Swimmers Lose to Champs

East Hampton High’s girls swimming team, which has on it only two seniors, went up against the defending county champion, Ward Melville, last Thursday, with an expected result.

The score was given as 93-83, though the home team was kind, having “exhibitioned,” i.e., it forewent points, in the three of the final four events.

The good news was that Oona Foulser, in the 100 freestyle, Camryn Hatch, in the 100 backstroke, and Julia Brierley, in the 100 breaststroke, registered county meet qualifying times.

East Hampton, with Caroline Brown, Brierley, Sophia Swanson, and Foulser, placed second in the 200 medley relay; was second (Foulser) in the 50 freestyle; was second (Foulser) in the 100 free; was second (Brierley) in the 100 breaststroke; was second (Margaret Breen, Foulser, Brierley, and Swanson) in the 200 freestyle relay, and was second (Olivia Brabant, Hatch, Emma Wiltshire, and Brown) in the 400 free relay.

Thursday, September 20

GIRLS TENNIS, Southampton at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

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

GOLF, East Hampton vs. Pierson, Noyac Golf and Country Club, 4 p.m.

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

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Commack at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

Friday, September 21

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

GIRLS SWIMMING, home opener, Hauppauge vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

FOOTBALL, junior varsity, William Floyd at East Hampton, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 22

HOMECOMING, Hall of Fame breakfast, East Hampton High School cafeteria, 8:30 a.m., followed by induction ceremonies in the school’s auditorium.

BOYS SOCCER, Wyandanch at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Harborfields at East Hampton, noon.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Smithtown East at East Hampton, noon.

Monday, September 24

GIRLS TENNIS, East Hampton at William Floyd, 4 p.m.

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

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

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

Tuesday, September 25

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

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Eastport-South Manor, 

6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 26

GIRLS TENNIS, East Hampton at Shoreham-Wading River, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Greenport-Southold at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

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

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Sayville, 6 p.m.

September 2, 1993

“Another day in the Hamptons,” Don Brosseau, the fabled Huggy Bear tennis tournament’s director, said with a mock sigh, as, on a brick-lined sunken court separated from Mecox Bay by a manicured lawn, Ken Rosewall, the tennis Hall of Famer, and a young fellow Aussie, Mark Kratzmann, battled Byron Talbot and Peter Maller in the final as 500 invited guests of the Forstmann family looked delightedly on.

The frequent applause that greeted points won Sunday by the 58-year-old Rosewall and the 27-year-old Kratzmann, one of the top doubles players on the world circuit, did not spring solely from sentiment, for a lot of money rides on Huggy Bears outcomes.

This year’s by-invitation-only tourney, played on estates owned by the Forstmann family in Water Mill and Southampton, offered $499,000 in prize money, with professionals and their amateur or ex-pro partners sharing handsome sums paid out to winners in the 32-team draw from the round of 16 on.

The final produced $120,000 for the winners and $60,000 for the runners-up. The winners of the consolation draw, made up of first-round losers, were Todd Witsken and Jim Agate, who shared $30,000. The runners-up, Scott Davis and Glenn Petrovic, “the ultimate Huggy Bears money warrior,” according to Brosseau, shared $15,000.

. . . During the awards ceremonies that followed Rosewall and Kratzmann’s exciting 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 win, Brosseau announced that through hefty contributions exacted by the Forstmanns from the invitees, and through donations by team owners, “more than $600,000 had been raised for the tournament’s beneficiaries, Cities in Schools, a nationwide dropout prevention effort headed by Bill Milliken, and Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for severely disabled youngsters.

The East Hampton Tennis Club’s championships are nearing an end as play moves into the final rounds. Patti Ferrin won the women’s singles title Saturday, for the 11th time, defeating Bonnie Bach 6-0, 6-1. Ferrin, who with her husband, Ken, manufactures kitchen gadgets under the name of East Hampton Industries, has enjoyed a pretty-much unblemished reign as the East Hampton Tennis Club’s women’s singles champion. Sandy Fleischman Richmond, who played number-one for the University of North Carolina a decade ago, “beat me when she was 16,” said Ferrin.

The Ferrins are ardently sportive. Besides tennis, they are serious cyclists and skiers. . . . “We started biking when Ken tore his rotator cuff and couldn’t play tennis,” she said, adding that “part of my therapy when I damaged a ligament in my knee was biking. Biking also helps keep us in shape for skiing, which demands that you be in shape.”

The Ferrins are about to embark on a monthlong bike trip across Italy, from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean. In the winter, they helicopter-ski in Canada.

