For the first time since the program began here in 2010, an East Hampton High School boys swimming team is a two-time champion, not only in the regular season, which it sailed through at 7-0 (9-0), but also in the postseason League II meet, which took place last Thursday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood.

Usually diving has proved to be the stumbling block at the league championship meet — East Hampton has no divers — but not this year. The second-place team, Hauppauge, won 27 points in diving and still trailed the Bonackers 298-277 at the end.

East Hampton’s superior depth was in evidence the entire way, with three swimmers scoring in the 200-yard individual medley, the 50 freestyle, the 100 butterfly, the 100 free, and in the 100 backstroke.

The tipping point, East Hampton’s coach, Craig Brierley, said, came midway through the 12-event competition, after Hauppauge, as aforesaid, had earned 27 points in diving to take the lead at 121-117.

“The boys were actually very encouraged by this,” Brierley said in an emailed account, “though they knew they had a lot of hard work ahead of them to outscore a talented Hauppauge team. . . . In the next event, the 100 butterfly, Colin Harrison, Nicky Badilla, and Kevin Pineda took fourth, fifth, and eighth [the top 12 in each event were scored] to put us up 143-135. From that point on, we never trailed again. In the end, our boys put up 18 lifetime personal best times, and if an athlete didn’t do a best time he was very close to it.”

“The boys really demonstrated what their training prepares them to do,” Brierley continued. “Which is to compete with fire in their hearts . . . they reach for the greatest heights together. . . . It was a wonderful experience, and Coach Brian [Cunningham] and I are 

so happy for the boys and the program.”

East Hampton, as aforesaid, won the meet with 298 points, followed by Hauppauge (277), Sayville-Bayport-Blue Point (236), Northport (190), West Islip (138), Deer Park (92), North Babylon (67), and Lindenhurst (36).

Ethan McCormac, who has qualified for the state meet in four events, won the 200-yard freestyle, won the 100-yard free, and anchored the winning 200 free relay team that included Ryan Duryea, Harrison, and Owen McCormac. Ethan McCormac also anchored East Hampton’s second-place 400 free relay team, which included Fernando Menjura, Edward Hoff, and Aidan Forst.

Other runners-up were Joey Badilla, in the 100 backstroke, and Ryan Duryea, in the 100 breaststroke.

Third-place finishers were the 200 medley relay team of Joey Badilla, Jack Duryea, Harrison, and Owen McCormac; Ryan Duryea in the 200 individual medley, and Owen McCormac in the 50 free.

East Hampton’s depth was particularly evident in the 200 individual medley, with Ryan Duryea placing third, Joey Badilla fifth, and Tenzin Tamang ninth; in the 50 free, with Owen McCormac third, Harrison fourth, and Thor Botero sixth; in the aforementioned 100 butterfly, with Harrison fourth, Nicky Badilla fifth, and Pineda eighth; in the 100 free, with Ethan McCormac first, Hoff fourth, and Jack Duryea sixth, and in the 100 back, with Joey Badilla second, Ryan Bahel sixth, and Luke Tyrell ninth.

Tyrell, a senior, was to share swimmer of the meet honors afterward for having made the county cut in the backstroke, a goal he’d pursued for two seasons. 

“When, in his final attempt of the season, Luke touched the wall under the qualifying time, his teammates roared because they knew how hard he had worked for it,” Coach Brierley said.

Forst too was named swimmer of the meet by the captains for having contributed 56 points as the result of his season-best leg in the 200 free relay, his fifth-place finish in the 500 free, and his lifetime-best leg in the 400 free relay.

Besides Tyrell, Menjura, a Pierson sophomore, also recorded a county-qualifying time in the 100 freestyle, leading off the 400 free relay with a 52.78 leg.

Brierley and Cunningham are to take 14 members of their 31-man squad to the county meet this Saturday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood. The group, which comprises Ethan McCormac, Forst, Hoff, Ryan Duryea, Joey Badilla, Botero, Harrison, Owen McCormac, Nicky Badilla, Tamang, Jack Duryea, Menjura, Ryan Bahel, and Tyrell, will compete in all the swimming events.

