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Seniors Ashley Young (1) and Sam McNamara (22) joined by Rylie Rittberg (4) and Sage Foster (7). The shirts that the Mattituck High School girls volleyball players wear during warmups are unorthodox. They are T-shirts with the words “Cool Cats & Kittens” emblazoned on them along with renderings of various types of cats, big and small. The shirts caught the eyes of the Tuckers while shopping together after going out to dinner one evening. They became a symbol of unity. Now there is little question that the Tuckers are among the coolest cats in the county. With big performances from their Big Three of Sage Foster, Ashley Young and Bridget Ryan, the top-seeded Tuckers rolled to the Suffolk County Class C championship Saturday with a 25-13, 25-18, 25-21 defeat of Babylon at Mattituck High School. It’s Mattituck’s ninth county title overall and eighth in 19 years. ....
Mattituck’s Ashley Young pushes the ball over the net, surprising her opponent and scoring a point. (Credit: Robert O’Rourk) It’s a volleyball question for which there may be no simple answer: Who benefits more in a setter/hitter relationship? Perhaps there isn’t an either/or answer. It’s a symbiotic relationship. Behind the hitter who wows the crowd with a thunderous kill is a setter who directed the ball in the right place. Neither can get the desired result without the other. “The hitter always looks good,” Mattituck coach Frank Massa said. “They look good whipping shots over the net and making that loud sound coming off the floor or somebody’s arm, and the setter is the one that set the plate on that one, putting it on a tee. ....