Tony Hitchcock and Jean Lindgren, who oversee the Hampton Classic Horse Show, heaved a sigh of relief yesterday when it became clear that Hurricane Emily would not hit eastern Long Island, as had been feared.

“You can bet we were grateful,” said Hitchcock, adding that one of the Classic’s course designers, Jose Gamarra, a native of La Paz, Bolivia, was taking the credit, “and, for all I know, he deserves it. Bolivians apparently have a custom that if you float eggs a certain way in water, you can ward off storms. Jose — he’s known as Pepe — floated eggs in our water jug, and, as you see, the storm went out to sea.”

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team and the junior varsity football team each lost season openers Friday, though discounting the 13 points awarded for diving, Craig Brierley’s girls would have defeated Connetquot, the home team, which wound up a 93-88 winner.

The jayvee football team, which has 25 on its roster, played well in a 20-0 loss under the lights at Hampton Bays that night, according to its coach, Joe McKee, who cited the play of Danny Ortiz, Kevin Bunce Jr., Topher Cullen, John Berti, Nick LaValle, and Alfredo Chavez, “a newcomer who, because of all his tackles, probably was the player of the game.”

A fumble near the end of the first half resulted in a 14-0 deficit going into the break. “We drove the length of the field to open the second half, but turned the ball over on downs at their 15,” the coach said. “It was pretty even after that.”

Cullen, the quarterback, passed well, he said. Ortiz and Bunce ran well and, as linebackers, defended well. Berti, McKee said, had an interception and a long pass reception, and LaValle played well as the offensive line’s center. 

East Hampton will be at home against Bayport Monday at 4:30 p.m. Eighty youngsters, McKee added, signed up for flag football at East Hampton’s Herrick Park Friday. Practices are on Tuesdays at 5:30. Games are played under the lights on Fridays, beginning at 6 p.m.

“Connetquot was second in the county last season, while we were sixth,” Brierley said in an account of Friday’s nonleague swim meet. “It was a very good start to the competitive season, with strong efforts and lessons learned.”

East Hampton, with Darcy McFarland, Nicole Gutierrez, Emily Dyner, and Caroline Hoff, won the 200-yard medley relay; Sophia Swanson won the 200 individual medley; Oona Foulser won the 50 freestyle; Swanson won the 100 butterfly; Caroline Brown won the 100 backstroke, and Jane Brierley won the 100 breaststroke.

Joe Vas, East Hampton’s athletic director, has had to deal with fall northeasters and rain in the past, but never so much with the heat.

Heat alerts and modified heat alerts had eaten into practice time and into scheduled play in the season’s first two weeks, he said during a conversation at the high school on Sept. 5, causing, he said, about a half-dozen cancellations. And not just outside activities have been affected, but also inside ones, like swimming and volleyball.

East Hampton’s girls volleyball team snuck a match in with Sayville that morning, before the state declared a full heat alert. East Hampton’s gym is air-conditioned, which leaves Kathy McGeehan, East Hampton’s coach, a bit mystified by the outdoor-indoor ban. “I think if we were scheduled to play in the afternoon, it would have been called off,” she said in reporting the good news the next day that her team had defeated last year’s co-league champions 3-0.

It was the first time, she said, in four years that a team of hers had beaten Sayville, a fellow Class A school — a turnabout that obviously augurs well for East Hampton’s season.

East Hampton’s second league opponent was to have been Westhampton Beach, a perennial Class A power, which shared the league title with Sayville last fall. McGeehan’s girls got a chance to scrimmage with the Hurricanes on Sept. 1, and acquitted themselves well, though there were no officials and scores weren’t kept, she said.

Suffice to say, McGeehan has a strong crew, including 11 returnees, eight of whom are seniors. The East Hampton-Sayville stats pretty much tell the story of the 25-20, 25-18, 25-12 win: 17 service aces, 37 kills, and 40 digs.

Strong serving was the main thing, said McGeehan, inasmuch as “it took Sayville out of its offensive sets and perhaps made our defenders’ jobs a bit easier.”

Offensively, Mikela Junemann, East Hampton’s strong junior outside hitter, led the way with 11 kills, but there were others with putaways too, namely Madyson Neff, a senior outside hitter, who had eight kills, and Erin Decker, also a senior outside hitter, who had seven.

Elle Johnson, the senior setter, who had 37 assists, also had seven service aces. Molly Mamay, a junior defensive specialist who shares the free-roaming libero duties with Zoe Leach, another junior defensive specialist, served six aces. Junemann had two, and Ella Gurney, a senior middle hitter, and Decker each had one.