East Hampton High’s football program continues to be on thin ice, as it were, with the prospects as of earlier this week remaining as iffy as they have been over the course of the past half-dozen years.

The last time a Bonac football team made the playoffs was in the fall of 2012, when Bill Barbour was the coach. There was a varsity the next year, but then, owing to a lack of numbers, things began heading south. There was no team in 2014 — only the fourth time in the school’s 90-year history that that had happened; there were varsities in 2015 and ’16, but no team in ’17, and no varsity this past fall either, though there was a junior varsity coached by Joe McKee and his assistant Lorenzo Rodriguez.

During this period, Joe Vas, East Hampton’s athletic director, has been trying to keep the program afloat, suggesting — as yet to no avail — to Section IX, the governing body for high school sports in Suffolk, that East Hampton, despite its Conference III enrollment numbers, be allowed to remain in Conference IV, a somewhat less competitive conference.

Vas has told Section XI’s football committee — of which he is a member, as is Southampton’s A.D., Darren Phillips, and six other A.D.s — that when it comes to placement, East Hampton intends to field a team in Conference IV, “to keep the door open,” though the placement question remained up in the air as of Friday, when East Hampton’s athletic director was interviewed. Ther deadline for conference placements is fast approaching.

“A couple of years ago, if you remember, our proposal to stay in Conference IV and forgo the playoffs passed in the committee, but lost when it came to a vote of the four conferences’ 52 schools.”

“We’re not the only school on the Island that’s struggling when it comes to football. Greenport is struggling, Mercy’s closed, Stony Brook isn’t in Section XI anymore . . . Bayport-Blue Point . . . Hampton Bays. . . . We’re trying to maintain, but it’s not easy, especially when you consider that there’s no youth football in East Hampton anymore.”

Combining with Southampton, which already is combined with Pierson and Bridgehampton, and with the Ross School in the mix as well, “would result in an overall enrollment of 1,609, and would put us in Conference I, with schools like William Floyd, Central Islip, Bay Shore, Riverhead. . . . I can’t see us doing that. That wouldn’t be a sound decision.”

Another option — and one with which Phillips agrees, Vas said — would be to petition Section XI to combine and to play in Conference IV for one year and vie for the playoffs, after which an assessment would be made.

East Hampton’s A.D., who met with about 50 South Fork parents and school officials at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor the night of Jan. 30, said, however, that his sense was that Southampton parents were not in favor of combining if it means playoffs are not in the picture.

The football committee’s placement meeting was to have been held Tuesday in Smithtown. 

In the meantime, Phillips was to have met with his players to ascertain what they would like. Likewise, McKee was to have met Tuesday with ninth through 11th graders interested in playing on Bonac’s team. If all those on this past season’s jayvee roster turned out, there would be around 26. At least 16 players are needed to field a football team.

There wouldn’t be enough, Vas said, to have a varsity and a jayvee here, and, if it were decided to stick with a jayvee, seniors would not be able to play.

“My view,” he said, “is that we should combine and vie for the playoffs.” Given the waning interest in football of late, combining was the only thing that made sense, the A.D. said. “We haven’t had a varsity in two years and the numbers aren’t promising. Kids aren’t playing football as they have in the past.”

Plan B, he said, was to “go it alone, as a varsity or as a jayvee.”

And, assuming the worst, he was asked if there might come a time when the plug would be pulled.

“That possibility has been part of the conversation, though we’re trying everything to keep the program going,” East Hampton’s A.D. replied.

Thursday, January 24

BOWLING, East Hampton vs. Comsewogue, Port Jeff Bowl, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Smithtown Christian at Bridgehampton, 6 p.m.

Friday, January 25

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Port Jefferson at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 5 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Ross School at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 7:15 p.m.

Saturday, January 26

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton at Ocean Breeze invitational meet, Ocean Breeze athletic complex, Staten Island, 9 a.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Miller Place at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Westhampton Beach at East Hampton, 11:30 a.m.

BENEFIT BASKETBALL, Harlem MagicMasters vs. Faculty “Dream Team,” benefit class of 2020, East Hampton High School gymnasium, 7 p.m.

