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The Girls Indoor Track Report

The Girls Indoor Track Report

At the Art Mitchell invitational meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood
By
Star Staff

Yani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls winter track team, reported Sunday that her charges had done very well at the Art Mitchell invitational meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood earlier that day, chiefly that Grace Brosnan had placed first in the freshman section of the 55-meter high hurdles and third in the high jump; that Ava Engstrom was second in the sophomore section’s 1,500-meter race, and that Mimi Fowkes was second and JiJi Kramer fourth in the open section’s 1,500-meter racewalk.

In addition, Penelope Greene placed fifth in the sophomore 1,500; Lillie Minskoff placed fifth in the open section’s 300-meter race, and Juliana Barahona placed sixth in the sophomore section’s shotput.

Swimmers Entered Week 5-0, Wrestlers Were 0-4

Swimmers Entered Week 5-0, Wrestlers Were 0-4

Caleb Peralta (on top), who placed third in the 126-pound division at a recent invitational tournament in Half Hollow Hills, pinned his East Islip opponent with 10 seconds to go in the first period here Friday.
Caleb Peralta (on top), who placed third in the 126-pound division at a recent invitational tournament in Half Hollow Hills, pinned his East Islip opponent with 10 seconds to go in the first period here Friday.
Craig Macnaughton Photos
Bonackers defeat North Babylon 83-76 here Friday
By
Jack Graves

Jim Stewart, East Hampton High’s wrestling coach, said before the meet with East Islip here Friday that he was still looking for some pieces with which to fill out his jigsaw puzzle — quite a few as it turns out, for the Bonackers had to forfeit in more than half the weights that day.

Of the six who did wrestle, only Santi Maya, at 106, and Caleb Peralta, at 126, won — Maya by a 14-1 decision, and Peralta by pin near the end of the first period. 

Marco Rabanal lost 10-5 at 152, and Danny Suculanda, at 160, Sebastian Cruceta, at 170, and Martin Soto, at 182, were pinned — Suculanda and Cruceta in the first period and Soto in the second. Of the matches contested, East Islip won 33-10, but with the forfeits figured in the score was 75-10. 

At a tournament at Half Hollow Hills East on Dec. 28, Caleb Peralta twice defeated the second seed in his division, Stewart said, first by a score of 13-12 in the opening round, and the second time in the finals of the wrestlebacks. As a result, Peralta placed third, with three wins (two by pin) and one loss, “a narrow defeat . . . he was seconds away from the finals.”

Stewart went on to say that Peralta and Brian Barahona “wrestled valiantly in a big tournament with a talented field. Big hearts and tons of courage.”

The news was quite a bit better last week when it came to boys swimming given the fact that Craig Brierley’s team extended its win streak to 5-0, and to 3-0 in League II, by defeating North Babylon 83-76 here Friday.

Serious competition loomed as of earlier this week, however. Northport-Commack (2-3 over all) was to have played host to the Bonackers at Sachem North High School Tuesday; Hauppauge (3-0, 5-1), the defending league champion, is to swim here today at 5 p.m., and Sayville-Bayport, which shared the league lead with East Hampton as of Monday, each at 3-0, 5-0, is to vie with the Bonackers here Monday, also at 5 p.m.

In Friday’s meet, East Hampton finished one-two in the opening 200-yard medley relay, swept the 200 freestyle, won the 200 individual medley, placed one-two in the 50 free, won the 100 free, and swept the 500 free before Brierley began to exhibition his entrants in the final four events, the 200 free relay, the 100 backstroke, the 100 breaststroke, and the 400 free relay.

Joey Badilla, a Pierson sophomore, was named by the captains as swimmer of the meet for having swum county-meet qualifying times in the 100 butterfly and in the 100 breaststroke. He shaved 2.5 seconds off his previous best in the breaststroke. Others who swam county-qualifying times that day were Aidan Forst, in the 50, 100, and 200 freestyle races, Ethan McCormac, in the 200 I.M., and Ryan Bahel, in the 100 backstroke.

