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Softball: After 24-year career, Gerstung set to retire at season s end
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Softball: North Fork team s inaugural season ends with outbracket loss
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Southold/Greenport/Mattituck shortstop Jenna McFarland awaits a throw as Babylon’s Hazel Bivona slides toward second base. (Credit: Bill Landon)
In unity there is strength. The unified Southold/Greenport/Mattituck softball team, without question, is stronger than either the Southold/Greenport and Mattituck teams would have been on their own this season had they not merged.
Softball numbers have been low on the North Fork in recent years, prompting concern and, finally, action the creation of Southold/Greenport/Mattituck. One team representing three high schools.
“We haven’t had a junior high program the last three years in Mattituck,” coach Kim Gerstung said. “You know, you can’t build programs without junior high. So, it’s been in the talking [stage] for the past couple of years. Southold would have had a JV last year, but not two years previous to that, so it’s just numbers-wise, if we didn’t combine this year [Mattituck] would have had