Not again! Yes, another 1-point game, the fourth in the seven games the East Hampton High School boys basketball team has played thus far this season. 

Despite Saturday’s 54-53 nonleague loss at East Islip, however, Dan White, East Hampton’s coach, said during a telephone conversation Sunday that he’d been rendered ecstatic by his short-handed team’s effort. 

Without the services of Turner Foster, Max Proctor, and Christian Johnson, all of them starters, White asked bench players, namely Nic Esquivel, Logan Gurney, Liam Leach, Frank Belluci, and Shane Musnicki, “who hasn’t started in three years,” to step up.

And, frankly, he said, East Hampton, which has won one of the aforementioned 1-point decisions, had been treated shabbily in the endgame by a referee, who ruled that Malachi Miller wasn’t behind the arc when, with three seconds left in regulation, he launched, in spite of being fouled, what appeared to be a game-tying 3-pointer. He would be glad to forward a video of that shot, the coach said.

Nevertheless, as aforesaid, he had been thrilled with the way his charges had played. 

Miller finished with 21 points, Gurney, with 12, Leach, with 6, Jeremy Vizcaino, with 6, Belluci, with 4, and Esquivel and Musnicki, with 2 each.

Musnicki in particular had done himself proud, coming down, as he did, with “about a dozen rebounds in the 25 minutes he played. 

“It’s interesting — everyone wants to win, but I was ecstatic with their effort,” White said of Musnicki and the other rise-to-the-occasion bench players. “East Islip is a tough, well-coached team. Hopefully, we can get on a run now.”

East Hampton’s boys swimming team, coached by Craig Brierley, has been on a run, having won in each of its first four outings, though the meat of League II’s swim meets is coming soon, Brierley said over the weekend.

Northport-Commack (Tuesday), Hauppauge (next Thursday), which won the league last year, and Sayville-Bayport (on Jan. 14) will be real tests, the coach said, “though we’ll have Hauppauge and Sayville in our pool, which [because there’ll be no diving] will keep it even.”

Most recently, East Hampton (again exhibitioning in some events so the score wouldn’t appear so lopsided) defeated Deer Park 89-62.

Among the winners were Ethan McCormac, in the 200 free, Ryan Duryea, in the 50 free, Aidan Forst, in the 100 butterfly, Edward Hoff, in the 100 free, and Joey Badilla, in the 100 breaststroke. All three relay teams won, though the 400 team (Ryan Duryea, Thor Botero, Nicky Badilla, and Jack Duryea) was exhibitioned.

Thus far, four Bonackers — Forst, Ethan McCormac, Tenzin Tamang, and Hoff — have qualified for the county meet, Forst and Tamang in the 100 fly, McCormac in the 50 and 200 free, and Hoff in the 50 free. McCormac has also qualified to compete in the state meet in the 50 and 200 freestyle races.

“We’re hoping to qualify a couple of relay teams for the state meet, and one or two more in the individual events, as well,” said Brierley.

Turning to winter track, Ava Engstrom, who her coach, Yani Cuesta says, “is kicking butt,” set another school mark in the 3,000-meter race at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood on Dec. 23, placing third in 10 minutes and 50.59 seconds.

Engstrom, who’s only a sophomore, had set her sights on the 1,500 when the indoor season began a few weeks ago, but is zeroing in on the 3,000 now. “She’s so much stronger than she was last year,” said Cuesta. “Her best 3,000 time last year was an 11:16. She wants to go to the New Balance nationals, but she’ll have to get down to a 10:42 to do that. . . . She’s very serious about running — just like her brother, Erik.”

Cuesta, who only had four girls come out for winter track last year, but has a dozen now, said that Lillie Minskoff, a junior jumper, sprinter, and middle-distance runner, was performing wonderfully as the team’s captain. 

Others on the team are Juliana Barahona, a sophomore shot-putter; Grace Brosnan, a freshman high jumper and hurdler; Julia Caldwell, a freshman sprinter and jumper; Anna Carman, a sophomore sprinter, jumper, and middle-distance runner; Marisol Chamale, a junior sprinter and jumper; Isabella Espinoza, a sophomore pole-vaulter; Megan Fowkes, a junior racewalker; Penelope Greene, a sophomore long-distance runner; Leah Hatch, a junior sprinter, middle-distance runner, and long jumper, and JiJi Kramer, a senior racewalker.

