It’s all coming down to this: If the East Hampton High School softball team does not make the playoffs this season — which as of this week was a possibility — it will be the first time in Lou Reale’s 20-year coaching tenure here that that will have happened.

    “We’ve got to cut down on our mistakes,” the veteran mentor said in recounting last week’s 4-1 and 4-2 losses to Islip and Rocky Point Monday morning. “In both games it was the same thing — we’d give up unearned runs, battle back, but fall a little short.”

    Not everything can be attributed to the pitcher Casey Waleko’s back, which has bothered her all spring and has affected her delivery. A definitive diagnosis as to exactly what the problem is was to have been vouchsafed this week by a specialist whom she saw at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City on May 1.

    Reale replaced Waleko with Courtney Dess following a thunderous two-run home run over the left center field fence by Rocky Point’s first baseman in the third inning — a musical chairs move that ended with Waleko on first, Ilsa Brzezinski, the first baseman, on third, Ellie Cassel, the center fielder, in left, and, as aforesaid, Dess, who had started at third, on the mound.

    “Courtney did great, she had a great game,” Reale said following the 4-2 loss. “That home run of theirs gave them a 4-0 lead, but Courtney didn’t allow a run after that. She hit a two-run homer of her own over the fence in the fifth, and had six assists too on balls hit back to her.”

    That fifth inning of Bonac’s was its most promising given the fact that “we had three hits in a row off their pitcher, Patricia Kennedy — a hit by Ilsa, Courtney’s two-out home run, and Casey’s triple to the fence in right center. But then Ali [Harned, East Hampton’s shortstop] watched three straight strikes go by. You can’t do that.”

    So, as of Monday, Reale said the team was 6-8 in League VI, with four games remaining, two of them with teams (Miller Place and Sayville) that had “mercied” East Hampton earlier in the season (by 14-2 and 18-3 scores).

    “We’ve got to win three of our final four,” Reale said, “if we want to make the playoffs [at 9-9].”

    East Hampton was to have played at Mount Sinai Monday; Westhampton Beach is to play here today. The Bonackers are going to Miller Place Saturday, and are to travel to Sayville Monday. Elwood-John Glenn, winless as of Monday, is to play here in the final game of the regular season Tuesday.

    “We beat Mount Sinai [11-1] the first time around, but they really beat themselves,” Bonac’s coach said. “Our first game with Westhampton [10-8 East Hampton] was tough too. . . . We’ve still got a chance to make the playoffs, but we have to cut down on our mistakes. The outfielders, for one, have to get under the ball. They’re dropping balls, even in practice.”

   The East Hampton High School boys track team, as its coach had predicted, won its first meet in three years at Elwood-John Glenn on April 30, by a score of 87-54.

    The Bonackers, coached by Chris Reich and Luis Morales, have been putting up points this season, but until the 30th hadn’t managed to win one.

    The noteworthy victory, said Reich, “felt great — it has been a long time coming. It really was a full team effort, and having done so well at the Westhampton invitational [on April 27] we were confident going into the meet at Glenn.”

    “Our distance runners [Adam Cebulski and Erik Engstrom chief among them] raced smart, running fast enough to score points where we needed to. Adam doubled by running the mile and 2-mile and scored 9 points for the team in doing so. Our sprinters scored huge points with Wanya Reid and Hunter Kelsey combining for 21 points in the 100, 200, and 4-by-100 relay. . . . The 400 went our way with Pablo Carreno and T.J. Paradiso finishing first and third with great times, even though their runner was the favorite to win that event. Probably our biggest surprise was Jack Ryan and Liam Kessler’s clearing 10 feet in the pole vault, both personal bests, earning them first and second place. Another huge p.r., good for second place, was Will Ellis’s 17.6-second performance in the 110-meter high hurdles, a personal best by about a second, and a time that should carry him through to the division meet.”

    Reich said the Tiger award “went to Will Ellis and Jack Ryan, who, besides his vaulting, ran in the 4-by-400 relay, recording a great split of 57 seconds, which keyed our win in that event.”