Sunday, January 27

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton at coaches meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 9 a.m.

Monday, January 28

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Amityville, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Greenport at Bridgehampton, 6 p.m., and East Hampton at Sayville, 7.

Tuesday, January 29

BOWLING, East Hampton at wildcard tournament, Bowl Long Island, Patchogue, 1 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Babylon at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 6:15 p.m. 

Wednesday, January 30

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Wyandanch, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Southold, and Mount Sinai at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

The Buckskill Winter Club, as it has in the past few years, will play host to a Katy’s Courage fund-raiser on Sunday, Feb. 10, with proceeds to go to the foundation created by Jim and Brigid Collins Stewart in memory of their daughter, who died of a rare pediatric cancer eight years ago at the age of 12.

According to a flier, Katy’s Courage is “dedicated to education, research, and support for Katy’s Kids at the Children’s Museum of the East End, a center for grieving children, teens, and their families. . . . Katy’s Courage is a not-for-profit organization honoring Katy Stewart, a precious little girl who inspired all who knew her throughout her lifetime. Her smile and kindness shine on in the memories of those who loved her, and her courage motivated the creation of this organization.”

The day (the rain date is Feb. 17) is to begin at 12:15 with learn-to-skate classes, followed by public skating from 1:15 to 2:45, a Katy’s Courage puck throw contest from 3 to 3:15, a skating recital from 3:30 to 4:30, a skate-a-thon from 4:45 to 5:45, a raffle drawing at 6, and a hockey game from 6 to 7:30. 

There will be an all-day bake sale, as well, put on by friends of Katy Stewart. 

Preregistration is required for the puck throw contest and for the 10-and-up hockey game, open to “the first 50 people to sign up (including goalies).”

It’s been a rarity here when a female is a male team’s number-one, but that is the case on East Hampton High’s bowling team this season, and, interestingly, the Clubhouse, on whose lanes the team practices, is managed by Scott Rubenstein, who, when Sandy Fleischman played number-one and he two for a while on the boys tennis team in the late 1970s, used to tell his friends that it was because her last name came first in the alphabet.

By contrast, Matt Rosario, a freshman, and Sy Webb, a sophomore, East Hampton’s number-two and three bowlers — Webb was a two-way lineman on the junior varsity football team this past fall — seem unfazed by the fact that Samantha Schurr, a senior, averages about 60 more pins than they, who are both new to the sport, do.

The camaraderie during the recently revived team’s practice session at the Clubhouse last Thursday was palpable, owing in part to the new coach, Mike Vitulli, who, according to Joe Vas, East Hampton’s athletic director, “is great with the kids.”

And, Vitulli would probably say, owing to the kids themselves, who during conversations that day said bowling’s camaraderie was one of the sport’s pluses.

That mutual support must have been apparent at a recent match with Longwood, for “a grandfather of one of the Longwood kids, who wants to remain anonymous,” Vitulli said, “gave our kids $1,500 worth of equipment — new balls and bags and shoes.”

Needless to say, the team, the first one East Hampton High has fielded since East Hampton Bowl was razed in favor of a new CVS store at the entrance to East Hampton Village five or so years ago, has not won any matches, “though we’ve won some games and we’re coming along,” said Vitulli. “Sam’s averaging around 181, and Matt and Sy, who started at 75, are averaging 120. . . . They’re learning a lifetime sport, and they’re having fun. The Clubhouse has been fantastic. We practice here every day.” 

The team must play its matches at the All Star Lanes in Riverhead for the time being inasmuch as the Clubhouse’s new string pin-setting machines have yet to be officially sanctioned. When asked, Schurr, who bowls in tournaments throughout Long Island, and who would have joined the varsity as a seventh-grader had not the East Hampton Bowl property been sold, said the Clubhouse’s lanes were not, at least in her case, as high-scoring as others she’d been on — a good thing, presumably, when it comes to bowling on automatic pin-setter lanes offering somewhat more pin action.

In reply to a question, Schurr, as well as Rosario and Webb, said she wasn’t distracted by the three humongous television screens — one of which was showing the Djokovic-Tsonga Australian Open tennis match — above and behind the pins. “They’ve got TVs at the All Star Lanes too,” she said.

