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SUNDAY, DEC. 6, 2015
RICH BARNES
Massapequa girls soccer team
celebrates its victory over Baldwinsville
in the state Class AA championship.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
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What a title run!
Longwood to all
of LI: Go ahead,
try and stop us
BY GREGG SARRA
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It really wasn’t much of a surprise that Longwood shattered
the LIC record of 446 yards
rushing set by North Babylon
in 1999.
“There was no secret to our
success,” said Longwood fullback Latrell Horton. “We line
up and knock you down. We
come
right
at
people,
man-to-man and we bring it.
If you’re not in the weight
room all year, you can’t play
against us.”
Horton steamrolled his opponents all season. In the Long Island title game, his 63-yard run
late in the second quarter featured a few collisions and broken tackles.
“I like those kinds of runs,”
he said. “I like when the defensive backs come up and try and
put it on me. I play for the hard
contact, and for the big hits.”
Horton’s run set up a Tahj
Clark 8-yard touchdown run
on the next play for a 21-14
lead, part of a 47-0 run for
Longwood.
“We grabbed the momentum and never gave it up,”
said Longwood’s two-way lineman Anthony Lavio. “We take
so much pride in our blocking
assignments and we work
well together.”
On Farmingdale’s next possession, Longwood defensive
back Josh Rivers intercepted a
pass at his own 37 and set up
the Lions’ second touchdown
in the final 1:23 of the half.
On the next play, fullback
Mike Scalice burst up the middle for a 60-yard run to the
Dalers 3. Horton punched it in
for the score and the Lions led
27-14. The second quarter of
the LIC was a microcosm of
Longwood’s season. The Lions
offense rolled over opponents
to average 37 points per game.
They did it primarily on the
ground. How many teams do
you think could win a Long Is-
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Suffolk playoffs
Floyd, 34-0
Northport, 48-21
Suffolk championship
Lindenhurst, 44-14
Long Island championship
Farmingdale, 47-28
land title, only throwing four
touchdown passes in 12 games?
Longwood did.
And the Lions scored more
touchdowns on defense than
through the air. They scored on
five interceptions, a blocked
field goal, a punt return and
two fumble recoveries — a
total of nine.
Athletic linebackers Antonio
Scala and Horton and defensive
back Sean Rausch were quick
to the ball in run support and
tough as nails.
“We were a complete team,”
Cipp said. “We fell short of a
title a year ago and that was a
huge motivator for them. This
was a great season.”
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The commitment was to run
the football. And run Longwood did. The Lions ran
straight to the Long Island
Class I championship.
“We pushed the weight training in the offseason and they all
bought in,” said Longwood
coach Jeff Cipp. “This group
was committed to winning a
Long Island title.”
And the Lions did so in impressive fashion. Longwood
rushed for a Long Island-record 555 yards and
scored seven touchdowns on
the ground in a 47-28 win over
Farmingdale to claim the Long
Island Class I crown last Sunday at Stony Brook University’s
LaValle Stadium.
On the way to the title,
Longwood (11-1) ended the perfect season and championship
hopes of consecutive opponents from Lindenhurst and
Farmingdale. The 44-14 win
over Lindenhurst in the Suffolk
championship
game
avenged the Lions’ only loss
this season.
“We turned the ball over in
the first loss against Lindy and
we learned from it,” said Matt
Weiss, Longwood’s two-way
lineman. “We controlled our
own destiny by running the ball
and taking care of it.”
Longwood’s offensive philosophy was anything but conventional. In the era of the spread
offense, where passing often
dominates, the Lions opt to
run, run and run some more.
And they scored 48 rushing
touchdowns this season.
LIONS’
Lions roar! Longwood players celebrate their Long Island Class I football championship at Stony Brook University. ] More photos at newsday.com/highschools
SALUTE TO THE CHAMPS
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JOSEPH D. SULLIVAN
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Newfield celebrates after winning the Long Island Class II championship game to cap a perfect season in which the Wolverines set the Suffolk scoring record with 518 points.
Newfield just perfect
Record-setting
year led by Klemm,
Riley and Greene
BY GREGG SARRA
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Suffolk playoffs
Deer Park, 54-6
North Babylon, 32-6
Half Hollow Hills West, 58-34
MacArthur, 41-33
It was a record-setting season for Newfield. The Wolverines set a school mark for wins
with 12, including three by
shutout, in their first undefeated season. They set the Suffolk scoring record with 518
points, averaging 43 per game,
and were dominant as they
won every regular season game
by at least 27 points.
“We had gifted athletes everywhere,” Piccininni said. “And
we had multiple playmakers behind very strong lines. It was a
total team effort.”
Senior quarterback Ryan
Klemm broke every school
passing record, setting the bar
high for future Wolverines. He
threw for 31 touchdowns —
with at least one in every game
— and 2,441 yards with only
one interception.
“He was making good decisions all season and made
some big throws,” said halfback Elijah Riley, who had
1,934 all-purpose yards and 31
touchdowns.
“And when we needed him
most, he was a leader and delivered.”
The addition of playmaker
Jelani Greene, a transfer student from Longwood, completed the offense.
Greene, a speedy wideout
with great hands, was the perfect complement to the versatile Riley. Greene had 38 receptions, 14 touchdowns and 1,308
all-purpose yards.
“It was very tough for defensive coordinators to figure out
which player to take away,”
said Hills West coach Kyle
Madden. “Newfield had so
much firepower.”
Klemm, Riley and Greene
all recognized the guys up
front as the key to success.
The offensive line — with
guards Joe Saladino and Ryan
Dunbar, tackles James Fitzsimmons and Dylan Ferrari, center Nick Favaloro and tight
ends Austin Gubelman and
Steven Hoynacky — made it
possible for them to run into
the Newfield history books.
“Couldn’t
win
without
them,” Klemm said. “It starts
up front.”
And it ended with an LIC.
Confetti and ice covered the
field at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium last Sunday evening, and
Newfield linebacker Joe Muller
stood in the middle of it all and
soaked in the moment.
The Wolverines had just
beaten MacArthur, 41-33, on
Long Island’s biggest stage and
captured the school’s second
Class II football title. Now, here
was Muller — a two-way
starter — enjoying every long
embrace with his teammates.
“Wow, I was in the eighth
grade and we all came here to
watch the 2011 team win it,”
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said Muller, who had 70 tackles
this year. “And we so badly
wanted to be just like them.
And here we are, we’re champions. It’s awesome.”
Newfield’s trek to this Long
Island championship was different from the first one. The
Wolverines of 2011 stormed into
the Class II race and willed a
title with a ferocious defense
and an opportunistic offense to
win the final eight games.
“Our championship teams
took totally different paths,”
said Newfield’s Joe Piccininni,
Newsday’s Coach of the Year.
“The first team was a true underdog and the march to the
title grew with intensity every
week. That group had a ruthless, aggressive style and their
own personality. This year we
were a finesse team when we
had to be and physical when
we had to be. We really came
together.”
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Sayville: Yes, we can
Up for challenge
thanks to Coan,
Bradley, WRs, ‘D’
BY BOB HERZOG
There were some preseason
whispers of doubt about
Sayville in the Long Island football underground. Sure, Jack
Coan was returning at quarterback and there were a couple of
veteran defensive studs in Liam
Bailey and Mike Leach. But
perennial power East Islip was
moving down from Suffolk II to
Suffolk III with an experienced
team that was voted the No. 1
seed. Just how good would the
Golden Flashes be in 2015?
“We had graduated the bulk
of our skill kids and quite a few
of our linemen, so there were a
lot of question marks about
whether we could get back to
LIC,” said Sayville coach Rob
Hoss, a 2015 Newsday coach of
the year. “How long would it
take for four young wide receivers and a young running
back to jell?”
The answers were not delivered in whispers but rather in
loud statements every week, as
Sayville concluded a 12-0 season with a resounding 59-15 victory over previously unbeaten
Plainedge in the Long Island
Class III championship game
last Sunday.
“This feels so great right
now,” Coan, a 2015 Newsday
All-Long Island selection, said
during the postgame celebration on the turf at Stony
Brook’s LaValle Stadium after
he had made history by rushing
for 227 yards and passing for
294 more. No player had ever
exceeded 200 yards in both categories in 24 years of Long Island championships.
