Joe Tardif

(Photo Credit: Daniel De Mato) by Justin Paura One of the hallmarks of SUNY Cortland’s unprecedented run of success is finding those unheralded diamonds in the rough. Former Mattituck star Joe Tardif, who has lived and breathed baseball ever since he was a little kid, certainly fits in that criteria hailing from the small east-end hamlet of Cutchogue. The college sophomore had quite the high school career for Mattituck. He led the Tuckers to the Class B State Championship in 2015, earning Section Player of the Year as a junior. In his senior season, Tardif won the Suffolk VIII MVP award with a .456 batting average and won six games as a pitcher for the Tuckers, who lost in the county semifinals. The Cutchogue native also led Mattituck’s soccer team to the Class B state soccer champio...