East Meadow’s more than holding its own on the volleyball court despite an overall record that’s hovering just below the break-even mark. more

Junior Mike Marano’s goal with 14 minutes remaining earned visiting South Side a 2-2 tie with Garden City last Friday in a Nassau Conference ABC-I boys’ soccer game. more

With four games to play, Lynbrook, 4-1-3 in Conference ABC-II boys' soccer and 6-2-3 overall, has every reason to believe it can capture the top spot. more

A pair of first-half goals off the foot of sophomore Christie DeMarco propelled Valley Stream South to a 2-1 victory over Clarke in a Conference ABC-IV girls’ soccer game on Oct. 8. more

When the 2009 season began, East Rockaway/Malverne girls’ soccer coach Joe Lores knew finding the back of the net would be a challenge. more

As they have at recent Central District Board of Education sessions, roughly a half-dozen parents and members of a recently formed, ad hoc community group, Time for Turf, spoke again at the Oct. 7 board meeting, reiterating their desire to see artificial-turf football fields at Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools. And, they said, they're not going away. In two recent meetings at which Time for Turf members spoke, they were unchallenged in their calls for synthetic-turf fields, with Central District officials primarily listening to their concerns and, most recently, forming a district committee to examine ways to improve all of Central's 31 athletic fields at its three high schools and two middle schools. This time, the calls for artificial turf were met by vocal opposition from Fred Kleiman, a local resident. Repeatedly noting the per-field cost for synthetic turf of more than $1 million, Kleiman said it would be "fiscally irresponsible" of the Central District to consider such a proposal, given that it would likely mean a property-tax increase amid a deep recession. more

Anyone who witnessed Carey’s triumph over Elmont last Saturday knows much of the glory should go to the boys in the trenches after the Seahawks’ convincing 24-12 win. more

Oceanside’s scoreless drought reached four games and its winless streak five with a 1-0 home defeat to defending Nassau Class AA boys’ soccer champion Massapequa on Oct. 8. more

The high school football season turned the corner last week and Nassau saw four teams knocked from the ranks of the unbeaten, leaving Freeport, Massapequa, Garden City, Lynbrook, Seaford and Roosevelt with unblemished marks through five games. more

A lucky break for the Bruins and an even luckier bounce for Plainview-JFK resulted in a Conference AA-II boys’ soccer deadlock last Friday, allowing the former to stay undefeated and the latter to gain a valuable point in the playoff race. more