    “Sometimes,” Reich continued, “you have to lie to your team to bring out the best in them, and that’s what I did in the 4-by-4. After the 4-by-8 we knew we had won, but I told the 4-by-4 boys that we needed to win their relay in order to win the meet. It was worth it! Although they were upset with me afterward, they bettered their time by more than two seconds, and all of them — Ryan, T.J., John Grogan, and Evan Larsen — ran phenomenal times. No one was over 60 seconds.”

    “So, it was a great day for us, and we feel confident when it comes to our last home meet, with Westhampton, which Glenn defeated earlier this season.”

    The meet with Westhampton, whose record was 2-3 as of Monday (East Hampton was 1-4), was to have been held here yesterday.

    As for the Westhampton invitational on April 27, Reich said that “I can think of only two people who didn’t turn in personal bests.”

    Among the highlights, he said, were Reid and Kelsey’s one-two finish in the 100 in 11.83 and 11.84; Larsen’s personal-best 54.49 in the 400; Cebulski’s 4:39.67 and Engstrom’s 4:44.57 in the mile; the 4-by-1 relay team’s 46.5, and the 4-by-8 team’s 8:52, “bettering their previous best by almost a minute. It was the first time we’ve had a 4-by-8 team go under nine minutes in over a year.”

    The Tiger award that day was shared by Jackson Rafferty and Paradiso, “a freshman who broke out of his shell at Westhampton, running a 56.5 in the 400, a phenomenal time for any runner, especially for a freshman. . . . I expect him to do great things in the long term, as well as in the short term.”

    Others cited by Reich were Liam McGovern, “a sophomore who drop­ped about five seconds or more in the 400,” Rafferty’s sub-5:00 in the mile, a p.r. for him, and personal-best performances in the mile by Christian Figueroa, “who also medaled in the 400 hurdles,” Erik Perez, James Makrianes, and Cody Hillerud. “The only thrower we brought with us was Josh King, a freshman, who had a p.r. in the discus with a throw of 93-5.”

    The above-mentioned 4-by-100 relay team comprised Kelsey, Kessler, Carreno, and Reid; the 4-by-8 team’s members were Paradiso, Cebulski, Keaton Crozier, and Larsen.

    While East Hampton’s girls team lost to its John Glenn counterparts here on the 30th, there were numerous notable performances, said the girls’ coach, Shani Cuesta. Among them were Dana Cebulski’s school-record 5:00.2 in the 1,500 and her 30-103/4 in the triple jump; Amanda Calabrese’s school-record 17.3 in the 100 high hurdles; Cecilia Blowe’s personal-best 13.4 in the 100 and personal-best 28.2 in the 200; Nina Piacentine’s 8:27.35 in the 1,500 racewalk; Alyssa Bahel’s personal-best 12:00 in the 3,000; Taliya Hayes’s personal-best 78-9 in the discus, and the personal-best 10:44.4 run by the 4-by-800 relay team (Devon Brown, Bahel, Lilah Minetree, and Cebulski).

    As far as placements were concerned, Hayes won the discus and was second in the shot-put; Calabrese was second in the 100 high hurdles, second in the 400 intermediate hurdles, in a personal-best 78.0, and third in the pole vault, at 7-0; Blowe was second in the 100, in the 200, and third in the long jump, at 14-33/4; Cebulski was second in the 1,500, second in the 800, in 2:29.0, and anchored the winning 4-by-8 team, and Bahel’s winning time of 12:00 in the 3,000 was a personal best, as was Piacentine’s 8.27.35 in the walk.

    In addition, Morgan German’s 12:30.3, good for second place in the racewalk, was a personal best. And while they didn’t score, other personal bests were turned in that day included Bahel’s 5:33.44 in the mile, Minetree’s 73.5 in the 400; Gabbie McKay’s 13.8 and Sadie Ward’s 14.4 in the 100; Tyra Stewart’s 29.4 in the 200; Ward’s 79.2 in the 400 hurdles; the 5:08.5 run by the 4-by-400 A team (German, Kathryn Wood, Katie Tikkanen, and Allesia Williams); Merissah Gilbert’s 28-91/2 in the triple jump; Wood’s 14-11/4 in the long jump; Christine Malecki’s 25-2 in the shot-put, and Ashley Lynch’s 4-4 in the high jump.