Schurr’s high game as of that day was a 237. She bowled a 236 in the county singles-doubles tournament a couple of weeks ago. 

Seventeen now, she began bowling as a 4-year-old with Steve Graham at East Hampton Bowl. Syracuse is one of the colleges she’s interested in, though it does not have a team. Adelphi, which does, has accepted her, and she’s also interested in Daemen College in Amherst, N.Y., which offers bowling as a varsity sport.

East Hampton is to participate in the county’s wildcard tournament at Bowl Long Island in Patchogue Tuesday. The winning team will receive a berth in the county team tourney.

As expected (though it was not a lead-pipe cinch), the East Hampton High School boys swimming team won at West Islip on Jan. 16 to cap an unprecedented undefeated league-championship season at 7-0 (9-0). It was the first such for boys swimming since the program began here under Jeff Thompson in 2010.

West Islip’s four-lane pool (the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s, where the Bonackers hold their home meets, has six) prevented the visitors from taking full advantage of their superior depth, and East Hampton, which has no divers, had to spot West Islip 7 points in that event, but East Hampton came out on top nevertheless. The reported score was 55-45, though Craig Brierley, Bonac’s coach, “exhibitioned” his runner-up 400 free relay team (Callum Menelaws, Joran Uribe, Will Midson, and Ramses Jimenez) in the last event.

East Hampton went one-two in the opening 200-yard medley relay, with Joey Badilla, Ryan Duryea, Ethan McCormac, and Fernando Menjura, and Luke Tyrell, Jack Duryea, Nicky Badilla, and Edward Hoff.

Aidan Forst won the 200 free, with Daniel Piver third. Ryan Duryea won the 200 individual medley, Owen McCormac, with Thor Botero as the runner-up, won the 50 free, and Joey Badilla and Colin Harrison went one-two in the 100 butterfly, by which time East Hampton led 32-16.

Going into the last two events, the 100 breaststroke and the 400 free relay, the Bonackers were up 50-33, thanks to a one-two finish in the 200 free relay, second and third-place finishes in the 100 free, a second-place finish in the 100 backstroke, and a third-place finish in the 500 free. Jack Duryea won the 100 breast, with Curran O’Donnell third, sending the teams into the final event, the 400 free relay, with East Hampton leading 55-36.

Brierley, in an emailed account afterward, said 15 “world records” were set by his charges that day, a group that comprised Ethan and Aidan McCormac, Ryan Duryea, Botero, Joey Badilla, Midson, Tenzin Tamang, Jimenez, Uribe, O’Donnell, Menelaws, Harrington, and Piver.

Menjura, who had missed most of the season because of a knee injury, and who anchored the winning 200 medley relay team, was named swimmer of the meet by the captains.

The League II championships are to be held at Hauppauge High School next Thursday.

In other sports action this past week, the girls indoor track team placed eighth among League IV’s 11 teams in the league championships held at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood Sunday. Westhampton Beach, with 125 points, won it. East Hampton, whose roster numbers 11, finished with 31.5 — “not bad,” Yani Cuesta, the team’s coach, said, “given the fact that we have such a small team. We couldn’t be prouder of them.”

East Hampton’s scorers were Ava Engstrom, who placed third in the 1,500 and 3,000; JiJi Kramer, who was third in the 1,500 meter racewalk; Mimi Fowkes, who was fourth in the walk; Grace Brosnan, who was fourth in the high jump; Juliana Barahona, who was fifth in the shot-put; Lillie Minskoff, who tied for fifth in the 300, and the fifth-place 4-by-200 relay team of Brosnan, Barahona, Bella Espinoza, and Minskoff.

Engstrom’s time of 10 minutes and 49.15 seconds in the 3,000 set a school record. Brosnan’s 9.81 in the 55-meter high hurdles, earning her seventh place, was also a school record. Her 4-10 in the high jump was a personal best, as was Barahona’s heave of 27 feet 71/2 inches  in the shot-put.

