Thursday, October 4

GOLF, Westhampton Beach vs. East Hampton, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 4 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, West Babylon vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at Southampton, 6 p.m.

Friday, October 5

GIRLS SOCCER, Center Moriches at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 6

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach tournament, 8 a.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn invitational tournament, 8:15 a.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, Division IV individual tournament, rounds one and two, Shoreham-Wading River High School, noon.

Sunday, October 7

MOUNTAIN BIKING, Serpent’s Back Duathlon, 2.4-mile run, 12.5-mile mountain bike, and 2.4-mile run, Ed Ecker County Park, Navy Road, Montauk, 10:30 a.m.

Monday, October 8

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 10 a.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, Division IV individual tournament, quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, Shoreham-Wading River High School, 9 a.m.

Tuesday, October 9

GIRLS TENNIS, Division IV individual tournament, finals, Shoreham-Wading River High School, 2 p.m.

GOLF, Pierson vs. East Hampton, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Westhampton Beach at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at Copiague, nonleague, 5 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton junior varsity at Mount Sinai, scrimmage, 5 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Sachem East at East Hampton, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 10

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at Babylon, 4:30 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER, 7-on-7 league, Maidstone Market vs. Tortorella Pools, 6:30 p.m.; Sag Harbor United vs. F.C. Tuxpan, 7:25, and Hampton Construction vs. Hamptons F.C.-Pool Shark, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

BADMINTON, pickup games, Amagansett School, 7-9 p.m.

Noah Avallone of Montauk, who has numerous national and regional snowboarding trophies to his credit, this past weekend won the under-14 (menehune) longboard division at the Eastern Surfing Association’s East Coast championships in Nags Head, N.C. 

He won the tournament’s sportsmanship award as well, for having helped a fellow competitor paddle in to shore after his leash broke in heavy surf.

East Hampton High’s girls soccer team won its first game in two years as it shut out Pierson 4-0 here Friday, the same day the girls swimming team cruised by Hauppauge in its home debut at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

The day before, East Hampton’s boys cross-country team went up against three opponents at Cedar Point County Park — a meet originally scheduled two days prior that had been postponed 10 minutes before it was to start owing to a deluge generated by Hurricane Florence.

And, on Monday, the golf team, coached by Rich King, who has taken over from Claude Beudert, a recent retiree, continued undefeated, at 4-0, by beating Center Moriches 8.5-0.5. Westhampton Beach was also undefeated, at 2-0, as of Tuesday. The two teams were to have played at Westhampton on Sept. 18, the day that the remnant of the hurricane hit. 

In other Bonac golf news, James Bradley, a seventh grader from Springs who’s playing number-three on King’s team, won a Drive, Chip & Putt regional qualifier at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y., this past week, topping the 12-to-13-year-old boys division, advancing him to the national finals that are to be played at the Augusta National Golf Club on April 7. 

Back to cross-country, Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton’s top runner, a senior, was last Thursday’s individual winner, in 15 minutes and 5 seconds, the second-fastest time ever run at Cedar Point. In so doing, Fowkes outsprinted a 4:17 miler, Westhampton Beach’s Juan Lasso, to the finish line from the stand of trees at the edge of the bluff, a distance of about 150 yards.

Frank Bellucci, a junior, was East Hampton’s second finisher, in a personal-record 16:34, with Evan Masi (eighth), Joshua Vasquez (13th), and Aidan Klarman (15th) coming in after him.

Kevin Barry, the boys coach, has a huge squad this year, numbering two dozen, including a dozen freshmen, some of them the best ninth graders he’s had in six years.

Those freshmen have won two large freshman races thus far this fall, the most recent being the Jim Smith Invitational at Sunken Meadow State Park on Sept. 15, a race in which they went up against about 200 of their peers from 39 other schools. With Masi placing sixth, Vazquez eighth, and Klarman ninth, East Hampton bested Westhampton Beach, Southampton, and Port Washington. Fowkes placed seventh that day in the senior race, in 17:56.

At Cedar Point, East Hampton defeated Amityville 15-50, but lost 27-28 to Mount Sinai, and 22-33 to Westhampton Beach, “the top Class B team in the county,” according to Barry. 

Nevertheless, the coach added, “Our potential is huge, with three freshmen among our top five scorers.”

