Blue Devils’ First State Title Is Dream Come True
The Long-Islander, June 9, 2005 – Eric Posner's eyes turned glassy as he watched the scoreboard clock tick Huntington closer to its first-ever state championship in boys' lacrosse, Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field on the campus of Cornell University. (Story)
Nervous Start, Memorable Finish For St. Anthony’s
The Long-Islander, February 9, 2006 – Hours before the former Olympians and world champions took their marks at the 99th Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden, the relay teams from St. Anthony’s and Elwood/John Glenn made theirs. (Story)
Gandolfi Helps Northport Steal 9th Title
Northport Record, March 4, 2005 – Northport junior Corrine Gandolfi attached a caveat to the final shot she took during warm-ups before the Class AA Championship game. “If I make this in, I’m going to play amazing,” Gandolfi told teammate Kelly Dunne, a junior guard who runs alongside her in the Lady Tigers’ backcourt. (Story)
Top-Seeded Lady Tigers Believe in Teamwork
Northport Record, May 24, 2007 – Seven letters etched in silver spelled top-seeded Northport’s philosophy on the eve of the postseason, Monday afternoon: Believe. (Story)
Lady Tigers Believe ’til the Bitter End
Northport Record, June 7, 2007 – The Northport players broke from the huddle near the end of the timeout following the third straight second-half goal for Ward Melville and chanted the same familiar motto that had come to define their run through the playoffs. “1-2-3 believe!” they roared, hoisting their sticks and clanging them together before returning to the field with 8:26 left in the county championship game. (Story)
Lady Tigers Take Rivalry’s Opening Salvo
Northport Record, January 6, 2005 – Northport senior Jillian Byers instinctively flicked up a shot as she fell away from the basket following a jarring blow from a Commack defender, near the end of the third quarter in the championship game of the Suffolk Shootout. (Story)
SPORTS FEATURES
The Fate of a Walk-On
Northport Record, May 11, 2006 – Lauren Majewski wanted back in. Eight-and-a-half months after the last at-bat of a propitious four-year high school career at Commack High School, the C.W. Post freshman longed to play softball again. As friends and former teammates prepared for their first college seasons, Lauren braced for her first spring without the sport in seven years. (Story)
A Golden Road To Notre Dame
Northport Record, September 30, 2004 – The clovers of congratulations for Jillian Byers came in person, by telephone and in the flash of an instant message. The Northport senior, a three-sport varsity wonder in lacrosse, basketball and soccer, had made perhaps the most harrowing and taxing decision of her 17-year life. Byers had decided where she would go to college, shared it with a few close confidents and, somehow, nearly everybody knew. (Story)
Under Dad’s Watch, Agudio Lives The Dream
The Long-Islander, February 8, 2007 – An old dream lives in the empty arena. On the glistening hardwood, amid the blue seats and golden banners, the hopes of the past reawaken in the promise of the present and potential for the future. The wisdom of age and the talent of youth go one-on-one without fans to cheer, teammates to watch or coaches to shout. It’s just a father, a son and a basketball. (Story)
The Edwards Campaign
Hofstra Pulse, Spring 2007 – The seven-year-old score sheet hangs on the wall of Bill Edwards’ office like the championship banners on the fence at the nearby Hofstra Softball Stadium. The graphite marks and notations forever preserve a seminal moment in his program’s history — a 10-5 triumph over No. 1-ranked U.C.L.A. at the Paradise Classic in Honolulu on Feb. 13, 2000. (Story)
