Seventh-seeded Long Beach entered the Nassau Class AA softball playoffs struggling on offense and mired in a three-game losing streak, but came out swinging in last Friday’s opening-round matchup against No.10 Hicksville and scored four runs on six hits in the first three innings.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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5/14/13
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The regular season hasn’t gone as planned for Long Beach’s girls’ lacrosse team, which lost its third straight and six of the last seven games May 2 when North Shore rolled to a 12-3 Conference I victory.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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5/7/13
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Defending state Class B champion Garden City got the best of Long Beach on the lacrosse field again, this time knocking the Marines from the ranks of the unbeaten on Tuesday afternoon, 8-5.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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5/2/13
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Long Beach entered the finale of last week’s series against Conference AA-IV baseball rival Bellmore-JFK mired in a nine-game losing streak and in danger of being swept by the Cougars for a second consecutive season.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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4/25/13
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A pitchers’ duel in Nassau Conference AA-I softball is more the rule than the exception, and Monday it was Mepham’s ToniMarie Valeriano and Long Beach’s Ashley Martin making quick work of opposing hitters.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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4/16/13
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A year after winning 14 games and reaching the Nassau Class B boys’ lacrosse semifinals, Long Beach has busted out of the gate with four straight victories including back-to-back come-from-behind versions.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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4/11/13
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Long Beach coach Rachel Ray is looking for big things from a team that returned intact after winning 11 games and reaching the Nassau Class B girls’ lacrosse semifinals last spring.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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4/1/13
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Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst.
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2/28/13
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Long Beach had a solid performance in the Nassau County boys’ swimming championships, finishing first among Division C schools and fifth overall thanks in part to state qualifiers Nicholas Stoski and Max Willard.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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2/27/13
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Fourteen Herald Community Newspaper executives, editors and reporters bundled up in heavy coats and woolen hats and boarded the Capt. Lou VII in Freeport to take a two-hour tour of the waterways south of the village in search of harbor seals last Friday.
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By Scott Brinton
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2/26/13
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