Luke Tyrell, Jordan Uribe, Ethan McCormac, Daniel Piver, Forst, Owen McCormac, Nicky Badilla, Miles Copolla, Bahel, Joey Badilla, Thor Botero, Colin Harrison, Kevin Pineda, and Christian Gaines all swam personal bests.

Ethan McCormac, moreover, has qualified for the state meet in four events — the 50, 100, and 200 free, and in the 100 butterfly.

East Hampton will have entries in all of the county meet’s swimming events. Seven Bonac swimmers (Ryan Duryea, Botero, Forst, Harrison, Edward Hoff, and the McCormacs) have qualified for the county meet’s 50 freestyle race, six (Joey Badilla, Nicky Badilla, Forst, Harrison, Ethan McCormac, and Tenzin Tamang) for the 100 butterfly, five (Jack Duryea, Ryan Duryea, Forst, Hoff, and Ethan McCormac) for the 100 free, and three (Joey Badilla, Jack Duryea, and Ryan Duryea) for the 100 breaststroke.

The Lineup: 01.17.19

The Lineup: 01.17.19

Local Sports Schedule
By
Star Staff

Thursday, January 17

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton girls at Jim Howard meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 5 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Center Moriches, 7 p.m.

 

Friday, January 18

BOYS BASKETBALL, Southold at Bridgehampton, 6 p.m., and Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, 6:15.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Sayville, 6:45 p.m.

 

Saturday, January 19

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Lindenhurst round robin, 9 a.m.

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton boys at league championship meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 7 p.m.

 

Sunday, January 20

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton girls at league championship meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 7 p.m.

 

Tuesday, January 22

BOWLING, Longwood vs. East Hampton, All Star Lanes, Riverhead, 4 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Shelter Island, 5:45 p.m., and Miller Place at East Hampton, 6:15. 

25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports: 01.17.19

25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports: 01.17.19

Local Sports History
By
Star Staff

January 6, 1994

With a half-minute remaining in Tuesday’s tense boys basketball game here with Center Moriches, East Hampton High School’s athletic director, Richard Cooney, wasn’t altogether sure he would be presenting the basketball he had under his arm to East Hampton’s longtime coach, Ed Petrie.

The basketball was to be given to Petrie on the occasion of his 500th win, a singular feat in Long Island coaching, and rare in state history. But would the Bonackers hold on?

. . . Ross Gload made the first end of the last-second one-and-one to ice the big win at 73-69, and Cooney strode forward to announce Petrie’s milestone to the packed stands. In 33 years, the coach has amassed 500 wins vis-a-vis 183 losses.

“I’m glad it’s over,” the esteemed, self-effacing coach said in the locker room afterward. “I’m more happy, frankly, that we won this league game today.”

“I was there for his first win, and I made his 500th by one second,” said Tom Bubka, East Hampton’s junior varsity coach, who hurried over from the middle school after his team beat its Center Moriches counterparts. 

. . . Bubka was playing on Pierson High School’s junior varsity when Petrie began his coaching career at the Sag Harbor school in 1959. 

“Ed and I started at East Hampton in the same year, 1969,” said Cooney. “And he still has the same enthusiasm and drive and interest in the game as he did the first year I met him. He’s certainly given us over the seasons, over the years, a lot of enjoyment.”

Karen Kalbacher, a former East Hampton resident who left last summer on a 15,000-mile bicycle trip around the world, aimed at familiarizing young Americans with the cultures of other countries, sent a Christmas note to The Star from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

. . . “When you’re so far from home and have been riding your bike nearly 80 miles in the hot and humid weather, it’s a great feeling to have someone you don’t know beep and give you the thumbs-up sign. It’s little things like that that keep me going!”

 

January 13, 1994

Four of the Bridgehampton School’s powerful Killer Bees, the boys basketball team, have been rendered academically ineligible so far this season — far more than usual, according to the coach, Carl Johnson. 