When, after defeating Hampton Bays 36-33 in a nonleague high school girls basketball game Friday, Krista Brooks’s players leaped up and down in euphoric glee, she didn’t quite understand. Newly returned to coaching, Brooks hadn’t been aware of the losing streak. 

Though she was clued in moments later, when told by way of parents that an East Hampton girls basketball team hadn’t won a game since Dec. 2, 2014. 

Kelly McKee, who coached the team in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons, said during a telephone conversation Monday morning that the length of the alleged drought sounded about right to him. McKee, who was replaced by Brooks this season, took over from Howard Wood, the former pro, who mentored Kaelyn Ward, East Hampton’s last outstanding player, who now coaches at St. John the Baptist High School in West Islip.

This is Brooks’s second time around. She coached the team for a time at the turn of the last century, giving up the job in 2003 when her daughter, Paige Cordone, a starting sophomore now, was born.

During a recent lopsided loss here to Amityville, the Bonackers’ fifth straight in league play, it was evident that Brooks’s charges can move the ball well, though they were greatly challenged when it came to putting it into the basket.

A long-suffering fan’s mood began to lighten, however, when he saw recently that East Hampton had lost by 7 points, 32-25, at Southampton, news that was followed soon after by Saturday’s glad tidings.

“They’re finally coming into their own,” Brooks said during a telephone conversation over the weekend. “They’re playing like a team; they’re working hard. Our only goals this year have been to win more quarters, get more rebounds, and have fewer turnovers.”

And, lo, said Brooks, focusing on those things had led to the win at Hampton Bays. “We came out strong,” she said, “which we haven’t been doing, and had a strong second quarter. . . . Everybody but Connie Chan scored. She had rebounds and assists, though.”

Emma Silvera, a junior guard, finished with 11 points, Emily Brewer, a junior forward, had 9, Cordone, 8, and Alden Powers, Jessica Guallpa, Kailey Marmeno, and Eva Wojtusiak, all guards, had 2 each. Brooks was without the services of Katrina Osterberg, who suffered a concussion in the Amityville game. Everyone on the squad plays, she added, so that their teammates can get breathers.

There was no faulting her players’ willingness to work, nor their camaraderie, the coach said, and it was just the luck of the enrollment draw that East Hampton finds itself again in a league with such schools as Westhampton Beach, Shoreham-Wading River, Amityville, and Wyandanch (though the latter was also winless in league play as of earlier this week), all known for having strong programs. Girls soccer, which also has been struggling, played this fall with teams within its general ability range, “but that league was power-ranked,” said Brooks, who, while happy about the Hampton Bays win, knows the remainder of the League V season will continue to be very tough.

Brooks’s hope is that the program will continue to grow, and she was encouraged to hear a report that there were some good junior-high-age players seen last winter in the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s Saturday sessions at the Amagansett School, which are overseen by Matt McHugh and Robyn Mott.

Moreover, Erin Mulrain, she said, had been doing a very good job with the jayvee, which has thus far wins over their Amityville and Southampton counterparts. 

The varsity’s roster, aside from the above-named, comprises Mailyn Guzman, a senior guard, Jennifer Ortiz, a junior guard, and Tia Weiss, a junior center. On the jayvee are Nora Conlon, Deliah Desmond, Tifany Gomez, Virginia Presinal, and Emma Stein, all ninth graders, Jackie Guichay, Ariana Islami, Lisbeth Leon, Stephanie Pallchisaca-Carpio, and Dayanna Tepan Luna, all sophomores, and Ashley Peters, a junior.

Thursday, January 3

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 4 p.m., and Pierson at Babylon, nonleague, 6.

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

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

Friday, January 4

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

WRESTLING, East Islip at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

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

BOYS BASKETBALL, Bridgehampton at Greenport, 6:45 p.m.

Saturday, January 5

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Cory Hubbard dual meet, Westhampton Beach High School, 9 a.m.

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

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Wyandanch at East Hampton, 11:30 a.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Mount Sinai, 11:30 a.m., and Southold at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 2 p.m.

Sunday, January 6

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

Monday, January 7

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

Tuesday, January 8

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

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Wyandanch, 4:30 p.m., and Pierson at Bridgehampton, 6.

