With sweat on their brows and smiles on their faces, Commack’s varsity girls basketball team celebrated in triumph as the final buzzer went off, sealing a 51-50 victory over the Baldwin Bruins to become the 2014 Class AA Long Island Champions.

The night ended in Commack’s favor, but the game was anything but a cakewalk. 

Read on for our full recap of the game, along with what is up next for the team!

Congratulations to the 2014-2015 Cougars, who earned Commack’s first-ever Class AA girls basketball Suffolk County championship with a win over top-seeded Huntington (21-1), a team that hadn’t lost all season long!

Read on to learn more about this exhilarating game, along with information on the Long Islander championship game they will be playing next!

Twenty years ago, A.J. Preller was preparing to step onto the baseball diamond for the Wildcats of Walt Whitman High School. Today, the Class of 1995 graduate prepares to send a team of his own out onto the diamond: the San Diego Padres.

On August 6, 2014, Preller was named the general manager of the Major League Baseball (MLB) club and became the second-youngest general manager in professional baseball.

Read on to learn about Preller's journey in sports management and how his upbringing in Huntington helped him get where he is today!

Trailing Copiague by 10 points to enter the fourth quarter on Wednesday night, the Colts needed a spark - and in stepped Jon Faraci, or "Mr. Fourth Quarter," as Head Coach Bill Mitaritonna calls him.

Read on to learn how Faraci helped sink back-to-back 3-pointers to give the Colts the spark they needed to win, and how their victory sent No. 2 Hills West (19-2) to its first Class AA final since 2011 and was an incredible achievement for the team!

A coach since he was just 15 years old, Dix Hills Soccer Club’s Rocco Avallone was honored on Jan. 25 by the Italian-American Soccer League of New York (IASL), which recognized him as the 2015 Italian-American Man of the Year. 

Read on to learn about Avallone, what he has given to our local community, and why he truly deserves the recognition he has received!

The Walt Whitman High School varsity cheer team reaped the rewards of more than six months of dedicated practice, becoming the first cheer team in the school’s history to make it to the finals in the National High School Cheerleading Championship (NHSCC).

The team last week competed against the top 54 teams for the small varsity Division 1 category in the 2015 NHSCC preliminary round in Walt Disney World, Florida. They were one of 27 teams to advance to the semifinals and moved to the finals for the first time in Wildcats history. They went on to finish 17th in the nation.

Read on for the full scoop on this amazing accomplishment!

Huntington High School, Walt Whitman High School, Harborfields High School, and Cold Spring Harbor High School - all 4 schools recently won prestigious honors in their respective track programs!

Read on for our extensive coverage of all four schools, including stories on every single track team and how it did in its recent competitions, including which students took home which honors!

An old adage in bowling suggests, “When in doubt, throw the rocket to the pocket.”

Greenlawn native Mike Fagan took that advice, and with it, won his second Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) major and fifth pro title – the PBA World Championship, contested at South Point Bowling Plaza in Las Vegas Jan. 11.

Read on for the full scoop on Fagan, his incredible career, and his most recent victory in the field of pro bowling!

Two-time defending Section XI champion John Arceri led a parade of five Huntington High School wrestlers to weight class titles at the Kohl Invitational tournament at Suffern last Saturday.

Huntington’s five-for-five performance in the finals impressed its opponents and the crowd filling the Suffern High School gym.

Read on for the full story on this outstanding showing!

Halfway through what has so far been “a successful season,” as its coach described it, the Commack High School girls fencing team has marked a milestone: a win over Ward Melville that marks the end of Ward Melville’s 195-game winning streak and has pushed Commack to the no. 1 spot in the league.

Until Commack’s team achieved the 14-13 victory on Jan. 6, Ward Melville had not lost a game in 10 years, Commack Coach Robert Raeihle said.

“Finally we’re moving out of the shadow of Ward Melville,” Raeihle said.

Read on to learn more about Commack's girls fencing team, their victory over Ward Melville, and what is in store for them next!

Starting fast is something Michael Porcello, head coach of the Northport/Huntington Ice Hockey Club, emphasizes as his team prepares for a playoff push in the Suffolk County High School Hockey League.

On Sunday, though, Northport/Huntington (13-3) struggled with that as it found itself behind 1-0 less than two minutes into play against Half Hollow Hills (3-11-1).

Read on to learn how this dynamic game ended!

