To say that the Long Island high school football season went out with a bang would be a vast understatement. It actually went out with a play that made Long Island history and broke a long-standing record.
In the earlier championship games Ward Melville fell to Massapequa by two points and East Islip did the same to Garden City by three. Sayville won the Division 3 championship by beating out Wantagh pretty convincingly. Then arrived the Division 4 championship game, the very final game of the 2025 season.
Bayport-Blue Point was matched up against Nassau’s Division 4 championship team, Seaford. Seaford, coming into this final game with tremendous momentum after beating a higher ranked Plainedge team for the Nassau title. Many predicted that this would be a close game and it was.
Going into halftime the game was locked up at a tied score of 7-7. Seaford’s first-half touchdown was a 16-yard pass from senior quarterback Michael Spinella to senior Brian Hennessy. After kicker Tommy Steyert gave BBP a 10-7 lead with a third-quarter field goal, the teams traded multiple scores in the fourth, which featured four lead changes.
After Bayport-Blue Point and Seaford again traded off scores with running back Falk breaking open his longest run of the day for a 42-yard gain to set up the go-ahead score in the fourth quarter. Junior running back Michael Calvacca punched it in from 13 yards out, as Seaford led 19-17 with 2:40 to go.
The next series of events is what high school sports dreams are made of.
With his team down by two points only a single second left on the clock and in the season. Tommy Steyert walked onto the field for a 47-yard field-goal attempt with the Long Island Division 4 title on the line.
Steyert’s kick pierced the cold winter air between the goal posts with plenty of room to spare, giving Bayport-Blue Point a 20-19 win over Seaford as the final buzzer sounded simultaneously. You just couldn’t ask for a better script or finish to Bayport’s season. A moment in time that Steyert and his teammates will remember forever.
Tommy Steyert’s record-breaking kick is the longest field goal by any player in Long Island championship history since West Islip’s Scott Coppo, who nailed a 43-yard field goal in 1993.
Coppo’s record has stood tall for 22 years until it was broken this past weekend by Bayport-Blue Point junior kicker Tom Steyert, who made a 47-yard game-winning field goal as time expired to give the Phantoms a stunning 20-19 victory over Seaford in the Long Island Division 4 football championship game at Stony Brook University.
Steyert’s record-breaking kick is the longest field goal by any player in Long Island championship history since West Islip’s Scott Coppo, who buried a 43-yarder in 1993.
Tommy Steyert is quoted saying that he’s practiced this range of field goals time and time again in practice. As he was on the sidelines watching the series of offensive plays unfold getting his team into field goal range. He began preparing himself mentally and physically to kick a field goal just like it’s a practice kick.
It wasn’t a practice kick though. It was a championship winner and history maker.
