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Jan 13, 2025 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
The season is going well according to Freeport boys’ basketball head coach Daryl Johnson, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement amongst the Red Devils. Currently, the team is mired in a two-game losing skid, the most recent defeat coming last Saturday at the hands of Valley Stream South, 80-73, in overtime. Noah Patterson, Freeport’s point guard and leading scorer, banked in 20 points. Shawn Broyles added 12 points and Jacob Jordan chipped in 9.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
After its 68-54 victory over New Hyde Park last Saturday, the Mepham girls’ basketball team is on a five-game win streak with an 8-3 overall record. Makayla Daube and Sophia Beck posted double-doubles to lead Mepham to the win, with Daube scoring 26 points and grabbing 15 rebounds, and Beck adding 20 points and 10 rebounds. Daube also crossed the 1,000-career point threshold.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thehofstrachronicle.com | Michelle Rabinovich
The College of Charleston’s offense was just a notch too good for the Hofstra University women’s basketball team in their first loss in conference play, 64-51, on Friday, Jan. 11. “Tough game for us,” said Hofstra’s head coach Danielle Santos Atkinson. “They are very aggressive, which we knew, they’re very intense defensively, we knew they were going to press us for 40 minutes.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
A couple of games into the season and it’s time for the West Hempstead boys’. basketball team to do a temperature check. In the Rams’ Dec. 17 game against East Rockaway, a 58-42 win, senior Isaiah Blunt lead the pack with 27 points after scoring 22 in the first half. “He’s athletic, he can score as well as anyone probably on Long Island but definitely in Nassau County,” head coach Eric Rubin said.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
The wrestling season is underway, and the Uniondale wrestling program is aggressive to get to the mat. For coach Tim Godoy, the season has been going on for quite some time, carrying lessons from the summer and fall. “Preseason’s really been about not only just training for wrestling but mentally training as well,” Godoy said.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
Coach Elissa DiSalvo didn’t exactly have a royal flush in-hand with the Massapequa boys’ volleyball roster this year: a good chunk of the 2023 team graduated, multiple positions needed to be changed and the influx of new players meant they had to be brought up to speed. It was only a matter of time before the Chiefs starting jelling together, with practices or games Monday-Saturday, followed by Sunday brunches. It was all by design, because DiSalvo knew that chemistry would be make or break.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
Mepham’s girls’ volleyball program made history Monday afternoon. It took four sets for the Pirates to secure the Nassau Class AA championship in a revenge-match rematch of last year’s county title game against Long Beach, winning 25-21, 17-25, 25-17, 25-20. “They just came together and played incredibly, supporting each other, never got down, had the momentum most of the game; blocking was outrageous, serve receive was best I’ve seen all year,” Mepham coach Tom Wildeman said.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
Dealt its first loss in five regular seasons, at the hands of Manhasset no less, so South Side’s girls’ cross country coach Chris Webster needed a 180 flip for his and his team’s mentality“For this particular race it wasn’t about the girls individual times, they’re all very active, competitive runners, and they’re always looking at their watch to see if they’re going to have a personal best or not.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
Valley Stream North boys’ volleyball has plenty of tough, balanced competition coming up if it wants to keep playoff hope alive. “[We’ve been working on] consistent play. We know we have the skillset, we just need to be more consistent with our abilities,” said coach George Karahalios. “Sometimes we don’t reach the ability that we can at all times, so that’s something that we’ve been working on.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
liherald.com | Michelle Rabinovich
Calhoun boys’ volleyball has a tall task ahead of it: replicate last year’s March Madness-like playoff run, one where it entered from a low seed and made it all the way to winning a county championship. “We really just believed in each other and believed we could win and once we won that first playoff game, we were like ‘alright, let’s go, we can do this,’” Colts coach Ryan Pastuch said.