BOYS SWIMMING, East Hampton vs. Northport-Commack, Lindenhurst High School, 5 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Shoreham-Wading River, 6:45 p.m.

Wednesday, January 9

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Smithtown Christian, 4:30 p.m.

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Hauppauge, 6 p.m.

Dan Farnham, who recently was named as the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s male athlete of the year, winces when you repeat to him Caroline Cashin’s declaration that he is the best mountain biker out here.

“A few guys I know have much better technical skills than I do,” he said during a recent conversation at his house in Montauk, “though I’m very good at climbing. . . . You can say I’m a good road biker with moderate mountain biking skills. . . .”

What he would like to say, the 59-year-old commercial fisherman said, is that anyone so inclined can become fit. 

“Sue and I were getting to the magic point — I was about 60 pounds heavier then — and we wanted to change our lifestyles. We were both in our early 40s and decided to give each other bicycles for Christmas. She got me a mountain bike; I got her a hybrid. A group of us, Mike Fallon, Kevin McGuire, Dave Aripotch, and Danny Boerem, the electrician, would ride in Hither Hills every Sunday morning at 8. We ride 13 miles in Mike Bahel’s Serpent’s Back duathlon, but there are probably 25 miles of trails if you add it all up.”

“I’ve done a lot of road riding too. The key is not to go through East Hampton, to stay on the back roads. I’ll go four to five hours sometimes, down the Napeague stretch early in the morning to Napeague Meadow Road and cut up through Amagansett, Springs, and Northwest to Sag Harbor, and then back, cutting across 27 to Further Lane. . . .”

“I don’t win these races, you know. 

. . . I’ve done half-marathons, and Turkey Trots, and triathlons . . . I just don’t win them.”

“Yes,” his wife said from the office, “you’ve won some. You won [Ed Cashin and David Lys’s] Tour of the Shore. . . .”

“Actually, Sue’s right. We kayaked across Napeague Harbor and then mountain-biked in the Walking Dunes and ran four miles. It was a local race, a lot of fun. They don’t do it anymore.”

When pressed, he acknowledged that he did usually finish near the top in endurance events, though not so much in triathlons. “I’m a really good biker and my run is good, but I’m a crummy swimmer,” he said with a smile. “For me, as I said, it’s really been about fitness. As soon as you leave Long Island there will always be somebody who’s going to kick your ass.”

Mountain bikes, of course, are made for mountains, and Farnham has gone to them — in South Africa, British Columbia, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Pennsylvania. . . .

For stage races, such as the Cape Epic in Cape Town and its environs, which he and Caroline Cashin did in 2015, one had to train seriously, he said, in order to be up to the grueling challenge.

Cashin said the Cape Epic was the hardest thing she’d ever done aside from giving birth. 

“We averaged 60 miles and 7,000 feet of climbing per day — 500 miles in all,” Farnham said. “All off-road. I thought it would be a great way to see South Africa, but all I saw was the back of Caroline’s wheels. . . . You had to stay together, within two minutes of each other, and you had to be within the time cutoffs, otherwise you were DQ’d. Twenty percent of the entries don’t finish in that kind of event. There are a bunch of premier mountain bike races and the Cape Epic is one of them.”

Probably the toughest stage race he’d done, said the interviewee, was the TransRockies seven-day race in British Columbia, which he did with Marty Ross, who’s since moved to New Zealand, in 2011. “Sinead [FitzGibbon] and Dennis [Loebs] did it too. There were roots and rocks and up to 10,000 feet elevation, up above the tree line . . . in the sleet and the snow. Africa was grueling, never-ending, but it didn’t have the exciting trails that the TransRockies did.”

Asked if he’d fallen in that race, he said he may have, “but nothing broke. One thing: If you mountain-bike, you will fall. Everybody does, though I might fall more than others,” Farnham said with a laugh.

More recently, he competed in the 2018 world single-speed mountain bike championships with Ed Cashin, a good friend of his, in Bend, Ore. “I said Ed finished a minute ahead of me on that list I gave to OMAC, but we came in together. It took the timer, who was putting the times down on a sheet of plywood, a minute before he got to my name. . . . There were 650 people in that race. Ed and I finished around 100th. We got lost for 15 minutes. If you’re following the guy in front of you and he’s not paying attention, that’s what happens.” 

