02.10.2015 Sports
Boys Basketball: Wildcats seeded 4th, open playoffs against Sayville
By Joe Werkmeister
Greenport's Darius Bolling (2) tries to stop Shoreham-Wading River's Danny Hughes earlier this season. (Credit: Garret Meade, file)
The Shoreham-Wading River boys basketball team was seeded fourth in the Class A playoffs and will face No. 5 Sayville Feb. 17.
The Wildcats will host the Golden Flashes at 7 p.m. with the winner advancing to play top-seeded Bayport-Blue Point Feb. 20.
See the girls basketball playoff pairings
Shoreham finished in a tie for second place in League VI with a 9-3 record. The Wildcats were 14-4 overall. Sayville went 13-5 this season and was 8-2 in League V. Both of Sayville's league losses were against Harborfields, the No. 2 seed in Class A.
The Wildcats were the only local boys hoops team to reach the playoffs. Riverhead finished one game short with a 6-8 record in League III. The Blue Waves needed four straight wins to close out the regular season; they won three.
Joe Werkmeister is the editor of The Riverhead News-Review and The Suffolk Times. A graduate of St. Bonaventure University, he joined the Times Review Media Group Staff as a sports reporter in 2006. He is a three-time New York Press Association Sports Writer of the Year.
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