Walt Whitman Middle School eighth grader Brynn Iacovone added another remarkable achievement to an already memorable season, tossing a no-hitter in a 2-0 victory over Half Hollow Hills.

The standout pitcher delivered a dominant performance, throwing all seven innings while allowing no hits, issuing just one walk and striking out 14 batters. Iacovone carried a perfect game into the seventh inning before surrendering her lone walk with one out in the final frame.

The no-hitter marks the first by a Walt Whitman pitcher since 2017 and comes during a week filled with milestones for the talented eighth grader. Earlier in the week, Iacovone was named Newsday Athlete of the Week and recorded her 100th strikeout of the season.

While Iacovone led the way from the circle, the Wildcats also received outstanding support from their defense, which played error-free softball behind their ace. The team’s collective effort helped preserve the historic performance and secure the shutout victory.

Offensively, Walt Whitman was paced by Leilaini Servellon, whose RBI single in the fourth inning drove in what proved to be the game-winning run. The Wildcats added an insurance run and continued to back Iacovone’s stellar outing with timely defense throughout the contest.

The victory highlighted the strength of the entire Walt Whitman squad, but the day belonged to Iacovone, whose no-hitter will be remembered as one of the program’s most impressive pitching performances in recent years.

Congratulations to Brynn Iacovone and the Wildcats on an outstanding team victory and a historic accomplishment. 🥎 🐾

A full heat alert across Section XI is active on Thursday, September 7 until 6 p.m.

No practices or games are permitted in any sport until after 6 p.m. Stay safe and stay cool.

Several student-athletes from Section XI are attending the NYSPHSAA Student Leadership Conference upstate.

We’ll be sharing more info about them and their insights from the conference in the coming days.

It was a big weekend for Section XI swimming as Hauppauge-Smithtown returned as public school state champions.

They won two relays and Leah Treglia won the backstroke.

They also had three State Championship first place winners: 200 Medley Relay- Sofia Burns, Madison Dominger, Sarah Lucca, Leah Treglia, 400 Freestyle Relay – Sofia Burns, Madison Dominger, Leah Treglia, MaryGrace Waring and 100 Backstroke – Leah Treglia!

They will all now have consideration for All-American Honors.

East Hampton’s Jane Brierley won the state championship in breaststroke.

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) held its quarterly meeting of the Executive Committee on Wednesday, October 19th at the Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs. The committee voted on several key proposals important to the Association’s 787-member schools.

The Executive Committee approved the NYSPHSAA softball championship becoming a two-day event starting in June 2023. Semifinals will be played on the Friday of week 49 of the standard NYSPHSAA calendar and the finals will be played on that Saturday. Also related to championships, the committee approved establishing a Game Day Cheerleading State Championship starting in October of 2023 (week #17). Queensbury High School (2024 & 2026) and Letchworth State Park (2025) were approved as hosts of the NYSPHSAA Cross Country Championships.

The sport of boys wrestling had a pair of proposals approved with the first to extend the current weight class system (13 weight classes) for the 2022-23 school year. The second was to require all coaches to use the Track Wrestling weigh-in form to enter all weigh-ins for dual meets and tournaments.

The committee approved four girls wrestling proposals. The first was to use the NFHS 12 female weight classes along with a NYSPHSAA weight class of 94 lbs. starting this season. The second was an approval for a two-year waiver for the maximum number of tournaments (6) by a wrestler for female-only tournaments. The third approval in girls wrestling was to allow a two-year waiver of the NYSPHSAA representation rule from six events to three in post season only. The final approval was to conduct a girls-only wrestling invitational was approved to begin in the 2022-23 school year and continue in the 2023-24 school year.

A boys soccer proposal to increase the number of allowable yellow cards in the postseason was defeated, 5-17, by the Executive Committee.

Action items related to the classification cut off numbers for six classes in the sports of boys basketball, girls basketball, boys soccer, girls soccer, girls volleyball, softball and baseball were tabled by the Executive Committee to allow sections to have more time to discuss the cut-off numbers. The Executive Committee will reconvene on November 1^st to vote on these proposals.

The complete meeting agenda can be found here.

The list of approved items can be found here.

The meeting was called to order by President Russell Bartlett at 9:00 am and concluded at 2:00pm The next meeting of the NYSPHSAA Executive Committee will be held Wednesday, February 1^st at Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs.