Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Warriors tie the best-of-three series with a 3-2 win over the Bulldogs Thursday.
Two of the best baseball players in Nassau County battled it out for nine innings Thursday - both on the mound and in the batter's box. Wantagh's Greg Welch and Island Tree's Mike Jeannetti both tossed 9 inning complete games and hit home runs, with Welch and Wantagh coming out the victor Thursday, 3-2. With the win, Wantagh ties the best of three game series at a game a piece, after falling in the first game 3-1. "[Jeannetti's] a great pitcher, he put it all out there. I put it all out there," Welch said. "Fortunately, I came out with the win." Island Trees got on the board first when Jeannetti hit a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Kyle Nigro. That 1-0 lead would prove to be short-lived. On the very first pitch the next inning, Welch …
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Bulldogs can clinch trip to semifinals with win Thursday against Warriors.
With Island Trees’ two top pitchers Mike Jeannetti and Matt Bowen unable to work in game one of Wednesday’s Nassau County Class A quarterfinal series at Wantagh, Mike Ahrens knew he needed to step up his game. The senior righty did just that tossing a complete-game seven-hitter in a 3-1 win that puts the Bulldogs one win away from the semifinals. “It was a battle all the way through,” said Ahrens, who was not in the Island Trees starting rotation at the beginning of the season. Ahrens was penciled in as the starter after Jeannetti and Bowen racked up plenty of innings in the Bulldogs' playoff loss at top-seeded Clarke Saturday and its victory over crosstown Levittown rival Division in an elimination game Monday. Wantagh avoided having to …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Schools celebrate their favorite poets during "Poem in Your Pocket Day."
In recognition of May as National Poetry Month, students throughout the Levittown School District celebrated their favorite poets during “Poem in Your Pocket Day.” At Gardiners Avenue Elementary School, Hempstead Town Councilman Gary Hudes, Levittown Superintendent of Schools Dr. James Grossane, Assistant Superintendent for Business and Finance Mark Flower, and many other guests read poetry to various classes during the day. Grossane reminded the students in Ms. Poulos’s class that poets often place meaning in their works. “Poems can be fun and silly, but sometimes they have a message or a moral,” he told the students as he read poetry from Jeff Moss’s The Butterfly Jar. Flower read “Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog” to first-grade students in …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The Bulldogs advance to the quarterfinals with a walk-off bases loaded single by Steve Connelly in the bottom of the eighth.
An intense rivalry match up between Division and Island Trees baseball came down the wire Monday. With the winner advancing to the Class A quarterfinals and the other team going home, even more was at stake. After falling to Division in last year's county finals, Island Trees players refused to be sent home again. Late heroics by two of the Bulldog's big hitters gave them just enough juice to push past Division, 4-3, in an 8 inning game. “We definitely had that [game] in the back of our heads,” said Steve Connelly, one of Island Trees' key offensive players. “We weren’t going to take that this year." In the fourth inning with the score tied at 1, a couple of infield errors by Island Trees would allow Division to pull ahead with an early 2-…
Top-seeded Island Trees beats Wantagh 6-1 Monday to advance.
Last year's 15-9 Nassau County Class A semifinal loss to Seaford is still is fresh in the minds of the Island Trees softball team and this Thursday the Lady Bulldogs will get a chance at redemption. Island Trees (17-2) advanced to the Class A semis on Monday with a 6-1 win against ninth-seeded Wantagh in the quarterfinal round. The loss ended a historic season for Wantagh (12-5), which was coming off its first playoff win in eight years on Saturday against North Shore. "We said in the winter in the gym that we are not going to forget about it," said Island Trees head coach Mike Bongiorno referring to last year's playoff heartbreaker to Seaford where the Lady Bulldogs surrendered a seven-run lead to the eventual Nassau County champions. "…
East Meadow teacher has made a big impact in the lives of his students.
Rich Santer, a lifelong Levittown resident and East Meadow teacher, has been named the Turner N. Wiley Teacher of the Year by the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. Santer has been bringing his students to the Challenger Center for simulated space missions since 1996. Throughout his 26-year teaching career in the East Meadow School District, Santer has involved his students in a multitude of special space education programs. Santer's students have had two experiments selected by NASA for flight on Space Shuttles (STS 102 & STS 108) and have interviewed astronauts on the International Space Station via HAM radio and studied the Earth using the Space Station’s camera. More recently, his current 5th graders have photographed the…
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Chris Appell's two-hitter propelled the Rams to victory over Island Trees Saturday.
The Clarke baseball team carried the momentum from its undefeated season into its first round match-up with Island Trees, and that resulted in a 6-0 Rams’ win. Chris Appell was stellar on the mount for Clarke, as he struck out three and walked four in a complete game shutout. He helped himself at the plate as well, as he hit a sharp grounder in the third inning that lead to the Rams’ first two runs. “I felt good,” Appell said. “My pitches were working, and I kept throwing strikes and hitting my spots, which is important.” After Appell’s two-run hit, Jayson Garcia scored on a wild pitch to give Clarke a 3-0 lead. The Rams increased their cushion in the fifth when Joe Fusco and Joe Carmine drove in runners with RBI hits. After Jesse Russo …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The boys finish with an impressive league record of 13-1.
The Island Trees High School boys track team recently took a ride through the Gold Coast of Long Island. The team was victorious against Cold Spring Harbor, Locust Valley, and North Shore, bringin their final league record to 13-1. School records were set by Stephen Schmidt and the 4 by 1 relay team. Schmidt set his record by throwing the discus 129 feet. The record-breaking relay team consisted of Lucas Pugliese, Phil Sellitto, Tyler Blauvelt, and Anthony Leonick, as all of these students also won their individual track events. A second 4 by 1 team, Kyle Kelly, Christian Bours, Tommy Brownstone, and Joey Darcy, took 3rd place at the meet.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The team scored wins over Wantagh and Oyster Bay last week and over Division Monday.
The Island Trees girls badminton team is in the midst of a 9-1 season that sees them tied atop the Conference IV standings. The Lady Bulldogs shut out Westbury on April 18, Clarke on April 23 and Manhasset on April 24 prior to a 5-2 victory over Wantagh on April 25. According to Newsday, they followed that stretch with a 4-3 win over Oyster Bay. The win moved them into a tie with Oyster Bay for the conference lead. Newsday reports that the Lady Bulldogs shut out Division 7-0 on Monday to move their record to 9-1. As of last Wednesday, first singles player Julie Riley and second doubles team Victoria Mulligan and Alyssa Pascual led the team with 7-1 records. First doubles team Kelley Marlow and Mira Gor are 7-3 through Monday's action. …
Monday, April 30, 2012
The Molloy student's story was featured on a Hofstra student-run news program.
A Division grad's college lacrosse-playing exploits were recently featured on a Hofstra student-run news program. Brian Farley is no ordinary athlete. The Molloy senior is playing at the Division II level despite being blind in one eye. According to the Long Island Report, Farley started playing lacrosse while he was a sophomore at Division Avenue High School. He was recruited to Molloy and has five goals and one assist in his senior season. Farley graduated from Molloy in December and, according to the Long Island Report, plans on working in financial analysis after his senior season. The video was produced by Hofstra student Kevin Dexter for the School of Communications program's news journal show "Hofstra News Now."
Susan Maher
2:01 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Well done, Rich!!! more ›