“At the beginning of the season, a lot of people didn’t believe in us. But I’ve been playing with a lot of these guys
since I was little so I knew we’d
have this opportunity.”
Among Coan’s childhood
pals were running back Ashton
Bradley and wide receivers
Mike Dionisio, Jake Kolar and
Jason Intermesoli, all juniors
like Coan and all of whom contributed mightily to an offense
that averaged 42.4 points per
Ashton Bradley and Sayville
proved their doubters wrong
with a dominant perfect season.
GOLDEN
FLASHES’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Suffolk playoffs
Rocky Point, 56-14
Westhampton, 56-27
East Islip, 21-7
Plainedge, 59-15
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Jack Coan and Mike Leach celebrate Sayville’s win over Plainedge in the Long Island Class III final.
game. Brown overcame injuries
and a shaky start to become a legitimate running threat, gaining
537 yards and scoring four of
his 11 rushing TDs in the LIC.
Dionisio (44 catches, 589 yards,
10 TDs), Kolar (35, 636, 6) and
Intermesoli (26, 356, 5) joined
senior Nick Casazza (29, 528, 8)
in a formidable foursome that
helped Coan pass for 2,499
yards and 36 TDs.
Coan expanded his game dramatically, rushing for 1,275
yards and 17 TDs after rarely
running as a sophomore when
he set Long Island records for
passing yards (3,431) and touchdowns (40). In Week 6, eyes
widened when Coan sparked a
49-17 victory over East Islip by
rushing for 309 yards. “That far
eclipsed beyond what any of us
imagined,” Hoss said. “After
that game, we thought we
could win this thing.”
And while all season the spotlight fell on Coan and the offense, the defense was performing its own magic. Led by News-
day All-Long Island inside linebacker Bailey (107 total tackles), inside linebackers Leach
and Kevin Kolar and down linemen Julian Boesch-Jones, Dennis Hanley and Dan Martucci,
the Golden Flashes allowed
only 14.2 points per game.
The unit held Plainedge’s
elite running quarterback
Davien Kuinlan (who had a Nassau record 2,719 yards including a Long Island record 485 in
the Nassau III title game) to a
season-low 87 yards in the LIC.
Leach, a senior, was buoyant
after his final game. “We’re a
family and I love them all to
death,” he exclaimed. “I can’t
believe it.”
It was a season of turning
doubters into believers for the
Golden Flashes.
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WILDCATS’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Suffolk playoffs
Mercy, 41-7
Bayport-Blue Point, 21-6
Glenn, 24-14
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Locust Valley, 35-7
Shoreham-Wading River celebrates after winning the Suffolk IV championship, the penultimate achievement in another unbeaten season.
BY BOB HERZOG
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The message was spelled out
in small but prominently displayed capital letters across the
chest of every player on the
2015 Shoreham-Wading River
football team.
“TOMMY TOUGH.”
“There’s never a day when
you don’t think about him,”
SWR senior quarterback Jason
Curran said of his close friend
Thomas Cutinella, who died
after an on-field collision in
2014.
For the second year in a row,
the Wildcats honored their
friend and former teammate by
hoisting a Long Island Class IV
championship trophy. Last year
it was at Stony Brook and this
year it was at Hofstra, after a
35-7 victory over Locust Valley
on Nov. 27.
Both titles capped unbeaten
seasons as Shoreham-Wading
River has won 24 consecutive
games, the best current streak
on Long Island. And both
games were preceded by the
team walking onto the field
double-file, arms linked, carrying a banner with Cutinella’s
number 54, and were followed
by a giddy team photo in which
players held Cutinella’s game
jersey from the 2014 season,
when he was a two-way starter.
“Last season was tragic and
triumphant. The players and
the community persevered
through tremendous sadness
and adversity,” coach Matt Millheiser said. “This season was
no longer an effort to win for
Tom, but a continuation of our
new motto ‘Tommy Tough.’
The players prepared and
played in a way that was representative of Tom’s dedication,
work ethic, and overall high
moral character.”
The Wildcats were run-oriented, led by senior Chris
Rosati, who gained 1,518 yards,
averaging 10 yards a carry, and
scored 30 touchdowns, four in
the LIC. Curran added 486
yards, Jon Constant 408 and
Total team effort
helps Wildcats
repeat as champs
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Better by the dozen:
SWR makes it 24-0
Kevin
Cutinella,
Tom’s
brother, 309. Kevin had to
watch the LIC from the bench
after surgery for a torn ligament in his left ankle suffered
in the Suffolk IV championship game against Glenn.
He had filled in admirably at
running quarterback when Curran missed three games because of injury, and Constant
(90 yards) did the same for Cutinella in the LIC.
“That was part of the
next-man-up philosophy we
had all season,” Millheiser said.
The Wildcats’ line, led by
2015 Newsday All-Long Island
selection Ethan Wiederkehr, a
junior, and seniors Dalten
Stalzer, Ryan Letscher and
James Puckey, sparkled all season on both sides of the ball.
Linebackers Ethan Baumack,
Will Loper, Cutinella and Constant and a secondary led by
Rosati and Fehmel helped the
defense surrender only 6.8
points per game.
“Going 24-0 was a milestone
I always wanted to reach,”
Rosati said. “We felt a lot of
pressure coming into the season. We got everyone’s best
game and we knew we were the
team to beat.”
That was unfamiliar territory
for Shoreham-Wading River,
which won its first county title
last season.
“This season started like no
other. We were, for the first
time, the team that everyone
else was chasing,” Millheiser
said. “We knew we had a very
good team despite the many seniors that graduated last year.
The key was trying to figure
out how the new pieces would
fit. When we won a close,
hard-fought victory over Glenn
late in the regular season, we
believed we could make another run.”
A run that not only ended in
a second straight Long Island
Championship but also in what
the players believe will be their
legacy. “24-and-0,’’ Curran said.
“We are changing the way people look at football in Shoreham and Wading River.”
THREE-PEAT A HISTORIC FEAT
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Massapequa celebrates after winning its third straight Class AA championship. ] More playoff photos from all the championship teams at newsday.com/highschools
Massapequa became first NY team to win
back-to-back-to-back AA soccer crowns
BY MIKE GAVIN
newsday.com
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Skylar Vitiello, Bianca Furci
and Melanie Hingher went online and Googled tribal symbols.
Hingher came up with the
idea to develop a symbol for the
Massapequa Chiefs — nicknamed “The Tribe” — during
their quest for a third straight
state soccer title. Vitiello found
three she thought best represented the team. Furci combined them into one design.
Each team member then
drew the symbol on their
wrists before each playoff
game. Massapequa went on to
become the first Class AA soccer team in New York, girls or
boys, to win three state championships in a row.
The first symbol was a cross.
“The cross,” Vitiello said,
“represented how we were so
close that we were sisters.”
That showed in the cohesiveness of a veteran backline. Senior defenders Vitiello, Furci,
Hingher and Mikayla Pugliese
were a stabilizing force, working together to quickly advance
the ball and play to feet.
Backing them up was goalkeeper Rebecca White, who
Massapequa coach Bruce Stegner said played “the best game
of her life” in the state final.
“Since tryouts we said we
were going to get to Cortland
and walk away with state championship plaques because it’s
what we’re used to,” White
said. “We’ve never faced a huge
loss during our high school ca-
CHIEFS’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Nassau playoffs
Baldwin, 3-0
Oceanside, 3-2
Nassau championship
Port Washington, 3-2
West Islip, 3-0
State tournament
Clarence, 2-0
Baldwinsville, 2-1
reer and our senior year wasn’t
going to be the first time we
would do that.”
Zigzagged lines made up the
second symbol.
“The zigzags” Furci said,
“meant our destination. We
knew we had to overcome the
bumps and hardships we might
face to get there.”
That destination was Cortland. The Chiefs got there
after capturing a 12th county
title in 13 seasons and a fourth
Long Island championship in
six seasons.
Their formidable offense
was led by Hope Breslin, who
nearly tripled her scoring
total from the previous season
with 28 goals, including two
in the final 20 minutes of the
state final. Aiding Breslin was
the highly improved playmaking and finishing ability of
Marisa Fischetti and Julia
Ophals, who moved to striker
and recorded seven goals and
16 assists.
