In a dramatic finish, the Valley Stream Little League’s senior division team held on for a win and captured the District 29 championship last week. The team beat Floral Park 13-12 on July 14 and now moves on to the Section 5 tournament.
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Andrew Hackmack
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7/21/10
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Merrick’s 12-year-old Williamsport softball team, a.k.a. the "Merrick Madness," has won the Long Island-Section 6 championship, defeating North Shore 6-1 at Otsego Park in Dix Hills on July 22.
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7/21/10
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It's football time in Nassau. Not the American version set to kick off next month. Nor the game with global reach that took center stage at this year's FIFA World Cup. …
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Mike Caputo
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7/15/10
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Merrick’s 12-year-old Williamsport softball team batted, pitched and fielded its way to the District 31 Championship in a nail-biter of a game on July 11.
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7/13/10
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The World Series Championship in the A Division of the Merrick-North Merrick Little League was played recently at Birch Elementary School in Merrick, and the Twins edged out the Yankees 2-1.
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7/12/10
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The under-14 North Bellmore She Devils won the Triple Crown Father’s Day Softball Tournament in Medford, N.Y., beating out 11 other teams from across Long Island.
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7/9/10
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If it was a prize fight, it would have been stopped in the second inning. Port Jefferson scored seven runs in its first at-bat and exploded for nine more in the second on the way to a 22-7 rout of East Rockaway in the Long Island Class C title game.
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Andrew McClure
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6/16/10
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Boys and girls ages 7 to 16 can receive training in Gaelic Football at Eisenhower park from Monday, June 14 to Thursday, June 17, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Field 4. This is free. Bring water bottle …
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6/11/10
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In the end, it was all decided by a single bite.
That was all that separated first-place face-stuffer “Munchin” Mike Longo, a Long Island native, and second-place Philadelphia native David “Tiger Wings and Things” Brunelli in the 2010 National Cheese Steak Eating Championship at With Cheese Please in Rockville Centre on June 5.
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Alex Costello
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6/9/10
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