Coach Leif Shay Leads Blue Waves to Championship Game!

The Riverhead Blue Waves Varsity Football Team kept their perfect 8-0 record for the season intact as they rolled over East Islip 21 to 10. Then with a 9-0 record they beat North Babylon 33 to 28 at Stony Brook University to win the Division II Playoff Game and become the Suffolk County Champs!

On Friday, November 28, the Blue Waves battled Garden City High School for the L.I. Championship. Despite several runs into the red zone, a battered Blue Waves team was contained by the strong defensive line of Garden City, the new 2003 L.I. Champs.

A sweet postscript to the season was delivered at a recent Awards Ceremony sponsored by the Suffolk County Football Coaches Association.
        - The Blue Waves took home the battered Rutgers Trophy presented by the Rutgers Club to the season’s outstanding football team in Suffolk.
         - Riverhead’s Mike Heigh won the Zellner Award and was named the county’s top lineman.
         - The first Boomer Award, named for Boomer Esiason, the former NFL signal-caller, went to Ed Wansor. Wansor completed 80 of 120 passes for 1,399 yards and a county-leading 16 touchdown passes. He also ran 54 times for 656  yards and eight touchdowns. The offensive team averaged 36  points per game.
                                     Way to go, Blue Waves!