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Attorney: Keeling Pilaro will play on field hockey team

Keeling Pilaro during a game in Southampton. (Oct.

Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | Keeling Pilaro during a game in Southampton. (Oct. 21, 2011)

Keeling Pilaro, the 13-year-old boy deemed "too skilled" a field hockey player to participate on the girls high school varsity team in the fall, "will be playing next season," his family's attorney said Wednesday.

"He shouldn't be penalized for the hard work he's put in to improve his skill," the family's lawyer, Frank Scagluso, said of Pilaro, who learned to play field hockey while his family...

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