After ban, N.Y. boy begins season on girls' field hockey team

In this undated photo Keeling Pilaro takes a shot as a member of the East End Field Hockey club in New York. / AP Photo/Andrew Pilaro

(CBS/AP) SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. - A 14-year-old boy who won a battle to play on a Long Island girls' field hockey team has played his first game of the season.

Keeling Pilaro told Newsday on Monday that it was a great relief to be playing the game he loves.

His Southampton High School team won 5-0 against Walt Whitman.

Last spring Pilaro fought for the right to be the first boy to play on the girls' field hockey on Long Island, which has no boys' teams.

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He had been denied permission to compete this fall on that basis he was too skilled to play against girls.

In May, an athletics committee determined he could keep playing on the girls' varsity team, at least for one more season.

CBS News correspondent Terrell Brown went one-on-one with Keeling Pilaro in field hockey. To see how Terrell fared, click on this video:

[freeamerica31]

I don't think this is over because they only gave him another year. Why? Time for the "Good Ole Girls" to take their medicine since they've been trying to invade mens activities in every area of society and succeeding!

What's good for the goose is good for the gander! I'm loving it...next all girl schools!

[Davisrad]

I'm glad to see they made the RIGHT decision here.

[rwsmith29456]

Why don't they throw the best girl off the team for her 'superior play'?