Commack boys soccer team wins state Class AAA title

MIDDLETOWN — The Commack players gathered in a circle in front of one of the goals on the windswept Faller Field turf at Middletown High. The man standing in the middle wanted to say a few words to the best Class AAA boys soccer team in the state.

After recapping a wild weekend that began Friday with the team bus accidentally bound for Middletown, Connecticut, moved on to a lightning delay of more than two hours in the middle of a rain-soaked state semifinal Saturday night and concluded with Sunday’s final , Cougars coach Dave Moran spoke about togetherness:

“There’s never been an ‘I.’ There’s only been a . . . ”

He let the players yell the finish to the sentence with a “we.”

This particular Commack soccer family made its last day together count in the Orange County chill. Th