Melville Swimmers send many to state meet

The Section 11 Swimming Qualifiers for girls was held today at SCCC Brentwood campus pool. Ward Melville's Ladty Patriots won the overall "Team" aspect with 452 points, with Connetquot second with 336 points.

The 400 yd Free relay was won by Melville swimmers and they finished second in the Medley Relay and 200 yd Relay races.

Individual performances were outstanding. Corinne Vairo, in the first photograph, was second in the 200 Free event. Jessica Fabrizio was fourth in the 100 yd Breast race and is shown in the second photo.

At the end of the long meet, a group photo was taken of the swimmers who qualified for the states. A detailed listing of the meet results can be found on www.iaswim.org .

Suffolk Count Champs....Ward Melville Field Hockey

Ward Melville High Schools field hockey team avenged their only defeat in the season, defeating Smithtown East 1-0. The win gives the Patriots the Suffolk County Championship in Class A play. The lone score by Becca Arent came on an assist by Georgia Holland. Goalie Lauren Tarantino achieved her 14th shutout of the season with the win.

In a post game celebration, Samantha Jacobson and Kaila Malone celebrate with Tarantino, who had a stellar defense and saved two shots on goal for her shutout.

Melville Volleyballers defeat Bay Shore, Are in Final

I had time to visit the Ward Melville Volleyball team in their semifinal tonight. My usual effort for the North Shore Sun had the day off as the schedule thins out. This is the natural progression as semifianls and finals eliminate all but the best. Melville has not had much coverage this season due to cutbacks at it's local paper. Perhaps these will make up for some of that lack of photo coverage.

1.)Haley Blunt gets a kill from the outside.

2.)Leigh Anne Brazier also gets a kill.

3.) Alexa Stonish digs out a By Shore serve.

4.)Kristin Bendy also gets a kill.

Ward Melville Field Hocky Semifinal win

Ward Melville's field hockey team earnred a trip to the finals and a deciding game with Smithown East, the only team to blemish their record this year.

In their game againt West Babylon, they came out firing and quickley ran up a 4-0 score before coasting for the rest of the first half and giving up two goals to West Babylon. The Patriots had not given up more than a single goal in any game to date this year.

Abby Beltrani, seen in the first photo, scored twice and had one assist. In the photo, she is about to stroke her second goal of the game early in the second half.

The second photo is a post scoring celebration

Ward Melville runners excel in Cross Country Qualifer

Friday November 6 saw two Ward Melville cross country runners qualify to be Suffolk County Class AA runners in next weeks New York State Championship. They wil travel to Plattsburg NY for the event along with other individuals who also qualified.

It was a cold windy day at Sunken Meadow State Park, but the conditions were good for the runners. The Class AA encompasses the largest number of schools for Cross Country, surpassing the total number of schools in Classes A, B, C and D, combined. The latter three classes are small on Long Island, but populous in upstate New York. Today's qualifing event was to qualify a team of seven and five individuals in each class for both boys and girls.

Quinn Raseman won the Class AA race in 16:18.82, outrunning his closest rival by nearly 17 seconds. In the girls race. Caroline O'Hea was fourth in 19:21.40 and teammate Mary Kate Anselmini was fifth in 19:22.50. Both will run next week in the state race. Northport's girls and Sachem East's boys will send seven person teams to Plattsburg.