Blue Devil Boys’ Basketball Jonny D’s Fundraiser Today

The revamped Huntington High School boys’ basketball team is holding a fundraiser today, Tuesday, March 18 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Jonny D’s Pizza at 946 New York Avenue. If you mention Huntington boys’ basketball or show the fundraising flyer, 25 percent of each order will be donated to the Blue Devils hoops program.

Planning is well underway for the 2025/26 season. Peter Lipka will return as varsity head coach with two new coaches being added to the high school staff. Alums Patrick Reilly (varsity assistant coach) and Joe Crocco (junior varsity coach) will be returning to the Blue Devil basketball program.

Jonny D’s will contribute 25 percent of every pick up and eat in order. The Blue Devils plan to use the monies for off-season training, including summer and fall leagues.

The new coaches are familiar faces. Reilly graduated with Huntington’s Class of 2013. He earned high school varsity letters in soccer, football, basketball and lacrosse. He captained and helped lead the Blue Devil basketball team into the Section XI playoffs as a senior, capturing All-Conference honors. He was named the team’s MVP.

The Huntington alum graduated from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Reilly played on the college’s lacrosse team for all four years that he studied at the school. He obtained a master’s in physical education at Adelphi University.

Captain of the Blue Devil lacrosse team during high school, Reilly scored 24 goals and added eight assists as a junior and notched 27 goals and 11 assists as a senior, playing a key role on the squad that reached the Suffolk finals. He was a two-time All-Division honoree and a member of the 2013 All-County team. He was named the team’s Offensive MVP.

Reilly also earned All-Division honors in football, kicking countless extra points and field goals as the Blue Devils marched into the playoffs.

Crocco resigned as a Huntington football and basketball in 2006 to pursue a career as an administrator at Western Suffolk BOCES. He retired last June. He played football, basketball and baseball scholastically, graduating from Huntington High School in 1985. He coached at the high school for more than 15 years before leaving in 2006, serving as an assistant varsity football coach and guiding the junior varsity boys’ basketball team before stepping into the head job in March 2000. He led the Blue Devils to the 2006 Suffolk basketball title, its first county basketball championship in almost 50 years.

“I love coaching and I especially love coaching at Huntington,” Crocco said. “It’s my hometown and it will always be a huge part of my life.”