Cold Spring Harbor girls basketball's Olivia Mulada, Kaitlin Millett key Nassau Class B title win
Cold Spring Harbor wins the Nassau Class B girls basketball championship over Carle Place on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Credit: Peter Frutkoff
In what the Cold Spring Harbor girls basketball team hopes will be a long and successful month, Wednesday night’s result was not the goal. It was the starting point.
The top-seeded Seahawks defeated second-seeded Carle Place, 59-34, in the finals of the Nassau Class B playoffs at Farmingdale State College. Cold Spring Harbor (18-4) will face Babylon — the Suffolk Class B champion — in the Long Island championship game at Suffolk County Community College in Selden at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
By surviving the Nassau County field, the Seahawks have officially returned to the Class B state tournament, which they won last year. Their goal is to defend their first state title but they have several more steps to take — four to be exact.
“Obviously, the goal is the state championship,” junior guard Olivia Mulada said. “It’s going to be one game at a time, and we’re just going to focus on playing our game and take it day by day. It feels good to be one step closer, but the job is not done.”
Mulada tallied 18 points, six rebounds, four assists and five steals in the victory. It was the program’s third consecutive county title, and its second straight in Class B after winning Class A in 2024.
After making just one basket through three-and-a-half minutes, the Seahawks rode a 13-0 run that extended halfway through the second quarter, giving themselves a 17-4 lead.
Mulada spearheaded the run with seven points, all of which came toward the end of the first quarter. Carle Place freshman guard Tyler Reedy snapped the streak with a fast-break layup, but then four different Cold Spring Harbor scorers combined for another 10 consecutive points, extending the lead to 27-6. The Frogs (15-6) never got closer than 20 points after that.
Sophomore forward Kaitlin Millett sparked the 10-0 response with a pull-up jump shot from the left elbow before picking up a steal and assisted on the next bucket. She finished with 14 points, six rebounds, three assists, six steals and a block.
“We hope to do the same thing again, but this was step one, and it’s one step at a time,” Millett said. “Next step is Babylon, and we’ll see what happens. It feels really good to be back in this.”
Mike Anderson is a high school sports reporter who has covered 12 sports so far at Newsday. He was the sports editor of Stony Brook University's campus newspaper for two years.