The girls swimming team, as aforesaid, soundly defeated Hauppauge at the Y Friday, winning every event but one, the 100 butterfly.

Sophia Swanson, in the 50 and 100 freestyle, and Julia Brierley, in the 100 backstroke, turned in county-qualifying times that day. 

East Hampton swept the 200 freestyle, with Margaret Breen, Camryn Hatch, and Lisbeth Leon; swept the 200 individual medley, with Julia Brierley, Olivia Brabant, and Emma Wiltshire; swept the 50 free, with Oona Foulser, Caroline Brown, and Kiara Bailey-Williams, and swept the 100 free, with Swanson, Olivia Brabant, and Caroline Hoff.

In addition, Bailey-Williams won the 500 freestyle race, Jane Brierley won the 100 breaststroke, and Julia Brierley won the 100 backstroke, though the latter two winners forwent the points insofar as team scoring went. The 200 medley relay team (Brown, Julia Brierley, Swanson, and Foulser), the 200 freestyle relay team (Swanson, Darcy McFarland, Olivia Brabant, and Foulser), and the 400 freestyle relay team (Olivia Brabant, Foulser, Julia Brierley, and Swanson) were winners too, though East Hampton was “exhibitioning,” i.e., forgoing points, in the latter relay.

“The girls are responding very well and continue to improve their stroke techniques, racing skills, and race-relevant thought processes,” Craig Brierley, East Hampton’s coach, said in an account of the meet. 

The meet came to a halt for a while early on as one of Hauppauge’s 200 freestyle swimmers, Delanie Ross, suffered an apparent asthma attack, causing her, said Brierley, to “gasp for air and pass out. It was a scary moment, but thanks to a very competent group of good Samaritans and Y.M.C.A. staff, she was in stable condition when the ambulance left for Southampton Hospital. She was just fine when her team picked her up on its way home. Our girls . . . are making a card for Delanie that we will send to her.”

East Hampton’s second league meet, with Sayville, is to be held at the Y.M.C.A. RECenter today at 5. As of earlier this week, six swimmers — Swanson, Foulser, Julia and Jane Brierley, Caroline Brown, and Hatch — have qualified for the county meet.

Cara Nelson, the girls soccer coach, whose high school team, a county champion, is in Smithtown’s Hall of Fame, said before Monday’s game here with Miller Place that Asha Hokanson, Jennifer Calle, Nidia Bravo, and Sofia Garcia had scored the goals in the homecoming game with Pierson.

“We were 0-16 last year, though we could very well surprise some people this fall,” Nelson, who’s in her second year of coaching, said. “We’re improving. We’re trying to get the girls to possess the ball and to build our attacks using our backs to pass the ball forward. The hardest part of our season is now, at the back end will be games that we can win. Our goal is to make the playoffs. I think it’s possible if we work hard, and maybe score some upsets.”

That was not to be on Monday, though East Hampton, which wound up losing 1-0 to the Panthers, put up a good fight. The visitors, thanks to a flick by Cameron Oliva, scored on their third corner kick, in the 26th minute of play. Going with the wind, the Bonackers fared better in the second half but could not finish the three or four serious attacks they launched, leaving Miller Place’s goalie pretty much untested.

September 9, 1993

It was fitting that the winner of Monday’s Great Bonac 10K road race in Springs, Ed Stern of New York City, had recently come to the aid of the race director, Howard Lebwith, when Lebwith despaired of putting the race on.

Lebwith found his “angel” in the Stern Family Foundation, which enabled the Labor Day tradition to continue by underwriting the costs of the event. 

. . . In winning the 6.2-mile race in 33 minutes and 25 seconds, Stern, 28, defeated the defending champion, 37-year-old John Kenney of New York and Shelter Island. 

September 16, 1993

“Rare Air,” a book of intimate photographs and text chronicling Michael Jordan’s amazing day-to-day existence at the top of the sporting world and at the top of his game, will hit bookstores in November. The pages offer many facets of the Chicago Bulls superstar, looking at times like an African warrior, at others like a caring father, advertising image-man, sharp dresser, golfer, magnet of adoration, and competitor extraordinaire.

The publishers have Walter Iooss of Montauk to thank for that.

