Down goes Bay Shore.  No. 4 East Islip stunned the unbeaten, top-seeded Marauders, 4-3, in the Class AA semifinals on Saturday.  Bay Shore had the tying run on third and winning run on second with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning but Courtney Syrett was thrown out at the plate by Lindsey Zenk on a grounder to third and East Islip’s Courtney Blake struck out the...

Class AA 1. Bay Shore 2. Longwood 3. Hills West 4. East Islip 5. Commack 6. Smithtown West 7. Hauppauge 8. Eastport-South Manor 9. Smithtown East 10. West Islip 11. Connetquot 12. Sachem East 13. Centereach The Pick: Bay Shore is unbeaten at 19-0 and has earned the right to be the pre-tournament favorite. They have an ace hurler in Michelle DeVito to go along with arguably the county’s top player,...

The eve of the Nassau softball playoffs has arrived.  What better time to update the top ten teams in an end-of-the-regular-season grand fashion.  As always, keep in mind that this is the opinion of one man.  So be gentle with your angry e-mails.  Without further ado, your top ten softball teams in Nassau County… 1. ISLAND TREES (11-1, 15-2) – The balance of power in Nassau Class...

Molly Jarrett came within one out of perfection last season.  On Thursday, she finally got that perfect ending.   Jarrett tossed a seven-inning perfect game with 17 strikeouts in a 10-0 win over Central Islip in League II. It was the first no-hitter for the senior pitcher, who is in her fifth year on varsity. The 17 strikeouts were two shy of tying her career-high. It was the first perfect...

Class AA

 1, John Jay East Fishkill-1 10-0  2, Kellenberg-CHSAA 15-0  3, Bay Shore-11 14-0  4, Cicero-North Syracuse-3 12-1  5, MacArthur-8 14-2  6, Roy C. Ketcham-1 7-1  7, St. Joseph by the Sea-CHSAA 15-1  8, Shenendehowa-2 12-1  9, Longwood-11 13-1 10, Tottenville-PSAL 16-1 11, Greece Athena-5 8-1 12, Lancaster-6 8-1 13, Clarkstown South-1 9-1...

The semifinals of the Class B playoffs will be played on May 15 and the best-of-three finals wlll begin on May 21. 

No. 1 Carle Place vs. No. 4 Wheatley

No. 2 Oyster Bay vs. No. 3 Locust Valley

The finals for the best-of-three Class C county championship will begin on May 11.

No. 1 East Rockaway vs. No. 2 Friends Academy...

The first round of the Class A playoffs will begin on Saturday. The semifinals will be played on May 14th, the quarterfinals on May 17 and the best-of-three county championship series begins on May 21.

No. 1 Island Trees vs. No. 16 Lawrence

No. 8 North Shore vs. No. 9 Wantagh

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No. 5 New Hyde Park vs. No. 12 Division

No. 4 Clarke vs....

The first round of the Class AA playoffs will begin on Saturday. The semifinals will be played on May 14th, the quarterfinals on May 17 and the best-of-three county championship series begins on May 21.

First round byes: No. 1 MacArthur, No 2. East Meadow, No. 3 Massapequa, No. 4 Oceanside or Long Beach (If Long Beach defeats MacArthur on Thursday they receive a bye, if MacArthur wins,...

Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any more perfect for Carle Place, Ashley Cole goes and does something like this.

Cole, no stranger to throwing no-hitters, tossed the first perfect game of the softball season and the first in school history, leading Carle Place to a 4-0 win over Glen Cove on Thursday in Conference ABC-II. 

“She did what she normally does,” Carle Place coach...

1. Bay Shore (12-0)- Last Monday’s 4-2 win over Longwood was perhaps their most impressive win to date. Against Floyd the following day, Michelle DeVito went 5-for-5 as the Maruaders cruised to a 15-2 win.   2. Longwood (10-1)- Sierra Noud worked out of a bases-loaded with no-out jam in the top of the seventh of Monday’s 2-1 win over Sachem East; a big win following last week’s loss to Bay...