10.22.2025 Sports Riverhead field hockey barely misses playoffs in coach’s final season Before the Riverhead field hockey season started, head coach Cheryl Walsh-Edwards felt that if they won the games they should and won some they shouldn’t, a playoff berth was...
10.01.2025 Sports Blue Waves girls soccer finds success in developmental league When Section XI opened up a developmental league in 2024, Riverhead varsity girls soccer coach Kasey Mandery scoffed at the idea. But after going 0-15 last season, it’s something...
09.22.2025 Sports Blue Waves football falls short despite Hobbs’ monster night When Don Nelson took over the football program at Riverhead High School this year, he vowed that his team would play a full 48 minutes on the football field...
09.03.2025 Sports Blue Waves boys soccer substitutes ‘me’ for ‘we’ There’s a certain pressure on a team that knows it has the ability to win but just can’t find a way to do it. Every year, it’s the same...
08.13.2025 Sports Riverhead star pitcher Zambriski is bound for St. John’s By NCAA rules, collegiate teams aren’t allowed to formally contact any player and offer an athletic scholarship until Aug. 1 of their incoming junior year. Once that date rolled...
08.01.2025 Sports New coach, new goals for Riverhead H.S. football Coming off of one of the most disappointing seasons in recent history with a record of 1-7, Riverhead High School’s varsity football team has been putting in the work...
06.23.2025 Sports Riverhead High School names new boys soccer coach The Riverhead varsity boys soccer team has never made the playoffs in over 50 years of its existence. New coach, Nic DeZenzo, is looking to change that, but he’s...
05.08.2025 Sports Blue Waves surging as softball playoffs approach After dominating the competition last year on route to a school-first undefeated regular season — and with most of the team returning — a similar performance from the Riverhead...