. . . Iooss said he was impressed and awed by the athlete he puts in the same category as Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali. “He’s a great guy, always moving, and he doesn’t eat. One day I said, ‘Michael I’m starving, how come you never eat?’ He said, ‘Did you ever see a fat bird? I eat enough to fly.’ ”

For the ever-traveling photographer with four books and untold numbers of photo credits, including those appearing each year in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, “Rare Air” was a personal as well as professional triumph. Proudly, he told how at the end Michael Jordan gave him high praise indeed: “I don’t care if this book is shit — I’ve had a good time.” — Russell Drumm

September 23, 1993

It was incredible, unbelievable, supercalifragilistic, all of that. Saturday’s league opener at Port Jefferson was the most lopsided East Hampton High School varsity football game in memory.

The Bonackers had to punt on their first possession, but it turned out to be the last Bonac punt of the day. Four hundred and thirty-one yards later — not including two 50-yard punt returns into the Royals’ end zone that were called back — East Hampton walked off the field a 68-0 victor.

. . . Oran Davis, Bonac’s second-string halfback, a Bridgehampton junior who had never played in a football game before, and Rob Balnis, also a junior, scored four touchdowns each that day, putting together yardage that has not been recorded here since Eddie Budd, Justin Winter, and Rich Cooney were in the backfield a decade ago.

September 30, 1993

“We got snakebit,” East Hampton High School’s field hockey coach, Ellen Cooper, said when asked why her charges lost 2-0 to Southampton.

Not that Southampton isn’t a very good team, but East Hampton was rated slightly higher going into the season. The game marked the first time the Mariners have beaten the Bonackers in five years, ending a 14-league-game Bonac winning streak. 

. . . “We played hard — it was a nice game,” Cooper said afterward, “but while we were good at getting the ball into the circle, we didn’t play smart once we did. . . . Most of the players on the forward line are great students, but we’ve got to be better students of the game.”

Thursday, September 27

GOLF, East Hampton at William Floyd, Mastic Beach, 4 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, Sayville vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at West Islip, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, September 28

GIRLS TENNIS, Eastport-South Manor at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Islip at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at Port Jefferson, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at Smithtown Christian, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Miller Place, 5 p.m.

Saturday, September 29

HAMPTONS MARATHON and half-marathon, Southampton Intermediate School, 8 a.m.

Sunday, September 30

TRIATHLONS, MightyMan Sprint, Olympic, and Half-Ironman distances, Fort Pond, Montauk, 6:50 a.m.

Monday, October 1

FOOTBALL, Port Jefferson junior varsity at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Sayville, 5 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at Southampton, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, October 2

GOLF, Southampton vs. East Hampton, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 4 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Miller Place at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at Babylon, 5 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, October 3

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

MEN’S SOCCER, 7-on-7 league, Hampton Construction vs. Sag Harbor United, 6:30 p.m.; Hampton F.C.-Pool Shark vs. Maidstone Market, 7:25, and F.C. Tuxpan vs. Tortorella Pools, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

William Floyd’s junior varsity freshman football team, with about 40 suited up, probably thought that East Hampton’s jayvee would be easy pickings at Friday night’s homecoming game under the lights, but, as it turned out, the Bonackers lit up the place on their way to winning 30-18.

It was the first win of the season for Joe McKee’s team, which had lost in its first two outings, to Hampton Bays and Bayport-Blue Point.

“For half the kids on the team that game at Hampton Bays was the first they’d ever played,” Bob Budd, a mainstay of East Hampton football program, said during the halftime break. 

Mark Mensch, Floyd’s athletic director, who used to be the trainer here, said, when questioned Monday, that the team Floyd sent was “an all-freshman team . . . we’ve also got an all-sophomore jayvee too, though our freshmen are as good as any jayvee East Hampton will see this fall, absolutely.”

Agreeing that it had been a big win for the Bonackers, Mensch added, “We’re happy to do anything we can to bring back Bonac football.”

The visitors were leading 18-8 going into the fourth quarter, after making good on an 11-play, 85-yard drive near the end of the third. But then things began to go East Hampton’s way as Bonac’s defenders, with Christian Johnson chief among them, began to strip the ball from Floyd’s rushers.

