All the local sports action ahead . . .
Last week was a big one for Alex Davis, a Bridgehampton High School sophomore who scored his 1,000th point during a 64-52 loss to the Ross School. Plus Bonac and Pierson hoops reports.
Cole Brauer, a 2012 East Hampton High School graduate who last summer became the first female sailor to the win the Bermuda One-Two, was as of last Thursday sitting in second place in the Global Solo Challenge, an around-the-world singlehanded sailing race that for her began on Oct. 29, when she set forth aboard First Light from A Coruña, Spain.
Yani Cuesta, East Hampton High’s girls winter track coach, called Melina Sarlo “one of those all-around athletes that you rarely see anymore.”
The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes drew raves from their coaches, Tom Cohill, Angelika Cruz, and Sean Knight, following two big university swim meets over the weekend.
East Hampton’s girls winter track team set school records in the 4-by-800 relay and the distance medley relay, while Ryleigh O’Donnell improved on her 600-meter mark.
East Hampton High’s wrestling team earned a first-ever win over Huntington. Plus, Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees avenged themselves on Smithtown Christian.
Tales of a Bonacker’s adventures with professional basketball in Spain, and more from The Star’s sports pages of yore.
The East Hampton High School wrestling team clipped the wings of the Deer Park Falcons here on Jan. 3, flattening the visitors 58-9.
Ryleigh O’Donnell, a senior on the Bonac girls indoor track team, set a school record in the 1,000 meters Sunday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood. The boys swimmers, meanwhile, had an easy time of it.
“They’re coming along,” Samantha James, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls basketball team, said after the team had won back-to-back games, while the boys are looking to improve their defense and shooting.
The East Hampton High School boys basketball, boys swimming, and wrestling teams had losing records going into the Christmas break, but all three of them have been battling in the thick of it.
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