Boys Soccer: Down two early, Blue Waves rally for win
Riverhead junior Phil Barabanov scores the game-winning goal in Monday’s win over West Islip. (Credit: Robert O’Rourk) BLUE WAVES 3, LIONS 2 For what was the biggest game of the season thus far, things...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Late goal propels Panthers past SWR
Shoreham-Wading River’s Dan Mahoney fires a shot in the final seconds of Tuesday’s game that hit off the crossbar, just missing on an equalizer. (Credit: Robert O’Rourk) PANTHERS 3, WILDCATS 2 Andrew...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Postseason honors for Riverhead
Members of the Riverhead High School boys soccer team showed off their awards at the awards dinner in Holbrook. From the left, goalkeeper Ryan DiResta (all-conference), defender Noah Markewitz...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Riverhead’s Antunes decides on Dowling College
Riverhead senior forward Anthony Antunes signed a national letter of intent to play for Dowling College. Joining him in the signing ceremony on Tuesday were his parents Rosa and Jose and his brother...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Blue Waves building foundation for season during summer
Darwin Villatoro scored two goals for the Blue Waves in Monday’s summer league win. (Credit: Robert O’Rourk) A familiar theme emerged in recent years around the Riverhead boys soccer team. After coming...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: At SWR, DeMaio does a little of everything
Three-sport athlete wouldn’t be the correct term to describe Shoreham-Wading River’s Doug DeMaio. Sure, he plays three sports on the varsity for the Wildcats. That’s only because there’s not enough...
View ArticleBoys Soccer Preview: Wildcats hope to ride momentum into new season
A year older and a year wiser, the Shoreham-Wading River High School boys soccer team could be on the verge of starting something big. The Wildcats have as many as nine starters and 17 players...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Blue Waves rally back from two down
Sometimes throwing away the playbook leads to the best result. Trailing against Centereach Monday afternoon and trying to a mount a rally from two goals down, the Riverhead Blue Waves moved a defender...
View ArticlePlayoff brackets released for soccer, field hockey
The Riverhead field hockey team made it back-to-back playoff appearances after finishing the regular season with an 8-6 record in Division II. The Blue Waves will open the postseason Saturday on the...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: After scoreless draw, SWR drops playoff opener
Eighty minutes of regulation, 30 more of overtime and 10 combined penalty kicks all failed to yield a winner Thursday afternoon. So Shoreham-Wading River and Amityville marched on, another round of...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: After injury last year, Riverhead’s Swett eyes comeback
As a newcomer to the Riverhead varsity soccer team last fall, Malcolm Swett played an abbreviated season as he fought through an injury. When he was on the field, he helped anchor the defense at...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Mercy gives varsity team the boot this year
In order to restructure the program, Bishop McGann-Mercy High School has decided not to field a varsity boys soccer team this fall season. The school wants to make sure the varsity is able to compete...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: SWR counting on new sweeper to clean up
This will be a season of change for the Shoreham-Wading River High School boys soccer team. Not only will the Wildcats play home games on their new Thomas Cutinella Memorial Field, but they will do so...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: A healthy, improved Camarillo is back
Angel Camarillo’s high school varsity soccer career had started so promisingly last year when, as a sophomore, he started the first two games of the season for Riverhead. And then, just like that, his...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: After finishing last, Blue Waves are promoted
The Riverhead High School boys soccer team’s reward for finishing last in Suffolk County League III last season wasn’t a demotion, but rather a promotion to League II. Due to changing school...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Villatoro scores twice for Waves in loss at Northport
Jack was nimble, Jack was quick. And Jack Wetzel was able to score a hat trick. The junior forward accomplished the feat in the opening 18 minutes of Northport’s 7-2 win over visiting Riverhead in a...
View ArticleBoys Soccer Preview: Is tide turning for Blue Waves?
The tide just might be starting to turn for the Riverhead High School boys soccer team. Seventy prospective players turned out for preseason camp and new coach Evan Philcox kept 52 for the varsity and...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Result secondary to Riverhead goalie’s injury
The result didn’t matter, only the health of Angel Camarillo did. The Riverhead High School boys soccer team dropped a 4-0 loss in its Suffolk County League II opener on the Blue Waves’ first game on...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Sayville rallies from two-goal hole against SWR
The Shoreham-Wading River boys soccer team learned a difficult lesson Friday, even when school wasn’t in session. “It’s not over until its over,” said coach Russ Mitchinson, who watched his team...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Wildcats check off all the boxes
Shoreham-Wading River coach Russ Mitchinson certainly liked what he had seen in his team’s 5-1 home victory over Riverhead in non-league boys soccer action on Tuesday afternoon. Anthony Guzzone scored...
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