Two offensive minded freshman midfielders, Julia Hannon and Grace Bernardi,
added another dimension to
the Chiefs’ attack.
“Don’t get me wrong, the
girls last year were also very
good,” Breslin said. “But this
season I think we clicked a little more in the midfield and we
knew when to pass to each
other. My teammates really
helped me get the ball when I
was open.”
The third symbol was circles.
“The circle,” Hingher said,
“stood for time. We wanted 80
more minutes with each other.”
With the senior core now
having played their final minutes of varsity soccer, Hingher
reflected on the past. She recalled watching the Massapequa varsity when she was
younger, dreaming of being on
the team. Winning a state title,
though, seemed an almost
unattainable goal.
“It never seemed realistic to
me until we actually won when
I was in 10th grade,” she said.
“From that point on, we didn’t
want anything less than that.”
And now they symbolize a
dynasty.
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It was the second game of
the season, and someone forgot
to bring the soccer balls.
With no way of warming up,
Islip coach Mike Reilly made
his team run a dozen full-field
sprints as punishment. He said
the first 11 girls to finish the
sprints would start the game.
The lineup was out of whack —
star midfielder Mary O’Hara
played goalkeeper — and the
Buccaneers lost to Hauppauge,
4-0.
“From that experience we realized that we needed to step it
up,” O’Hara said. “It was the
turning point. Without that, we
wouldn’t have had the season
we had.”
The defeat was Islip’s last of
the season (the Buccaneers fin-
ished 14-2-1).
The lesson learned?
“Things, including wins,
don’t come easy in life,” Reilly
said. “When you do all the little
things right, like communicating with one another to make
sure we have the soccer balls, it
adds up to big things.”
It added up to the biggest
prize: the first state championship in the history of the
Islip girls soccer program.
“It’s amazing that for the rest
of our lives,” defender Kerri McDonald said, “we are going to
be the first people that brought
home a state title.”
They did so with a rock solid
defense — led by McDonald,
Ali Bondi, Emma Baumbusch,
Daniela D’Acunto, Kayla Multer
and goalkeeper Cassidy Hock
— that didn’t allow a goal in either state tournament game.
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Suffolk Playoffs
Sayville, 2-0
Glenn, 2-1
Garden City, 0-0 (Islip won,
4-3, on penalty kicks)
Class A State tournament
Williamsville East, 1-0
Jamesville-DeWitt, 1-0
Islip goalkeeper Cassidy Hock
didn’t allow a goal at state tourney.
When injury struck in the
final seconds of the state semifinal, sophomore Juliana Eastwood was called upon to make
her first start and exceeded expectations in the state final.
“When you work together
and strive for what you want,”
Hock said, “you get what you
want.”
O’Hara helped Islip get exactly what it wanted with her
creative play in the midfield.
She distributed to a potent
attack that included Hannah
Franco, Delaney Kissane, Dominique Bono, and, of course,
the Sparks sisters.
Alyssa Sparks booked Islip’s
first trip to Cortland after she
converted the winning penalty
kick against Garden City in
the Long Island championship. Both games upstate
were won by 1-0 margins,
with Alyssa’s older sister, Lyndsey, scoring the winner in
each.
“We will always share those
memories,” Lyndsey said, “and
we can talk about them at
Thanksgiving dinner.”
When the Buccaneers returned from upstate, their bus
was escorted by fire trucks to
the high school, where the
team was greeted by an enormous crowd.
“It’s going to be the most
memorable thing that will
ever come out of high school,”
O’Hara said of the state title.
“We’ll be able to go into the
gym, look up and see the banner and it will say 2015, and
we’ll be able to say that was
our year. We learned what it
took to become champions.”
Islip’s girls soccer team won its first state
championship, beating Jamesville-DeWitt
in the Class A final.
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BUCCANEERS’
JAMES ESCHER
Soccer program earns state title No. 1,
led by O’Hara, Hock and dominant ‘D’
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Royal treatment
Port Jefferson
could sense title
from beginning
ROYALS’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Southeast Regional final
Haldane, 3-0
BY ERIK BACHARACH
State semifinal
Caledonia-Mumford, 4-1
It was evident even during
the preseason in August. When
most teams were working on
the basics and establishing
chemistry, the Port Jefferson
girls soccer team appeared to
be in midseason form.
“I was like, ‘Wow, already
they’re looking this good?’ ’’
coach Allyson Wolff said.
And that, of course, was because the Royals did not lose
one player through graduation
from the year before.
By keeping the roster intact
from their 2014 state runner-up
team, the Royals entered this
season with their offense already in tune and their defense
already in rhythm.
Leadership came from every
direction, whether it was seniors Olivia Love and Noelle
Zimmermann or juniors Jillian
Colucci, Clare O’Connor, Brittany Fazin, Katie Connolly and
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Corinne Scannell.
“It’s hard to find a group of
girls like the one we had,”
O’Connor said, “because usually the same group only plays
with each other for a single season. So it’s huge when you do
get a group of girls that are always on the same page.”
The end result? Port Jefferson (15-2) steamrolled the competition in league play, going
12-0 with an average margin of
victory of more than five goals
per game.
A year after walking off the
field in Cortland as a runner-up,
the Royals got the red carpet
treatment upon their return to
Long Island as Class C state
champions. Their bus was es-
corted by fire department vehicles to the school where team
supporters were cheering,
chanting and holding signs.
“It was an unforgettable experience,” said Colucci, an
All-Long Island selection who
had 19 goals and 13 assists this
season. “Just walking off that
bus and knowing that we were
the first team ever for Port Jefferson girls soccer to win a state
title, it felt amazing. And to
have so many people there to
support us, it was awesome.”
Colucci’s top memory from
the state tournament is still the
sound of the final whistle in the
3-1 win over Elmira Notre Dame
in the state final. The Royals
lost, 3-0, to Bronxville in the
Class B final last season.
“I think that coming off that
loss in the finals last season, we
came back with a whole new
drive and a determination to go
one step further this season,”
she said. “So I think that it was
just that final whistle, and once
it blew, we knew we had finally
done it.”
As for next season, the Royals
return 10 seniors.
“They’re already talking
about it,” Wolff said with a
smile. “They want another.”
Walt Whitman coach John DiGiacomo said his team’s Class AA state title
WHITMAN: TOAST
Soccer champs
are now A-listers
in the community
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RICH BARNES
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Port Jefferson players celebrate after beating Elmira Notre Dame in the state Class C girls soccer finals.
In the past three weeks,
Michael Lorello, Blake Aronson
and just about any of their Whitman boys soccer teammates
proudly wearing team gear have
been stopped by a countless number of people around town.
“They’re just like, ‘Oh, you
were on the Whitman soccer
team?’ ” Aronson said.
Being a member of that team
is a pretty big deal these days.
The Wildcats defeated Ballston
Spa, 5-1, on Nov. 15 for the program’s first state championship,
and the community has been offering congratulations to the
players ever since.
“Even just going out to get
breakfast or going somewhere in
town,” Lorello said, “someone
I’ve never seen before has said,
‘Congratulations’ — people not involved with the program, people
coming up to us, saying, ‘You did
so much for the community.’ ”
The Wildcats averaged four
goals in seven postseason
matches. They throttled the competition at the state Class AA
final four in Middletown, earning their date with Ballston Spa
by defeating Hilton, 7-3.
Witman Hernandez had five
goals and an assist upstate, and
Lorello had four goals, including
two on penalty kicks in the final.
“I can’t tell you how many people have come up to me and the
boys and congratulated us,”
coach John DiGiacomo said.
“People that weren’t even soccer
fans, saying, ‘You don’t even
know what this means. This is a
huge accomplishment.’ It was a
community rallying point.”
For the team, the rallying point
occurred after falling to eventual
state champion Commack, 1-0, in
the 2014 Suffolk final. That defeat,
compounded
by
a
penalty-kicks loss to No. 1 Smith-
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Amityville resilient
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e brought waves of congratulations, “a community rallying point.”