A fumble recovery led to the first of East Hampton’s three fourth-quarter scores, a 30-yard run by Danny Ortiz, and another strip not long afterward keyed an 85-yard fumble return by Santi Maya, a defensive back, that treated the home team to a 20-18 lead, to which Ortiz tacked on two extra points.

Maya’s was the second of three electrifying dashes that night, Johnson’s 90-yard carry down the home team’s sideline near the end of the first quarter being the first. Topher Cullen, the quarterback, added 2 points to Johnson’s score, for an 8-6 lead entering the second period, but East Hampton was not to lead again until the strip-and-run heroics of the fourth.

Maya’s score had the homecoming crowd cheering mightily, and slightly more than a minute later it was Kevin Bunce’s turn as he picked up the ball, which had been coughed up at East Hampton’s 25, and ran with it unmolested all the way into the Colonials’ end zone. East Hampton’s third 2-point conversion capped the wild comeback.

“The kids were thrilled,” McKee said during a conversation Monday. “William Floyd’s a big Conference 1 school. We’re definitely seeing improvement in every game.” 

Floyd had a very strong and fast running back who was hard to bring down, “but our defense, while it bent, didn’t break,” said McKee. “Then they began to make mistakes and we took advantage.”

While the game was played under the lights — on portable stanchions leased for the occasion — they were relatively low, which made passing difficult. There were only one or two open-field receptions during the course of the, for Bonac fans, joyous night.

Four Inducted

The next day, three former East Hampton football players, Justin Winter, Michael Sarlo, and Zach Brenneman, were inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame, along with Randi Cherill, who recently retired after a 16-year career as the school’s trainer.

Winter, who graduated in 1982, still holds the school’s 400-meter dash record, at 48.1 seconds, and, with three others, the 4-by-100 relay record of 44.4.

Bob Budd and the former track and football coach, Mike Burns, spoke for the Virgin Islands-born Winter, who lives in Riverhead now, where he heads an electrical contracting company, coaches youth football, and is an associate pastor of the House of Praise Christian Revival Center.

When Budd, in recounting East Hampton’s county championship win over Riverhead, said the Bonackers had won 27-7, Winter, from his seat in the audience, said, “Twenty-seven to six.”

“He had lightning speed,” Budd recalled. “He rushed for 100 or more yards in seven of our games, and 95 in the other, against Westhampton.”

Winter’s plaque says that after earning a full football scholarship to Syracuse, to which he’d transferred from Hobart, he was drafted as a wide receiver by the New York Giants, a stint cut short by injury. 

“You never, never had to ask Justin to work hard,” Burns said. “He never put himself first . . . you were unbelievable.”

Similar praise was rendered by Ralph Naglieri, who spoke for Brenneman, a former professional lacrosse player and collegiate all-American at Notre Dame, and by Jim Nicoletti, East Hampton’s former baseball coach, who spoke for Sarlo, now the town’s police chief.

Sarlo’s plaque says he was “a defensive standout in football, basketball, and baseball, captained the 1988 league-champion basketball and baseball teams, was a member of the National Honor Society, and, as the town’s police chief, continues to give back to this day.”

Nicoletti said it had taken a Major Leaguer — Ross Gload — to break the runs-batted-in record of 44 that Sarlo once held.

“There was never a day,” Cherill’s plaque says, “when her office wasn’t packed with kids, some of whom needed care, but most of whom simply wanted to hang out with Randi. . . . Though her nickname was ‘Part Time,’ she is truly full time in our hearts.”

Saturday’s inductions bring to 69 the number of the Hall’s individual members. Ten teams have been inducted, as well.

While the world of professional golf will soon focus on the Ryder Cup competition in France, an event contested by teams from the United States and Great Britain, a similar event unfolded this week at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton.

It was not, however, your typical P.G.A. or local charity tournament, but one that matched a very select group of people who have shared and overcome very trying challenges far removed from the plush green fairways of a golf course.

The Simpson Cup, which annually brings together 13-player teams of injured servicemen from the U.S. and Great Britain to compete in a Ryder Cup format, teed off at Maidstone in the rain and wind Tuesday. The two-day event raises money for the On Course Foundation, a charitable organization that helps men and women injured or otherwise debilitated in the line of duty to rebuild their lives through golf.

In its seventh year, the Simpson Cup is the organization’s marquee event. It has been held at some of the most noted courses in the world here and abroad. Next year, it will be played at St. Andrew’s in Scotland, the sport’s birthplace.