McGeehan starts three seniors and three juniors, but is carrying a squad of 16 to assure some continuity when her eight seniors graduate. 

Other seniors on the team are Mary McDonald, a senior hitter, Nicole Realmuto, a middle blocker, Claire Hopkins, a defensive specialist and outside hitter, Connie Chan, a setter and defensive specialist, and Julia Kearney, an opposite.

Hannah Hartsough, a sophomore outside hitter and defensive specialist, Faith Fenelon, a freshman setter, Brooke Wittmer, a freshman setter, and Sorrel Miller, a freshman middle and outside hitter, round out the squad.

The team has the potential to be one of the best the veteran coach has ever had.

Westhampton Beach, said McGeehan, while always strong, wasn’t quite as strong as last year, she thought, having lost to graduation two outstanding hitters. 

Lenny Zaloga, the team’s coach, “has a new setter and some good hitters, and Westhampton always has good ball control,” McGeehan said, “but they’re not the team they were. We’re ready for them. We’ve jumped right into it by playing last year’s league champions, but I like it that way.”

Joe Vas, East Hampton’s athletic director, was upbeat as he spoke this past week of the large turnouts most of the fall sports teams have enjoyed, of coaching changes that ought to further strengthen various programs, and of work that is to begin soon to improve the varsity baseball and softball fields.

The only downside, he said, had been the heat, which had forced the cancellation of a number of practices and scheduled games. 

And, yes, he said, in answer to a question, there will be a junior varsity football team, as long as the numbers, averaging around 22, hold. That team, coached by Joe McKee, with the assistance of Lorenzo Rodriguez and McKee’s brother Kelly, was to have made its debut Friday at Hampton Bays.

“We’ve been working hard over the last five years to preserve the program. I want it to work. . . . Football across the county is down. Wyandanch has canceled its jayvee. . . . We’re trying to rebuild, we want to keep it alive.”

With the resignation of Robyn Mott, Nicole Ficeto, an East Hampton High School Hall of Famer, has taken over the varsity field hockey team, with Carolina Schaefer as her assistant, and with Danielle Waleko as the junior varsity coach.

Rich King, who led East Hampton’s boys soccer team to county and Long Island championships, and to an appearance in the state’s Final Four, is now coaching golf, its former very successful coach, Claude Beudert, having retired. With Turner Foster, a county champion, Nate Wright, and James Bradley, a very promising seventh grader, on the roster, that team ought to continue its winning ways.

Kevin McConville, the head pro at Hampton Racquet, is coaching the girls tennis team, which as of earlier this week was 3-0 in league play. McConville coached the boys to a league championship last spring, a title they shared with Westhampton Beach. 

Girls volleyball, the subject of another story on this page, ought to be right up there with girls tennis and golf and girls swimming this fall.

Kevin Barry, the boys cross-country coach, has a squad that numbers in the mid to high 20s, the most he’s ever had, and Diane O’Donnell, while she has fewer on her roster, namely nine, nevertheless expects them to give the stronger teams in East Hampton’s league, such as Shoreham-Wading River, Miller Place, and Westhampton Beach, good runs for their money.

Concerning boys volleyball, Vas said that Josh Brussell would keep more than 20 on the varsity, and added that more than 20 had tried out for the jayvee, which Andrew Rodriguez coaches.

“More than 75 tried out for boys soccer,” the athletic director said, requiring that some cuts be made. “Don McGovern has 28 on the varsity, and Mike Vitulli has 31 on the jayvee.”

Girls soccer, which has not fared well in the recent past, is in a power-rated conference this year, meaning that it will be matched up largely with teams of similar ability. The team is coached by Cara Nelson, an East Hampton Middle School teacher who ran marathons on seven continents in seven days this past year. “They beat Hampton Bays 7-0 the other day,” Vas said, adding that Nelson “has a full group, close to 40 over all.”

Homecoming, Vas said, is to be Sept. 22, beginning with a Hall of Fame breakfast in the high school’s cafeteria. The inductees are Zach Brenneman, an all-American who helped lead Notre Dame to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s men’s lacrosse final, Michael Sarlo, East Hampton Town’s police chief, who was an all-around athlete here, the Rev. Justin Winter, who with Eddie Budd gave East Hampton a terrific one-two backfield punch in football and was a standout sprinter and 400 runner in track, and Randi Cherill, the school’s personal trainer for 16 years, who recently retired. 

