Wrestling: Little change for wrestlers preparing for the biggest stage
Bobby Becker is the only one of Mattituck/Greenport’s seven county champions who has wrestled in the state tournament before. (Garret Meade file photo) The great majority of high school wrestlers are...
View ArticleVideo: Mattituck’s Bokina falls 8-7 at states
Mattituck/Greenport eighth-grader Jack Bokina (top) lost 8-7 in a 99-pound wrestleback match Saturday morning against Jacob Nolan. (Credit: Paul Wager) One more win stood between Jack Bokina and the...
View ArticleWrestling: Bokina twins grab All-American honors
Mattituck/Greenport eighth-graders Luke Bokina, left, and Jack Bokina both earned All-American status. The twins competed in a national tournament in Virginia Beach, Va. (Credit: Garret Meade file)...
View ArticleWrestling: Four Tuckers bidding for state podium
Mattituck/Greenport/Southold senior Adam Goode is one of four Tuckers who will wrestle in the state tournament in Albany on Friday. (Credit: Daniel De Mato, file) Louis Troisi’s name has been mentioned...
View ArticleWrestling: Zagarino grabs third; two other Tuckers finish fourth
Standing with the confidence befitting someone of his impressive standing, Tanner Zagarino looked determined and ready to do something no other Mattituck/Greenport/Southold high school wrestler has...
View ArticleWrestling Notebook: ‘Blood round’ isn’t for faint of heart
It is where some dreams are made and others are crushed. The so-called “blood round” in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association wrestling championships is the consolation...
View ArticleWrestling: Tuckers dive into training on Day 1
Being a smart high school wrestler, Tanner Zagarino prepared as best he could for the first official day of practice. The senior trained all summer, knowing that with each day that passed by, he was...
View ArticleWrestling Preview: Mattituck returns three all-state wrestlers
The dominance over Division II teams in Suffolk County speaks for itself. The Mattituck/Greenport/Southold wrestling team has won 30 straight dual meets entering this season. The Tuckers had seven...
View ArticleWrestling: Zagarino to open state tournament as No. 1 seed
Eight members of the Mattituck wrestling team will compete in Albany beginning Friday morning for a chance to become the first state champion in program history. Senior Tanner Zagarino is the top seed...
View ArticleWrestling Notebook: From no champs to two within minutes
Send eight wrestlers into the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Championships and there’s a decent chance some good things are going to happen. Four of the eight...
View ArticleWrestling: Bokinas don’t like that bittersweet taste
Bittersweet is not the Bokina brothers’ favorite flavor. Twin brothers Jack and Luke Bokina know a thing or two about bittersweet. What the two Mattituck/Greenport/Southold high school wrestlers...
View ArticleWrestling: Big farewell for Bokina twins
This was as fine a farewell as the Bokina twins could have hoped for. The two Mattituck High School seniors both won tournament titles in their final wrestling matches in their home gym and left with...
View ArticleWrestling: Bokina twins repeat as county champs
The Bokinas had a blast. Twin brothers Jack and Luke Bokina both captured county crowns Sunday night in the 79th annual Dr. L. Robert Fallot Section XI Wrestling Championships. It may have been...
View ArticleWrestling: Bokina twins both grab state crowns
The scenario was similar, but the result was oh so different for twin brothers Luke and Jack Bokina. Once again the two Mattituck High School seniors had wrestled their way to state finals at Times...
View ArticleTop Sports Stories 2018: Twins are state wrestling champions
After decades and decades of never having produced a state wrestling champion, Mattituck High School turned out two of them for the second straight year in 2018. Of course, there was a neat twist with...
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