. . . A Bridgehampton student who fails to improve academic performance after being placed on probation becomes ineligible to play or practice with a team. As for what merits probation, “teachers have interpreted it differently,” John Edwards, Bridgehampton’s superintendent, said. “It’s supposed to mean students are at risk of failing a class. Some Bridgehampton teachers consider students at risk if one assignment is late, but others are more lenient.”

Ineligible players are encouraged to observe practices, “but it’s very hard for them to come and watch,” Johnson said. “They come once in a while, and then lose interest.”

The mother of one of the ineligible players, Joanne Mems, told the Bridgehampton School Board Monday night that ineligible students should be allowed to practice (a player can practice and play with one fail at East Hampton, and those with two fails can still practice).

“Not suiting up is punishment enough, I think,” Mems said. “In a community with not much to do, sports are important,” she added.

Cuesta’s Girls Prove to Be Quick Studies at Zeitler Relays

Cuesta’s Girls Prove to Be Quick Studies at Zeitler Relays

Mimi Fowkes, left, and JiJi Kramer celebrated their Zeitler Relay racewalk win with their coach, Yani Cuesta, afterward.
Mimi Fowkes, left, and JiJi Kramer celebrated their Zeitler Relay racewalk win with their coach, Yani Cuesta, afterward.
Jennifer Fowkes
At Suffolk Community College-Brentwood last Thursday
By
Jack Graves

Yani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls winter track team, said during a conversation Monday that her girls — she has a dozen — proved to be quick studies when it came to the Zeitler Relays at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood last Thursday.

“Because we have a small team, we hadn’t even practiced relay races,” she said. “The day before, we finalized the teams and had them practice handoffs, for the first time.”

All things considered, she was quite pleased, Cuesta said, with the results, chiefly with JiJi Kramer and Mimi Fowkes’s win in the 1,500-meter racewalk relay.

“We knew Westhampton had a very fast racewalker, Natalie Ehlers, whose best time was 7:18.59, but their other girl wasn’t as good,” said Cuesta. “Our girls worked together to beat them out. . . . JiJi’s time was 8:19.44, a personal record, and Mimi’s was 8:20.82 for a combined time of 16:40.26. Westhampton was second at 18:19.45.”

Kramer and Nina Piacentine had teamed up in the event a few years ago, finishing second, Cuesta said. It was the first time an East Hampton team had won it.

Moreover, the hastily put together sprint medley relay team of Penelope Greene, Lillie Minskoff, Marisol Chamale, and Ava Engstrom finished second among League IV’s 11 schools in that event. 

Cuesta quoted Greene — a distance runner, as is Engstrom — as having said afterward that she “never thought I would get a medal that said ‘sprint’ on it.”

Greene led it off, running the 400, with Minskoff (200), Chamale (200), and Engstrom (800) following, recording a time of 4:46.33.

“Our distance runners were happy to run shorter distances than the 1,500 and 3,000, though we didn’t have any sprinters who wanted to go longer, to run in a 4-by-800 relay, say,” said the coach. “That sprint medley relay was an excellent example of teamwork, of helping each other out.”

Juliana Barahona, who has been competing in the shot-put and in the 300 this season, jumped in, Cuesta said, when it came time to run the 4-by-200 relay, with Leah Hatch, Julia Caldwell, and Grace Brosnan, a hurdler and jumper who, like Barahona, also stepped up.

Field events were treated as relays too. The shot-put team of Barahona and Bella Espinoza, a pole-vaulter and 300 runner who was making her debut in the event, placed seventh with a combined throw of 46-11. Barahona’s 27-2 was a personal record.

Brosnan’s 4-6 in the high jump — she had no partner — earned her sixth place in that event. Minskoff (12-4) and Chamale (13-51/2) placed sixth in the long jump relay, and the 4-by-400 relay team of Espinoza, Anna Carman, Greene, and Engstrom placed seventh.

While Cuesta has a small team of 12 competitors, it is larger than the four she had last year. Caldwell, a ninth grader, Barahona, a sophomore, Brosnan, a ninth grader, Carman, a sophomore, Chamale, a junior, Greene, a sophomore, and Hatch, a junior, were all new to winter track, the coach said.