Thursday, May 16

BOYS TENNIS, county team tournament, second round,  William Floyd-Miller Place winner at Ross, and East Hampton-Huntington winner at Westhampton Beach, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 17

BOYS TENNIS, county team tournament, quarterfinal round matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 18

TENNIS, Kids Day, with tumble bus, face painting, bouncy castle, scavenger hunt, field events, potato sack races, egg races, kids tennis clinics, hoop-shooting for charity, and outdoor family barbecue, benefit East Hampton Day Care Learning Center and Animal Rescue Fund, Hampton Racquet, 172 Buckskill Road, East Hampton, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

INDOOR SOCCER, futsal finals, men’s 38-plus consolation game, 7 p.m., men’s open consolation game, 8, men’s 38-plus championship game, 9, and men’s open championship game, 10, Sportime Arena, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.

Monday, May 20

GIRLS TRACK, division championships, Connetquot High School, 3 p.m.

BASEBALL, county tournament, Class C bracket,  Southold-Port Jefferson winner vs. Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4 p.m.  

BOYS TENNIS, county team tournament, semifinal matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 21

BOYS TENNIS, county team tournament, final match, Smithtown East High School, 2 p.m.

BOYS TRACK, division championships, Connetquot High School, 3 p.

Wednesday, May 22

RUNNING, Bonac on Board to Wellness 5K, Reutershan parking lot, Main Street, East Hampton, 9 a.m.

GIRLS TRACK, division championships, Connetquot High School, 3 p.m.

Thursday, May 23

BOYS TRACK, division championships, Connetquot High School, 3 p.m.

   Things went a bit better for East Hampton High School’s teams this past week.

    The softball team as of Monday was riding the crest of a three-game winning streak (all shutouts) during which Lou Reale’s crew outscored the opposition 38-0.

    Still, Reale was not ready to say his young team, whose record, he said, improved to 6-6 as the result of Saturday’s 9-0 win here over Harborfields, had turned the corner.

    “The defense today was ugly,” he told his players during Saturday’s postgame huddle.

    A few minutes later, he said to this writer, “Casey [Waleko] had a perfect game going into the seventh [at Bellport] yesterday when two easy fly balls to the outfield were dropped. Today, we had five errors. We can’t expect to continue winning if we play so sloppily.”

    Nevertheless, a W is a W. Waleko’s back, which has been bothering her all season, was “a little sore” Saturday after having struck out 15 Bellport batters, though while she wasn’t quite right that morning, she was good enough to blank the Tornadoes.

Jessie Stavola, Reale’s former protégée, who has perfect games to her credit, and who has been assisting her former coach this season, said Waleko’s getting used to certain adjustments to her delivery that she said had to be made because of her ailing back.

While softball may not yet have turned the corner, girls lacrosse, coached by Matt Maloney, may have.

   “This past week was a good one for us,” Maloney said in an e-mailed report Monday. “We had chances to tie our game with Eastport-South Manor in the final two minutes, and though we wound up losing 6-5, the girls felt pretty good. The next day we went to Kings Park and played okay and thus squeezed out a 10-8 win. Two times we prevented them from tying the score at 9-9 late in the game.”

   “And, on Friday, we won a big one against Hampton Bays, 18-3. Haley Tracey, who’s been our backup, played goalie for the first time in her career and recorded six saves. Hampton Bays is a first-year program, much like we were not long ago. . . . Over all, the team played well last week: For the first time we did not allow our opponents to score more than 10 goals, which is great.”

    “As for the playoffs,” Maloney continued, “it’s still up in the air. It’s going to depend on these next four games we have and on what the rest of the division does.”

    As of Monday, East Hampton was  14th among 21 teams in the power-rated Division II with a 3-7 divisional record and 92.730 power points.