Chad Pfeiffer, the U.S. team’s captain, who lost his left leg when the Humvee in which he was riding rolled over an improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2007, said, when questioned, that golf had saved his life, and added that “the Simpson Cup offers an amazing opportunity for everyone involved to be with other wounded veterans from both sides of the Atlantic. The camaraderie we develop helps all of us realize we aren’t alone in battling the issues that face us. The relationships that we form in these tournaments last a lifetime.”

Hari Budha-Magar, of Great Britain’s team, a Nepali who served with the U.K.’s 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles for 15 years, suffered life-threatening injuries caused by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in 2010. The double above-the-knee amputee, who made his debut here, after being medically discharged in 2014 set about seeing what he was able to do despite having lost both legs. The very long and impressive 

list includes sky diving, alpine skiing, biathlon, archery, wheelchair table tennis, rugby, hockey, kayaking, javelin throwing, mountain climbing, and, ultimately, golf — “a great sport that has done wonders for my self-confidence.”

“I’m so proud,” he added, “to be a part of Team Great Britain and to be here at Maidstone.”

Budha-Magar, who lives in England now, made history last September by becoming the first double amputee to reach the 21,300-foot summit of Mera Peak in the Himalayas. He now has his sights set on scaling Everest, the world’s highest peak, a feat that no double amputee has ever attempted before.

“Climbing Everest is a dream and goal of mine,” he said. “I’m fully aware of the risks, but I know I can do this, and I’m looking forward to it.”

For Alex Happer of Team U.S.A., Maidstone has a special meaning, as he grew up about 50 miles away, in Medford. A scratch golfer, Happer served in the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment in a variety of roles for four years.

“I am beyond honored to represent the United States, and to be part of such an amazing event and organization,” he said Monday afternoon following his practice round. “It’s also so special to play on a course like Maidstone — it’s the most beautiful course I’ve ever been on.”

Happer, who at 24 was the Simpson Cup’s youngest competitor, took up the game when he was 4 years old, hitting Wiffle balls in his backyard, and later honed his skills in Raleigh, N.C., to which the family moved after his father, a New York City detective and 9/11 first responder, retired. 

He led his high school team there to the state championships and won the A.A.U. North-South junior tournament, but owing in part to the memory of his father’s selfless service on 9/11, enlisted in the Army rather than accept college scholarship offers. 

A rifleman, grenadier, fire team leader, and commander’s radio telephone operator, Happer sustained a traumatic brain injury and severe spinal, hip, and ankle injuries during his deployment in Afghanistan, and later had post-traumatic stress disorder.

He left the Army two years ago and decided to return to the Carolinas, where he had experienced such early success in golf. “I could barely afford to buy new clubs, but the G.I. Bill helped pay off the costs of attending the Golf Academy of America in Myrtle Beach.”

There he met Shawn Whitmore, the On Course Foundation’s national program coordinator, and with Whitmore’s and the charity’s help next week he will begin work as an ass-

istant pro at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami.

“It’s a dream come true. I can’t wait to start, but the Simpson Cup [which was to have ended yesterday] comes first. . . . Some of these guys have lost their legs or arms in battle, or have suffered in other ways, but we all stand together and support each other.”

Kathy McGeehan, the veteran coach of East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball team, said in the first week of the season that this edition had the potential to be one of her best. She probably should have said had the potential to be her best, period.

McGeehan has had some terrific players in the past and some very good teams, one of which made it to the state finals in Glens Falls, but this one is firing on all cylinders, whether it be hitting, serving, digging, setting, blocking . . . you name it.

Going into Monday’s match here with Amityville, McGeehan’s crew had been shredding the opposition, no mean feat considering that two of its three wins as of that day had come at the hands of last year’s league co-champs, Sayville (3-0) and Westhampton Beach (3-1).

The team plays with exuberance and grit. Rarely did the ball hit the floor undefended in Friday’s match here with Rocky Point, which the Bonackers won 3-0.

The first set was tied at 5-5 when Elle Johnson, the senior setter, began to serve. By the time she was done it was 10-5. Molly Mamay, the junior libero, served aces for 15-7 and 16-7, and Johnson capped the 25-11 win with an ace of her own.