Minskoff, the team’s captain, who’s a junior, had been “a joy. I tell her what I need and she does it. She’s been a great help, a real leader.”

Cuesta had been thinking of taking Espinoza, who she thinks may best Danielle Futerman’s outdoor pole-vault record of 10-0, to last weekend’s Stanner Games at the 168th Street Armory in New York City, but did not. 

“Only boys [Ryan Fowkes and Matt Maya] went,” she said.

Ben Turnbull, who coaches East Hampton’s boys winter track team, reported by email that Fowkes had placed fifth in the invitational mile with a personal-best 4:32.85. Kal Lewis of Shelter Island won that race in 4:23.27.

Maya, Turnbull said, placed 10th in the 300, in 37.85, a personal record for him and, said Turnbull, “very close to our school record, which is 37.34.”

The boys team is to compete in the league meet Saturday at Suffolk Community, and is to vie in the Ocean Breeze High School’s invitational meet on Staten Island the following weekend.

The girls league meet, also at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, is to be held Sunday, “though snow is forecast.” 

“Our meet is to be the last of the day, from 7 to 9:30 p.m.,” Cuesta said, with a sigh. 

Today, the girls are to compete in the Jim Howard invitational, also at Suffolk Community, from 5 to 9 p.m.

Bees Shocked, Bonac Rocked

Bees Shocked, Bonac Rocked

East Hampton knocked down 10 3-pointers in Saturday’s nonleague boys basketball game at Greenport, and Malachi Miller, above, had four of them.
East Hampton knocked down 10 3-pointers in Saturday’s nonleague boys basketball game at Greenport, and Malachi Miller, above, had four of them.
Craig Macnaughton
Killer Bees hope to meet Shelter Island twice more
By
Jack Graves

Last week was the best of times and the worst of times for the Killer Bees of Bridgehampton, who, after an exciting win over Pierson at home, went on to lose, 65-62, at Shelter Island, a fellow Class D school.

Ron White, the Bees’ coach, said the loss was on him, that he had failed to fully prepare his charges for a scrappy team that had nothing to lose. Complacence had led to inconsistency, he said, and thus to the loss, the Bees’ second of the League VII season vis-à-vis three wins. 

Bridgehampton’s stellar reputation had, of course, preceded it — only one other school in the state has won more state titles, and former Bee teams have in the past outscored Shelter Island ones by 50-plus points — but that winning history, said White, could also serve to fire up opponents. Louisville’s upset of the University of North Carolina this past weekend was a similar case in point, he said.

“Shelter Island was very scrappy; they were ready to play. . . . Hopefully, we’ll see them two more times this season, at home [on Feb. 4] and in the county Class D championship game” on Feb. 13.

Meanwhile, the Bees — as is the case with East Hampton — as of Monday were preparing for a four-game home stand, with the Ross School yesterday, Southold tomorrow, Smithtown Christian next Thursday, and Greenport on Jan. 28.

Speaking of East Hampton, Dan White’s team gave Greenport — the third-ranked Class C school in the state, and the top-ranked one on the Island — all it could handle in the first half of Saturday’s nonleaguer on the North Fork. 

The Bonackers, without a big man down low, tend to live or die by the 3. They not only lived but thrived from long range in the early going at Greenport, knocking down seven of 15 tries from beyond the arc in the first half, which ended with the score tied at 41-41.

But one had the sinking feeling that once East Hampton cooled off from long range, it would be over given the Porters’ edges in rebounding (in the form mainly of Julian Swann, a tall wide-body senior, and Zach Riggins, a similarly tough inside player) and in quickness (in the form mainly of Jaxan Swann and Ahkee Anderson, Greenport’s guards).

Soon, the 12-point lead that East Hampton had built up by way of Jeremy Vizcaino and Malachi Miller’s successive 3s early in the second quarter was history. 