    Just about everyone got in on the scoring in Friday’s game here with Hampton Bays: Maggie Pizzo had four goals, and Cassidy Walsh, Carley Seekamp, and Amanda Seekamp each had three to lead the way.

    While going into this past week it had been a woeful spring for the baseball team, coached by Ed Bahns and Will Collins, the latter reported Monday that “even though we went winless this past week, it was the best we’ve played so far.”

    “Bayport-Blue Point was undefeated going in and remained undefeated when the three-game series was over, but for the most part we played soundly in the field, we had a freshman [Kyle McKee] give us a strong performance on the mound, and we showed over all that our play has improved. We were in every game, and if you were watching I think you would agree we were a different team than in previous weeks.”

    “On Friday, though we lost 6-1, Peter Shilowich pitched extremely well, giving up two earned runs in five innings before having to be lifted because of a high pitch count. We scored our sole run in the sixth, cutting the lead to 3-1. Max Lerner led off with a single, and Brendan Hughes followed with a single of his own that advanced Lerner to third. Maykell Guzman then hit into a 1-4-3 double play, stranding Lerner at third, though the next batter, McKee, drove him in with an infield hit.”

    Earlier in the week, the Phantoms beat the Bonackers 4-1 and 7-3.

    Of the 7-3 game, played on April 24, Collins said, “Kyle McKee, who though only a freshman has been thrust into the third spot in our rotation, looked like a kid with far more experience that day. Only four of Bayport’s runs were earned. Kyle gave up nine hits and struck out four, and six Bonackers had hits, including Patrick Silich, the junior catcher, Max Lerner, the sophomore right fielder, Brendan Hughes, the junior shortstop, Maykell Guzman, the junior third baseman, Peter Shilowich, and the senior center fielder, Peter Vaziri.”

    “In April 23’s game with Bayport at home, Maykell pitched all six innings, and pitched well, giving up six hits and only one earned run. He also had two of our three hits (a double and a single). Jack Abrams-Dyer, a sophomore who’s at second now, had the other one. Jack, by the way, has done everything asked of him this year. Recently, he stepped in at second for Dylan Lynch, who’s out for the rest of the season with an injury.”

    “This game ended bizarrely when the sprinklers went on in the outfield. We were unable to shut them off, and thus had to stop the game after six innings.”

   Six sixth-grade girls from the Springs School enthusiastically underwent an hourlong workout, using the TRX straps and mats at the Epic Strength and Conditioning studio adjacent to the Maidstone Market last Thursday.

    The workout, provided gratis by Epic’s four personal trainer partners, Alex Posada, Christian Pena, Jorge Alvarado, and Stephany Brito, was intended to help prepare these newest members of the ever-growing I-Tri adolescent girls empowerment program for a youth triathlon that is to be held at Maidstone Park on July 14.

    “They’ll do at least four more of these sessions with the girls,” said Theresa Roden, I-Tri’s founder. “They’re donating everything, and they also help sponsor our Turbo Tri” to be held at Maidstone Park on June 15 over the same course used in the youth triathlon.

    I-Tri, whose motto is “Transformation Through Triathlon,” has 50 members at present divided between the Springs and Montauk Schools. Of that number, about 35, said Roden, are “alumnae,” inasmuch as they’ve been through the program once.

    And while I-Tri, now in its fourth year, has focused on developing the minds and bodies and self-esteem of adolescent girls, at least two mothers of I-Tri members, Noemi Sanchez and Alissa Mulligan, have become so intrigued that they are training with their daughters so that they can give the Turbo Tri (300-yard swim, 7-mile bike, and 1.5-mile run) a try.

    Before the girls arrived, Epic’s four young partners, three of whom graduated from East Hampton High School, and whose families’ roots can be traced to Colombia (Posada and Pena), Venezuela (Brito), and Peru (Alvarado), said they’ve been giving back to the community for the past two years now, trying to spread a healthy-living gospel.

