Sports
Northport High School Badminton Team Wins Suffolk Championship
It was the team's first county championship victory.
NORTHPORT, NY — The Northport High School badminton team is the best in Suffolk County.
The squad won its first county championship by vanquishing the previously undefeated Half Hollow Hills team 5-4, according to the school district.
Coach Craig Stanton described the win as a "storybook ending," after the team had previously lost only one game during the season to the same team it defeated in the championship.
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"We got to avenge our only loss," he said via the release. "[The team has] a lot of heath and lots of guts."
Stanton gave a special shout out to the 11 seniors on the team: James Collier, Maxwell DeBrino, Thomas Fitzgerald, Robert Gonzalez, Liam Herbst, Sean Kutz, Spencer Mayer, Connor Mulligan, Frank Rasizzi, Noah Rosenzweig, and Thomas Serra.
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