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It’s lacrosse championship week in Suffolk County!

Girls’ championship game results:

• Class A: Middle Country 13, Northport, 3
• Class B: ESM 15, Rocky Point 8
• Class C: Mt. Sinai 9, Bayport 6
• Class D: Mattituck already clinched victory!

Thank you so much to all of our sponsors and partners from the 2016-2017 year. Your support means a tremendous amount!

• Major General Kok presents US Army Service Award to Nick DeCillis, Section XI Administrative Assistant for Corporate Sponsorship
• Section XI Coporate Sponsor, Jennifer Gunn, TFCU
• Section XI Sponsor, Russell Cohen, Laser/Residential/Sprinturf
• Section XI sponsor, Lucy Mazany, Signature Bank
• Section XI Sponsor, Don Hoffman, Cullen and Danowski
• Section XI Sponsor, Harold Schwab, Steve Schwab, Schwab’s 2^nd Wind
• Section XI sponsor, Bob LoNigro, Emily LoNigro, Port Jeff Sports
• Section XI Sponsor, Major General Kok, Captain Imbriaco, First Sergeant Willhite

Unified Hoops action in Suffolk County finished up this week out at William Floyd High School … great work by the student-athletes at Northport, Whitman, Floyd and Amityville who participated this year!

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) announces its spring 2017 Scholar-Athlete teams and individuals. This is the 25th year the NYSPHSAA has conducted the Scholar-Athlete program, which is sponsored by Pupil Benefits Plan, Inc.

This spring 2,064 teams received the Scholar-Athlete Team Award. Even more impressive, 35,301 student-athletes received an individual grade point average of 90.00 or above, and have been recognized as Individual Scholar-Athletes. The change in this year’s program resulted in over 1,200 more individual scholar-athletes being recognized during this spring season compared to the spring 2016 season.

“Congratulations to our member schools and student-athletes,” said Executive Director Robert Zayas. “We continue to be proud of this program especially this year in which we recognized an additional 1,200 student-athletes achieving high standards in the classroom. We are excited to have the opportunity to expand this program to honor even more students for the academic excellence.”

The School of Excellence and School of Distinction Awards will be given to deserving schools over the summer. The School of Excellence Award recognizes schools who have 75% of its varsity programs receive the Scholar-Athlete Team Award over the academic school year. The School of Distinction Award recognizes schools who have 100% of its varsity programs receive the Scholar-Athlete Team Award.

The full list of Scholar-Athlete Teams and Individuals for the 2017 spring season can be found HERE!

Sayville has captured the Section XI girls golf team championship.

Sayville will play the Section VIII winner on May 30 at Bethpage Yellow.

Section XI Team Results, Top Four

• Sayville 949 (Two Day Total)
• Runner – up – Commack 969
• 3rd Place – Smithtown West 972
• 4th Place – Smithtown East 979

Smithtown Wests’s Emily Montagnino Wins Individual Title

Via Newsday

Section XI is saddened to learn about the passing of former Brentwood athletic director, Bill Lown.

Bill was the varsity soccer coach at Brentwood for 10 seasons, and the Brentwood athletic director and Suffolk County Soccer Chairman from 1990-1999.

The SCSCA named their “Small School Player of the Year” award in his name and he was inducted into the New York State Soccer Hall of Fame in 1998.

Bill was well respected in Brentwood, Suffolk County and state soccer communities.

Lown is survived by his wife, Jean, son William D. (Carla) Lown, daughter Elizabeth Pappas and three sisters and two grandchildren.

Visitation info: The Branch Funeral Home (190 E. Main St.) in Smithtown, N.Y. 11787 Sunday from 2-6 p.m.

The funeral service will be at First Presbyterian Church of Smithtown Monday at 10 a.m. Interment will follow with military honors at Calverton National Cemetery.

The spring playoff brackets for Section XI baseball, softball, boys lacrosse and girls lacrosse are officially available:

Baseball: http://www.sectionxi.org/TOUR/BSB.htm

Softball: http://www.sectionxi.org/TOUR/SB.htm

NYSPHSAA Executive Committee Not Supportive of Additional Sections

Two State Championship Venues Approved for 2018-2020

Via NYSPHSAA.org

The Executive Committee of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) held its May meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in Troy on Friday. The committee voted on several key items important to the Association’s 785 member schools.

After discussing the topic of non-public school participation since July 2016, the 22-member Executive Committee did not support continuation exploration of additional Sections for non-public and charter schools; the vote was 14 to 8. Robert Zayas, NYSPHSAA Executive Director said “this is an important discussion for our Association, since we have a membership of nearly 800 high schools and 11 very diverse Sections.”

Among the approved items, the Glens Falls Civic Center was approved to host the Girls State Volleyball Championships from 2018-2020 and Middletown High School was approved as the host for the Boys Soccer State Championships from 2018-2020. A drone policy was approved for scrimmages, regular season, and post season competition.

The Committee approved the boys swimming and diving qualifying standards for the 2018 State Championships as well as the girls swimming and diving standards for the 2017 State Championships. The classification cut-off numbers for boys and girls cross country were approved for the fall 2018 season.

It was approved, by request of the handbook committee, to clarify the practice rule. As a result, it was determined that “warm-ups” will not be considered a practice. The NYSPHSAA budget for 2017-2018 was approved. Official job title changes were approved for NYSPHSAA staff members. Lisa Hand, from Treasurer to Director of Finance and Kristen Jadin, from Special Programs Coordinator to Director of Special Programs.

President Jim Osborne convened the meeting at 9:00 am, with two representatives from each of the 11 member sections, in addition to NYSPHSAA staff, executive directors, and guests. The meeting adjourned at 2:04 pm.

Incoming Section XI Assistant Executive Director Pete Blieberg was inducted with this year’s class to the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame.

Blieberg, who will begin his post with Section XI this summer, has previously served as an athletic director in the Sachem, East Islip and Kings Park school districts.

Joining Blieberg in this year’s hall of fame class are Gene Heeter, who scored the first touchdown for the Jets at Shea Stadium, Linda Detlefsen-Nicosia, who ran set the mile record for female runners in 1979, Bay Shore softball power Karen Dromerhauser, former big league pitcher John Pacella, Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitching coach Ray Searage, former MLS player Mark Semioli and Brett Ziegler, who played in the NFL and USFL.