So impressive were the Long Beach Marines offensively in their 32-6 victory over Bellmore-JFK in the Conference II season opener for both teams last Saturday, they didn’t even have to score to make their point.
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By Tom Jordan
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9/11/12
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Our community was heartbroken to hear that one of our own, Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr., was killed along with two other fellow Marines while serving our nation in Afghanistan.
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9/6/12
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The solemn sound of bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace” mixed with the throaty roar of motorcycles as the hearse carrying Lance Cpl. Gregory T. Buckley’s body pulled up in front of St. Agnes Cathedral last Saturday afternoon.
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By Alex Costello
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8/22/12
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Thirty-two wounded soldiers from different branches of the armed services and their families marched in the fourth annual Long Beach Waterfront Warriors welcome parade on Sunday, July 22, as hundreds of residents, filled with patriotism and pride, lined the streets.
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By Vanessa Canner
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7/25/12
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In what’s become an era of specialization, the three-sport high school athlete is a dying breed, albeit far from extinct. Finding a three-sport varsity head coach is much more difficult, but they do exist.
With all due respect to those pulling triple duty in cross-country, winter track and field, and spring track and field in what seems like every school in the Herald’s coverage area, coaching three entirely different sports put Baldwin’s Darius Burton, East Rockaway’s Joe Lores, Long Beach’s T.J. Burke and West Hempstead’s Chris Van Kovics in select company.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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7/5/12
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When Long Beach senior David Henry leapt 45-feet, 1-inch to win the Nassau Class AAA Triple Jump championship last month, coach Greg Milone referred to it as the “best jump of his life.” As it turned out, it was merely a sign of bigger things to come.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/21/12
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For the second time in three seasons, the Nassau County boys’ tennis doubles champions reside in Long Beach.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/15/12
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A youth-filled Long Beach team stockpiled one-goal victories this spring and made an impressive run to the Nassau Class B girls’ lacrosse semifinals on the strength of playoff wins over Roslyn and Plainedge.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/6/12
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Corey Lovrich, a 21-year-old Long Beach resident and former high school lacrosse star who helped lead Jacksonville University’s fledgling lacrosse team to memorable wins as its captain, and is …
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Vanessa Canner
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6/1/12
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Long Beach hung with undefeated Garden City for much of the first half of its Nassau Class B boys’ lacrosse semifinal playoff matchup at Hofstra on May 23, but the top-seeded Trojans proved too deep and talented in the end.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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5/31/12
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