Churning the water at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s pool, East Hampton High School’s girls swimming team left Harborfields in its wake on Oct. 18 to win the League III championship at 5-0.

The Bonackers won 92-76 despite having to forfeit 8 first-place points in the 200 medley relay — the meet’s opening event — having been disqualified because the swimmer of the third leg left too soon. 

“It was the first time we’ve ever won a league championship; it’s a testament to all the hard work they’ve put in,” Craig Brierley, the team’s coach, said afterward, adding, concerning the DQ, that the fault actually lay in a delayed touch of the wall by the swimmer finishing her leg.

As a result of the disqualification, the home team trailed 32-30 after four events, but was unheaded thereafter.

East Hampton won eight of the 12 races and picked up a number of second and third-place finishes as well. 

The winners were Madison Jones, in the 200 freestyle, Isabella Swanson, in the 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly, Olivia Brabant, in the 500, the 200 free relay team of Catalina Badilla, Jones, Sophia Swanson, and Julia Brierley, Darcy McFarland, in the 100 backstroke, Brierley, in the 100 breaststroke, and the 400 free relay team of Jones, Emma Wiltshire, Oona Foulser, and Brabant, which was “exhibitioned,” i.e., its 8 points weren’t added to the tally.

Runners-up that day included East Hampton’s B 200 medley relay team of Brabant, Vanessa Betancur, Isabella Swanson, and Foulser, Kiara Bailey-Williams, in the 200 I.M., Brierley, in the 50 free, McFarland, in the 100 fly, Sophia Swanson, in the 100 free, Foulser, in the 500, Betancur, in the 100 breast, and (though they were exhibitioned) the 400 free relay team of Bailey-Williams, Angie Jeffrey, Lucy Emptage, and Isabella Swanson.

Angie Jeffrey, one of the team’s seven seniors, was named swimmer of the meet by the captains for having volunteered to fill in in the 200 individual medley, an event she’d not competed in before. It was the first of four events she swam that day.

Jeffrey, Emptage, Betancur, Jones, Isabella Swanson, Patricia Figueroa, and Jade Maldonado, the latter two Bridgehampton students, were honored before the meet began. 

Jeffrey has applied to the University of New Hampshire, where she plans to major in journalism; Emptage has won a lacrosse scholarship to LaSalle University, where she plans to major in elementary education, and Betancur, in her fifth year on the varsity, is to attend Eckerd College, where she will major in biology.

Jones, a four-year varsity swimmer, is to attend the University of Southern California, where she plans to major in global business; Isabella Swanson, in her fifth year on the varsity, has applied to Clemson University, where she hopes to major in secondary education; Figueroa, a four-year team member, will attend the State University at Buffalo, where she will major in English and musical theater, and Maldonado, a first-year swimmer, is to attend Stony Brook University, where she will major in child psychology.

The team was to have competed in the League III meet at Hauppauge High School yesterday. The county meet will be at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood on Nov. 4.

The following, said Brierley, had qualified for the county meet as of earlier this week: all three A relay teams; Jones and Sophia Swanson in the 200 freestyle; Isabella and Sophia Swanson in the 200 individual medley; Brierley, Jones, and Sophia Swanson in the 50 freestyle; Badilla, Isabella Swanson, and Sophia Swanson in the 100 butterfly; Badilla, Brabant, Jones, and Sophia Swanson in the 100 freestyle; Brabant and Foulser in the 500 freestyle; McFarland in the 100 backstroke, and Betancur and Brierley in the 100 breaststroke.

The “Killer Bees” documentary film that premiered recently at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, a film by Orson and Ben Cummings that followed Bridgehampton High School’s 2015-16 boys basketball team for the better part of a year, was, by and large, well received, though there were some demurrals from former members of that storied team, Nick Thomas and the Bees’ present head coach, Ron White, among them, who maintained there was more to the story.

“I appreciate Orson and Ben’s effort,” White said following a lively four-hour reunion of Killer Bee alumni Friday night at the school, a free-flowing discussion of what it was like to be a part of the school’s rich tradition of state and county championships dating to 1946. “But they could have elaborated a little bit more.” 

