Mileti leads Hauppauge to Suffolk Class B flag football title
Taylor Mileti threw two first-half touchdowns as Hauppauge finally finished the job, beating Deer Park 26-7 for the Suffolk Class B crown. The Eagles had come up one win short a year ago.
Taylor Mileti put Hauppauge over the top. The Eagles’ quarterback threw two first-half touchdowns and Hauppauge opened a 19-point lead on the way to a 26-7 victory over Deer Park for the Suffolk County Class B girls flag football title Wednesday night at Sachem East High School in Farmingville.
For Hauppauge, the win was more than another line in the record book. The Eagles had been one victory away from a county championship a year earlier, and this time they finished the run. Deer Park, the No. 7 seed in Section XI’s Suffolk Class B bracket, was the latest team to run into a Hauppauge group that had already shown it could control games early and then close them out.
The title game came after Hauppauge had already beaten Deer Park 25-6 in a playoff game on May 19, when Mileti rushed for three touchdowns and threw for another. Hauppauge entered the postseason as the No. 1 seed and carried a 15-1 regular-season record into the bracket, a mark that reflected how consistently the Eagles had separated themselves from the rest of Class B. A TBR News Media recap said Hauppauge had won four straight against Deer Park, a streak that underlined how thoroughly the Eagles handled one of their top Suffolk rivals.
That progression matters because girls flag football has grown quickly across Suffolk County, turning a newish spring sport into one with real depth, real rivalries and real stakes. Section XI’s 2026 handbook listed 38 varsity teams and 14 JV teams in Suffolk, numbers that help explain why a county championship now carries more weight than it did even a short time ago. The sport’s next major stage is already on the calendar, with state championships scheduled for June 6-7 in Cortland.
Hauppauge’s championship run gives the school a clear benchmark in that fast-growing landscape. It also gives Mileti a defining role in the breakthrough, as the Eagles converted a near miss into a county title and established themselves as one of Suffolk’s standard-bearers in flag football.
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