For years, Farnham, a native of Newfoundland who came out from Massapequa Park to fish in Montauk at the age of 18, would alternately longline for tilefish 100 miles or so offshore for 10 days and stay onshore for 10, a routine that worked out quite well, he and his wife agreed, when it came to parenting their three children.

Aside from the 72-foot Kimberly — named after the Farnhams’ elder daughter — which serves as Paddle 4 Humanity’s support boat each August on the popular Montauk-to-Block Island paddle, he owns — one of them with a partner — two draggers in New Bedford, Mass., that go for squid and whiting and scup. The Farnhams’ son, Daniel, works with him, Kimberly now lives in Oakland, Calif., and another daughter, Megan Marie, after whom one of the New Bedford draggers is named, lives in Chicago.

Farnham is on Paddlers 4 Humanity’s board of directors, work that he finds very satisfying, along with its founder, Fred Doss, Ed Cashin, Lars Svanberg, Emily Hammond, Harvey O’Brien, Heather Saskas, and Jeff Neubauer. 

“Our focus is on the well-being of children. We help fund mental health work, robotics, the I-Tri program, suicide prevention, food pantries, the high school’s Build-On projects . . . all kinds of stuff, including mobile dental care for children upstate. Just about all the money we raise — we raised $160,000 this year — comes from the Block Island paddle. . . . It used to be kayaks mixed in with a few prone paddleboards, but now most of them are stand-up paddleboards. It’s 13 to 14 miles as the crow flies, but by the end of the day, because of the tides, you will have gone 18 miles.”

He had, he said in reply to a question, stand-up paddleboarded to Block Island with friends, and paddled periodically around Lake Montauk, setting off from his front yard. “It takes an hour and 20 minutes.”

Back to OMAC’s citation, Farnham said, “When I look in the mirror I don’t see an athlete, but a normal person who goes out and does something. . . . But, yeah, it was nice to get the award.”

December 2, 1993

Coming off a rare losing season, the East Hampton High School wrestling coach, Jim Stewart, expects this year to again be a “rebuilding” one, “though if we have everyone in the right weight classes, we could surprise.”

After five championships between 1985 and ’90, Stewart found himself with many young and inexperienced wrestlers last year. The result was a 2-7-4 season, the first losing season for a Bonac wrestling team in a long while.

. . . While a return to former glory may yet remain beyond East Hampton’s reach, Stewart expects to give everyone “a good match.”

The first quarter of Monday’s non-league East Hampton-Ward Melville girls basketball game here was definitely ho-hum, as Melville’s swarming press kept the scoring to a minimum.

But things changed — boy, did they change — in the second quarter. Ellamae Gurney, a smooth East Hampton forward who played with verve at both ends of the court, and Allison Tilley, East Hampton’s 5-foot-11-inch center, began to pour in the points. The 25-point spate, worthy of Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees, pretty much wrote finis to Ward Melville, and served notice that Tim Rood’s Bonackers are for real.

December 16, 1993

With the biggest turnout ever — 30 — and the potential to win the league for the first time, Jeff Yusko, East Hampton High School’s bowling coach, is definitely looking forward to the 1993-94 season.

He had some facts to back up the prognosis yesterday, after the Bonackers knocked off Westhampton Beach 7-4 in their season-opener Tuesday. The team — which includes Paul Wolfram, whose 289 game last year tied for best in the county — totaled 2,538 pins, “the highest total it has had in four years,” according to the coach. “And,” he predicted, “we’re going to get better. We are capable of 2,600.”

David MacGarva, East Hampton High School’s varsity football coach, announced at a dinner for the team Saturday night that Steve Redlus, an offensive and defensive tackle, Earle Hopson, a split end and defensive back, and Rob Balnis, a running back, will be the captains of the 1994 team.

MacGarva said Balnis, whom he described as the best high school runner he’d ever seen, ought to be among the county’s leading players next season. The team’s Wing-T formation will feature two halfbacks next fall — Balnis and Terrell Hopson of Bridgehampton. Earle Hopson, he said, will be used primarily as a receiver.

December 23, 1993

His first year as a professional golfer included a major disappointment, but that has not diminished Duane Bock’s dream of making the Professional Golfers Association tour.

The 24-year-old East Hamptoner, who was home this week for Christmas, will leave Wednesday for South Africa to play in that country’s seven-tournament tour in the next two months.