White said he had seen the film twice, and had as a result tempered somewhat his initial criticism, to wit, that the overall effect of the hour-and-22-minute documentary, which the Cummingses hope will be distributed nationally, had been melancholic. “I still think, though, that you were left wondering where the direction was, where was the perseverance.”

“I thought the movie didn’t encapsulate the entire legacy,” said Thomas, who, with The Southampton Press’s editor, Joe Shaw, moderated the ad hoc round-table discussion. He, too, appreciated the documentarians’ effort, he said, “but there are more pieces to the puzzle. . . . Perhaps some of this, what you saw and heard tonight, could be added.”

During a question-and-answer session following the premiere, the Cummingses, who were not at Friday’s session, said their major focus had been to follow the fortunes of the Carl Johnson-coached 2016 team, which, as it turned out, wound up one game shy of advancing to the state’s Class D Final Four in Glens Falls. 

Bridgehampton basketball served as a lens through which such issues as race, income inequality, a skewed judicial system, and the gentrification of a cohesive neighborhood, a neighborhood in which they grew up and knew well, could also be treated, they have said.

Had Roger Golden and John Niles, two of the Bees’ former coaches, lived to be interviewed, and had Charles Manning, who led them to a state championship the year before, not transferred to Long Island Lutheran, the compelling story of how the Bees had come to be that the Cummingses have told undoubtedly would have been fleshed out even further. 

“I had no problem with it,” a former Killer Bee, Tim Jackson, said in a separate conversation following East Hampton High’s Hall of Fame induction ceremonies Saturday morning. “I thought they did a good job — they did the best they could with what they had.”

At any rate, the panel at the school, attended by 13 former Bees (or, in some cases, “Bridgies,” as they were known before the early 1980s), was, as aforesaid, lively, and, presumably for the participants (Thomas, White, Carl Johnson, Andre Johnson, Raymon Charlton, Jerry Jones, Bobby Hopson, Darryl and Michael Hemby, Nathaniel Dent, Courtney Turner, Maurice Manning, and Ray Gilliam), cathartic.

They spoke of the rigorous proving-ground pickup games they played at the Bridgehampton Child Care Center on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, and in the school’s gym on Sunday mornings, trials by fire that the younger aspirants took very seriously. Would they survive their rite of initiation? Would the older players acknowledge that they had game? Would they get a chance to wear the black-and-gold uniform and represent the tiny school at the highest levels, at the county and state tournaments? (Bridgehampton has won nine state titles to date, and is the only Class D public high school to win a Federation title to boot, in 1980.)

Charlton, a Deer Park resident and Marist College graduate who worked full time for the Long Island Lighting Company while coaching Central Islip’s team for 17 years and Bay Shore’s for five, said Bridgehampton had done a lot for him; it had helped him get started. People had to buy tickets to attend the home games then, and the gym, he said, was always packed. Afterward, he told this writer that the late John Niles had entrusted him with the keys to the school on weekends so that he, “obsessed by the game at the time,” could practice.

Carl Johnson, recently retired from coaching — the only coach in the state to win three championships as a player and four as a coach — recalled idolizing Gordon Johnson and Jerry Jones’s ’74 team, which he still maintains was Bridgehampton’s greatest. He was so into it, he said, that he asked its players if he could carry their bags. “I lived and died with them,” he said. “I cried when they lost in the playoffs.” As for his own team, which won state championships in 1978, ’79, and ’80, “We lost maybe nine games in three years.”

All agreed that they had come from a culture of winning, that the older players in passing the baton, as it were, expected the younger ones to excel.

“I was embraced by Bridgehampton,” said Thomas, a New York University graduate who coaches Center Moriches’s team and a powerful A.A.U. team at the Southampton Recreation Center. 

“I was awed to be part of this program,” said Bobby Hopson, a Wagner College alumnus who is Carl Johnson’s brother and a member of Wagner’s Hall of Fame. He still holds the school’s single-game scoring record of 52 points. “It’s hard to explain if you’re not an athlete,” said Hopson, who finished, if memory serves, with 1,776 points. “It’s hard to relate what we had to go through. . . .”

And Alexander Hamilton — the high school in Westchester County — continued to haunt his dreams, he said. The Bees’ narrow losses to Hamilton in state regional playoff games in the early 1990s “have bothered me more than anything. . . . I’ve got a brother who has won three titles as a player and four as a coach. He has five titles and I don’t have one. I can’t take it anymore!” he said, with a broad smile.

