Thanks to some staunch defensive play by Mepham and a clutch corner kick executed by twin sisters Sali and Safi Ayinde, the Lady Pirates advanced in the Nassau Class AA girls' soccer playoffs with a 1-0 win at Baldwin. more

Baldwin junior Tana Weekes dazzled the crowd with his one-on-one ball skills for much of last Friday’s Nassau Class AA first-round boys’ soccer matchup with Kennedy. But it was one of Weekes’ quickest and simplest passes that sparked the No. 8 Bruins (13-0-2 overall) to a 2-0 victory. more

The final week of the regular season is here for Nassau County football teams, and a bunch of playoff berths remain up for grabs. more

Calhoun captured a share of the Conference III regular-season title with a four-set win over Floral Park on Monday. more

East Meadow's win streak is at six after the Jets took advantage of Baldwin's early mistakes. more

Three straight wins, a 4-2 mark in Conference II after six games and the playoffs set squarely in its sights. Not a bad run for a Mepham football program bouncing back like a superball after a 1-7 mark in 2008. more

A blast off the foot of Chris Martelli with 11:08 remaining gave visiting Carey a 1-1 tie with Kennedy in a Conference AA-II boys’ soccer game on Oct. 14. more

Lynbrook improves to 6-0 in Conference III with a hard-fought victory at Hewlett, thanks in large part to Tom DeNapoli. more

Take a quick glance at the box scores for Kennedy's girls' soccer team and a different sport immediately comes to mind: softball. The way the Lady Cougars (5-3 overall, 5-2 in Conference IV) are scoring goals—they're averaging 5.3 per game over the last four, it sure doesn't seem like it's soccer they're playing. 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