The Northport High School Tiger Marching Band performed in front of 65,000 fans at the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Florida, on New Year’s Day.

Taylor Moreno, Huntington High School’s 17-year-old football kicker, could be picked out of the group by her light brown hair, neatly fixed in a French braid hanging out of her helmet onto the back of her No. 2 jersey. “To see her in the lineup on the sidelines and you see all these big guys and the back of their helmets and then you see my daughter with the braid down the back of her helmet,” said Taylor’s mother, Theresa Moreno, 46. “It was a really cool image.”

Four Huntington High School field hockey players captured post-season awards at the Suffolk Field Hockey Coaches Association’s annual awards dinner at Villa Lombardi’s in Holbrook.

Greenlawn-native Chris Algieri got back in the win column Saturday night with a unanimous decision over Erick Bone in a 10-round welterweight bout at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The crowd at Town Hall Tuesday gave the Walt Whitman High School’s Wildcat Marching Band a round of applause, but it was not for one of its outstanding performances. This time, it was to acknowledge a big recent achievement: capturing its first New York State band championship. 

Three days before retaking the ring at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where he once became a world champion, Greenlawn native Chris Algieri compared himself to his next opponent, Erick Bone.

The Cold Spring Harbor School District announced that seven of its female high school athletes have signed letters of intent to attend Division I colleges. The students include five lacrosse players, a soccer player and softball player.

Don’t let her size fool you. She may look small, but she is strong. When 17-year-old Daniela LoCastro starts a race, her muscles are defined with each stride, revealing her quadriceps and sculpted arms. “The school security guards just call her machine because she’s running around the school so often,” said Sal LoCastro, 52, Daniela’s father.

The Walt Whitman Wildcats won the high school’s first-ever state boys soccer championship this weekend.

With her brown hair tied back into a low bun, 14-year-old Camille Roberts smiles widely to her coach before approaching the diving board. Once she reaches the board, where she’s spent most of the last five years of her life perfecting her craft, her smile turns to a look of determination.

Former world champion boxer Chris Algieri, formerly of Greenlawn, will get back into the ring at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Dec. 5.

Same score, different outcome.

Claiming its first boys soccer county championship since 1996, Whitman defeated Brentwood 1-0 last night, one year after the Wildcats fell to Commack in the Class AA championship game by the very same score.

Tom Femminella, a Massapequa native who is Massapequa High School’s all-time leading scoring and played college ball for Catholic University in the mid-2000s before going on to coach at Hofstra University and then Ward Melville High School, is beginning to fight against what he said has been a recent downswing in the production of homegrown basketball talent on Long Island.

Cold Spring Harbor Seahawk fans were shouting and routing on their players in blue and red, as the high school football team fought hard against the Roslyn Bulldogs at their homecoming game Saturday.

Quarterback Anthony Lucarelli threw for 228 yards and four touchdowns as the Colts of Half Hollow Hills High School West dominated their homecoming day with a 42-7 win over Riverhead (2-4).

Sitting in the top-third of Suffolk’s Division III standings, it’s easy to be impressed by what Harborfields’ field hockey team has accomplished on the field this season – and is poised to continue when playoffs begin Saturday.

But the Lady Tornadoes aren’t just making strides on the field -- they’ve made them off of it, as well.

As the Colts of 2015 dominated Riverhead during High School West’s homecoming game Saturday afternoon, a Colt of yesteryear was visiting his old stomping grounds.

Stephen Bowen, a 2002 Hills West graduate and current defensive end for the New York Jets, joined the Colts on the sidelines for their homecoming game.

After a pep rally saw thousands of St. Anthony’s students flood the school’s gym with homecoming spirit Friday afternoon, the Friars undefeated football team responded with a decisive 45-17 victory over Chaminade that night.

Junior quarterback Kenny Chavez rushed for three touchdowns, including a 35-yarder in the second quarter, to lead High School East on its homecoming day 27-7 over Smithtown East. The win was the Thunderbirds’ first this season.

Though they eventually fell to Sachem North 25-22, the Wildcats of Walt Whitman High School’s football team didn’t give up without a fight on homecoming day.