Another competition, another career milestone for Maria Michta. Michta, racing at the USATF National Trials for the World Cup of Racewalking in Harry Wright Lake Park in New Jersey over the weekend, set the American […]
Category: History
Marquette, Amplo win Rick Mercurio Bowl
Rick Mercurio has coached a number of eventual high school and college lacrosse coaches, but maybe none with as much high profile status as Joe Amplo and Brian Brecht, who are both Division I men’s […]
LIC champs march in local holiday parade
It never ends. The jubilation felt from Sachem North’s early December victory in the Class I Long Island championship is still alive and well. Players and coaches marched on floats in Lake Ronkonkoma’s St. Patrick’s […]
Brisson coaches final game at Sachem
A loss in the Long Island championship is always tough to swallow. Sachem East is still the Suffolk County Class AA champion. What’s more is that Friday’s game against Baldwin was the final contest in […]
Jumbo makes College Football HOF ballot
Jumbo Elliott has found himself on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot for the third straight season. Elliott graduated from Sachem in 1983, and was a two-time First Team All-American (consensus in ’87) at […]
Tracy wins New York State Championship
Sachem East’s Mark Tracy won a New York State championship at 182 pounds in Albany’s Times Union Center on Saturday evening. Tracy beat John Jay’s Brett Perry, 8-2, in the championship final. Section XI won […]
Sachem East wins 2nd straight county title
Call them the comeback kids. The Sachem East girls basketball team found itself trailing by as much as 10 points again in a playoff game, this time against top-seeded North Babylon in a county final. […]
Maria Michta wins 5th indoor national title
Make that a five-peat. Maria Michta captured her fifth straight 3,000-meter racewalk Indoor National U.S. Track & Field Championship on Sunday in Albuquerque, N.M. Michta, who graduated from Sachem in 2004, finished with a time […]