Michael Hejmej
Got a spare bedroom? Riverhead Tomcats seek host families for baseball players this summer
The Riverhead Tomcats of the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League are looking for families who have space to house a baseball player this summer.
Waves eliminated from playoff contention with 7-3 loss to Colts
Following every loss, each member of the Riverhead Blue Waves baseball team is mandated a home run lap for every point the team lost by. The four laps following Friday afternoon's 7-3 loss to Half Hollow Hills West were just a little tougher as each player rounded the bases completely deflated, unable to keep their chin up.
Waves overpowered by Lions, 18-5
Riverhead community smiles on Michael Hubbard and his mom with LAX fundraiser tournament
Hundreds of lacrosse players, assembling 28 teams from all across the East End, came together for a mini-tournament in Riverhead PAL’s first-ever “LAX for a Smile” fundraiser to help pay for the costly medical care of Michael Hubbard, a Riverhead student who was severely burned by a gel "firepot" explosion in May 2011 and remains hospitalized.
Waves score crucial win as season winds down, defeating North Bab 18-12
With a burning passion to succeed, the Riverhead Blue Waves may have punched their ticket to the Class A lacrosse playoffs for the first time in team history with Saturday afternoon’s victory over North Babylon, 18-12.
Boys LAX: Northport 15, Riverhead 11
"Look," Riverhead head coach Victor Guadagnino said as he pointed to his face. "I'm not even mad.
"How can I be mad when my team plays with this," Guadagnino said pointing to his chest.
How could a coach be mad at a team that came back from a 14-4 halftime deficit, finishing the game only down by four goals, 15-11?
It was a tale of two halves for the Blue Waves.
Baseball: Pt. Jeff 14, McGann-Mercy 6
After a promising first inning, the McGann-Mercy baseball team folded Tuesday afternoon in a League VIII match-up, falling to Port Jefferson 14-6.
Boys LAX: Waves take Floyd in double OT, 9-8
‘He bleeds blue and white,’ says Riverhead Blue Waves football coach Leif Shay of Maysonet
Riverhead's Miguel Maysonet, the 5-10, 209-pound All-American, who led the Stony Brook Seawolves to a program record 10-win season in 2012, passed over in the 2013 NFL draft, was offered a contract by the Philadelphia Eagles less than an hour into his free agency Saturday night.
A very happy ending to a long day of ups and downs for former Blue Waves football star
There was jubilation at the end of a very long day in Aquebogue.
The air was thick with excitement and anticipation all afternoon Saturday at the home of Riverhead police detective Tim Hubbard and his wife Lisa, hosts of an NFL draft party where the guest of honor just happened to be a likely late-round NFL draft pick.