Nick Jarboe, an outstanding football player and wrestler when at East Hampton, is the trainer now.

Looking ahead to the spring, Vas said Annemarie Cangiolosi, one of Lou Reale’s protégées, a lights-out pitcher when she was at the State University at Cortland, will take over the softball program. Melanie Anderson, Cangiolosi’s cousin, who played in the N.C.A.A. tournament when she caught at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, is to be a volunteer assistant.

The varsity baseball and softball fields, Vas added, are to be redone this fall so they’ll be ready for the spring. The baseball field, he said, is to get an all-turf infield that ought to cut down on trips to turf fields elsewhere in the spring resulting from a mucky infield here. The grass-covered outfield will remain, he said, inasmuch as “there was concern that balls would skip toward the fence when hit into the gaps.”

The softball staff had been offered a turf infield as well, said the A.D., “but the players and the staff didn’t want it.” That field, considered one of the best in the county when Lou Reale had it redone, is to have its infield “regraded, with a clay surface, and the outfield will be ripped up so there will be no more ruts and bumps, and it will have an irrigation system.” New windscreens would be installed as well. “The field will get a complete facelift.”

Vas said in answer to a question that he did not know how much the field work is to cost, “though all of it has been budgeted for.”

Sunday’s Mighty Hamptons Triathlon, a memorial to the late Steve Tarpinian, was won by a first-timer, Andrew Kalley, 35, of New York City, in 2 hours, 7 minutes, and 42 seconds. 

Starting in the second, not the elite, wave at Long Beach in Noyac, Kalley’s splits were 30:22 in the 1.5-mile swim, 59:56 in the 40K bike, and 34:44 in the 10K run.

Vicki Ventura, the race director, said there were 473 finishers all told, including the triathlon’s 363 individual competitors and its relay teams, as well as the aquabike, an event in its second year, that drew 27 entrants, who swam and biked, but did not run.

The women’s winner, in 2:23:05, was Tara McWilliams, 32, of New York City. 

Among the local finishers were Didric Cederholm of Sag Harbor, who was 28th in 2:32:32, Mike Bahel of East Hampton, who was 36th in 2:36:21, Angelika Cruz of Montauk, who was 80th in 2:46:45, and Tim Treadwell of Amagansett, who was 185th in 3:08:50.

Ventura said she was particularly pleased to have Karen Smyers, a Hall of Fame triathlete who in her career has won three I.T.U. world championships and a Hawaiian Ironman championship, in the field.

Smyers, who is 57 and lives in Lincoln, Mass., was the 11th female finisher over all, in 2:45:01, and bested the female 55-59 division’s runner-up by 20 minutes.

In a clinic she gave on Saturday, she spoke of “the four Ps — passion, perseverance, positive attitude, and perspective,” and of how important one’s mental state is. 

“In my first world championships, in Orlando in 1990,” she said later in the week, “I very much wanted to get on the podium, having finished fourth the year before. I had a great swim and bike and started the 10K run in second place, behind Erin Baker. I was already imagining what I would wear to the awards ceremony!”

“Then, a half-mile into the run I was passed by Carol Montgomery and Joy Hansen. By mile 3 they had opened up a 15 to 20-second lead and I was wallowing in self-pity. I was thinking how unfair it was to ask a New England girl to run in such heat, on a golf course with no shade. Then Scott Molina, Erin’s husband, cheered for me. ‘Karen,’ he said, when I gave him a weary, hangdog look, ‘you’ve got to want it!’ ”

“That remark cut through the self-pity, and I realized how bad my attitude was. I decided to ignore the heat and began to reel them in. I ended up sprinting past Carol and Joy, who were still running side by side, and Erin.” 

“ ‘Karen is back!’ Carol said to Joy as I passed them. It was if I’d been resurrected from the dead. In a way, I had been. I was a different person with that change of attitude. The difference between a monumental achievement and a race that would have left me disappointed came down entirely to my mental state, not my physical preparedness. Never underestimate the power of your mind to achieve things . . . or to derail you!”

“I think I am probably most proud of the length and breadth of my career,” she said when asked about her proudest moment — “excelling at both short and long distances at the same time and managing to extend my pro career for 27 years.” 

Thyroid cancer kept her out of the 2000 Olympics, yet, she said, “having an Olympic team to try out for was the perfect motivation to help me fly through my cancer diagnosis and treatment. I am thankful that I had that goal at that time in my life, as it was just what I needed to pull me through. And looking at the grand scheme of what this sport has given me over the years I really can’t complain about one missed opportunity.”

