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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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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As difficult as it is to beat a quality opponent three times in the same season, Mepham accomplished the feat against Oceanside on the soccer pitch this fall and the latest decision — 2-1 last Friday — earned the Lady Pirates a trip to the Nassau Class AA semifinals.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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11/13/12
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Mepham’s served up plenty of aces on its way to victories in each of its first eight matches on the tennis court. With just three matches remaining, the Lady Pirates were battling Plainedge for the top spot in Conference III-B.
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By Steve Siniski
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10/10/12
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Mepham’s made some considerable changes to its defense for the 2012 season, but the Lady Pirates still kicked things off with a 2-1 start including a split of Conference AA-1 games.
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By Steve Siniski
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9/19/12
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In the blink of an eye, the Mepham Lady Pirates moved from also-rans to near frontrunners in Nassau Class AA track and field. After a strong winter season brought hope, the spring track team turned the potential into results.
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By Steve Siniski
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6/13/12
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In one of the stranger endings to any softball game, let alone a postseason matchup, a dead ball run awarded after a wild pitch with runners on first and third and one out in the bottom of the ninth pushed No. 2 East Meadow past No. 7 Mepham, 1-0, in the quarterfinal round of the Nassau Class AA playoffs.
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By Steve Siniski
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5/15/12
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Mepham put together its most complete softball game of the season last Monday at Oceanside, pounding out nine hits to back the strong pitching of sophomore Toni Valeriano in a 3-0 Conference AA-I victory.
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Tony Bellissimo
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4/17/12
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Mepham’s come out firing on the lacrosse field and notched a second straight win with a 16-10 win over Sewanhaka on April 2. The Lady Pirates (4-3 overall, 3-2 in conference play) have piled up 31 goals with junior Nicole Stackpole standing front-and-center in the recent scoring surge. She scored 10 times and added six assists in the two wins, but is just one of several key cogs on a team whose scoring has become as balanced as legal scales.
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Steve Siniski
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4/13/12
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Trailing No. 4 Uniondale by 17 points less than a minute into the fourth quarter of a Nassau Class AA girls’ basketball quarterfinal playoff game Feb. 22, fifth-seeded Mepham made one final push.
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Tony Bellissimo
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2/27/12
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