    Posada, the eldest of the group, at 34, starred with the late John Villaplana on East Hampton High’s first standout boys soccer teams in the mid-1990s. He no longer plays the sport, owing to torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus injuries — the latter was surgically repaired — though he remains fit.

    “We’re doing pretty well and the summer hasn’t even begun yet,” said Posada, to which Pena added, “For the past two years we’ve been giving back, as we’re doing today. We’ve been training single mothers and their children for free; we’ve been working with Phoenix House too, helping drug addicts in recovery . . . we’re training the Maidstone Market men’s soccer team. . . . We all believe in positive energy and that what you give comes back.”

    They also believe, said Brito (whose younger sister, Jennifer, is on the high school’s girls track team), that “the mother of all pain is being sedentary.”

    Brito and Pena are competitive body builders who have been coached by Chris Cosich. “Eighty percent of it is nutrition,” said Pena, who added, “We’re all gym rats. Chris saw us and offered us help. A lot of our drive derives from Chris.”

    Sharon McCobb, who recently was named president of the Old Montauk Athletic Club, which underwrites numerous athletic endeavors here, and who oversees I-Tri swimming and running workouts at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Saturday afternoons, came to the studio with Roden, Kathryn Perry, and the girls, who numbered Alandra Aguilar, Marissa Harry, Sammy Schurr, Jennifer Villacis, Tiffany Wyche, and Anna Rafferty.

    Later, McCobb, who was OMAC’s athlete of the year in 2011, said she thought the sixth-grade girls, who were introduced to TRX straps for the first time that day, did well. “There was a lot of enthusiasm, and they kept going, didn’t they.”

   When Diane Lamb, a master teacher from Lincoln, Neb., asked following a golf clinic she gave for a dozen South Fork physical education teachers at East Hampton High School last week which school wanted to be the first in Suffolk to avail its students of the national First Tee program, designed to teach kids golf and life lessons, John Foster’s hand shot up.

    Foster, who works with the Springs School’s athletic director, Mark McKee, and who has caddied at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton since he was 14, seemed the obvious choice in any event.

    “I’m a big-time golfer,” he said before about 60 sixth graders entered Springs’ gym Tuesday morning for an introduction to putting. “My great-grandfather caddied at Shinnecock [where four U.S. Opens have been played over the past century] in the 1890s and 1900s, and my grandfather, Joseph Graygor, managed the Southampton Golf Club for 42 years.”

    The First Tee’s mission, according to one of its brochures, is “to impact the lives of young people [many of whom wouldn’t otherwise ever take up the sport] by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.” Based in St. Augustine, Fla., the First Tee, with the backing of the United States Golf Association, among others, now has “introduced golf and its values to more than 5 million participants, including more than 4,000 elementary school students, and has established more than 1,100 affiliate relationships with golf courses that offer access and reduced rates to participants.”

    Kevin Smith, the head professional at Montauk Downs, and the Greater East Hampton Education Foundation have, with generous donations — Smith and his foundation, Kevin Smith and Associates, have put up $10,000 for two sets of introductory equipment — brought the program here.

    The Greater East Hampton Education Foundation, whose representative at the clinic for teachers was Sue Nicoletti, is to hold a fund-raiser at East Hampton Point restaurant tomorrow from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. There will be a buffet dinner, dancing, and a silent auction and raffles, Nicoletti said.

    When it was observed that golf was a most difficult game, Foster said during Tuesday’s session, “That’s true, but we’re taking it one step at a time. Putting this week, chipping, pitching, and driving outside next week. We’re breaking it down, keeping it simple. The kids are very enthusiastic. More knew about the game than I had thought. They’re engaged, they’re focused, and, if they take to it, it’s something they can do for their entire lives, not only by themselves, but with their friends and families.”

    The First Tee, whose chief executive is Joe Louis Barrow Jr., son of the late heavyweight boxing champion, links its golf instruction with discussions of the nine “core values” deemed to be associated with the game, namely honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy, and judgment. The nationwide program also emphasizes nine “healthy habits” that Annika Sorenstam’s foundation says are linked to golf, under the headings of “energy, play, safety, vision, mind, family, friends, school, and community.”