Julian Swann put one up inside to begin the third period, after which Reese Costello hit from the perimeter, and Jaxan Swann tossed in an off-balance 2 before East Hampton’s Turner Foster replied with a basket of his own. A jumper from the foul line by Jaxan Swann, and subsequent made free throws by Anderson, who’d been fouled on his way to the hoop, extended the Porters’ lead to 52-43, and so it went as the home team continued to haul down rebounds and dash back up the court for easy layups as defenders’ necks swiveled. The final was 91-60.

“You can’t give another team 90 points and expect to win — we were terrible in getting back on defense,” White said afterward. “All of a sudden, it went from a 5 to a 20-point game. We were up by 14 at one point, but we got into foul trouble and our lead vanished pretty quickly.”

Still, one had to keep in mind, the coach said, that “they got to the [Class C] state final last year, losing to Lake George.”

Jaxan Swann led the onslaught with 25 points, followed by Julian Swann with 20, Anderson with 14, and Riggins with 10. Moreover, Julian Swann had 10 rebounds, Jaxan Swann had 8 assists, Anderson had 9 rebounds and 8 assists, and Riggins had 7 rebounds.

White said he hoped East Hampton, whose sixth straight loss it was, all on the road, would get back on track at home here this week. Bayport-Blue Point was to have played here Tuesday. Shoreham is to play here tomorrow. Miller Place and Westhampton Beach are to play here next week.

A Triumphant Farewell

A Triumphant Farewell

Ryan Duryea, who won the 50 freestyle and the 100 breaststroke (above), also anchored the winning 400 free relay team in Monday’s win — East Hampton’s eighth in a row — over Sayville-Bayport.
Ryan Duryea, who won the 50 freestyle and the 100 breaststroke (above), also anchored the winning 400 free relay team in Monday’s win — East Hampton’s eighth in a row — over Sayville-Bayport.
Craig Macnaughton
Kenny Sanchez named swimmer of the meet
By
Jack Graves

With a convincing win over Sayville-Bayport   Monday, and with a similarly stellar victory over Hauppauge, the defending league champion, last Thursday, it appeared likely that the East Hampton High School boys swimming team would wind up as a league titlist for the first time since the program began here under Jeff Thompson in 2010.

Craig Brierley’s charges, who improved to 7-0 (8-0) as a result of their latest triumph, were to have swum at West Islip yesterday, a team that had edged Sayville-Bayport by 3 points and which had lost to Hauppauge by 8. East Hampton, by contrast, left both teams far in its wake. The reported scores, of 91-77 and 89-79, made the decisive victories appear to be closer than they were.

Following Monday’s showdown at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, Bonac’s captains, Ethan McCormac, Ryan Duryea, Ryan Bahel, and Jordan Uribe, were uncertain at first whom to name as swimmer of the meet, an indication, it was noted, that everyone had done his best. 

Kenny Sanchez, a fellow senior — all eight of them were honored before the meet began, passing the baton as it were to juniors at the end of traditional 25-yard laps — was finally settled upon as the designee.

Both meets at the Y this past week proceeded in a similar fashion, with East Hampton increasingly pulling away in the final four events.

Going into the 200 freestyle relay (the ninth event) last Thursday, and on Monday as well, East Hampton led the opposition 61-49. And each time East Hampton, urged on by Bonac fans, captured first and second place to go up 73-51. 

The winning team last Thursday comprised Edward Hoff, Colin Harrison, Owen McCormac, and Ryan Duryea; the 200 relay winners Monday were Ethan McCormac, Thor Botero, Hoff, and Owen McCormac.

In an account following the Hauppauge meet, Brierley said, “We have a very strong balance on all fronts and we have yet to face a team that can match that. . . . The coaches are really happy with our swimmers’ efforts, and with their teamwork and the resilience they show going into each event.”

Ethan McCormac won the 200 and 100 freestyle races in both meets; Ryan Duryea won Monday’s 50 free and the 100 breaststroke. Aidan Forst won the 500 versus Hauppauge and was second, by three seconds, to Sayville’s Andrey Dagayev on Monday. Duryea was the breaststroke runner-up to Hauppauge’s Jordan Nielsen last Thursday.