T OF THE TOWN
WILDCATS’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Suffolk playoffs
Floyd, 6-0
Half Hollow Hills East, 3-2
Smithtown West, 2-0
Brentwood, 1-0
LI championship
Hicksville, 4-1
State semifinal
Hilton, 7-3
State championship
Ballston Spa, 5-1
town West in the 2013 county
quarterfinals, sparked this season’s slogan: Unfinished business.
The Wildcats embraced those
two words and set their sights
first on the county title, then the
Long Island championship and fi-
nally the state tournament.
“Watching everybody celebrate in front of us those games
and watching their joy, we never
wanted to feel how we felt after
those games again,” Lorello said.
“It was us doing whatever we
could to not feel that.”
The Wildcats (20-1-1) lost to
Central Islip, 3-2, on Sept. 21, but
responded with 16 straight wins.
Hernandez led the way with 27
goals and 14 assists. Lorello had
16 goals and eight assists, and
Aronson had 13 goals and six assists.
But depth made Whitman dangerous.
Sean Zagorski and goalkeeper
Austin Salas anchored a defense
that allowed 0.86 goals per game.
Anthony Palazzolo, Jon Consolo,
Fabrizio
Chamorro,
Javier
Dubon and Noel Reyes all contributed offensively upstate.
“I love all the kids that have
played for me,” said DiGiacomo,
who has coached at Whitman for
15 years, “but this was such a special group. They put themselves
into the history books.”
Before the Amityville boys
soccer team went upstate,
coach Mike Abbondondolo gathered his players. He went
around the huddle, addressing
each one and reminding them
of adversity they had faced.
The meeting served as a reminder of how far the Warriors
had come in the three years
since Abbondondolo took over
the program.
“They had to come out of the
other side of that to be here,”
Abbondondolo said.
“Here” ultimately meant back
home, three weeks after winning the program’s first state
title, still on cloud nine.
But first Victor Cobos had to
play right back rather than midfield. Haubry Gomez had to
shift from forward — where he
scored 13 goals this year — to
midfield, opening a spot up
front for Rolman Guardado, a
freshman who would score the
winners in the Long Island
championship and the state
semifinal.
“[Cobos and Gomez] might
not have been happy, but they
accepted it for the better of the
team,” Abbondondolo said.
There were other types of adversity, too, from a foundational
standpoint.
Three years ago, defender
Juan Salazar said the Warriors
WARRIORS’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Suffolk playoffs
Shoreham-Wading River 1-0 PKs
Glenn, 3-2 (2OT)
Harborfields, 3-0
LI championship
Floral Park, 1-0 (2OT)
State semifinal
Grand Island, 3-2
State championship
Pearl River, 2-0
laughed when Abbondondolo
instructed them to run two
miles in the first preseason practice. Abbondondolo said players
did not always take practices seriously, that some even missed
games for reasons such as birthday parties.
“We messed around a lot,”
Salazar said.
But once the Warriors identified Abbondondolo’s passion,
they bought into his system.
The senior group of Salazar,
Gomez, Cobos, Josue Martinez,
Kevin Ramirez and Ernesto
Gomez played three years
under Abbondondolo and
helped lay the program’s foundation.
“You definitely need those
kids to build the culture,” Abbondondolo said.
Amityville went 4-9-2 in 2013,
Abbondondolo’s first year, and
improved to 11-6-1 in 2014. This
year, with former North Carolina State midfielder Chris
Gannon joining a staff that included Mike Abbondondolo Sr.,
the Warriors won eight of their
first 10 matches. But then they
lost three straight. Adversity,
again.
“After those three games,”
Salazar said, “my hopes kind of
went down the drain.”
Abbondondolo could not
specify what changed, but Amityville (17-5) never lost again.
The Warriors, who rebounded
with a 1-0 win over Islip on Oct.
16, will take a nine-match winning streak into next season.
After Amityville defeated
Pearl River, 2-0, in the state
Class A final, Salazar and Oscar
Hernandez, who scored the first
goal, doused Abbondondolo
with ice water. They probably
laughed years earlier, in disbelief, when their coach said he
would embrace an ice bath only
if it was after a state title. This
time, they laughed again, because they couldn’t believe
what they accomplished.
“I really can’t wrap my mind
around it,” Salazar said. “Everybody knows us as ‘the state
champions’ now. Nobody calls
us ‘the soccer team.’ ”
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Amityville players have plenty to celebrate after winning the state Class A boys soccer championship.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
PATRICK E. MCCARTHY
B10
The Connetquot girls volleyball team (and mascot, which existed only in the form of posters) after winning the state Class AA championship.
BY SAL CACCIATORE
newsday.com
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Many teams have a mascot,
but Connetquot girls volleyball
is the only one with a “Rasscal.”
“We had a team mascot,
‘Rasscal The Dog,’ ” explained
Nicole Migliozzi, of the symbol
the unbeaten Class AA state
champions rallied around this
season.
It does not seem like anything out of the ordinary . . .
until you realize Rasscal is not
actually a real dog, but rather
an imaginary character of outside hitter Ashley Spencer’s
mind. It only existed in the
form of posters that appeared
in the stands during every step
of the Thunderbirds’ road to its
first state title, and on Twitter,
where
the
hashtag
#FearTheRasscal became a
team rallying cry.
Senior Katie von Kampen explained that Spencer, “the comedian on our team, came to practice one day and said she had a
dog, Rasscal.” The team found
out later that day Spencer had
simply made up Rasscal as a
joke, but as von Kampen said,
For T-Birds, it
was a fun ride
Connetquot’s perfect volleyball season: Title, cool mascot
“we kind of just ran with it.”
Silly as it sounds, the imaginary dog may have been the
perfect symbol of this Thunderbirds team, a loose, fun-loving
group that was as close off the
court as on it.
“It shows we were always relaxed, and it was something
that made us stand out from
other teams,” von Kampen said.
As opponents found out,
though, Connetquot’s fun-loving nature did not preclude intensity on the court. The 19-0
Thunderbirds dealt Ward
Melville and Massapequa its
only losses of the season in the
Suffolk and Long Island championships, respectively. In the
state tournament at Glens Falls,
Connetquot won eight of the
nine sets it played, including a
straight-set victory over Pine
Bush in the state final.
“This group of kids works
very hard every year,” coach
Justin Hertz said. “They put the
time in and they certainly deserve everything they have
achieved.”
Von Kampen, a five-year varsity player, anchored the middle and had more than 100
blocks, and provided a veteran
presence alongside Lauren
Ballinger, the team’s other senior. Libero Mackenzie Cole
led the defense, recording 450
kills, and paired with Migliozzi
(610 assists) to form an elite
passing duo.
Mackenzie Taylor shined during the state tournament, and
Cassandra Patsos, Taylor Cole
and Cory Carrara were also key
contributors to the title run,
which culminated with a fire
truck escort to the high school
on the return trip from upstate.
They were greeted that night
THUNDERBIRDS’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Suffolk playoffs
Lindenhurst, 3-0
Smithtown West, 3-0
Ward Melville, 3-0
LI championship
Massapequa, 3-0
State tournament
(Pool play 5-1)
State final
Pine Bush, 3-0
by about 100 family members,
friends and classmates.
“It was so humbling, knowing everyone had our backs,”
Migliozzi said.
“It was such an awesome feeling,” Taylor said. “Everyone
was there for us.”
And after the bus pulled onto
the school grounds, the players
gathered around a poster of
that certain fictional dog.
#FearTheRasscal.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
B11
North Shore’s Vizza:
Best times of her life
‘‘
This is my last
Bethpage race and
I wanted to go out
with a bang.”
ERROL ANDERSON
— North Shore’s
Diana Vizza
Ryan Dearie of St. Anthony’s during his race the state regionals
cross-country race held at Wappingers Falls on Nov. 28.
DEARIE, BUCKHOLTZ,
KUTCH BIG FOR FRIARS
Diana Vizza of North
Shore after winning at
the state cross country
finals Nov. 14.
AP / ADAM HUNGER
BY JORDAN.LAUTERBACH
BY JORDAN LAUTERBACH
When North Shore’s Diana
Vizza crossed the finish line at
the Nassau State Qualifier at
Bethpage State Park on Nov. 7,
it looked as if she had run the
entire cross country race on
her own. Essentially, she had.
No other Class B runner had approached matching her pace.
