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Add one more piece of hardware to Steve Borbet’s illustrious resume.

Borbet was named the Mike Byrnes Coach of the Year by the National Scholastic Sports Foundation. Borbet was the 10th recipient of the award, which was given out on the final day of the New Balance Outdoor Nationals last Sunday at Greensboro, North Carolina.

Borbet has been a coach at Bay Shore since 1975 after spending...

The last few weeks for Uniondale's 4x100 have been about one-upping themselves.

They won the state Division I championship at the state meet last Friday. Not content with that, they followed that up the very next day by taking the Federation crown and setting a Nassau record.

Yesterday, the Knights did themselves two better--a national championship and a Long Island record.

The...

The Garden City girls are at it again.

The team of Taylor Hennig, Emma Gallagher, Laura Jaeger, and Alexis Yeboah-Kodie set a Long Island record in the sprint medley relay at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals at Greensboro, N.C.

The foursome, who also won the Federation championship in the 4x400 last Saturday, took second place in 3:56.55. Cosby (Va.) won in 3:55.17.

Bay Shore’s...

CICERO—We’re just about 12 hours away from the official start of the 2012 state meet at Cicero-North Syracuse HS. We took a look at the girls meet yesterday, so let’s continue our 2012 state track previews with the boys meet.

Just as before, I break down each event by division (if applicable), let you know which Long Islanders are competing in what event, and give you a quick thought about...

We’re less than 48 hours away from the start of the 2012 state meet at Cicero-North Syracuse. A ton of Long Islanders are heading upstate, and there are more than a few who could come away with a title. So what should you be watching for through both days of the meet? Which events are going to feature the hottest competition? Which events do someone from Long Island have the best chance of taking...

Many high school athletes play multiple sports throughout the school year, and sometimes have the privilege of winning a championship in one, two or even three of them.

Not so many, however, win two Long Island Championships in two different sports, in a span of six days.

On Monday, Cold Spring Harbor’s Tim Schnier was part of a winning doubles pair in Cold Spring Harbor’s fifth consecutive...

Let the countdown begin.

With the Suffolk state qualifying meet in the books, we are officially on the clock for the state meet at Cicero-North Syracuse HS next weekend. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait until Friday to get your Long Island track fix. Let’s take a cooldown lap of the Suffolk state qualifiers, with notes and quotes that may or may not have made the paper:

-- The...

Quinn Gleason of Honeoye Falls-Lima High School (Section V, Genesee Valley) won her first-round match at the NYS Boys Tennis Championships at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Thursday, to advance to the second round of the winner’s bracket.

Gleason is the only female player participating in the boys tournament this season.

She had competed on the girls tennis team at her school...