Regarding Mighty Hamptons, she said, “I’m so happy to see a race like this — which even predated me! — endure. I remember reading in Triathlete magazine about all the greats [Dave Scott, Scott Tinley, John Howard, and Allison Roe among them] who raced here. Event Power does a wonderful job.”

As for her triathloning future, Smyers said, “Right now I tell people that I don’t want to ever retire because I want to continue to be part of a sport that fosters a feeling of anticipation when you’re about to enter a new age group. I’m personally eyeing the 80-to-84-year-old women’s record at the Hawaiian Ironman. No one has finished within the 17-hour deadline yet! Of course, it will probably be down to around 12 hours by the time I’m 80.”

Thursday, September 13

GOLF, East Hampton at Southampton, 4 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Center Moriches at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at Ward Melville, mandatory nonleague, 5 p.m.

Friday, September 14

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

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

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

Saturday, September 15

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at invitational tournament, Eastport-South Manor High School, 8:15 a.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 11 a.m.

Monday, September 17

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

FOOTBALL, junior varsity, Bayport-Blue Point at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

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

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

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

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Bay Shore, 5 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, September 18

GOLF, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 3:30 p.m.

Men’s slow-pitch came back to the Terry King ball field in Amagansett this spring following a five-year absence during which many of Amagansett’s former players swelled the numbers in Montauk’s bar league.

“We lost three [teams] and gained two,” Mike Ritsi of the Montauk league said the other day, so instead of eight teams, Montauk had seven this summer. Amagansett had 10, and there were some — most notably Andrew Foglia, a member of two championship teams, Liars’ Saloon in Montauk and Marcello Masonry in Amagansett — who played in both.

Liars’, Ritsi’s team, won the championship series in Montauk last week, taking the fifth game from the Gig Shack, the two-time defending champion, 8-1. Marcello had an easier time of it, defeating Uihlein’s 3-1 in their best-of-five final.

“It’s a different game in Montauk,” Ray Wojtusiak, Marcello’s player-manager, said during a conversation at The Star Friday. “You have to string a lot of singles together out there — there aren’t that many home runs.”

“Maybe there were a dozen homers out here this summer,” said Ritsi.

There weren’t all that many at Terry King, probably given the restrictive-flight bats that are used, said Wojtusiak, whose team, nevertheless, used the long ball to rout Uihlein’s 17-6 in game four, and thus capture the East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch softball league trophy.

What proved to be the decisive game, on Aug. 22, began with Uihlein’s scoring four runs in the top of the first inning, but Marcello came right back with five in the bottom half, three as the result of a home run by Chris Pfund after Joe Sullivan and Tom Thorsen had singled, and two owing to a homer by Foglia after Andy Tuthill singled. And all of that occurred before anyone had made an out. 

Afterward, Tuthill said it had been his idea to sprinkle the lineup with heavy hitters and not to bunch the lefties — Tuthill, Sullivan, and Thorsen — to keep Jim Hansen, Uihlein’s much-respected pitcher, on his toes, as it were. Thus Dustin Lightcap (who, like Foglia, played in the Montauk league as well) batted 10th for Marcello’s that night. 

He hit into a 6-4 force to end the first inning and grounded into a 6-4-3 double play to end the fourth, but in his first at-bat in that inning he hit a two-run home run, and would have had another in the sixth were it not for a rule, adopted when the season began, limiting teams to five taters, “the idea being,” said Wojtusiak, “to prevent blowouts.” His home run in the sixth, therefore, was treated as a single. 

Others who found the fences for Marcello’s that night were Tuthill and Thorsen.

When, following Thorsen’s two-run homer in the fifth, which treated Marcello’s to a 15-4 lead, Tuthill was asked if there were anyone on the team who hadn’t hit a home run that night “other than Ray,” Tuthill replied, with a smile, “And he won’t either.”

Wojtusiak took the ribbing with his characteristic good nature. “I’ve known Joe, Keith [Steckowski], Tommy, and Andy since they were 12, since I was their baseball coach at the middle school.”

“When Andy pitched,” he added, “I didn’t have to do anything.”

Wojtusiak and Rick White are the championship team’s elders, having played the game together for 20 or so years, “since our days with Bistrian Gravel, when Scott Loper, the best home run hitter I’ve ever played with, was on it. Joe and Keith played on Bistrian Gravel too, but later. Rick and I are the only two left from that old Bistrian Gravel team.”

When this writer made mention of Fred’s Big Guns, who made a lot of noise at Terry King 25 years ago, White said, as he walked off the field, “They would have had five home runs in the first inning.”