Her time of 17 minutes, 46.74
seconds in the 5-kilometer contest not only blew her class
away, it blew her county away.
Vizza, who won the Class B
race by a minute and a half, was
the only Nassau girl in any
class to break 19 minutes. Vizza
was no longer running as part
of the packs that has defined so
many North Shore team championships. She was out on her
own and showing the rest of
the county what she could do.
“This was the first race of the
season where I could really go
all-out at Bethpage,” Vizza said
after her state qualifier victory.
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“This is my last Bethpage race
and I wanted to go out with a
bang. I knew I was in good
shape to run it, and I had never
really executed it. I’m glad I finally ran to my potential and
my fitness.”
A week later, Vizza would
show the entire state exactly
what her potential was. Running at Monroe-Woodbury
High School in Central Valley, a
course that is generally considered one of the toughest in
New York, the senior won the
public school state Class B
championship in 18:15.6, nearly
30 seconds faster than the field.
Vizza was the second state
champion in North Shore history. Samantha Nadel won the
2011 title, coach Neal Levy said.
Excellence is the standard
at St Anthony’s. If more proof
of that is needed, the Friars
provided it at the New York
State Federation Championships at Bowdoin Park in
Wappingers Falls on Nov. 21.
That’s where they edged
Xavier, 89-91, to win their second consecutive Federation
team championship. It was
the eighth such title in school
history and the second time
they have won in back-toback years, coach Tim Dearie
said.
“It’s an amazing feeling,”
Sean Vierling, the Friars’ sixth
man at the Federation race,
said. “I ran in middle school
and always wanted to come
here and be part of the team.”
Perhaps no one knows
more about the culture of St.
Anthony’s than Ryan Dearie,
who grew up watching his father, Tim, mold the team into
a dynasty.
On a team that oozed balance all fall, Dearie took the
front position for the Friars at
the Federation meet, finishing
11th in the 5-kilometer race in
16 minutes, 19.1 seconds.
“Me and (Ryan) Kutch, and
Freddie (Buckholtz) have
pretty much been interchangeable this year,” Ryan Dearie
said. “Leading these guys to a
win feels great.”
Kutch finished 16th in
16:27.9. Buckholtz was 19th in
16:30.3.
“We really showed up,”
Buckholtz said. “Especially
the back varsity. They did really well.”
Christopher Langer was
37th in 16:42.5 and Dutch
Schultz rounded out the scorers, finishing in 17:06.5.
The victory sealed yet another trifecta of triumph for
the Friars. They topped
Xavier, 42-54, in the CHSAA
Intersectional Championship
and dominated the field in
winning
the
NSCHSAA
League Championship.
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The senior peaks just in time to win
the biggest races of her high-school
career — and both by giant margins
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
B12
Playing with purpose
Chaminade’s title
had special meaning
in support of coach
BY OWEN O’BRIEN
Before winning the CHSAA
boys soccer state title, Chaminade coach Michael Gallagher
watched with tears as his
team celebrated its Long Island championship at Adelphi
Nov. 4.
For Gallagher, it was a tumultuous day. His mother
passed away that morning in
Florida and he thought telling
his players was not “the right
thing to do.”
“I generally don’t cry at soccer games,” Gallagher said.
“That was the reason I was so
up and down.”
Following that victory, the
players spent the first half of
the nine-day stretch until the
state semifinal practicing without their coach. But the Flyers
never stopped playing for him.
“Once we beat St. Anthony’s
we were just overjoyed about
winning the championship and
then we heard the news and we
were completely devastated,”
said senior defender Kevin Lee.
“Just that feeling that your
coach had someone he was
very close with pass away, the
whole team just knew we
were playing the rest of the
season just for him and that
made us play a lot harder and
a lot better.”
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Chaminade celebrates after it cruised to winning the CHSAA state soccer championship.
Chaminade (18-2-2) — led by
captains Lee, senior midfielder
Nick Lavinio and junior forward Matt Vowinkel — won its
final two games by a combined
score of 8-0 en route to the
school’s first state title since
2010 and fifth overall.
After losing to St. Anthony’s
on penalty kicks in the 2013 and
2014 CHSAA finals, Chaminade
had motivation. And the Flyers
were rewarded by defeating St.
Anthony’s, 2-1, on the road in
the regular-season finale.
“Being able to win that
game,” Lee said, “everyone had
a feeling like we just won the
league and that’s when everyone realized this team was
something special and that we
could go far.”
And even in defeat, the Flyers learned about themselves.
Chaminade lost to Brentwood,
a Suffolk powerhouse, in the
second game of the season. In
mid-October they lost, 5-0, to
New Jersey’s St. Benedict’s
Prep, which finished co-No. 1 in
USA Today’s national high
school rankings.
Against Brentwood, Gallagher said, “We learned that
we can kind of hang with the
big boys. We proved that we
could play with anybody even
in the infancy of our season.”
After the St. Benedict’s loss,
he said, “We got our heads
handed to us but I think they
learned a lot and they stepped
up and learned what the level is
supposed to be like.”
Chaminade didn’t lose again
— thanks in large part to a
strong defense consisting of
Lee, Matthew O’Connor, Dylan
Dwyer and goalkeeper Yanni
Rigos. And as Lee called this
state championship “amazing,”
KELLENBERG TEAM SPIRIT: NIRVANA
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BY SAL CACCIATORE
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RICHARD T. SLATTERY
FLYERS’
Tori Moulder and Kellenberg
always put the team first.
A 14-1 record and CHSAA
state title are impressive feats
in their own right.
A closer look at the work and
sacrifices made by the Kellenberg girls volleyball team this
season makes these accomplishments all the more impressive.
“In the beginning of the season, we had a lot of people moving to different positions,” said
Tori Moulder, who had 263
kills. “It was a challenge in the
beginning and we had to work
out some kinks.”
“Right from the beginning,
there was something special
here,” said Tina Ceriello, who
moved from outside hitter to
libero, foregoing the chance to
rack up kills to play a defensive
role. “But for a short time, we
were trying to figure out things
out in the beginning, but I think
it worked out.”
The results bore this out, as
Moulder, Ceriello, Kate Calabro (328 kills), new setter
Megan Pfundstein (948 assists), Kiersten Cote (196
kills), Cara Kennedy (154 kills)
and Lauren Mastrianni (99.2
percent serve success rate) all
excelled.
Coach Cathy vonSchoenermarck said her team’s strength
was its “cooperative spirit, the
idea that they were willing to
sacrifice what individual needs
they had for the group.”
This ethos went beyond the
starters, and was also exemplified by reserves such as libero
Danielle Gaudet, who vonSchoenermarck said was “capable of starting for many programs and was a perfect example of someone putting aside
CHSAA playoffs
Kellenberg, 3-2
St. Anthony’s, 1-0
State semifinal
Archbishop Molloy, 3-0
State final
Canisius, 5-0
he felt it was even more special
to celebrate with Gallagher.
Said Lee, “Just seeing the
whole team and him smile after
we won that championship on
the field was just the perfect finish to my Chaminade career.”
FIREBIRDS’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
NSCHSAA league playoffs
Holy Trinity 3-0
St. Anthony’s 3-2
CHSAA state playoffs
(Pool play 6-0)
Lancaster St. Mary’s 2-0
Fontbonne Hall Academy 3-1
her own desires for the team.”
“Our goal was always to
work together and win a championship,” Calabro said. “Everyone who made the team was
there for the team.”
ERROL ANDERSON
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RICHARD T. SLATTERY
St. Anthony’s girls soccer team is all smiles after defeating Kellenberg to win its second consecutive CHSAA state Class AA championship.
Battle-tested champs
BY KENNY DEJOHN
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FRIARS’
ROAD TO THE
CHAMPIONSHIP
CHSAA playoffs
Sacred Heart, 2-1
Kellenberg, 3-0
Francesca Picicci, in action against Kellenberg in the CHSAA state
Class AA championship, scored the winning goal in the semifinal.
Another obstacle, another triumph.
“Picicci could be one of the
best players in the league next
year,” Alber said. “She’s the
kind of player who’s always
working for you but doesn’t always get recognized.”