East Hampton, with Madyson Neff, Hannah Hartsough, a Springs sophomore who comes off the bench, and Johnson serving — the latter serving four aces in her five attempts — jumped out to a 12-2 lead in the second set before the visitors crept back a bit. A resounding kill by Neff made it 23-9, and, at 24-10, Hartsough, again coming off the bench, served it out.

With McGeehan subbing freely, the third set was more closely contested than the first two. A quick hit by Ella Gurney put the home team up by 13-10, after which, with Neff serving, a tip by Mikela Junemann, a sophomore who is East Hampton’s chief hitter, and more aces by Neff extended the lead to 18-10 before Rocky Point sided out.

With the score 22-13, Faith Fenelon, a hard-hitting ninth grader, served an ace to the floor. Junemann’s ace at 24-16 capped the sweep, after which the team extended its celebratory mood by celebrating the 26th birthday of McGeehan’s assistant, Alex Choi. 

Afterward, when questioned, McGeehan, who got everyone in the match that day, said of her team, “They’ve been working hard, all through the summer. They all went to a camp at Penn State and practiced two mornings a week. We’ve got very good leadership. . . . We’re three deep at opposite” — the left-side hitter diagonally opposite the setter when the six-player team takes the court. “Molly, who has a fantastic volleyball I.Q., is always thinking . . . and, as you say, we’re quick — quick to react, quick to the ball. Credit Rocky Point, though. They were scrappy, ready to play; they were going hard.”

As for the stats, Junemann had 14 kills, Neff had seven, and Gurney four. Johnson had five aces, 25 assists, and seven digs. Mamay had 12 digs, and Johnson, as aforesaid, and Neff each had seven. The dig list included Zoe Leach, with five, Junemann, with four, and Julia Kearney, with three, as well.

Johnson, with 13 all told, and Mamay, with 10, led the team in aces going into Monday’s match. Junemann, with 36, Neff, with 25, and Gurney, with 17, were the top three when it came to kills. As for digs, Neff had 37 over the course of East Hampton’s first three matches, Mamay had 30, Leach, 29, and Junemann, 26.

On Sept. 12, the Bonackers won in four at Westhampton Beach, losing the third set 25-23 after winning the first two 25-13 and 25-15. They closed it out at 25-18.

“Yes, it was a big win,” McGeehan said afterward. “We didn’t serve and pass as well as we had against Sayville, but part of that was because they were putting pressure on and we were trying to force the ball away from their all-state libero. Our serving percentage was 77 at Westhampton; it was 86 against Sayville,” and 88.9 against Rocky Point.

“We didn’t serve well in the set we lost, but then we got back on track, and played well across the board. . . . It’s been four years since we’ve beaten Westhampton. I guess you can say [regarding East Hampton’s chances this season] the cat’s out of the bag.”

Don McGovern and Kevin McConville, East Hampton High’s boys soccer and girls tennis coaches, have good teams, but they were thinking this week of ways in which they could become even better.

Girls tennis, which was to have had a showdown here with Westhampton Beach Monday, was 6-0 over all as of earlier that day, while boys soccer, at 3-1, was in second place in its league, behind only Amityville, which was 4-0.

During the halftime break in Saturday’s soccer game here with Rocky Point, McGovern told his players, a number of whom are familiar with futsal, soccer’s indoor version, that the outdoor game was different, that instead of playing the ball up in the air, they should bring it quickly down for passing on the ground. Leaving the ball in the air, McGovern said, was “a defender’s dream. . . . They get to play the ball and your body.”

The team’s 1-0 win was thanks to a perfect left-to-right cross by Sebastian Fuquen onto an onrushing Liam Leach, who buried it in the 50th minute of play. Asked afterward if the Bonackers had heeded his halftime advice, McGovern said, “Not all that much, but they’re improving. . . . I’m optimistic. Their ball-handling skills are superior, and they seem to be learning how to deal with these less-skilled, physical teams, which try everything they can to be disruptive and to score on counters and set plays where they can take advantage of their height. You saw how it was in that game with Sayville. Since then we’ve beaten Miller Place and now Rocky Point.”

Though McConville’s team was 6-0 going into Monday afternoon’s match, the opposition had not been all that great, he said earlier that day at the Hampton Racquet club, where he is the head pro.

