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Bayport Advances To Girls Soccer Final

The Phantoms won two games last week, earning a match up this Wednesday against Islip for the Suffolk County Class A title.

The Bayport-Blue Point girls soccer team earned a trip to the Suffolk County finals with two playoff wins this past week.

The second-ranked Phantoms opened their post-season with a 3 - 1 win over seventh-seed Mt. Sinai on Tuesday. Kaitlyn Leahy, Nicole Copping and Delaney Miller scored for the Phantoms. Then on Friday, they defeated third-seed Shoreham-Wading River, 2 – 1. Abigail Grappusso and Danielle Heyder scored for Bayport, in a game that was as much about the wind as it was about ball possession.

“[The wind] was huge today, a real big factor,” Bayport coach Ryan Glick said. “The last two games, we’ve chosen to play into the wind for the first half, taking advantage of it in the second half.”

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In the first half, Bayport struck first when Grappusso converted a rebound off a corner at 24:45. Shoreham’s Kari Quinn tied it right before half when her direct kick from about 25 yards out tucked in under the crossbar. But in the second half, a Shoreham defender inadvertently headed Heyder’s shot into her own goal, and that proved to be the difference.

“We had two great practices this week before this game,” Glick said. “But sometimes you win ugly.”

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Bayport will now face fifth-seeded Islip, who pulled off a major upset by defeating top-ranked Sayville. Following Bayport’s win, players cheered the news of the Islip upset.

“[Islip] is a solid squad,” Glick said, adding that his players—celebrating playing Islip and not Sayville—“should be careful what they wish for.”

NEXT GAME: Wednesday’s game is a 4 p.m. start at Dowling College’s athletic complex, located on their Brookhaven campus, off the William Floyd Parkway.

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