The Friars rolled through
their remaining games, beating
Kellenberg, 3-0, Buffalo Academy Sacred Heart, 2-0, and
Christ the King, 4-1, to win the
state title.
Alber said that it was a matter of time before the new
starters began to hit their collective stride.
She was right, as the Friars
proved to be unstoppable with
Venezia,
Picicci,
Sabrina
Cristodero and Kayla Arestivo
on the attack. In goal, Camryn
Nici was a rock for a team that
started with that up-in-the-air
back line.
Credit Alber for building another champion at St. Anthony’s.
“Knowing that we play for St.
Anthony’s is a great feeling,”
Venezia said. “It’s a great feeling saying that I’m a Friar.”
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For the St. Anthony’s girls
soccer team, the 2015 season
was an emotional rollercoaster.
Team moderator Bro. Cletus
Burke died in August. He was a
stalwart on the sidelines during
games and practices, and many
considered him part of the
team. The Friars wore patches
that read “BRO” after his death.
This was the first emotional
test for a team that would win
the CHSAA state Class AA
championship on its home turf
three months later.
The remaining challenges
came on the field. Coach Sue
Alber was tasked with replacing seven starters from last
year’s state championship team,
sometimes using players who
were playing out of position.
“Coming into this year, we
lost most of our back line,”
Francesca Venezia said. “It was
hard to find a whole new back
line. She put people in positions where they weren’t as
comfortable, but they found a
way to make it work.”
By season’s end, Katrina Etts
and Alex Mazzucca were a
standout pairing on the back
line.
Next, the Friars had to overcome a tough 1-0 loss to St.
John the Baptist on Sept. 28.
“You kind of take for granted
winning a state championship,
and you can get complacent,”
Alber said. “St. John’s beating
us at our place was a wake-up
call. It was a turning point.”
Alber’s squad responded by
not losing another game.
The final potential roadblock
came on Oct. 23 in the semifinals of the CHSAA playoffs.
The top-seeded Friars went
into overtime tied at 1 with No.
4 Sacred Heart.
Francesca Picicci scored 32
seconds into the period from
just inside the box to give St. Anthony’s a 2-1 advantage and a
date with Kellenberg in the final.
JAMES ESCHER
Champion Friars
overcame adversity,
an off-the-field loss
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
B14
Arceri handles jump
Wins 132-lb class,
seeks state title,
unbeaten season
BY KENNY DEJOHN
John Arceri paced the outer
portion of the mat for nearly 20
minutes as part of his pre-match
routine, seemingly planning
every maneuver he could possibly attempt in the finals of yesterday’s 45th Annual Huntington
Holiday Tournament at Huntington High School.
The senior wrestler, who went
42-1 last season and won the
state championship in the
113-pound class, wrestled at 132
in this tournament and didn’t
have trouble adjusting.
“This is the best I’ve wrestled,” Arceri said. “I’m developing new moves and actually
using them on guys.”
He didn’t wrestle into the
third period in any match, pinning Kevin Cahill (Kings Park) in
the second, William Mejia (Huntington) in the first, Connor
Kentoffio (Patchogue-Medford)
in the second and Sterling Nenninger (Port Jefferson) in the second.
Kings Park’s AJ Leo was
Arceri’s final test, and the defending state champ pinned him on a
well-executed half nelson 43 seconds into the second. Arceri led
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Huntington’s John Arceri grapples with Kings Park’s AJ Leo before pinning him 43 seconds into the second period at Holiday Tournament.
12-0 after the first, and chose to
start on top in the second because he knew he could turn Leo
over.
“I was working my takedowns
and scoring some points,” Arceri
said. “I didn’t want to pin him
right away.”
It was easy to see the gears
moving in Arceri’s head. He
stays low, pops up quickly and
catches opponents off guard. He
plots each move, evidenced by
the efficiency with which he
wrestles (and his pre-match pacing). He works tirelessly —
though no movement is wasted
— to wear out his opponent.
“He’s a tremendous worker;
he’s in tremendous shape,”
coach Travis Smith said. “His
technique is tops in the county.
He just has to keep doing what
he’s been doing.”
Arceri said he was the first
freshman to win a Suffolk
County title for Huntington, and
now he’s looking to be the first
four-time county champion.
That’s just one of a handful of
goals he has set for himself this
season.
“State title and undefeated,
that’s what I want,” he said, confidently.
Huntington had three other
winners, as Ryan Mock (106),
Chris Bierd (182) and Khari McNeil (285) were tops in their
classes.
BY KIERAN LYNCH
newsday.com
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Entering the fourth quarter
between Garden City and Syosset, Garden City’s Kerry McCarraher knew her team had scoring options. By game’s end, it
was apparent that she was the
choice of the day.
McCarraher scored five of
Garden City’s nine fourth-quarter points and, with a late basket from Kelly George, lifted
the Trojans (2-1) to a 38-34 victory over the Braves (0-1) at
Garden City High School yesterday. McCarraher had 13
points and rounded out a game
that started with Shannon Kelly
as the hot shooter.
SCORECARD
38 : 34
GARDEN CITY
SYOSSET
“We’re all pretty equal, so we
all know we have different
strengths and different weaknesses,” McCarraher said. “We
try to spread it and if Shannon
hits a couple, then I’m open,
Bruno’s open, so it all works
out.”
The fourth quarter was preceded by eight total points in the
third quarter — five by Garden
City. There wasn’t a basket for
the first 5:10 as the Trojans led
the Braves by no more than four
points. Then momentum swung
at the start of the fourth.
McCarraher hit a shot with
6:20 left in the game, followed by
a layup from Kerry Defliese. McCarraher went to the line and
made 1-of-2 for what equaled Garden City’s biggest run of the
game — five points.
She went back to the line moments late, hit both shots and followed them up with a steal on
the other end of the floor.
George’s shot put the game out
of reach, but a basket from Syosset’s Rachel Mahler at the top of
the post made it a four-point
game. Garden City put on one
last defensive stop over a 15-second Syosset possession to seal it.
“We played pretty good, solid
half-court defense,” first-year
coach Tim O’Hagan said. “It’s
going to keep us in the games,
every game.”
Kelly had eight points, seven
rebounds and three steals. Defliese had seven points and five
rebounds, and George added
five points. McCarraher had six
rebounds along with 13 points.
“None of us is really the core
shooter, so it’s good to see who
steps up in what games, and
today it happened to be those
two,” Bruno, who had three assists, said of McCarraher and
Kelly.
Sarah Solomon pushed the
pace for Syosset, while Mahler
led the team with 12 points.
BOB SORENSEN
McCarraher’s late points spark Garden City
Kerry McCarraher scored five of
Garden City’s nine points in the
fourth quarter.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
BY JORDAN LAUTERBACH
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It’s official. North Shore’s
Diana Vizza, who was the top
Class B public school cross
country runner in New York
State this season, is among the
35 fastest in the country. Vizza
placed 34th in a 5-kilometor
race in 17 minutes, 54.30 seconds at Nike Cross Nationals,
held at Glendoveer Golf
Course in Portland, Oregon yesterday.
Sachem East’s Alexandra DeCicco finished 93rd in 18:43.90
on the incredibly muddy
course. Katie Rainsberger of
Air Academy High School in
Colorado won in 16:56.80.
There were 197 individual finishers, according to the website
Milesplit.
