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Girls Track & Field Preview: New Mattituck coach is a sprinting specialist
GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Shannon Dwyer, a pentathlon veteran, working on her hurdling during Mattituck’s practice on Monday. When it comes to track and field, it’s no secret that Mattituck High School...
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Girls Track and Field: Tuckers walk away with personal records and medals
GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Mattituck’s Sarah Goerler, center, competing in the 100 meters in the Hampton Invitational on Saturday at Hampton Bays High School. HAMPTON INVITATIONAL Track and field athletes...
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Girls Track and Field: New track gives Tuckers some bounce
PREVIEW The long jump is one of the events Mattituck sophomore Alya Ayoub excels in. (Credit: Garret Meade, file) If the athletes on the Mattituck High School girls track and field team have a...
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Girls Winter Track Preview: New team’s first steps are encouraging
The unusual opportunity afforded to the new Mattituck High School girls winter track team was outlined by its coach, Chris Robinson, before its first official competition. Prior to the crossover meet...
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Winter Track: Tuthill’s ‘best race of my life’ brings her county title
High school winter track is a different animal than the spring version in a number of ways. That includes the makeup of the Section XI Championships. In the winter season, teams are not divided into...
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Girls Track and Field Preview: From the start, a league title may be at stake
The race for the Suffolk County League VIII girls track and field championship may be decided right out of the starting blocks. That was the case last year when Bishop McGann-Mercy defeated Mattituck,...
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Girls Track and Field: Mattituck, Mercy are fit to be tied
While the final event of the evening played out, the real drama occurred on the infield grass at Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan High School’s Harold T. Murray Memorial Field. Mattituck assistant coach...
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Girls Track and Field: Mattituck races to its first league title in 16 years
After all the raw days of cold, rain and wind this spring, nice weather finally made a belated appearance for the Mattituck High School girls track and field team on Monday. It has been a while. Then...
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Girls Winter Track: After long season, Pfennig could use some rest
When the topic is Melanie Pfennig, the Mattituck High School girls winter track coach, Chris Robinson, doesn’t spare the praise. And it’s high praise, indeed. Discussing the season Pfennig has had,...
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Girls Track and Field Preview: Pfennig’s farewell season
The Mattituck High School girls track and field team has fond memories of 2016. After all, it was the year that brought the Tuckers their first league championship in 16 years. A remarkable 73-73 tie...
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Girls Track and Field: Mattituck’s depth too much for Mercy
It’s not something that is seen every day, an athlete from one team cheering on an athlete from another team, a rival team at that. But there was Kait Butterfield of the Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan...
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Mattituck runner signs with D-I Monmouth
Sometimes when members of the Mattituck High School girls track and field team are sweating through a tough workout, coach Chris Robinson poses a question for them: Does anyone want to do Melanie...
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Girls Track and Field: Mattituck 4×100 relay team in final
When it came to putting together a 4×100-meter relay team, eighth-grader Bella Masotti seemed like a natural fit with veterans Alya Ayoub, Amy Macaluso and Meg Dinizio. For one thing, Masotti brought...
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Girls Track and Field: Several Tuckers qualify for state meet
Alya Ayoub may have felt like jumping straight up in the air and yelling, “Whoopee!” She didn’t, though. The Mattituck High School senior restrained herself, out of consideration for those long...
View ArticleTrack and Field: Four Mattituck girls compete at state championships
Much like the Olympics, there are no do-overs in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Track and Field Championships. When the time comes, an athlete must be ready to perform and...
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Girls Winter Track Preview: Numbers are up in Mattituck
The numbers don’t lie. Mattituck High School’s girls winter track team is on the upswing. Last season the Tuckers had 17 athletes on the roster. This season they have 39. “We have a lot of girls,”...
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Girls Winter Track: Masotti propels Mattituck relay team
Bella Masotti had traffic in front of her by the time Claire Gatz handed the baton to her, but that didn’t last long. Masotti had several runners in front of her. Like a rocket, the Mattituck High...
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Winter Track: Gaffga found her niche in long jump
Winter track — at a small school especially — can draw an odd assortment of athletes from other sports. Call them hybrids. Jaime Gaffga would qualify as one of those. A volleyball and softball player,...
View ArticleGirls Track and Field: Dinizio leads charge for Mattituck
This has been a good run for the Mattituck High School girls track and field team. Coach Chris Robinson sees no reason for it to end just yet. Mattituck ran through all six of its Suffolk County League...
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Girls Track and Field: Two speedsters pace Tuckers
Speed thrills. More importantly, as far as a high school girls track and field team is concerned, speed wins. Mattituck has speed, especially in the form of sprinters Meg Dinizio and Bella Masotti,...
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