At the Jim Howard invitational, also at Suffolk Community-Brentwood, last 

Thursday, Brosnan’s 9.91 in the 55-meter high hurdles was a school record, said Cuesta, inasmuch as Maria Dayton’s 9.8 in 1999 was a hand-held time, not a fully automated one. Had Dayton’s been a fully automated time, it would have worked out to 10.04 seconds, Cuesta said.

Engstrom’s 5:01.06 in the 1,500, which earned her fourth place, was a personal best. Cuesta added that in doing so Engstrom “came very close to breaking another school record, the 5:00.20 Dana Cebulski ran in 2013.”

Also at the invitational, Kramer placed third in a personal-best 8:11.39 in the racewalk, with her teammate Fowkes in fifth at 8:46.30.

Dan White, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys basketball team, said after a recent lopsided loss at Greenport — a game in which the Bonackers played toe-to-toe with the high-flying Porters in the first half — that he was looking to get back on track in the following week in a four-game home stand with Bayport-Blue Point, Shoreham-Wading River, Miller Place, and Westhampton Beach.

That home stand began, as he had wished, with relatively easy wins over the Phantoms and Wildcats, thanks largely to his charges’ deadly shooting from 3-point range. In East Hampton’s 83-38 win over Bayport, White’s players, with Jeremy Vizcaino and Malachi Miller leading the way, drained 16 of the 37 shots they took from behind the arc, a terrific percentage — perhaps a record — and, in the game with Shoreham here Friday, they knocked down nine more. 

It was said after the Greenport nonleaguer that East Hampton, without a big man down low since Bladimir Rodriguez Garces broke his toe early in the campaign, either lived or died by the 3. But, as the Bonackers’ performance Friday demonstrated, that isn’t necessarily so. Mirroring the Porters, they frequently cashed in on fast breaks following Shoreham misses, thanks largely to the pinpoint passing of Turner Foster.

Miller, who often was on the receiving end of those passes, was a constant threat as well, from both short and long range, though he had to come out, limping, with a cramped calf muscle, early in the fourth quarter after taking a blow to the face on his way to the hoop.

“Sometimes it takes time to find yourself,” Joe Vas, East Hampton’s athletic director, said, when this writer, midway through the third period, and with the Bonackers up by 46-23, enthused about East Hampton’s all-around up-tempo play.

Logan Gurney came off the bench when Miller limped off in the company of East Hampton’s trainer, Nick Jarboe, and acquitted himself very well thereafter, blocking a shot and hitting two jumpers near the end of the 61-33 victory.

Foster led the way scoring-wise, with 15 points, followed in double figures by Miller, with 13, and Vizcaino, with 11. Max Proctor had eight.

“We played well — our balance was good,” White said afterward. “We didn’t have too many turnovers, we shot better, and our defense was good. We’re 4-6 now, and we have a big game with Miller Place on Tuesday night. That will be a big one. We lost at their place, but it was our worst game of the season.”

East Hampton was urged on enthusiastically that night by the school’s band and its dance team, which performed a tightly choreographed number at halftime. White, who said he hoped the band and dancing girls would be back Tuesday, added, “The kids are fun to watch. Bring the kids, bring the family.”

Miller, encountered in the hall later, said the aforementioned calf cramp didn’t pose a problem. Yes, it was true, he said, that the loss of Rodriguez Garces had hurt, certainly when it came to rebounding, but that he, Christian Johnson, and Foster had stepped up in that regard.

He definitely thought, he said, that East Hampton had a good chance at making the playoffs, and that the Bonackers definitely had a good chance at beating Miller Place the second time around. “They’ve got one kid” — presumably Thomas Cirrito, who scored 27 points in the Panthers’ 60-59 win over Amityville Friday — “who’s good, but otherwise. . . .”

In another game played Friday, Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees, with J.P. Harding leading the way with 29 points and 19 rebounds, defeated Southold 66-53 at the Beehive. Nae’jon Ward, the Bees’ point guard, had 14 points. Ron White, Bridgehampton’s coach, said last week that Harding and Ward were among the county’s top 20 scorers.

Sunday’s weather was pretty awful, but Saturday was a good day for skating at the Buckskill Winter Club, which, its manager, Cory Lillie, said has been doing well since opening around Thanksgiving.