But what put East Hampton well over the top in both meets were the second and thirds it garnered. 

Duryea and Owen McCormac’s one-two finish in Monday’s 50 free (the fourth event) treated East Hampton to a 36-26 lead, and Sayville-Bayport was not able to narrow the gap thereafter.

Likewise, East Hampton — with Ethan McCormac, Botero, Hoff, and Owen McCormac, and with Tenzin Tamang, Will Midson, Kevin Pineda, and Harrison — went one-two in the 200 free relay, putting things well out of reach.

John Ryan Sr., who years ago began “drownproofing” East Hampton’s youngsters by way of a popular junior lifeguard program, gave Brierley a pat on the back after his charges had upended the defending league champions. 

“It was a big win for us — we had to dig deep,” the coach said afterward. “The Sayville-Bayport meet could go either way. . . .”

But as it turned out, there was not much reason to worry. 

As aforesaid, the eight seniors — one of whom, Ramses Jimenez, was absent “because of a family emergency” —  were cited by Brierley before Monday’s meet began.

Ethan McCormac is to go to Providence College, Bahel to Vanderbilt, Duryea to Roger Williams, Uribe to Fordham, Botero to the University of Vermont, Sanchez to the State University at Oneonta, and Luke Tyrell to Boston University. 

As for projected majors, Bahel is eyeing engineering, Tyrell and Uribe biology, and Duryea architecture. The rest said they were as yet undecided.

League II’s meet will be held at Hauppauge High School on Jan. 31, beginning at 4:15 p.m. The county meet is to be held at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood on Saturday, Feb. 9, beginning at 10 a.m.

MagicMasters Are Back in Bonac

MagicMasters Are Back in Bonac

Durell Godfrey
A fund-raiser for East Hampton High’s class of 2020
By
Jack Graves

The Harlem MagicMasters are to play an East Hampton School District faculty basketball “Dream Team” at the high school’s gym Saturday evening to raise money for the class of 2020. 

According to a release, the visiting team, whose record is reportedly 300-0 in charity games played over the past five years, features Clarence (Mugsy) Leggett, “one of the world’s top show basketball dribblers, the 7-foot-5-inch Curtis (Tiny) Johnson and the 7-foot-3 Super Mario, the high-flying dunker called Miles High, and “the all-time great funny man” James (Speedy) Williams. Leggett and Miles High are former Harlem Globetrotters.

“The MagicMasters include the audience, especially children, in the show, and are always available to meet the fans and to sign autographs at halftime and after the game.”

Tickets cost $10 for students and senior citizens and $15 for adults. They can be had by calling Tonya Gregg in the high school’s main office. They will also be available at the event, which is to begin at 7 p.m., for $15, or $20 for adults.

Girls Were in It Till Final Minute

Girls Were in It Till Final Minute

Emma Silvera (24), guarded above by Wyandanch’s Jalea Ervin, came close to making it a 1-point game in the final minute, but her 3-point attempt rolled off the rim.
Emma Silvera (24), guarded above by Wyandanch’s Jalea Ervin, came close to making it a 1-point game in the final minute, but her 3-point attempt rolled off the rim.
Craig Macnaughton
There are a dozen on Brooks’s roster and all play
By
Jack Graves

East Hampton High’s girls basketball team had a chance to win a second game this season — an unheard of feat in recent years — versus hitherto-winless Wyandanch here Saturday, but, in the end, it was not to be.

“Too many turnovers,” said Bonac’s coach, Krista Brooks, after the 40-35 loss. “Though, in the case of some of them, like lead passes on the break, you could see the intentions were good. Our defense was very good. . . . We’ve got to shoot more and turn the ball over less. It was the same thing at Miller Place,” which defeated East Hampton 46-30 last Thursday. “But we are becoming more solid as a team; we’re getting better.” 

Connie Chan made the first basket, putting the ball up from underneath, and then, following a turnover, Paige Cordone swished in a jumper. Following another Wyandanch turnover, and a miss by Kailey Marmeno, Chan’s putback made it 6-0. “Hold my heart!” one could imagine East Hampton’s parents saying.