Were it not for one bad round in the second stage of qualifying recently, at Savannah, Ga., he’d be on the P.G.A. or Nike tours now in the United States.

The four-shot shortfall “was a major disappointment,” Bock said. “I was in 10th place after the first two rounds. I was right in there, but I played poorly the third day. I started thinking too much. I played the last nine 6-over, and that blew me out.”

. . . “My chipping and putting is probably the best part of my game, but I’ve been struggling with my long game recently. My drives average around 265 yards, which is fine, but they’re not always straight!”

Meanwhile, Bock is keeping in mind advice he got from Jerry Haas, a Nike tour player whose brother, Jay, plays on the P.G.A. tour. “ ‘Never evaluate yourself daily — year to year, not day to day.’ Golf’s a strange game: One day can be great, and the next day awful.”

He also recalled some thoughts on the game from Lee Janzen, this year’s U.S. Open winner, with whom Bock spent some time at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton three years ago. Janzen said the major difference between their games was that his bad shots were less bad than Bock’s, Bock said.

A huge crowd at East Hampton High School’s gym Thursday night was treated to one of those heart-stopping basketball contests that cannot adequately be described on paper.

After 32 minutes of in-your-face, top-this, gut-wrenching intensity, the Pierson Whalers had beaten down the Bridgehampton Killer Bees by, of course, a single point. The game, which Pierson won 71-70, was a likely prelude to the county Class D championship to be contested in February.

In the end, it was the most intense player on the court who saved the day for Pierson. John Schroeder, a fiery and driven senior, put on a fourth quarter show to be remembered, rallying his team from a 12-point deficit. His eyes glazed, his body driven by demons, Schroeder demanded and got the ball virtually every time down the floor in the frantic closing minutes. He scored 16 of his game-high 28 points in that final period.

Thursday, December 27

BOYS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Mattituck, nonleague, 11:45 a.m.

Friday, December 28

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Sal DiFazio invitational tournament, Half Hollow Hills East High School, 9:30 a.m., also Saturday.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Hampton Bays, nonleague, 12:15 p.m.

Saturday, December 29

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at East Islip, nonleague, 12:15 p.m.

Tuesday, January 1

POLAR BEAR PLUNGES, Gurney’s Inn, Montauk, 10 a.m.; Main Beach, East Hampton, 1 p.m.,  and Beach Lane, Wainscott, 2:30.

Wednesday, January 2

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Port Jefferson, 4:30 p.m.

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Half Hollow Hills West, 5:30 p.m.

Five personal bests and a season best were recorded by members of East Hampton High’s girls winter track team at a crossover meet Saturday at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood. 

Three of the personal bests were clocked by sprinters in the 55-meter dash, namely Marisol Chamale’s time of 8.19 seconds, Lillie Minskoff’s 8.29, and Anna Carman’s 8.62. 

Mimi Fowkes’s 8:46.62 was a personal best for her in the 1,500-meter racewalk, and Juliana Barahona’s heave of 26 feet 101/2 inches in the shot-put was also a personal best. In addition, JiJi Kramer’s 8:54.60 in the racewalk was a season best.

Ava Engstrom, who broke the school’s 3,000-meter record recently, at 10:57.36, placed third in Saturday’s 3,000, in 11:12.27.

Dan White, East Hampton High’s boys basketball coach, cannot remember when in his career a team of his had ever played in four successive games three of which were decided by 1 point.

The Bonackers, who seemingly have embarked on a season much like last year — though, unfortunately, without the services of Bladimir Rodriquez-Garces, their tallest player, whose broken foot will likely keep him sidelined through the rest of the campaign — lost 79-78 to Mattituck on Dec. 7, lost 73-72 to Bayport-Blue Point on Dec. 11, and, on Friday, won 49-48 at Shoreham-Wading River.

“We were up by 1 point with 20 seconds left at Bayport when their best player, with three of our guys on him, was fouled in trying for a 3, and made both shots,” said White, adding that “at Shoreham, we were down by 2 points with 15 seconds left when Liam Leach hit a 3-pointer from the left wing.”

Asked if he were playing a three-guard offense with Rodriguez Garces gone, White said, with a laugh, “A five-guard offense.” Without the 6-foot-4-inch senior center, the Bonackers were being outrebounded by about 10 per game, he said, “but it’s something we can overcome if we shoot well. We shot well at Bayport, we didn’t at Shoreham.”