When this writer said he thought the girls’ second serves could be improved pretty much across the board, the coach agreed, saying that in his opinion the second serve was “the most important shot in tennis. . . . They’re reluctant to accelerate the racket head across the ball. They’d rather swing slow than fast, and so they tap it. Becca [Kuperschmid, his senior number-one] and Juliana [Barahona, his sophomore number-two] have good second serves, but that’s about it. We’re working on it.”

With Kuperschmid, Barahona (a recent arrival from Colombia), Caroline Micallif, and Katie Annicelli, as its singles players, and with the doubles pairings of Olivia Baris and Chiara Bedini, Kaylee Mendelman and Samantha Schurr, and Annelise Mendelman and Eva Wojtusiak, East Hampton has been winning by lopsided margins, but McConville — who, in his first season here coached the boys to a share of the league title last spring — is not willing to let matters rest. “I’ve been working with a lot of them here” at the Racquet club, he said, “and I’ll continue to.”

The doubles teams, he said, had bought into the stagger system he’d taught to the boys last spring, with the teams’ players positioning themselves so as to take advantage of opportunities to close out points at the net, rather than contenting themselves with one player covering the baseline while the other stands statue-like at the net.

His first, third, and fourth singles players had been “rock solid,” McConville said, and the second, Barahona, who as yet speaks little English, has great potential.

He first became aware of her “on our first day of tryouts. . . . She was playing with the jayvee. . . . I heard sneakers squeak squeaking — ah, the sign of an athlete! I called her over to play in our tiebreaker winner-learner matches that we have. If you’re up in the tiebreaker when I blow the whistle, you stay on the court, if you’re trailing, you move down one. Juliana started out on the last court and moved all the way up to the top one where Becca beat her.”

McConville was told that Barahona’s father, Julian, who has played with the topflight men’s soccer teams here, “was a semipro player in Colombia.” “When I asked her if she was a ninth grader or a 10th grader, I said I was hoping she was a ninth grader, for then I’d have her for four years. She hits good topspin groundstrokes from the baseline, and she can slice her backhand too. She’s a fighter and she can move. We’re working on down-the-line, forcing approach shots and dropshots that take her opponent out of her comfort zone when she gets short balls.”

Similarly, Bedini has been working her way up in the doubles lineup, starting as a member of the third team.

The coach said he was thinking of reconstituting his first doubles team Monday, given its disappointing loss to Eastport-South Manor, the result of being sucked into too many moon ball exchanges. “The other team had nothing to hurt my girls. . . . We weren’t picking the right ball to attack. We’d either get into playing their game or get impatient and hit everything hard . . . and either bury our shots in the net or hit them out.”

East Hampton has two sister pairings, the Annicellis, Katie being a junior and Casey being a ninth grader, and the Mendelmans, Kaylee being a junior and Annelise being a senior. 

Cathrine Lefevre, a sophomore, is also on the roster, as are Nicole Lopez, Eve Marsden, and Sara Morgan, who have largely been playing on Fausto Hinojosa’s junior varsity team.

Back to boys soccer, Leach’s goal, a career-first, which proved to be all the team needed to beat Rocky Point, was picture-perfect as he deposited the low cross from Fuquen into the lower right corner of the nets with 30 minutes left to play in the game. Zane Musnicki, a wide-roaming senior defender, a force on both defense and offense, had a number of good opportunities thereafter, but could not finish.

The senior goalie, Kurt Matthews, was his usual staunch self, punching out free kicks and corner kicks. He was downed in so doing in the 56th minute, but after lying on the ground for a while, remained in the game. His best save was his last, when, with a half-minute left, Matthews foiled a Rocky Pointer’s credible bid for a tie.

“It was a great effort,” McGovern told the team afterward. “It came down to who wanted it more. Liam buried that shot. Who’s it going to be in the next game? It takes a team.”

McGovern agreed that East Hampton did not have a scorer along the lines of Mario Olaya, Ernesto or Esteban Valverde, or Nick West this fall, “but there are guys who are stepping up. We’re beginning to play well as a team, I think we’ll continue to grow.”

Musnicki, off a throw-in, Fuquen, with an assist from Musnicki, and Brian Gonzalez, with an assist from Christopher Pintado, had scored in the win over Miller Place, the coach said.