    So, having learned the game, where would the kids play, Foster was asked. “Montauk Downs, Poxabogue, the Sag Harbor course. . . . Kevin Smith’s been great in encouraging kids to play at Montauk Downs. He’s such a good guy. No question that we owe it to him and to the Greater East Hampton Education Foundation that we have this program here.”

Thursday, May 9

BOYS TENNIS, East Hampton at William Floyd, scrimmage, 3:30 p.m.

BOYS LACROSSE, Mount Sinai at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 10

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

BASEBALL, Mount Sinai at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 11

TRACK, East Hampton boys and girls at Elwood-John Glenn invitational, 8:45 a.m.

T-BALL, first session, John M. Marshall Elementary School, 9-10:30 a.m., registration at site.

BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at McGann-Mercy, Riverhead, 10 a.m.

SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Miller Place, 10 a.m.

Sunday, May 12

RUNNING, Mother’s Day 3-miler around Fort Pond, Montauk, benefit Montauk Youth Association, 8:30 a.m., registration from 7:30.

Monday, May 13

SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Sayville, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 14

SOFTBALL, Elwood-John Glenn at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 15

BOYS TENNIS, Suffolk County team tournament, first round matches, at sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

Ruggers Lose

    The Montauk Rugby Club was ousted from the Northeast Division II regional tournament Saturday as the result of a 32-20 loss to the host side, Princeton, which the next day defeated Montclair, N.J., for the championship and the right to advance in postseason play.

    “They were a better team than we were,” Rich Brierley, the Sharks’ coach, said Tuesday. “Their backs were pretty good, and though our guys know how to tackle, our lack of defensive experience showed in some instances.”

    John Glennon, Erik Brierley, and Connor Miller scored Montauk’s tries. “Connor would have had two,” said Brierley, “except on one occasion he ran out of the back of their try zone, which you’re not allowed to do. It wasn’t all that well marked.”

    Montauk will spend the off-season “recruiting and rebuilding for the fall,” its coach added. “We’ll play touch every Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Herrick Park beginning next week.”

New Academy Coach

    The Ross School announced this week that Phil Williamson, a former tour player who lives in Sag Harbor, has been hired as the head coach of Ross’s Tennis Academy.

    Williamson, who played in eight U.S. Opens, two Wimbledons, and in one Australian Open between 1987 and 1997, represented Antigua in Davis Cup play and in other national events. Recently, he has coached nationally ranked juniors at the Grand Slam Tennis Center in Bedford, N.Y., where he serves as the senior head pro. Since 2001, he has served as a staff coach for the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program. He was certified by the United States Professional Tennis Association as a “high performance coach” in 2007. Williamson was to have started in his new job Monday.

    “The student-athletes of our tennis academy are very lucky to have such an accomplished player as Phil on their side,” said the academy’s tennis director, Vinicius Carmo.

T-Ball Begins

    Mark McKee announced this week that the first session of the East Hampton Kiwanis Club’s six-week baseball instructional program, known as T-ball, will be held Saturday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at the John M. Marshall Elementary School. The program, he said, “is for boys and girls ages 5 through 8.”

Mother’s Day Run

    The Montauk Youth Association is to benefit from a 3-mile Mother’s Day run around Fort Pond on Sunday. All the proceeds are to go to “a local family in need.” The race is to start at the Circle at 8:30 a.m. Registration will be from 7:30. The suggested donation is $10.

Golf Outing

    Radio station WPPB (88.3) will benefit from a golf outing at the Noyac Golf Club on Wednesday. Bonnie Grice, Brian Cosgrove, Ed German, Ann Liguori, Michael Mackey, and other WPPB staff members will be on hand. The day of golf, which is to begin at noon, following a brunch, is to end with cocktails, dinner, and an auction “in the beautiful clubhouse. . . . Non-golfers, spouses, and partners are invited.”

   The big news as far as East Hampton High School sports was concerned last week lay in the fact that the boys tennis team defeated the league-champion Ross School 4-3 here on May 1.