“It was definitely a strength
course,” Vizza said by phone following the race. “It was very
well-designed, highlighting what
HOW THEY FARED
NEWSDAY LARGE SCHOOLS POLL
TOTAL TOUCHDOWNS
40 Davien Kuinlan, Plainedge
35 Jordan McLune, Farmingdale
31 Elijah Riley, Newfield
30ChrisRosati,SWR
28 Danny Roell, Seaford
24 Dylan Laube, Westhampton
23 Brian Haeffner, Garden City
23 Jude Innocent, Roosevelt
22 Aaron Dawson, Clarke
22 Khalil Owens, Longwood
Team
1. Newfield
2. Longwood
3. Farmingdale
4. Lindenhurst
5. Oceanside
6. MacArthur
7. Hills West
8. Wantagh
9. Garden City
10. East Meadow
PASSING YARDS
2,778 Tom Walsh, St. Anthony’s
2,672RyanHofmann,Lindenhurst
2,499 Jack Coan, Sayville
2,441 Ryan Klemm, Newfield
2,152Anthony Lucarelli,HillsWest
2,130 Aaron Ruthman, Elmont
1,857 Tom Balcom, Hauppauge
1,751 Will Hogan, Syosset
1,655 Michael Catanese, Carey
1,608 Jimmy Kelleher, MacArthur
RECEIVING YARDS
852 NicoMorabito,Pat-Med
Beat MacArthur, 41-33
Beat Farmingdale, 47-28
Lost to Longwood, 47-28
Season finished
Season finished
Lost to Newfield, 41-33
Season finished
Season finshed
Season finished
Season finished
NEWSDAY SMALL SCHOOLS POLL
Team
1. Sayville
2. Shoreham-WR
3. East Islip
4. Plainedge
5. Glenn
6. Locust Valley
7. Seaford
8. Glen Cove
9. Miller Place
10. Roosevelt
RUSHING YARDS
2,781 Davien Kuinlan, Plainedge
1,985JordanMcClune,Farmingdale
1,955 Jude Innocent, Roosevelt
1,953 Danny Roell, Seaford
1,815 Aaron Dawson, Clarke
1,757CodyCunningham, H’fields
1,724 Khalil Owens, Longwood
1,600 Chris Forsberg, Glenn
1,475 Jerome Brooks III, SJB
1,431 Brian Haeffner, Garden City
Record
12-0
11-1
11-1
10-1
10-1
9-3
9-2
8-3
9-1
7-3
Record
12-0
12-0
9-2
11-1
9-2
11-1
9-2
8-3
6-4
6-4
828 Cameron Jordan, Hills West
827 Jeremy Ruckert, Lindenhurst
811 James Pryor, St. Anthony’s
779 Michael Elardo, Syosset
756 Anthony DeNicola,
Bayport-Blue Point
Beat Plainedge, 59-15
Beat Beat Locust Valley, 35-7
Season finished
Lost to Sayville, 59-15
Season finished
Lost to Shoreham-WR, 35-7
Season finished
Season finished
Season finished
Season finished
748 Frank Castiglione, North Shore
715 Elijah Riley, Newfield
707 Joe Palmeri, Lindenhurst
693 Jelani Greene, Newfield
— Gregg Sarra
and Andy Slawson
MORE ON THE
WINNERS
To see the Salute to the
Champs photo
galleries, go to
newsday.com/hs
FOOTBALL STANDINGS
PA
163
203
197
232
218
181
252
188
150
217
227
195
209
281
PWR
140.50
140.00
128.00
123.25
114.00
104.75
102.00
97.50
95.50
91.50
84.50
71.50
71.00
58.75
PA
136
224
193
189
188
237
192
275
187
223
280
208
177
266
PWR
142.75
128.25
126.75
126.25
113.00
109.00
101.75
93.50
88.75
87.00
86.25
85.75
69.75
64.00
PA
242
270
161
251
233
295
296
332
207
185
298
280
PWR
141.50
129.25
128.50
118.25
107.50
101.90
93.40
91.45
90.95
90.45
69.95
55.00
PA
91
133
198
PWR
147.25
137.50
128.25
East Rockaway ......
West Hempstead .....
Roslyn .........
Carle Place/Wheatley ....
Friends Academy .....
Malverne .........
Valley Stream South ....
Mineola..........
Cold Spring Harbor ....
Oyster Bay ........
Island Trees .......
Great Neck North .....
Great Neck South .....
5-3 5-4
211
5-3 6-4
265
5-3 5-3
180
5-3 5-4
215
5-3 5-4
182
3-5 3-6
116
3-5 3-5
134
4-4 4-4
162
2-6 2-6
94
4-4 4-4
120
2-6 2-6
102
1-7 1-7
130
0-8 0-8
48
SUFFOLK DIVISION I
W-L W-L
PF
Lindenhurst ........
8-0 10-1
318
Longwood ........
7-1 11-1
441
Northport .........
5-3 6-4
228
Connetquot .......
5-3 6-4
282
Ward Melville ......
5-3 5-4
229
Commack ........
5-3 5-4
202
Floyd ..........
3-5 3-6
115
Brentwood ........
4-4 4-5
163
Sachem North .......
2-6 2-6
109
Sachem East........
2-6 2-6
126
Patchogue-Medford .....
2-6 2-6
161
Whitman .........
3-5 3-5
146
Central Islip ........
3-5 3-5
140
Bay Shore ........
2-6 2-6
159
DIVISION II
W-L W-L
PF
Newfield ........
8-0 12-0
518
H.H. Hills West.......
7-1 9-2
409
West Islip ........
6-2 7-3
214
North Babylon ......
6-2 7-3
276
Huntington .......
5-3 5-4
231
Riverhead .........
4-4 4-5
149
Smithtown West ......
4-4 4-5
177
Deer Park ........
5-3 5-4
197
H.H. Hills East ......
4-4 4-4
157
Centereach ........
4-4 4-4
129
Bellport .........
1-7 1-7
112
West Babylon ......
1-7 1-7
114
Smithtown East .....
0-8 0-8
80
Copiague ........
1-7 1-7
110
DIVISION III
W-L W-L
PF
Sayville .........
8-0 12-0
509
East Islip .........
7-1 9-2
315
Kings Park.........
6-2 6-3
257
Eastport-South Manor ...
7-1 7-2
206
Miller Place ........
5-3 6-4
358
222
206
247
184
256
263
182
155
189
133
184
181
288
119.50
119.25
111.20
102.70
100.70
96.25
92.95
92.45
91.50
91.45
79.45
64.70
56.50
PA
162
154
201
224
197
188
186
176
191
192
253
169
193
222
PWR
165.50
157.00
132.50
129.75
128.00
125.25
116.50
105.25
88.50
88.25
87.50
87.00
86.00
78.00
PA
130
185
174
208
157
167
311
184
132
184
303
220
302
253
PWR
164.50
155.45
139.25
134.95
123.50
123.20
116.70
105.95
101.45
98.70
93.75
77.75
70.95
70.70
PA
170
182
169
200
255
PWR
151.20
144.70
130.45
126.20
125.20
Westhampton ......
Harborfields ........
Rocky Point .......
Hauppauge .......
Islip ...........
Amityville .........
Comsewogue........
Shoreham-W.River .....
Glenn ..........
Mount Sinai ........
Bayport-Blue Point ....
Babylon..........
Hampton Bays ......
Center Moriches ......
Mercy ..........
Port Jefferson ......
Greenport/Southold .....
East Hampton ......
Wyandanch ........
Southampton/Ross .....
Stepinac .........
Cardinal Hayes ......
St. Anthony’s ......
Monsignor Farrell ......
St. Peter’s ........
Iona Prep ........
Holy Cross ........
Chaminade.........
Christ the King ......
Xavier .........
St. John the Baptist .....
Fordham Prep .......
Holy Trinity ........
Kellenberg ........
St. Joseph Sea ......
St. Francis Prep ......
Mount St. Michael .....
Xaverian ........
Cardinal Spellman .....
St. Dominic ........
Kennedy Catholic .....
Nazareth .........
Long Island Lutheran ....
