Despite an inauspicious 0-8 start, Hofstra softball coach Bill Edwards didn’t think the Pride was too far away from a successful February and believes good things are on the horizon for 2012.
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Tony Bellissimo
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3/13/12
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Like each of its 650 members, POPS softball keeps getting better with age. When Merrick resident Keith Pastuch founded the league in 1999, it got off the ground with four teams and never in his wildest dreams did he think it would one day swell to 38 with a waiting list.
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Tony Bellissimo
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7/20/11
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Coming off a stellar season, the West Hempstead Rams, the defending League ABC-V Conference VI softball champions, figured opponents would be gunning for them this spring.
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Andrew McClure
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5/4/11
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Staring down the barrel of a third straight loss against Nassau Conference A-III softball rivals, West Hempstead got the bats going in a big way in the bottom of the sixth inning against Mineola to earn an 11-2 victory.
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Tony Bellissimo
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4/13/11
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Fresh off a school record-tying 45-win campaign, Hofstra returned all but two starters to the softball field and appears primed to make more noise on the national scene.
The Pride, which lost a …
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By Tony Bellissimo
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3/17/11
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Updated: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 11:29 p.m.
Merrick’s 12-year-old Williamsport softball team, a.k.a. the "Merrick Madness," has won the New York State Softball Championship, defeating Garden City South 13-6 in Canastota, N.Y. on July 28, according to Bill Haddad, president of the Canastota Little League.
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David Weingrad
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7/28/10
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With the sun burning down at midday, it was a hot one on June 24, well past the 90-degree mark. The parched infield at Merrick Road Park in Merrick turned into a mini-dust bowl whenever a play was made in the double-header between the Floral Park Knights and the Glen Cove Cobras.
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Scott Brinton
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6/28/10
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After a rough 2009 season, it has been a banner year for West Hempstead on the softball field.
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Andrew McClure
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5/12/10
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After struggling to score runs during last year’s 5-11 finish, West Hempstead softball coach Chris Van Kovics wants to put more pressure on defenses with an aggressive approach.
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Tony Bellissimo
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4/7/10
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There came a moment some 28 years into my marriage when I realized no one ever prepared me for living with another human being, in close quarters, for an open-ended amount of time. Naïve, you say? No, as a marriage veteran, I realized that it's a solid gold, mind-blowing miracle when a marriage lasts. No one is prepared for the challenges of the long haul. No one is counseled properly. No one can know what to expect.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/26/10
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