While Monday wasn’t homecoming — this coming weekend is — it seemed as if it were: Five of East Hampton High School’s teams played here that day, with three of them, girls volleyball, field hockey, and boys soccer, winning, and with two of them, girls tennis, which had been undefeated, and junior varsity football, losing.

All in all, it looks as if it will be a winning fall for the great majority of East Hampton’s 11 fall teams.

Girls volleyball and golf appear to be especially strong, and girls swimming, girls tennis, field hockey, and boys soccer don’t seem to be far behind. The cross-country teams — Kevin Barry, with more than two dozen, has the largest boys team he’s ever had — were to have made their debuts in multi-team meets at Cedar Point County Park Tuesday.

The junior varsity football team made its home debut Monday, losing 26-12 to Bayport’s jayvee, though Joe McKee, East Hampton’s coach, said, making allowances for some mistakes owing to inexperience, the young Bonackers, who trailed 14-12 at the half, played well. 

Christian Johnson, a running back on offense and an outside linebacker on defense, scored one of East Hampton’s touchdowns as the result of a long pass reception, and Danny Ortiz, also a running back, scored the other, on a short run up the middle. 

“In the second half,” said McKee, “they returned an interception for a touchdown, which put them up 20-12, and then they scored late in the game after we’d had several opportunities that we couldn’t capitalize on.”

Topher Cullen, the lefty quarterback, “had a good game,” the coach added.

McKee’s squad, which numbers 22, is to play this week’s homecoming game tomorrow on the turf field at 6:30 p.m. with William Floyd.

The girls tennis team, which had been 6-0 over all, met its match in Westhampton Beach, with the Hurricanes winning 6-1. Of those who lost, Juliana Barahona, a recent arrival from Colombia who goes to Pierson High School in Sag Harbor and plays second singles for East Hampton, put up the best fight, in a match that went all the way.

Rose Hayes, a Westhampton ninth grader — and an all-state player — who won among the females in the Great Bonac 5K in Springs on Labor Day, defeated Becca Kuperschmid at number-one. In the exchanges it was clear that Kuperschmid could stay with her younger opponent, but repeated unforced errors did her in.

Boys soccer, in a nonleaguer, shut out Babylon 2-0 with Alex Vanegas, a midfielder, getting both goals, one in the first half and one in the second.

The girls volleyball team easily defeated Amityville 3-1. Kathy McGeehan, East Hampton’s coach, put subs on the court in the third set, which East Hampton wound up losing 25-17. With the starters back in, the high-flying Bonackers won the fourth 25-11.

Field hockey’s 4-0 win over Hampton Bays was pretty much a rout, with Grace Myer (two), Emily Hugo, and Catherine Wicker getting the goals, three of which came in the second half.

It was the third straight win for Nicole Ficeto’s team. Since losing in a shootout to Port Jefferson on Sept. 7, the Bonackers have defeated Babylon (2-1), Southampton (2-1), and, as aforesaid, Hampton Bays.

Following East Hampton’s win over Southampton here on Sept. 12, Ficeto, who’s in her first year coaching the team, agreed that it was “huge,” inasmuch as the Mariners and Bonackers go way back as rivals. 

“We scored off a corner!” Wicker was heard to say in the postgame huddle.

Versus Babylon, Myer got the first goal, with an assist from Emily Hugo, and Hanna Medler, a ninth grader, got the game-winner, with an assist from Kailey Marmeno.

“We’ve got a lot of speed,” Ficeto said when questioned. “We used to hold the ball, but now we play a two-touch game . . . now we pass and cut. And we’re playing together, exchanging positions at times, so backs become attackers and vice versa.”

And finally, golf. Rich King, the former boys soccer coach, who has taken over from Claude Beudert, a recent retiree following a very successful coaching career, said Monday that as his top three he’s got Turner Foster, a senior who won the county championship two years ago, Nate Wright, also a senior, and James Bradley, a very promising seventh grader.

Ryan Bahel, a senior, Zach Barzilay, a senior, Aiden Cooper, a sophomore, Charles Goldsmith, a sophomore, and Trevor Stachecki and J.P. Amaden, eighth graders, are vying for the three, four, and five positions.

The team was 2-0 as of Monday, with wins over Center Moriches and Southampton.