Joe Tardif
Mattituck Ushers In New Era With Former All-State Player Joe Tardif at the Helm
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Joe Bello Joe Tardif is heading into his first season as the varsity coach of the baseball program at Mattituck High School. He steps into the role after he has been the head coach of the JV team at Mattituck for the past five years. Tardif takes over for Dan O’Sullivan, who was the varsity coach for six years. Last year, the Tuckers finished with a record of 2-18. “The 2025 season went about as expected.” Tardif said, “We were and still are a young team working on fundamentals and keeping games close.” Going into the 2026 season, Tardif and the Tuckers will be without their senior captain and All-League winning shortstop, Ben Vogel. “We will miss him dearly as we relied on him for almost everything...
Former Mattituck Star Gears Up for Sophomore Season at SUNY Cortland
(Photo Credit: Daniel De Mato) by Justin Paura One of the hallmarks of SUNY Cortland’s unprecedented run of success is finding those unheralded diamonds in the rough. Former Mattituck star Joe Tardif, who has lived and breathed baseball ever since he was a little kid, certainly fits in that criteria hailing from the small east-end hamlet of Cutchogue. The college sophomore had quite the high school career for Mattituck. He led the Tuckers to the Class B State Championship in 2015, earning Section Player of the Year as a junior. In his senior season, Tardif won the Suffolk VIII MVP award with a .456 batting average and won six games as a pitcher for the Tuckers, who lost in the county semifinals. The Cutchogue native also led Mattituck’s soccer team to the Class B state soccer champio...
