Congratulations to the Newfield/Miller Place boy and girls fencing teams on winning their respective Section XI fencing county championships!

John Glenn won the Section XI Division II team wrestling championship with 277 total points.

Division II Championship Finals Results

• 102 – Tommy Aiello (John H Glenn, Fr.) pinned Matthew Tucci (Bayport-Blue Point, So.), 0:56
• 110 – Frank D`Elia (Port Jefferson, So.) dec. Michael Sangiradi (John H Glenn, Sr.), 7-0
• 118 – Anthony Mirando (John H Glenn, Jr.) def. Chris Colon (Shoreham-Wading River, So.), by Dflt 4:20
• 126 – Max Gallagher (Bayport-Blue Point, Jr.) pinned Liam Rogers (Port Jefferson, Jr.), 2:35
• 132 – Joseph Sparacio (Mattituck, Sr.) pinned Tristan Petretti (Shoreham-Wading River, Sr.), 3:54
• 138 – Kyle Barber (Bayport-Blue Point, So.) pinned Craig Jablonski (Shoreham-Wading River, Sr.), 3:22
• 145 – Joe Steimel (Shoreham-Wading River, Jr.) def. Kevin Vides (John H Glenn, Jr.), by Dflt 5:23
• 152 – Anthony Evangelista (Port Jefferson, Sr.) pinned James Felakos (Mattituck, Fr.), 1:45
• 160 – Joe LaCorte (John H Glenn, Sr.) dec. Anthony Pipia (Port Jefferson, Jr.), 5-2
• 172 – Colin Presti (John H Glenn, Sr.) pinned Tate Klipstein (Mattituck, Sr.), 1:45
• 189 – Brad Bockhaus (Southampton, Sr.) dec. Alon Alkeali (John H Glenn, Sr.), 5-4
• 215 – Willy Rodriguez (Port Jefferson, Jr.) dec. Luc Angus (John H Glenn, Sr.), 6-3
• 285 – Melkin Alfaro-Chavez (John H Glenn, Jr.) dec. Diego Giron (Mattituck, Sr.), 8-2

Rick Herrmann Most Outstanding Wrestler: Joseph Sparacio (Mattituck, 132)

Jack Mahoney Champion of Champions: Joe LaCorte (John Glenn, 160)

Ed Luksik Most Pins Least Time: Anthony Evangelista (Port Jefferson, 152), 4 in 6:29

Mike Fitzgerald Team Award: John Glenn

The Section XI boys and girls basketball playoff brackets are officially available.

Playoffs begin on Saturday, February 12.

Check for game times, locations and matchups on the Section XI brackets page.

Get your tickets in advance of the event.

Good luck to all Section XI swimmers and divers, who are competing in their respective championship events between February 10 and 12!

2/10 Section XI Diving Championships – 4:30 Warm-Up, 5:30 Start @ Hauppauge HS … adm $7 online, $10  at door

2/12 Section XI Swimming Championships  @ Stony Brook University … adm $7 online, $10  at door
Session #1   9am Warm Up   10am Start

Click for NYSPHSAA Swimming & Diving Championships info.

In the latest edition of NYSPHSAA’s Overtime Sports, they pay a visit to Brentwood High School.

Girls cross country coach Katie Mitchell took a chance on twitter and won big money for the boys and girls cross country teams at Brentwood.

They applied and won a grant that helped provide apparel for the program.

Check out the story.

Congratulations to Bellport Athletic Director Bob McIntyre on being named 2022 New York State Athletic Administrator Association Athletic Director of the Year for Section XI!

Good luck to all Section XI wrestlers competing in their League tournaments this weekend!

Purchase tickets from the Go Fan site/app. It’s $7 online and $10 at the door.

League 1 – Sachem East
League 2 – Ward Melville
League 3 – HH Hills East
League 4 – Hauppauge
League 5 – East Islip
League 6 – Miller Place

This week we had a a great day at Centereach Lanes with over 100 student-athletes who participated in the Section XI Athletics for All bowling event.

Thank you to those who helped make the event possible, especially these proud and talented student-athletes, as well as Centereach Lanes for providing a safe space for our kids!

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) held its quarterly meeting of the Executive Committee on Wednesday, February 2nd at the Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs. The committee voted on several key proposals important to the Association’s 787-member schools.

The Executive Committee approved establishing criteria for the creation of a sixth classification for sports with 501 or more teams eligible to participate in the NYSPHSAA State Championships. Starting in the 2023-24 school year, the NYSPHSAA sports of baseball, softball, boys basketball, girls basketball, boys soccer and girls soccer are eligible for a sixth classification pending approval from each sport committee.

Following the sixth classification vote, the Executive Committee approved establishing a timeline, process and criteria for the classification cut-off numbers for non-variation five, four and three classification sports along with two-division sports. Both of these action items can be found starting on page 53 of the meeting agenda.

After lengthy discussion to address venue COVID restrictions by section representatives on the Executive Committee, a motion submitted by Section IV to limit attendance at the Competitive Cheerleading Championships at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to 400 or less was defeated by a 14-6 vote (2 abstentions).

Section VI made a motion to limit the attendance at the Boys Basketball Championships and Wrestling Championships to less than 5,000 was defeated by a 18-4 vote. The NYSPHSAA is subject to the New York State Department of Health guidance for Large Scale Indoor Events, which require vaccination/ testing for indoor events of more than 5,000.

The meeting was called to order by President Julie Bergman at 9:00 am and concluded at 1:21 pm. The next meeting of the NYSPHSAA Executive Committee will be Wednesday, May 4th at The Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs.

Click Here for List of Voting Items