Keith's rival struggles in sectional

Shoreham-Wading River senior Steven Keith may very well have to face Justis Flamio again in the state tournament. Flamio beat Keith in the state semifinals last year to end his bid for a second straight state title. Here's a look at how Flamio fared in his section final courtesy of LoHud.com:

• The closest match was Justis Flamio’s surprising struggle with Henry Stauber. Stauber took Flamio, a state finalist, to sudden-victory OT. It was a place Flamio (left) had never been before. In fact he’d never been past the first overtime period, and it showed. When given a choice of top or bottom in double-OT he picked top, mistakenly thinking an old set of rules applied that would have given him bottom in the next period. Instead he got top twice. Remember that all you need is an escape to win in overtime. But the gaffe didn’t kill him and he held Stauber down to win in the last session.Winning by a hair didn’t hurt his confidence. We were talking about his state nemesis Steven Keith of Shoreham-Wading River. He knocked Keith out in last year’s state semis, just as Keith did to him the year before. I asked him if he expected to meet Keith again.
• “I expect to meet him in the state final,” Flamio said.
  

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