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St. John the Baptist junior Mark Reilly won the CHSAA individual championship on Thursday, defeating Chaminade’s Luke Koskovolis in a sudden-death playoff. Both Reilly and Koskovolis shot a one-over 73 at Eisenhower Red, forcing the tiebreaker on a par-5 hole which Reilly birdied for the win.

St. Anthony’s won the team championship with a score of 378, barely edging out defending champion...

No. 1 Half Hollow Hills (15-0) defeated No. 2 Whitman (11-4) 8-1 to win its third straight Suffolk Girls Badminton Championship. This is Hills’ third consecutive undefeated season. The Thundercolts have won 45 straight matches dating back to 2009.

Hannah Finger defeated Carrie Simone 11-3, 11-2 at first singles. Finger finishes the season 15-0, her third consecutive undefeated season.

“The...

No. 2 Port Washington (14-1) defeated No. 1 Calhoun (13-2) 4-3 in the Nassau County Girls Badminton Championship on Monday.

Isha Gupta and Julianna Beall defeated Michelle Giutsin and Rachel Ross 20-22, 21-16, 22-20 in the deciding first doubles match to clinch the win for the Vikings.

“I’m very happy for the girls because they played their hearts out,” Port Washington coach David O’Connor...

The Ward Melville boys track team did something last week that no other team before it has done—win a league title.   The Patriots won their first league championship in the school’s 52-year history, defeating Sachem East 77-64 last Tuesday in a battle of previously-undefeated League II teams.   “We’re ecstatic,” Ward Melville coach Jerry Vessichio said. “It’s just been a great season.”...

St. Anthony's senior Mike Brunoforte set a Long Island pole vault record Saturday in the Loucks games at White Plains with a jump of 16 feet, one inch.

Brunoforte is only the second Long Islander in history to clear 16 feet, according to pole vault coach Jim Henderson. Nick David of Mount Sinai had the old Long Island record of 16-0 in 2007.

Brunoforte's winning mark was also a St. Anthony's...

Karen and John Acompora were at Port Jeff Bowl last Sunday for Hope Reindl’s “re-birthday” party – a celebration of the one-year anniversary of the teen’s averted sudden cardiac death.

Reindl, a Comsewogue High School senior, last year had collapsed during an intramural basketball game and stopped breathing for six minutes. Her life was saved by coaches Rick Miekley and Justin Seifert, who...

Elmont's Valencia Hannon won the 100-meter dash at the Glenn D. Loucks Games on Friday in a wind-aided time of 11.81 seconds.

It's a school record for Hannon, who shattered her previous mark of 11.87 set at the Federation championship last spring, coach Mike Graham told Newsday.

"She was third out of the blocks," Graham said of the two-time defending 100-meter dash Federation...

No. 1 Sacred Heart defeated No. 3 St. Anthony’s 4-1 on Tuesday at Catiague Park to win the CHSAA Girls Golf Championship. Sacred Heart finishes the season with a 15-1 record.

Junior Stephanie Sullivan shot a five-over 35 to lead the way. Sophomore Tatiana Reali shot a 37.

“The girls did a great job,” first-year coach Ken Carter said. “They are a pleasure to be around. I really enjoyed...

The 2012 St. Anthony’s Invitational is history, and so are some very memorable, noteworthy performances—too many to fit into the paper, in fact.  So without further ado, let’s take a quick cooldown lap of all the action that may or may not have made the Sunday paper:

-- A TON of meet records went down over the course of the weekend. The proud owners of those new records are, in no particular...

Four Long Island youth hockey players were drafted into the top Junior Hockey leagues in the U.S. and Canada this week.  

In the United States Hockey League Futures Draft, Brandon Fortunato (Portledge, L.I. Royals) was taken 14th overall in the first round by the Green Bay Gamblers, Daniel Willett (Locust Valley, N.J. Rockets) was taken 18th overall in the second round by the Lincoln...