4-4 5-5
4-4 4-5
2-6 2-7
3-5 3-5
1-7 1-7
1-7 1-7
0-8 0-8
DIVISION IV
W-L W-L
8-0 12-0
7-1 9-2
6-2 7-3
5-3 6-4
4-4 4-5
4-4 4-5
4-4 4-5
4-4 4-5
4-4 4-4
3-5 3-5
2-6 2-6
1-7 1-7
0-8 0-8
CHSFL
AAA
W-L W-L
7-0 12-0
5-2 9-3
5-2 7-3
4-3 5-4
4-3 6-4
2-5 2-7
1-6 1-8
0-7 0-9
AA
7-0 10-1
6-1 11-1
6-1 8-2
5-2 7-4
3-4 3-6
2-5 3-6
2-5 3-6
1-6 2-7
0-7 0-9
A
4-0 8-3
3-1 6-4
2-2 3-6
1-3 2-7
0-4 0-8
INDEPENDENT
W-L W-L
0-0 2-7
262
226
167
211
113
143
110
264
234
301
238
219
257
279
119.45
103.20
94.50
92.20
87.75
83.75
81.20
PF
412
362
218
257
212
159
176
183
169
105
106
101
42
PA
81
159
126
177
140
229
246
242
153
182
190
208
339
PWR
170.50
154.70
142.75
137.25
118.95
117.00
111.95
107.45
106.45
89.45
76.20
64.70
60.45
PF
479
384
382
269
181
186
113
135
PA
163
263
264
192
245
296
239
370
PWR
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
383
299
297
268
172
178
212
121
109
137
134
172
188
217
228
255
327
287
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
348
216
109
130
58
114
218
219
293
270
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
00.00
PF
174
PA
229
NASSAU CONFERENCE I
W-L W-L
PF
8-0 10-1
364
8-0 11-1
452
6-2 7-3
263
5-3 5-4
230
4-4 5-5
331
3-5 3-6
131
4-4
4-5
288
4-4 4-5
146
4-4 4-4
158
3-5 3-5
180
3-5 3-5
126
2-6 2-6
101
1-7 1-7
84
1-7 1-7
46
CONFERENCE II
W-L W-L
PF
Garden City .......
8-0 9-1
322
Carey ..........
6-2 7-3
293
MacArthur.........
6-2 9-3
386
Wantagh ........
6-2 8-3
302
Mepham ........
5-3 5-4
236
Elmont......... .......
5-3 5-4
258
New Hyde Park ......
5-3 5-4
172
Long Beach ........
2-6 2-7
144
Bellmore JFK........
4-4 4-4
158
Sewanhaka ........
2-6 2-6
153
Calhoun .........
2-6 2-6
106
Manhasset .......
3-5 3-5
159
Westbury ........
1-7 1-7
118
Jericho ..........
1-7 1-7
89
CONFERENCE III
W-L W-L
PF
Plainedge .........
8-0 11-1
500
Glen Cove ........
6-2 8-3
446
Bethpage .........
6-2 7-3
273
Roosevelt ........
5-3 6-4
307
Lawrence .........
4-4 4-5
220
North Shore .......
5-3 5-4
299
Division .........
4-4 4-5
206
Lynbrook .........
3-5 3-6
208
Floral Park ........
3-5 3-5
134
Hewlett .........
3-5 3-5
170
Valley Stream North.....
1-7 1-7
101
South Side.........
0-8 0-8
108
CONFERENCE IV
W-L W-L
PF
Locust Valley........
8-0 11-1
400
Seaford ..........
7-1 9-2
390
Clarke .........
6-2 7-3
292
Oceanside .........
Farmingdale .......
East Meadow ......
Syosset..........
Massapequa ........
Baldwin .........
Freeport .........
Uniondale ........
Hempstead ........
Plainview JFK .......
Herricks .........
Valley Stream Central.....
Hicksville ........
Port Washington ......
newsday.com
cross country runners are all
about. A real cross country race
is one that really challenges
you. It’s not the fastest person
that necessarily wins the race.
It’s the strongest . . . It was a
solid race to end a solid season.
I’m proud of that.”
Vizza said she went out fast,
finding herself in the top 10 as
the first mile marker appeared.
“I was proud of the way I
went out,” Vizza said. “I went
out very competitively. It was
definitely better to start out
competitively and fast and not
have as good a middle. I knew I
had to get out in front of a huge
crowd because when you don’t
get a good start, you’re going to
be stuck behind people and it’s
hard to pass. Even if you’re not
going to finish in that spot, you
want to go out and show them
you mean business.”
Despite being unsatisfied
with her finish, DeCicco said
gaining experience in a national field changed her view
on running.
“You see the competition and
how many good people are
there,” DeCicco said. “It’s great
that you’re one of the people
who has the opportunity to be
there. . . . Reaching all my
goals this season and not having the race I wanted at Nationals makes me excited for what’s
to come next.”
THE LEADERS
JAMES ESCHER
VIZZA RUNS
WITH ELITE
5K CROWD
B15
ADRIAN KRAUS
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Long Beach’s Maggie Aroesty celebrates after winning the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:00.00, her third straight state title in the event.
Aroesty swam to top
Long Beach junior won 2 events, relay;
was state meet’s ‘outstanding’ athlete
BY ERIK BACHARACH
[email protected]
With every stroke made by
Maggie Aroesty, the hum of the
crowd grew louder. By the time
she flipped through the final
turn of the 100-yard breaststroke
at the state meet Nov. 21, spectators at Ithaca College’s Athletics
and Events Center were in a
frenzy, anxious to see if the Long
Beach junior could break the
one-minute barrier.
Aroesty’s winning time was 1
minute-flat, shattering the state
record that she had set earlier
this season. It was her third
straight state title in the event.
And now she has the goal of
breaking that barrier as motivation when she returns for her
senior year.
“I still have next year. Not
done yet,” she said. “It’s a really
big barrier to break, so I’m definitely going to keep working toward that.”
Two weeks after earning
MVP honors at the Nassau
championships, Aroesty was
named the most outstanding
swimmer of the state meet.
After posting the fastest time
(2:04.13) in the 200 individual
medley in the prelims, she improved to 1:58.45 in the finals —
5.68 seconds faster. And that
was her second straight title in
that event.
“I was definitely conserving
a little bit of energy in the prelims, because I knew I would
need the energy,” Aroesty said.
“And also, I have a very competitive drive. I’ve always had it.
So once I start to pull ahead, I
think the adrenaline keeps
going and it allows me to push
even further.”
Aroesty joined junior Kristen
Romano, senior Morgan Harrington and seventh-grader
Joan Cash on the 200 medley
relay that won in a state-record
time of 1:44.63.
In her previous two trips to
Ithaca, Romano was a state runner-up.
“Coming so close twice,” Ro-
LONG ISLAND STATE CHAMPIONS
Event
100 Breaststroke
200 IM
200 Freestyle
Swimmer, school
Maggie Aroesty, Long Beach
Maggie Aroesty, Long Beach
Cara Treble, Massapequa
Time
1:00.00
1:58.45
1:48.01
100 Butterfly
100 Backstroke
Kristen Romano, Long Beach
Kristen Romano, Long Beach
54.76
54.28
200 Medley relay Kristen Romano, Maggie Aroesty,
1:44.63
Morgan Harrington, Joan Cash, Long Beach
mano said, “it definitely helped
drive me this year. Every time I
got in the pool, it’s what I
thought about and was working
for.”
When Romano’s perseverance landed her at the top of
the podium — she won the 100
backstroke (54.28) and the 100
butterfly (54.76) at the state
meet — she thought she would
need the long ride home to
process it.
“It still hasn’t really hit me,”
Romano said as she sat poolside after the awards ceremonies. “But I’m sure on the
ride home, I’ll just be like, ‘Oh
my god. That happened.’ ”
Romano, a junior who was in
her first season with Long
Beach after transferring from
the Buffalo area, had never
been part of a relay team.
“She not only came in as a
fast swimmer,” coach John
Skudin said, “but she came in
as a fast swimmer and a great
person. She fit in right away. It’s
as if she grew up in the town.
And she was a leader right
away.”
Said Romano: “To share the
feeling of winning with three
other girls, it’s really just incredible.”
Romano swam backstroke,
the first leg of the relay, followed by Aroesty (breaststroke), Harrington (butterfly)
and Cash (freestyle).
“You know all about those
first two swimmers,” Skudin
said, “but our final two were
very, very strong, as well. Harrington is a great, experienced
swimmer. And Joan Cash . . .
here’s a seventh-grader, my top
sprinter, at the end of the relay.
Another huge spark for us.”
For Massapequa senior Cara
Treble, the memory of watching her older sister Molly celebrate when she won two state titles a few years ago was a motivating factor in her state bid
this season.
“It was so exciting to see how
happy she felt after it,” Cara
said. “Honestly, watching her
win, in my head I was like,
‘That’s going to be me soon.’ ’’
And this year, the moment
was hers. After posting the
fastest time in the 200 freestyle
in the preliminary round
(1:50.16), she won in a
state-record time of 1:48.01. The
Penn State-bound senior also
placed third in the state 100
freestyle (50.70).
“For this to be the way I go
out as a senior,” Treble said, “I
couldn’t have scripted it better.”

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