    Ross and Westhampton Beach finished with 10-2 records, though Ross defeated the Hurricanes both times they played. It was the fourth straight year that the private school has won the league championship.

    But East Hampton, which had lost 4-3 earlier in the season in Ross’s “bubble,” was up for the May Day showdown, delighting numerous Bonac fans — the most seen here in a long time for a tennis match.

    At the end of the day, it went down to third doubles, and Brady Yusko and Nicki Neubert proved up to the challenge, prevailing 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) over the Cosmos’ Will Cassou and Maddison Hummel.

    East Hampton and Ross split the four singles matches, with East Hampton, in the persons of Julian McGurn and Collin Kavanaugh, winning at one and two and with Ross’s Louis Caiola and Jonas Feurring winning at three and four.

    Reese Donaldson and Matt Silich took the first set from Ross’s Jack Brinkley and Ramiz Farah at first doubles, at 7-5, but Brinkley and Farah rebounded to win the next two sets 6-1, 6-4. East Hampton, with Peter Davis and Andrew Dixon, and the aforementioned Yusko and Neubert, won the other two doubles matches. The team finished at 8-4.

    In the Division IV tournament, which was played on Friday, Saturday, and Monday, McGurn, the fourth singles seed, reached the quarterfinals, where he lost to the fifth-seeded Andrew Reiley of Eastport-South Manor. Feurring defeated Westhampton’s number-three, Beecher Halsey, 0-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the first round, but lost to the second seed, Chris Kunhle, 6-3, 6-3 in the second.

    Brinkley and Caiola, “who would have been favored to win the doubles,” according to Ross’s coach, Juan Diaz, were not allowed to contend given the fact, as Westhampton’s coach John Czartosieski pointed out, they had played only six matches together in the regular season, not the requisite seven.

    Diaz said he was “very disappointed” by the decision.

    In other East Hampton sports news, the girls lacrosse team dominated Elwood-John Glenn 19-8 in a game played here Monday, leaving Bonac’s girls with an outside chance to make the playoffs should they win their remaining two games and should certain other teams lose. “It’s not an ideal situation,” said the girls coach, Matt Maloney, “but we do have a shot.”

    In Monday’s game, Melanie Mackin scored a career-high six goals and Carley Seekamp had a career-high seven assists.

    Bellport was to have played here Tuesday and on Saturday morning East Hampton is to end regular-season play at Center Moriches.

    The boys, whose record was 4-8 as of Tuesday, “will not make the playoffs,” said their coach, Mike Vitulli. “But we have improved a lot from the beginning of the season, and we’re hoping to win our last two” with Mount Sinai here today and at winless McGann-Mercy in Riverhead Saturday.

    “Drew Harvey and Cort Heneveld have had good seasons,” Vitulli continued, “and a lot of guys are gaining much needed experience.”

    On Monday, Vitulli used his freshmen and sophomores in a scrimmage with Southampton’s jayvee. East Hampton “won” 12-0.

    As for baseball, Will Collins, who assists Ed Bahns in coaching the team, said “the scores that you see in the newspaper don’t indicate how much we’ve improved over the course of the season.”

    The Bonackers, who are the League VII cellar dwellers, along with Amityville, were swept this past week by Shoreham-Wading River, losing the first game 15-0, but putting up a fight in the next two, which they lost 10-6 and 5-3.

    The May 1 game, played here, “was our best of the season,” said Collins. “We had a season-high 12 hits, two each by Patrick Silich, Brendan Hughes, Jack Abrams-Dyer, and Kyle McKee [a freshman], who pitched well until we had to take him out because of a high pitch count. Our defense hurt us that day.”

    The finale of the three-game series, played at Shoreham last Thursday, wound up 5-3 in the Wildcats’ favor. “Aside from a passed ball and a couple of mental mistakes, we played perfect defense,” said Collins, “and we rallied from being down 5-1 to score two runs in the top of the seventh inning, one coming home on a double by Brendan Hughes, and one scoring as the result of an infield error. Peter Shilowich started for us and went the whole way. He’s not overpowering, but he’s effective, and gets a lot of groundball outs. He gave up nine hits and walked two. . . . We’re hoping that the kids bring a lot of energy into this last week so we can truly say we got better all season long.”

