High School Boys Soccer

Sayville's Dakota Edwards was named the Gatorade New York Boys Soccer Player of the Year today. Edwards was Newsday's All-Long Island Player of the Year. The 6-2 senior defender had eight goals and 12 assists in leading Sayville to the Suffolk Class A finals one season after winning the state championship.

Edwards is also an All-American and was named the New York state Player of the Year...

The Portland Timbers selected former Brentwood soccer star Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Newsday’s 2009 Long Island Player of the Year, with the No. 8 pick in Wednesday’s Major League Soccer SuperDraft held in Kansas City.

“It’s very exciting,” said Jean-Baptiste, 19, who left UConn after two seasons. He named All-Big East first team and the 2011 Big East defensive Player of the Year this season,...

Wheatley defender William (B.J.) Schiela was named to the NSCAA Scholar All-America team this morning. Congratulations to B.J....

Sayville's Dakota Edwards (above) was named the New York state Player of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).

Edwards, Uniondale's Nyder Chardonnette and Hills West's Donovan Fraser were named NSCAA All-Americans. It was the second time Fraser was named an AA.

Long Island's members of the NSCAA All-Region II Team:

K Anthony Lopatowski (St. Anthony's)

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There were times during the regular season when a blowout win wasn’t considered good enough for the Port Jefferson boys soccer team. The heavily sophomore and junior-laden team would win a game by as many as four or five goals only to be told that they hadn’t played well enough.

But as the team prepared to walk to an award presentation at Middletown High School Saturday afternoon, fresh off...

One day after his birthday, Lucas Munoz celebrated in style. The Hicksville senior scored off a loose ball in front of the goal with 25:42 left in the game to give the Comets a 1-0 win over Webster Schroeder in the state Class AA finals at Middletown High School.

Hicksville won its first state championship since 1979 and it's the second consecutive season Long Island has won the championship....

Wheatley had more and better scoring opportunities, but Broadalbin-Perth took advantage of one of its few to defeat Wheatley 1-0 in the state Class B finals at Middletown High School.

Ben Bellandi put on a display of deft dribbling getting passed two Wheatley defenders and then hooking a shot to the left corner for the lone goal with 13:14 left in the game. Wheatley had a chance to tie one...

Jericho looks for its 10th consecutive win and a state championship finals berth as the Jayhawks take on East Syracuse-Minoa in a state Class A semifinal at Middletown High School.

Jericho (14-2-2) scored just 4:05 into the game. Glenn Hyams played a ball to the left side to Jake Falk and he sent a cross to Derek Medolla, who scored for the Jayhawks. They continued to dominate after the goal...

Cody Derespina is covering the Wheatley game on a field that doesn't have a press box, so thus the lack of updates. He just sent me a text and Wheatley leads the game.

Daniel Solomon scored with 16:54 left in regulation to give Wheatley the lead over Clinton in a state Class B semifinal. Cody will provide the full story later on the site.

Wheatley goalkeeper Eric Orologio made a save...

We'll be updating live from Port Jefferson's state soccer semifinal against Lansing at Middletown High School.

Second Half

16:30 left - Still 1-0 Port Jeff and another good look for Bohlen earlier in the half has been PJ's only real scoring opportunity. Both sides had penalty kicks in the last few minutes, and Lansing's was a real threat, but Gabe Davis was able to corrall the kick and...