Jeremy Vizcaino, Turner Foster, Malachi Miller, Max Proctor, and Leach are White’s starting five, with Nick Esquivel, Logan Gurney, and Christian Johnson coming off the bench. 

“We’re working hard,” White said. “I hope we’ll be at .500 soon.”

The news this week was considerably better insofar as the boys swimming team went. Craig Brierley’s large squad improved its record to 3-0, following up a lopsided win over Ward Melville here on Dec. 5 with easy wins over Lindenhurst last Thursday and Central Islip Friday.

This despite the fact that the team, because the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s pool was undergoing maintenance, could not practice last week — practice swimming at least. Brierley said his charges worked out in the high school’s fitness center and played basketball there, as well as “did some classroom work . . . to strengthen the team’s cohesion.”

The reported Lindenhurst meet score was 48-41 East Hampton, though the team exhibitioned entrants in the final three events. 

“Lindenhurst’s pool only has four lanes, which cut down on the number of competitors we could enter in each event, the timing system was faulty, and there were no blocks to dive off of — all starts were from the floor. . . . We managed to overcome the challenges, however, and even posted a few personal best times despite the absence of starting blocks.”

The winners at Lindenhurst were the 200 medley relay team of Luke Tyrell, Will Midson, Jordan Uribe, and Thor Botero; David Piver in the 200 free; Ethan McCormac in the 50 free; Tenzin Tamang in the 100 butterfly; Aidan Forst in the 100 free; Edward Hoff in the 500; the 200 free relay team of Ethan McCormac, Jack Duryea, Ryan Bahel, and Forst; Kevin Pineda in the 100 backstroke; Conor Flanagan in the 100 breaststroke, and the 400 relay team of Miles Coppola, Owen McCormac, Ramsis Jimenez, and Jack Duryea. 

Tamang, an eighth grader, was chosen by the captains as swimmer of the meet “for winning the 100 butterfly in beautiful form, and for not being affected by the false starts a faulty starting system caused.”

Emmett Harrington (50 breast), Ben Berkhofer (50 free), Joey Badilla (500 free), Mike Coppola (100 free), and Will Midson (100 free) all swam personal bests that day, and Ryan Duryea’s 24.41 in the 50 free qualified him to swim that event in the county meet.

The next day, Brierley said, “we were happy [at Central Islip] to be back in a six-lane pool.” Inasmuch as C.I. did not have a timing system, “all the events were timed by stopwatches.”

The Bonackers swept all but two of the 11 events, and, again, the winning margin was greater than the reported 90-70.

Multiple winners included Owen McCormac, in the 50 and 100 free; Piver, in the 200 free and 500 free; Ryan Duryea, in the 100 breaststroke and as the anchor of the 200 medley relay team, and Badilla, in the 100 backstroke and as a member of the 200 medley relay team.

Ethan McCormac earned a second state-qualifying time in the leadoff leg of the winning 400 freestyle relay team. 

Piver, a freshman, was picked by the captains as swimmer of the meet for having done a personal best in winning the 200 free and for having matched his best time in the 500.

Other personal bests that day were recorded by Flanagan, James Midson, Aidan McCormac, Kenny Sanchez, Kevin Pineda, Forst, Tyrell, Colin Harrison, Owen McCormac, Christian Gaines, Callum Menelaws, Bahel, Tamang, and Ethan McCormac.

Harrison’s winning time of 1:01.20 in the 100 butterfly qualified him for that event in the county meet.

The team was to have swum at Deer Park, a league opponent, Monday.

The recent days have been eventful for East Hampton’s swimming program, with the boys varsity upping its record to 3-0 with wins over Lindenhurst and Central Islip, and with the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, the Hurricanes — who were treated to clinics by an Olympian Saturday — faring well at an 18-team metropolitan-area meet at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County.

Tom Cohill, the Hurricanes’ coach, whose assistants are Andrey Trigubovich, Craig Brierley, Angelika Cruz, Sean Crowley, Sean Knight, and Eugene DiPasquale, took 80 of his charges, ages 7 through 17, to the Metro Cross Island Y and Flushing Flyers Y holiday invitational meet at the Nassau Aquatics Center over the Dec. 8-9 weekend, with pleasing results, the most pleasing being the fact that the Hurricanes’ boys 200 freestyle relay team of Ryan Duryea, Aidan Forst, Ethan McCormac, and Owen McCormac qualified for the Y nationals that are to be held in Greensboro, N.C., in April.