The weather had been by and large conducive to skating thus far, he said. “It has a lot to do with the sun — if it’s sunny and 40 degrees, it can be tough, while if it’s not sunny and 45, it could be okay. . . . We’ve been busy. There’ve been some rainy days, but otherwise it’s been great.” 

Buckskill’s ice hockey program continues to be popular, he said, although the high school-age team that Lillie has coached in recent years is somewhat less experienced than in the past owing to the fact that five of his better players, all of whom apparently plan to continue playing the sport, are now in preparatory schools.

The roster — about half of the players are tyros — includes Egan Barzilay, Daniel Bitton, Ronan Brady, Luke Brunn, Tommy Brunn, Spencer and Vincent Cavaniola, James Farrell, Gabe Grenci, Keegan Guyer, Jake Krahe, Taylor and Rorey Murphy, Johnny Nill, Ronan O’Brien, Charlotte Reis, and Declan Sloan.

“We’re not as experienced as we have been, but the kids are improving quickly,” said Lillie, adding, in answer to a question, “Oh yeah, there’s a lot of interest in hockey among the kids. . . . I’m trying to line some games up.”

The high school-age squad practices in the early evenings on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Lillie’s assistants include Tim Luzadre, who’s been teaching at the winter club since it opened more than a decade ago, Matt and Pat Rice, and, as of this year, Khloe Goncalves, a three-time national champion roller hockey goalie who added ice hockey to her repertoire four years ago.

Luzadre, Goncalves, and Matt Rice were working with a dozen or so junior hockey players Saturday morning when this writer stopped by. The clubhouse, which has a fireplace, plush couches, a television over the mantel that’s often tuned into the N.H.L. Network, and good food, has been extended to include what had been until this season an open (now weather-protected) deck overlooking the National Hockey League-size rink.

Play in Buckskill’s three-team adult hockey league, with 14 on each roster, began last week. Games are played Mondays and Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

There are skating classes for children and adults, and figure-skating instruction by Krista Bussi, a 30-year-old Buffalo native who skated for five years with Disney on Ice, and who is in her second year at the winter club, and Brittni Svanberg, a recent Boston University graduate, as well. The weekly schedule can be found online at buckskillwinterclub.com.

“A lot of the kids I’m coaching now I coached in roller hockey,” the 20-year-old, 5-foot-1-inch Goncalves said, as she filled a large bag with goalie equipment. She and the Rice brothers began as roller hockey players, first at the East Hampton Town Youth Park’s outdoor rink in Amagansett and, afterward, across the street in the Sportime Arena, but have come to prefer the speed of the game played on ice.

“I like the mobility you have on the ice, the ability you have to cut down angles and go quickly across the net,” said Goncalves, who, as aforesaid, began tending goal in ice hockey four years ago after having played roller hockey since the age of 8. 

The high school-age team lacked a goalie last year, though Conclaves has several young aspirants under her wing now, including 10-year-old Tommy Brunn, who despite his tender years tends the nets for the team, and Jacob Fritz, an 8-year-old from Bridgehampton who, when asked what it was he liked most about being a goalie, replied with a smile, “All the gear.”

“Hockey’s definitely on a good footing here,” said Goncalves, who is at the club four days a week, “though I wish this rink were here the year round.”

Thursday, January 31

BOYS SWIMMING, East Hampton at League II meet, Hauppauge High School, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Southampton, 6 p.m.

Friday, February 1

BOYS BASKETBALL, Wyandanch at East Hampton, and Bridgehampton at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 6:15 p.m.

Saturday, February 2

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Smithtown Christian at Pierson, Sag Harbor, and Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, noon.

GIRLS TRACK, East Hampton at small schools championship meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, February 3

BOYS TRACK, East Hampton at county team championship meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 10 a.m.

Monday, February 4

BOYS BASKETBALL, Shelter Island at Bridgehampton, 6 p.m.; Pierson at Smithtown Christian, 6:15, and Amityville at East Hampton, 6:15.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Mount Sinai, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, February 5

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson vs. Greenport-Southold, Greenport High School, 6:15 p.m.

