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Louis Hernandez continues to dominate opponents on the wrestling mat. A junior at Mepham, Hernandez repeated as a Nassau County champion Feb. 12 when he defeated East Meadow’s Mike Tropiano, 22-5, in the 145-pound title bout at Hofstra, leading the Pirates to an impressive third-place finish in the team standings.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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2/19/13
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Merokean Tammy McLoughlin recently pulled a fast one on her father, Joseph Metzger III, and he couldn’t have been happier — or prouder.
McLoughlin told her dad that he had to –– he just had to –– come with her to watch the Jan. 29 Mepham-Calhoun junior-varsity girls’
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By Scott Brinton
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2/12/13
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Three Bellmore schools produced a total of 10 champions in the 15 individual weight classes, with Mepham capturing six, while Kennedy and Calhoun each had a pair of title winners.
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By Steve Siniski
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2/7/13
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Mepham High School librarian Shari Stack said she could not have predicted three events in the past three years of her life: that she would suffer a stroke at age 29, that she would have a second one 16 months later, and that she would tell a national television audience about the attacks on “The Dr. Oz Show” a year and a half after that.
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By Julie Mansmann
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1/31/13
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Eight days after playing its worst half of the season and suffering a 31-point blowout loss at Mepham, a complete team effort lifted Long Beach to a 41-36 upset victory in the rematch last Friday that kept it in contention for the Nassau Conference AA-III girls’ basketball title.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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1/29/13
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Led by coaches Nicole Kyriacou DeBonis and Jayna Kyriacou Von Gerichten, the Mepham varsity cheerleadering squad took first place in the co-ed division of the Hudson Valley Cheer Championships on Jan. 19.
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1/24/13
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Mired in a four-game slide after a strong start and desperate for a win to get back in contention for a Nassau Class AA boys’ basketball playoff spot, Kennedy didn’t waste an opportunity to take advantage of a struggling rival last Friday.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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1/22/13
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Winthrop-University Hospital’s Pediatric Department in Mineola overflowed with toys of all shapes and sizes, from dolls to board games, on Jan. 4 when New York State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr. and his helpers from Mepham High School delivered a load of goodies collected before the holidays.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/16/13
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For her senior science thesis, Calhoun High School researcher Emma McNamara studied macaque monkeys to better understand the relationship between the morphology, or structure, of females’ canine teeth and their dominance in the social hierarchy of their troop. By studying teeth molds at New York University’s Anthropology Department and films of macaques in the wild, she found that females with bigger canine teeth equaled or surpassed the aggressiveness of males.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/15/13
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Mepham saw both sides of the victory spectrum last week, getting a buzzer-beating three-pointer from freshman point guard Allie Murphy for a 51-48 win over Herricks on Jan. 8, and then coasting to a 49-15 win over Elmont last Friday.
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By Steve Siniski
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1/15/13
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