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1 month ago | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
Speaking midweek ahead of his team’s regular-season finale, Long Beach softball coach Carmine Verde pointed to his club’s most recent outing – a 13-4 league win May 7 over Nassau Conference 5 foe Valley Stream North – as suitable to serve as the perfect model of Marines dominance this spring. Then the weekend happened.
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1 month ago | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
Even in setting a school all-time mark with 17 strikeouts on the day – a game-high in Nassau this spring – Kennedy pitcher Derek Yormack found he’d been overshadowed. By himself. Leading his Cougars to a 10th straight win – a streak that has stretched to 14 games at Herald press time – Yormack used his record-setting outing to hurl his first no-hitter, blanking league foe Long Beach 6-0 at home on April 24 as Kennedy stayed unbeaten in Conference AA3 baseball and secured first place.
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2 months ago | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
Capping a 4-0 run to start the season, South Side sent defending county Class A girls’ lacrosse champ Massapequa to its first league loss, 15-11, on April 3.
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2 months ago | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
A non-league near takedown of reigning county Class AAA champ Oceanside served as further confirmation in the mind of Carey softball coach Anthony Turco. His Seahawks sitting 3-1 to start the season as they faced host Oceanside March 31, Turco’s takeaway from his team’s ensuing 11-inning setback, 5-4, was that Carey may have been defeated – but it hadn’t lost its new swagger.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
East Meadow’s pre-meet mock results had shown a narrow path to victory: If team stalwarts could run the table at the Nassau Class A Track and Field Championships, East Meadow, for the first time in 21 years, would be the girls’ county indoor champion. The Jets’ event modeling proved accurate.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
It couldn’t be happening. Not again. Valley Stream Central’s Jamin Legagneur had just led his Eagles boys’ basketball team to a statement win Dec. 19 at league foe Jericho, the breakout VSC senior scoring a team season-high 34 points before ankle issues forced his exit with less than a second remaining. Head coach Mike Wimmer, who in camp this winter expressed relief his squad had returned to full health from a season beset by injuries, had a moment of deflated deja vu.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
After Elmont’s league opener at home Dec. 10, the Nassau Conference AA5 boys’ basketball pack may have sensed there was blood in the water. In a rematch of last year’s county Class AA title game, the reigning state-champ Spartans – having lost four starters to graduation – emerged from a scrap against South Side with a stinging 10-point league loss. It would be Elmont's last, to date.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
Second acts in movies generally introduce heightened conflict. For Calhoun’s girls’ basketball team, this season’s second half presents the chance to settle some scores, said Colts head coach Dan Catapano – whose club at the midpoint has jelled, he said, in time to write its own major plot twist. Following its 42-40 league loss at Sewanhaka Jan. 8, Calhoun (5-9 overall, 2-6 in Nassau Conference AA2) unloaded on league foe Glen Cove, blasting the visiting Big Red 61-26 at home Jan.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
As a first-year-starting guard last season, Oceanside's Camryn Weinberg stood out in a supporting cast around Sailors girls' basketball teammate Brianna Amenta, whose captivating run as a senior to 1,000 career points culminated last February. Now her club's captain and sole returning starter, Weinberg – whose 22 points in a Sailors non-league win over Hewlett Jan.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
liherald.com | Garrett D. Uribe
A pair of All-State repeat Nassau champions lead a Long Beach wrestling team that looks to defend its Conference A2 title after going unbeaten in league last winter at 5-0 (13-2 overall). Marines phenoms Dunia Sibomana, ranked No. 1 in Nassau Division 1 pre-season at 116 pounds, and Ethan Andreula, No. 1 at 101, took a third and second county title last season in Division 1, respectively – Sibomana at 108 pounds, Andreula repeating at 101.
