Scenes from a boys ice hockey game between Bellmore-Merrick and Long Beach on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Bellmore-Merrick’s Jackson Austin looks to take the puck from Long Beach’s Michael Calvi in the first period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Miles Siegel carries the puck in the first period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game against Bellmore-Merrick on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Liam Young gets around Bellmore-Merrick’s Jourdan Luskoff in the second period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Bellmore-Merrick’s Cole Zinman gets around Long Beach’s Liam Young in the second period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Justin Mele gets ready for a face-off late in the third period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game against Bellmore-Merrick on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Justin Mele follows the puck in the final seconds during a Nassau boys ice hockey game against Bellmore-Merrick on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach celebrates as time runs out during a Nassau boys ice hockey game against Belllmore-Merrick on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Joseph Feerick takes a shot in the third period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game against Bellmore-Merrick on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Liam Young takes a shot in the second period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game against Bellmore-Merrick on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Kelly Cardo looks to get around Bellmore-Merrick’s Jackson Jaszczak in the first period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Cody Pichichero takes a hit from Bellmore-Merrick’s Noah Carrasquillo in the first period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Bellmore-Merrick’s Chase Goldman moves the puck in the first period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game against Long Beach on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Michael Calvi looks to get around Bellmore-Merrick’s Leonard Soria in the first period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n
Credit: Bob Sorensen<\/p>\n
Long Beach’s Robert Verlin takes a shot while covered by Bellmore-Merrick’s Jackson Jaszczak in the first period during a Nassau boys ice hockey game on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026 at the Town of Oyster Bay Skating Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scenes from a boys ice hockey game between Bellmore-Merrick and Long Beach on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[951,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-127611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-high-school","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}