Soon afterward, thanks to two 3-pointers chucked up by the visitors’ senior point guard, Jalea Ervin — shots that bracketed more than two minutes of frenzied but unfruitful play — it became clear that this would be no walkover.

Ervin’s second 3 evened the count at 6-6. A basket by Cordone, her sixth point of the first quarter, made with 13 seconds left in the opening period, pulled East Hampton even at 10-10.

And so it went. Two made free throws by Jessica Guallpa, one of a number of Bonac guards who can handle the ball well, brought the Bonackers to within 1 point of the Warriors, at 20-21, in the last half-minute of the first half, and, in the final ticks, East Hampton could well have taken a lead into the locker room had the leader of a fast break driven all the way to the basket rather than pull up.

Bonac fans dared to dream again when, in the opening minute of the third quarter, Cordone, following three Wyandanch misses, went coast-to-coast for 22-21, and Alden Powers, following a steal by Marmeno, converted on the break for 24-21. Ervin continued to loft the ball up from the perimeter — six times by one count — in the ensuing minutes, but to no effect as East Hampton defended well. 

By the same token, Bonac shooters were coming up empty too, from the field and the foul line. Then, in the final minute, East Hampton extended its lead to 30-22, thanks to baskets by Emma Silvera (two) and Cordone, by way of another coast-to-coaster.

That was as good as it was going to get, however, for in the fourth period the visitors, who pressed on every in-

bounds play, were to outscore the Bonackers 18-5.

With three and a half minutes left to play, it was 31-31. A basket by Chan, with the ball, which had rolled around and around, finally dropping in, made it 33-31, and a free throw by Silvera, who had come up empty on three previous attempts from the line, upped East Hampton’s lead to 34-31, leading one to wonder when Ervin, who had gone 2-for-22 from beyond the arc, would finally drain another one.

Indeed she did, and, as a result, with 1:27 left on the clock, it was 34-34. 

Unfortunately for East Hampton, Wyandanch’s senior point guard continued in the final moments to dominate play, tacking on 6 more points — four made from the foul line — before the final buzzer sounded, a span during which East Hampton, by contrast, missed a 3-point attempt and three shots from in close, and went 1-for-2 from the foul line.

Ervin finished with a game-high 23 points. “She was the team,” Brooks said afterward. Cordone had 11 points for East Hampton, followed by Silvera with 8, Chan with 7, Emily Brewer, Guallpa, Powers, and Tia Weiss each with 2, and Eva Wojtusiak with 1.

The good news, though, was that East Hampton’s jayvee won, defeating its counterparts 34-26. Nora Conlon led the way, said the jayvee’s coach, Erin 

Mulrain, with 12 points, and Deliah Desmond, she said, had 10 assists.

The Lineup: 01.10.19

The Lineup: 01.10.19

Local Sports Schedule
By
Star Staff

Thursday, January 10

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

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton girls at Zeitler Relays, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 5 p.m.

BOYS SWIMMING, Hauppauge vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Mount Sinai at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Bridgehampton at Shelter Island, 5:45 p.m.; Smithtown Christian at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 6:15, and East Hampton at Amityville, 6:45.

 

Friday, January 11

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Greenport-Southold at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 6:15 p.m.

 

Saturday, January 12

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton boys and girls at Stanner Games, 168th Street Armory, New York City, 9 a.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point, 10 a.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Greenport, nonleague, 1 p.m.

 

Sunday, January 13

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

 

Monday, January 14

BOWLING, East Hampton vs. Middle Country, AMF Centereach Lanes, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS SWIMMING, Sayville-Bayport vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Mattituck, 5:45 p.m.

 

Tuesday, January 15

BOWLING, Riverhead vs. East Hampton, All Star Lanes, Riverhead, 4 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn, 5 p.m.

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

 

Wednesday, January 16

BOYS SWIMMING, East Hampton at West Islip, 5 p.m.

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

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