   Two mothers of I-Tri girls have become so inspired by the changes they’ve seen in their adolescent daughters as the result of having joined the triathletic mentoring program now in its fourth year that they’ve decided to train together when they can for I-Tri’s chief fund-raiser, the ‘Turbo Tri’ for adults, that’s to be held at Maidstone Park in Springs on June 15.

    The above-mentioned mothers and daughters are Noemi Sanchez and Noely Martinez, a Springs School eighth-grader who’s in her third year with I-Tri, and Alissa and Kaya Mulligan, a Springs seventh-grader who is in her first year with I-Tri and especially likes its self-esteem workshops.

    Mulligan, a 13th-generation Bonacker — “my great-grandmother on my father’s side was a Bennett” — grew up in Springs, and is now back there following a fire in the fall of 2011 that destroyed the house she and her family were renting in Montauk.

    “I remember that day well,” said the mother of three. “We were at my mother-in-law’s funeral, Kaya read the eulogy, and we  returned to find the house burnt to the ground. . . . The good news is that we weren’t there at the time. They’re still investigating what caused it.”

    As for I-Tri and the good it does for adolescent girls, Mulligan said, “Theresa [Roden, the founder] has been an absolute blessing, not only for Kaya, but for everyone. It’s not fun to be 13. The preteen and teen years are very hard, in just about every way. I wish I’d had I-Tri when I was that age. It should go viral, nationwide. Kaya’s learning things now that took me 20 years to learn! How to take negative things and turn them into positive things, for instance.”

    Kaya said in reply to a question that she probably would not have participated in sports had it not been for I-Tri. Friends, she said — Jordyn LaCarrubba in particular — had encouraged her to join. As a result, she said, she felt stronger physically and emotionally.

    “The idea is to empower them,” I-Tri’s founder, Theresa Roden, has said concerning I-Tri’s mission.

    When asked about her training — the Turbo Tri uses the same course as July’s Youth Triathlon, which is to say it comprises a 300-yard bay swim, a 7-mile bicycle leg, and a 1.5-mile run — Mulligan said, with a smile, “I get in plenty of running as a nanny. I’m thinking of running to and from work, which is about a two-mile loop. . . . I know I can do the swim . . . though I am a little worried about the bike leg.”

    The problem for Mulligan and for Sanchez, a native of Mexico who, like Mulligan, is the mother of three, is finding the time to train, for they each work a lot.

    “It’s pretty much fun,” said Noely, when asked for her reaction to I-Tri. She would, she said, probably not have done as many sports as she does now without the program.

    “She would have done basketball,” said Sharon McCobb, one of I-Tri’s experienced trainers, who’d been listening in to the interview, which took place Saturday afternoon at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter. “She’s a great point guard.”

    Sanchez, when asked if she’d been athletic, replied in the negative. “Yes, but she’s a great salsa dancer!” said McCobb, who’s seen the Xoxhipilly traditional Mexican dance group, to which Sanchez belongs, perform. Xoxhipilly is to give a performance at the Springs School tomorrow evening, as a matter of fact.

    “I don’t know how to swim,” volunteered Sanchez, “though I think I can do it,” she added, looking over at McCobb, who, along with Annette MacNiven and Amanda Husslein, teaches I-Tri swimmers.

    “I do like sports,” said Sanchez, the victim some years ago of a severe domestic abuse injury that Noely witnessed, “though there’s not much time.”

    Nevertheless, she said, she ran an almost-three-mile loop in Springs rather regularly, and, consequently, was feeling stronger.

    Mulligan said she was doing the Turbo Tri “in honor of Kaya,” and both daughters said they were proud of their mothers for giving the Turbo Tri a try. As they parted, Sanchez and Mulligan said they’d try to get together to train, and Noely and Kaya said they’ll be there on race day to cheer their moms on.