: Season of firsts for boys lacrosse team
The greatest season in Mattituck High School boys lacrosse history was a season of firsts. As in the first Suffolk County and first Long Island championships the Tuckers have ever won. Not bad....
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Girls Basketball: Tuckers can’t complain about 7-2 start
Not only did the Mattituck High School girls basketball team lose its all-time leading scorer, Liz Dwyer, to graduation last year, but the Tuckers lost all five of their starters from last season. One...
View ArticleGirls Basketball: Mattituck names change, but style remains same
Of all the names that filled Mattituck’s scorebook Friday night, there were no players named Mayhem, Chaos or Havoc. Coach Steve Van Dood joked that perhaps there should be, given the way his high...
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Boys Basketball: Tuckers are on playoff pace
Paul Ellwood dropped his clipboard to the floor in disgust. And if that didn’t get the attention of his players, the Mattituck High School boys basketball coach yelled to make his point to them. He...
View ArticleGirls Basketball: Perkins, Burns help off the bench
When you’re coming off the bench in a high school girls basketball game, playing time can be quite precious. So, no one has to remind Mattituck’s Ashley Perkins or Alexa Burns that they must find ways...
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Editorial: The risks of social media app TikTok
The headline of a cover story that ran more than a decade ago in our now-defunct sister paper, The North Shore Sun, read: “Myspace is a scary place.” The story detailed various ways teenagers could...
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Boys Winter Track: Season-best time for Southold 4×200 team
The place was nice, yet as impressive as that was, it was the time that really mattered to the members of the Southold/Greenport 4×200-meter relay team. That’s what Southold junior Jackson Wile had...
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Girls Winter Track: Russell’s a double winner in league meet
Sunday didn’t start off promisingly for Emily Russell. She missed the Southold/Greenport girls winter track team’s bus for the Suffolk County League V Championships. What next, she may have thought....
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Allen’s 26 not enough against Center Moriches
Mattituck played a tremendous first quarter, and not a bad first half, for that matter. Overall, it wasn’t a bad showing by the Tuckers at all. And yet, when Monday night’s Suffolk County League VI...
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Boys Basketball: Defense is Nicholson’s game
Chris Nicholson looks like an athlete. He looks like a basketball player, and he plays the part particularly well, especially on the defensive side of the court. Defense is Nicholson’s game. It’s...
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Girls Winter Track: Ailing heel doesn’t stop Russell
Coming off her magical double triumph in the high jump and shot put at the League V girls winter track championships, Emily Russell was asked if she thought Saturday would be her day in the Section XI...
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Boys Basketball: Playoffs are slam dunk for Seifert, Tuckers
Mattituck might have looked at its penultimate regular-season boys basketball game as a slam dunk, but Ryan Seifert took things to a different level. Seifert, who had never dunked in a game before,...
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Girls Basketball: Tuckers look to Pierson showdown
It was difficult, almost impossible, for the Mattituck High School girls basketball team not to look ahead to its regular-season finale, a showdown with Pierson/Bridgehampton/Shelter Island on...
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