When it comes to 2014 accomplishments on the soccer pitch, St. Anthony’s High School is the bee’s knees.

Both the boys and girls teams were crowned New York State champions. Both teams were state champions in the same season for just the second time in school history. For the boys, the Friars repeated as state champs. Boys Head Coach Gene Buonaiuto earned his 400th career win. And the girls’ head coach, Dave Prutting, won his 21st state title and retired with a record of 437-46-19 over a 27-year career.

Read on to learn more about this incredible year and how both teams feel about their momentous achievements!

For Elwood’s Blue Wave youth wrestling program, the word “team” describes more than just the boys who suit up and take to the wrestling mats sporting the Blue Wave name at tournaments all over the Northeast. During practices, parents double as coaches, older siblings do the same, and alumni or friends of the program often make appearances to help out the up-and-comers.

When Head Coach Thomas Giaramita built Blue Wave wrestling in 1999, he started more than just a team, he started a family; a family set on the goal of building an Elwood wrestling dynasty.

Read on to learn more about this incredible program and the multitude of young lives it has impacted!

The Northport High School bowling team came to a halt in 2011 when beloved math teacher Elliot Klein was diagnosed with brain cancer and left the bowling program - and when Klein passed away in June 2013, it seemed as if the Lady Tigers bowling program (which had seen middling interest over the years) might die alongside him.

Thankfully, the Lady Tigers have rebuilt the program over the years, and are beginning to come back strong!

Read on to learn the inspirational story behind the girls' recent season and what is up next for the team.

Emerging from the preseason with a tournament win under their belt, the Whitman Wildcats and Head Coach Thomas Fitzpatrick were rightfully excited as they looked forward to the official start of the 2014-2015 season.

The Walt Whitman boys hoops team defeated hosting Islip High School, 66-63, on Dec. 6.

And now, they're getting ready for their game tomorrow (12/12)! Read on now for the full scoop!

A little more than two weeks after Greenlawn’s championship-winning boxer, Chris Algieri, fell to World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title holder Manny Pacquiao in China, the 30-year-old has returned to Huntington.

While the St. Anthony’s High School graduate has been enjoying his relaxation time, there is a major controversy that’s undoubtedly been causing the champ some stress. Algieri and his team at Star Boxing, his promoter, are in the midst of a battle with the WBO, which is trying to strip him of the junior welterweight title he won in June.

Read on now to learn the full story!

Motivated by a special cause this year, Harborfields’ girls soccer teams raised over $10,000 for the “Kicks for Cancer” program, collecting donations to benefit a family of Harborfields High School students who recently lost their mother to cancer.

Adopted by the Suffolk County Girls Soccer Coaches Association, “Kicks for Cancer” raises funds for families with loved ones directly impacted by the disease.

Read on to learn how the girls were able to raise this incredible sum of money, and how it help the family it was given to!

For the second straight year, Elwood’s John Glenn Knights made it to the Division IV football finals. Unfortunately for the Knights, it’s also the second year they were runners-up.

A motivated, energized Shoreham Wading River Wildcats squad defeated the Knights in a 47-10 final Saturday afternoon at the Kenneth LaValle Stadium at Stony Brook University.

Read on for our recap of the game, along with Elwood coach Dave Shanahan's thoughts on the game, his team, and the past season as a whole.

Statistics, trends and history – all three of these things play a big role in the game of football.

Statistically, Half Hollow High School West was averaging 30.6 points per game this season and has had past success in the Suffolk County championship game, winning the title in 2009. On Saturday, though, when Hills West (9-2) took on East Islip (8-3) in the county Division II championship game at Stony Brook University, the Colts were without one of the game’s most crucial aspects: execution.

Read on for our recap of the game, along with what Head Coach Kyle Madden had to say about both his team and their season as a whole.

For St. Anthony’s High School’s varsity soccer programs, fitting the boys and girls teams’ accomplishments this season into just one sentence is nearly impossible – but here it goes.

Both teams became New York State champions last week; both teams are state champions in the same year for just the second time in school history; for the boys, the Friars repeated as state champs; boys Head Coach Gene Buonaiuto earned his 400th career win; and girls Head Coach Dave Prutting won his 21st state title and retires with a record of 437-46-19 over a 27-year career.

Read on to learn more about how both teams broke these records and how both rode through stellar seasons in their journey to emerge triumphant as they did!