“We’ve never had a boys relay team qualify for nationals before,” said the coach, adding that “we had a girls team” of Maddie Minetree, Skye Marigold, Maria Preiss, and Mikayla Mott “do it in 2008-09.”

As for the boys, who finished third in the event, “they were more than a second under the cutoff time, which was pretty significant.”

(As of the moment, Cohill will take two relay teams to the nationals, for Julia Brierley, Jane Brierley, Sophia Swanson, and Oona Foulser, all of them Hurricanes, swam a qualifying time as members of the high school’s girls varsity team this fall.)

Moreover, Cohill said, one of the youngest Hurricanes, Aidan Menu, who’s 7, and who swam in six events, “placed third in total points among all the 8-and-under boys.”

It was the Hurricanes’ sixth meet of the season, which has now reached the midway point. “We’ve got a very well-rounded team with a lot of solid swimmers,” said Cohill. “We’ll be in a very strong position come January, which is our busiest month. . . . We’re hoping to qualify a boys medley relay team for nationals and a girls freestyle relay team, as well as competitors in several individual events.” 

Among the Hurricanes’ other top point-getters at Eisenhower Park in the relays were the 13-to-14-year-old girls 200 medley team of Camryn Hatch, Jane Brierley, Summer Jones, and Emily Dyner; the 8-and-under girls 100 free team of Allison Farez, Zoe McDonald, Graysen Gregory, and Wesley Bull; the open boys 200 medley team of Joey Badilla, Ryan Duryea, Ethan McCormac, and Fernando Menjura; the open girls 200 free team of Bella Tarbet, Oona Foulser, Julia Brierley, and Sophia Swanson, and the open girls 200 medley team of Catalina Badilla, Julia Brierley, Swanson, and Foulser.

Aside from Aidan Menu, the Hurricanes’ top individual performers included Colin Harrison in the 100 butterfly; Lily Griffin in the 50 breaststroke; Ethan McCormac in the 50 and 100 freestyle races; Dylan Cashin in the 50 breaststroke; Wesley Bull in 50 free and 25 backstroke; Jasiu Gredysa in the 50 backstroke; Allison Farez in the 25 freestyle; Jane Brierley in the 200 breaststroke and 200 individual medley; Lucy Knight in the 25 backstroke; Zoe McDonald in the 50 breaststroke, and Nicholas Badilla in the 100 butterfly.

“Ryan Duryea had an amazing meet,” Cohill continued, “Sophia Swanson too. Julia Brierley and Ethan McCormac were solid, and so were Summer Jones and Kiara Bailey-Williams. . . . They were very good, very strong.”

The team is looking forward especially to the regional Winterfest meet at the University of Maryland over the Jan. 18-20 weekend — a Y.M.C.A. meet that draws teams from the New York metro region, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.

The aforementioned Olympian, Lea Loveless Maurer, a friend of Angelika Cruz’s, who won a gold and a bronze medal in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, oversaw two-hour clinics for the Hurricanes’ younger and older swimmers at East Hampton’s Y Saturday.

“She talked about being smooth in the water so you can go faster longer,” said Cohill. “She emphasized things that we have been teaching the kids, concerning form and technique, and the importance of focusing on doing things well, but it was great for them to hear it from an Olympian. The kids” — there were 30 in the 11-and-under clinic, and 15 in the 12-and-over group — “were very attentive. Having her come here now was good too, for the kids will have January, February, and March to work on what they learned from her, and, hopefully, we’ll see improvements.”

Maurer, who has been a college and prep school coach in her career, spoke to the older clinic-takers about being realistic when it comes to swimming in college. There was, she said, a level for everyone. 

In that regard, Cohill said several former Hurricanes, Isabella Swanson at the University of Miami, Marikate Ryan at Clemson, and Caroline Oakland at Syracuse, were happily engaged in club swimming at those Division 1 schools.

Thursday, December 20

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

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

Friday, December 21

BOYS BASKETBALL, Bridgehampton vs. St. John the Baptist, Southampton High School, 5 p.m.; Sayville at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

Saturday, December 22

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton boys at crossover meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 2 p.m.

Sunday, December 23

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton girls at crossover meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 2:30 p.m.