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The BLUE WAVES ARE STILL UNDEFEATED!

THEY BEAT ELMONT 42 TO 6 FOR THE
CLASS II LONG ISLAND CHAMPIONSHIP

Newsday - Riverhead became the first team in Long Island history to finish with a 12--0 record. The Blue Waves captured the Long Island Class II championship witha 42-6 win over Elmont at LaValle Stadium at Stony Brook University. Senior halfback Miguel Maysonet, who earned the Hansen Award as Suffolk's top player, carried 33 times for 251 yards and four touchdowns in the win. Top-ranked Riverhead also earned the Rutgers Trophy given to Suffolk's top team. (Newsday - December 2, 2008). >More

The BLUE WAVES also won

The Division II championship, the Big 4 championship, the Suffolk County championship, as well as the Class II Long Island championship, and the Rutger's Trophy—which is given to the team designated as the “best team in the county.” It was the fourth time a Blue Waves Football team won the Rutgers Trophy with the last time being 2003. (The inaugural Long Island Championship game was played in 1992.)

The Riverhead Blue Waves were also designated as the first team in
Long Island football history to go 12-0 in one season!

Riverhead star halfback Miguel Maysonet won several individual awards, most notably the Hansen Award for the top overall offensive player in the county. He became the first Riverhead player to win the award since it started in 1960. Maysonet also won the first annual Joe Cipp Jr. Award for the most outstanding running back. He won the Long Island Championship Most Valuable Player award. He was also named Division II Most Valuable Player for the second straight year.

Michael Smith won the Long Island Championship offensive
Most Valuable Player award.

Malcolm Carter won the Long Island Championship defensive
Most Valuable Player award.

The Blue Waves led Division II with six All-County players: Miguel Maysonet, Andrew Smith, Tyler Gilliam, Jon LaGue, Tim Velys and Michael Smith, who was the only junior in the group.

 Head Coach Leif Shay was chosen as the Suffolk County Coach of the Year.

SUFFOLK COUNTY DIVISION II SEMIFINAL: BLUE WAVES 48, BULLDOGS 14
Victory is the stuff the best memory is made of
By Bob Liepa

RIVERHEAD—Coach Mike McKillop Memorial Field evokes plenty of memories for the Riverhead High School football team’s 13 seniors, yet the best of them all was produced on Sunday.

With the biggest victory of their lives, the Blue Waves earned a place for themselves in a Suffolk County final for the second time in six years. Their 48-14 rout of the North Babylon Bulldogs in a Division II semifinal saw to that. By winning for the 10th time in as many games, the undefeated Blue Waves nabbed a spot in the division final Saturday against the West Islip Lions (9-1) at Stony Brook University. >More

PLAYOFF QUALIFYING GAME: BLUE WAVES 49, EAGLES 0
This one was over early see slideshow
By Bob Liepa

Having been ousted in the Suffolk County Division II football semifinals the past two years, the Blue Waves know full well that the regular season means next to nothing once the playoffs start. So, when the second season started on Saturday, the Blue Waves made certain they took the right steps, without any slip-ups.

Tim Velys threw for three touchdowns and Miguel Maysonet and Rasheen Moore scored three touchdowns apiece -- all in the first half -- as the Blue Waves easily cleared their first postseason hurdle. In firm control from the start, the Blue Waves registered 43 first-half points, played substitutes in the second half and blasted the West Babylon Eagles, 49-0, in a playoff qualifying game at Coach Mike McKillop Memorial Field. >More / Slideshow

Riverhead routs Bellport

BY BOB HERZOG | bob.herzog@newsday.com
9:07 PM EDT, November 1, 2008

Suffolk High School Division II Football

Riverhead's Greg Meyer (37) intercepts a pass intended for Bellport wide receiver Steve Gambles (12). (Photo by Joseph D. Sullivan / November 1, 2008)

First they rang up Bellport. Then they rang the bell.

Riverhead, using a prolific passing attack to complement a modest game by its star, Miguel Maysonet, routed the visiting Clippers, 35-7, before an estimated crowd of 3,000 Saturday to clinch a perfect Division II regular season. >MORE (SEE VIDEO, TOO)

FROM NEWSDAY'S SPORTS SECTION:

The Blue Waves upended East Islip, the defending Long Island Class II champion 33 to 13, in the Suffolk Division II opener for both schools. Miguel Maysonet is listed as 4th in the Top Football Statistical Leaders with rushing yardage of 220 yards. (NEWSDAY, 9/16/08)

"The Blue Waves (4-0) blew out Copiague, 45-0, October 4th. Senior halfback Miguel Maysonet had first-half touchdown runs of 35, 65 and 70 yards in a Suffolk Division II win. He had a 42-yard interception for a score as the Blue Waves inchu up a notch from No. 7." (NEWSDAY, 10/7/08)

"Halfback Miguel Maysonet rushed for a school record 316 yards on 30 carries and scored ficve touchdowns and two two-point conversions ina 34-13 win over West Islip. How good is Maysonet? He scored four touchdowns in the first half -- and that's one more than the West Islip defense allowed in its first five games. Riverhead rolls to 6-0." (NEWSDAY, 10/21/08)

GO BLUE WAVES!

The Blue Waves Varsity Football Team was seeded #1 in their Division at the beginning of the season! The pictures below were on the front page and internal pages of the HS Sports section of Newsday's Sunday Edition September 14th and the final Fall season's issues on November 30th and December 2nd.