Brian Heyman

New York

Contributor at Newsday

Sports Writer at Freelance

Award-winning sportswriter in the New York area. Covers professional, college and high school topics.

Articles

No. 4 St. Anthony's boys lacrosse falls short against No. 2 Spalding

6 days ago | newsday.com | Brian Heyman

Robby Hopper unleashed just this unstoppable rocket from about 15 yards away that landed in the net before you could blink. It was a head-turning goal in a game-turning run. Archbishop Spalding came up from Maryland to St. Anthony’s and showed Thursday why it's the nation’s No. 2 boys lacrosse team. The Cavaliers posted a 12-8 win over the No. 4 Friars, who were No. 1 just last week in the USA Lacrosse rankings.
St. Anthony's boys basketball responded to coach's challenge

1 week ago | newsday.com | Brian Heyman

Sal Lagano wasn’t thrilled at halftime. “Angry” was the word the St. Anthony’s coach used. Here were the Friars playing in the CHSAA Class A state championship game at Fordham’s Rose Hill Gym on this March Saturday, and they were trailing by nine against a St. John’s Prep team they had beaten in December. They didn’t come this far to lose on the last day of the boys basketball season, not after winning 24 of their 27 games and claiming the program’s first NSCHSAA tournament title since 2020.
Massapequa boys lacrosse rides fast start in win over Wantagh

1 week ago | newsday.com | Brian Heyman

By the time halftime arrived in Tuesday’s Power League game, Massapequa's boys lacrosse team had put on a powerful show against defending Nassau Class C champion Wantagh, scoring nine of the 10 goals. “We were playing some of the best lacrosse that we’ve been playing all season,” said junior attackman Tyler Byrnes, who posted all three of his goals and his lone assist in the first half.
WNBA Draft: Wings take Paige Bueckers No. 1 overall

1 week ago | newsday.com | Brian Heyman

This was the moment for Paige to turn the page. “With the first pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft, the Dallas Wings select Paige Bueckers, University of Connecticut.”The next big thing for the league heard those words announced by commissioner Cathy Engelbert at The Shed at Hudson Yards in Manhattan on Monday night.
Smithtown East, Smithtown West lacrosse teams unite for cause

1 week ago | newsday.com | Brian Heyman

Cameron James stood on his home turf at Smithtown East having just delivered four goals and three assists to help fuel a 16-6 win over rival Smithtown West amid the drizzle and the biting 20-something wind chill. The Yale-bound junior attackman could be warmed by those thoughts and even more by his other contributions on this day, because Saturday was about more than just lacrosse. It was East vs.
Newsday's All-Long Island boys basketball first team 2025

1 week ago | newsday.com | Ben Dickson |Brian Heyman

Newsday Player of the Year: Kayden Mingo, Long Island Lutheran, G, 6-3, Sr.For four years, Kayden Mingo poured his all into the Long Island Lutheran boys basketball program. As LuHi reached new heights, Mingo, a Farmingdale native, was a constant. There was the jump from independent status to the National Interscholastic Basketball Conference in 2022, which expanded into the Nike EYBL Scholastic Conference in 2023.
Newsday's All-Long Island boys basketball second team 2025

1 week ago | newsday.com | Ben Dickson |Brian Heyman

Isaiah Blunt, West Hempstead, G/F, 6-4, Sr.Blunt, a two-time All-Long Island selection, averaged 21.3 points, 10.2 rebounds, 1.6 steals and 1.5 blocks across a season that ended in the Nassau Class A final. “Isaiah is a tremendous athlete and talent,” coach Eric Rubin said. “Whenever our team needed a basket, we could turn to Isaiah, and more often than not, he would come through.
Luca Cuozzo scored 47 seconds into overtime to lead Huntington lacrosse over Smithtown East

1 week ago | newsday.com | Brian Heyman

Julian Watts thinks this Huntington boys lacrosse team has a chance to do something special this season. The coach’s Blue Devils did something Thursday that should make them believers, too. After Smithtown East delivered a jolt, forcing OT as time ran out in regulation, Huntington didn’t get deflated. Luca Cuozzo won at the faceoff X, then scored his third goal 47 seconds into the extra session to give the Blue Devils an exhilarating 8-7 home win.
LI boys lacrosse spotlight: Sayville a contender; Dom Passannante leads LuHi

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Brian Heyman

Christian Doller is thinking that he has a contender to claim a Class C crown in Suffolk. Two reasons: “The experience and the quality,” the longtime Sayville boys lacrosse coach said. The Golden Flashes have flashed positive signs early on, going 4-1 following a 10-6 season that came with no postseason. The 2025 highlights so far have included scoring 21 goals three times and beating Smithtown West 14-6. The loss was against Port Washington from Nassau’s power league, a 6-5 decision in OT.
Eighth-graders Peter Weston and William Mondiello lift LuHi

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Brian Heyman

There were eighth graders everywhere you looked out on Long Island Lutheran’s turf, a bunch of boys out there in the home white jerseys having fun playing varsity lacrosse on a cold, damp day. And you know what? Those kids looked pretty good. LuHi started eight of its 10 eighth graders. Two contributed three goals apiece, Peter Weston and William Mondiello. Team leader Dominic Passannante stood out at the other end.