Wednesday, February 6

BOYS BASKETBALL, Bridgehampton at Ross School, 4 p.m., and Greenport at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 6:15 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Bayport-Blue Point at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

Among the first things probably to catch the eyes of the 34 Y.M.C.A. East Hampton Hurricane swimmers on arriving at the University of Maryland’s pool the evening of Jan. 18 were the myriad records that Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky had set there when swimming with Baltimore (in his case) and Washington, D.C. (in hers), club teams.

Tom Cohill, the Hurricanes’ head coach, said during a practice session at East Hampton’s Y Monday that the team, which made the eight-hour trip on a chartered bus, had done “really, really well” at the Severna Park Y’s three-day Winterfest, a meet that drew Y.M.C.A. competitors ranging in age from 9 through 18 from all over the Northeast.

Cohill, who oversaw the East Hampton group with Craig Brierley, Angelika Cruz, and Sean Knight, could boast of seven top-16 finishers in Jasiu Gredysa, Liam Knight, Daisy Pitches, Jane Brierley, Julia Brierley, Ethan McCormac, and Sophia Swanson, who qualified for the Y nationals in the 100-yard butterfly. 

Moreover, there were 25 personal bests, among them Ethan McCormac’s team record times of 21.23 seconds in the 50 freestyle, 46.89 in the 100 free, and 1:43.78 in the 200 free, Swanson’s team record time of 58.50 in the 100 fly, and Jane Brierley’s team record 2:25.33 in the 100 breaststroke.

Rounding out the personal-best list were Nicholas Chavez, Elizabeth Daniels, Ben Kriegsman, Lylah Metz, Patrick O’Donnell, Nick Badilla, Margaret Breen, Cami Hatch, Summer Jones, Aidan McCormac, Curran O’Donnell, Daniel Piver, Tenzin Tamang, Joey Badilla, Kiara Bailey-Williams, Jack Duryea, Ryan Duryea, Linda Pomiranceva, and Bella Tarbet.

As of now, Cohill is to take four girls and four boys with him to the Y national meet in Greensboro, N.C., in April — Jane and Julia Brierley, Oona Foulser, and Swanson, and Owen and Ethan McCormac, Aidan Forst, and Ryan Duryea. “We’re hoping that we’ll also have a girls 200 relay team and a boys 200 medley relay team qualify,” he said.

There was no action this past week insofar as East Hampton High School’s undefeated boys swimming team went, “enabling the boys,” said their coach, Craig Brierley, “to get in some solid training in preparation for the League II championship meet” at Hauppauge High School today. 

During Monday’s practice, Brierley said it would be tough, but possible, for the team, which has no divers, to win the league meet on the strength of its showing in the swimming events alone.

Turning to winter track, Ben Turnbull, who coaches East Hampton’s boys team, said in an email that Ryan Fowkes had run a personal-best 4:27.81 mile in the Ocean Breeze invitational on Staten Island Saturday. “He placed third in his heat and 16th over all, among just under 300 kids,” Turnbull said. “Ryan met the state-qualifying cutoff time at Ocean Breeze, which means that if he finishes third in the state qualifier that’s coming up in about a couple of weeks he’ll go to states.”

Matt Maya, who also competed on Staten Island, “ran a personal-best 53.19 in the 400, winning the Blue division, which had about 80 in it, and ran the 55-meter high hurdles in 8.57, which was not a personal best, but not far from it. . . . He may have set a school record in the 400, but we’ll have to look into that deeper.”

The invitational drew “the best high school athletes from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut,” Turnbull said.

Some of East Hampton’s girls were at the Ocean Breeze meet too, namely Ava Engstrom, whose time in the 2-mile race was 12:11.60; Mimi Fowkes and JiJi Kramer, whose times in the 1,500-meter racewalk were 8:21.77 and 8:24.91; Grace Brosnan, whose time in the freshman 55 hurdles was 10.34; Lillie Minskoff, whose time in the varsity 200 was 28.22; Penelope Greene, whose time in the mile was 5:49.35, and Bella Espinoza, whose height of 8 feet 6 inches was a personal best for her in the varsity pole vault.