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Farmingdale coach Pete Cerrone gets 500th win in girls basketball

Farmingdale head coach Pete Cerrone reacts during the

Photo credit: Christopher Pasatieri, 2011 | Farmingdale head coach Pete Cerrone reacts during the first half of a game against Baldwin in the Class AA Final at the Pratt Center on the campus of CW Post.

It was supposed to be a "one-year thing" for Pete Cerrone. He was a football coach, and a guy who hadn't played much basketball beyond youth league, but Farmingdale needed him to fill in temporarily as its girls basketball coach in 1981.

Time sure flies, huh? And Friday night, that unexpected career turned historic. Cerrone became the first Nassau girls basketball coach to reach 500 wins as...

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