Sports

From the East Hampton Little League organization’s opening day to Bonac and Pierson varsity games, baseball was the sporting item of the day.

The Ross School’s athletic director and tennis coach, Marcelo Reda, is more interested in nurturing a winning mentality than in winning per se.

The East Hampton High School girls lacrosse team romps, while Bonac girls track makes strides at a big invitational in Deer Park.

High school sports here: the week that is to be.

“That kids from these small towns, from Sag Harbor, East Hampton, and Southampton, can now go toe-to-toe with the established programs up the Island is quite something,” in the words of one coach.

A look ahead at local sports action.

East Hampton High’s baseball team and the Southampton-based South Fork boys lacrosse team, with a lineup of half a dozen Bonackers, could boast of 3-0 records as of earlier this week. East Hampton’s girls lacrosse team was 2-0.

College will have to wait for Chase Lieder, the 18-year-old champion surfer from Montauk. He’s doing too well as a pro.

Here is the week that is to be, sports-wise.

John Ryan Jr., the chief of East Hampton Town’s lifeguards for the past 34 years, was recently named as a delegate to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States Lifesaving Association.

A dozen women from the Breakwater and Shelter Island Yacht Clubs recently took part in a racing clinic given by North U in St. Petersburg, Fla. It really upped their games.

East Hampton High’s girls lacrosse team made its debut here last week, defeating North Babylon, while the softball team took on Deer Park.