Back to the Montauk league, Ritsi said, concerning the final series there, at the Hank Zebrowski field on Edgemere Road, that Liars’ had won games one, three, and five, while the Gig Shack, “Leo Daunt’s team,” had won games two and four.

The fifth game had been his team’s best of the season, Ritsi said. “We scored three in the first — usually in our league it’s the team that gets off to a good start that winds up winning — and added more as we went along. They [Gig Shack] scored their run in the bottom of the seventh.”

Chris Carillo pitched for the winners in the finale, though Wyatt Gibbons was the Saloon’s pitcher in the first four.

Besides Ritsi, Foglia, Carillo, and Gibbons, the Liars’ roster comprised Tyler Davis, Brent Davis, Chris Conroy, Mike Forbes, Brian Powell, Jesse Joeckel, Matt Brierley, Kevin Farrell, Matt Burns, Ryan Burns, and Charlie Collins.

There has been talk of a best-of-three series between Liars’ and Marcello’s, but Ritsi and Wojtusiak were doubtful it would come off. “I wouldn’t want to play if it weren’t my A team, and only six or seven guys responded when I asked how many of my guys wanted to do it,” Wojtusiak said.

However, there would be, he added, a fall league at Terry King, as he said was the case last year, “from mid-September through the first week of November. It would be the same as in the summer, except the playoffs would be single-elimination. You never know . . . but it should come to pass.”

Several of East Hampton High’s fall sports teams saw action in the past week.

The girls tennis team, coached by Kevin McConville, the head pro at Hampton Racquet, defeated West Islip 6-1 in a mandatory nonleague match with everyone playing 10-game pro sets.

The sole loss, by 10-6, came at first doubles. Otherwise, Rebecca Kuperschmid, Juliana Barahona, Cateline Micallif, and Katie Funicelli, and the doubles teams of Olivia Baris and Kaylee Mendelman and Ciara Bedini and Eva Wojtusiak were winners. 

The boys soccer team, coached by Don McGovern, lost 2-0 to Half Hollow Hills West, a fellow Class A school, in a nonleaguer played here Friday morning.

“Match their physicality and your skill will take over,” McGovern told his team during the halftime break, by which time the Bonackers trailed 1-0 because of a successful free kick that followed upon a failed clearing attempt and a foul, the ball being backheaded, or “flicked,” into the nets over the goalie Kurt Matthews’s outstretched arms near the end of the period.

East Hampton went against the wind in the first half, and went with it in the second, though the presumed advantage didn’t pan out. 

Alex Pantosin, a senior midfielder, hit a hard, ground-hugging shot that was saved in the early going, though the momentum was not to turn inasmuch as Hills West’s bigger players were also the more aggressive ones that day.

The visitors had half-a-dozen set plays, either corner kicks or free kicks — the latter taken by Hills West’s goalie — in the second half, though Matthews foiled all of them. He was beaten, though, by the visitors’ Marcus Fraser, a hard-working forward, in the 70th minute, the low partly screened 15-yard shot coming to rest in the left corner of the cage.

East Hampton got off a few shots on goal during the course of the game, but the visitors’ four defenders were tenacious, and their goalie was not really tested.

“They disrupted everything,” McGovern said afterward. “We just didn’t match up physically. But I’m very optimistic regarding the season. I thought our backs played well, but we’re young in the midfield — you can see that.”

He’s carrying 28 on the roster — 11 seniors, 12 juniors, four sophomores, and a freshman, Hedrys Palencia, a forward and the tallest player on the team — but only has several starters from last year returning.

Hills West, he said, was in League IV. East Hampton is in League V. East Hampton’s league-opener is to be here tomorrow with Sayville, presumably another physical team that pretty much eschews short passes in favor of long ones and set plays.

Kevin Barry has the largest boys cross-country team he’s ever had, with 25 to 28 on the roster, including Ryan Fowkes, who’s heading into his senior year and hopes to continue running in college. Diane O’Donnell has far fewer on the girls team, nine to be specific, but, nevertheless, expects the team to be the most competitive one she’s had in a while. 

Craig Brierley, the girls swimming coach, will have a young team, with only two seniors, Oona Foulser and Emma Wiltshire, but given the continued success of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes, it ought to be good again. There are 25 on his roster, including four eighth graders — Alyssa Brabant, Margaret Breen, Jane Brierley, and Camryn Hatch — and three ninth graders — Julia Caldwell, Corrina Castillo, and Emily Dyner.