Hopson and others who spoke that night tipped their hats to their coaches, Golden, Niles, and William Hartwell Jr. among them, each of whom, they said, had helped to shape their lives.

On the subject of low points, even Maurice (Mo) Manning, certainly one of Bridgehampton’s best players ever, could recall one, to wit, the time he missed two crucial free throws that would have nailed down a win over William Floyd — a far larger school — in the final seconds of the 1997 overall county championship game. Floyd was to win it 41-40 thanks to a buzzer-beating 3-pointer that literally felled the Bees’ star, who lay prostrate on the Stony Brook University gym floor as Floyd and its fans celebrated.

Manning, a two-time national junior college champion when he attended Suffolk Community College-Selden, is to assist White, who played with him on one of those national-championship teams, in coaching the 2017-18 Killer Bees. Manning, whose basketball I.Q. was off the charts, everyone acknowledged, said afterward that he would do his best to get the players to think on the court. He was happy, he added, to be able to give back.

As are White and Johnson, who will focus henceforth, he said, on the younger kids. 

Giving back, everyone agreed, was essential in life, and imperative if the proud river of Bridgehampton basketball is to keep flowing.

Despite the absence of a centerpiece football game, there was plenty to cheer about over the homecoming weekend just past as boys soccer, girls volleyball, boys volleyball, and field hockey registered wins here while the girls swimming team was improving its league-leading record to 4-0 at Stony Brook.

“Our girls had seven first-place finishes in the 11 events offered,” Craig Brierley, the swim team’s coach, said in an emailed report. “There were many wonderful efforts, including Olivia Brabant’s and Oona Foulser’s times in the 500, Kiara Bailey-Williams’s performance in the 200 individual medley, one second shy of qualifying for that event in the county meet, and Darcy McFarland’s personal best times in the 50 backstroke and in the 100 butterfly.”

The team’s final league meet, with Harborfields (2-1), was to have been held at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter yesterday.

The girls volleyball team’s 3-1 win over Shoreham-Wading River clinched it a playoff spot, said the coach, Kathy McGeehan.

That game was played here Friday, with East Hampton winning 21-25, 25-17, 25-11, and 25-10. Mikela Junemann led the way offensively with 22 kills. Elle Johnson, the setter, had 46 assists, and Molly Mamay, on the defensive side, had 20 service receptions and 17 digs.

The boys soccer team got homecoming underway with a 2-0 win here last Thursday over Mount Sinai, evening its record at 5-5-1. Two days before, the Bonackers played to a scoreless tie at Amityville, the undefeated league leader, attesting to the strength of Don McGovern’s team. In their first go-round, here on Sept. 13, Amityville prevailed 3-2.

Thursday’s game was pretty much all East Hampton, though it was scoreless at the half. The Bonackers got on the board with a goal in the 60th minute by Wilmur Guzman, a sophomore, who cashed in a free kick from about 20 yards out, beating the visitor’s goalie to the lower left corner.

Justin Carpio, a senior midfielder, put the game away with a score in the 73rd minute, having received a pass from Guzman, who had, in turn, gathered in a pass from Brian Farez, the left wing at the time.

McGovern’s squad was to have played at Miller Place on Monday. The Panthers were 0-10 as of that day.

On Saturday, the field hockey team, as expected, easily defeated Hampton Bays, by a score of 4-0. It was to have had a chance for revenge over Pierson-Bridgehampton here Monday afternoon. The Whalers outhustled Robyn Mott’s Bonackers at Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park on Sept. 25, winning 1-0.

In other sports action during the past week, Nate Wright, a junior who plays number-two on East Hampton’s golf team, shot a record-breaking 29 (seven birdies, two pars) on the Maidstone Club’s 9-hole east course in a match with Center Moriches on Oct. 10. East Hampton won the match 9-0, with its number-one (and defending county champion), Turner Foster, carding a 33, and its number-three, Jackson Murphy, shooting a 36. 

Wright’s seven-under 29 bettered the 31s former Bonackers Zach Grossman and Ian Lynch recorded on the same course, which the coach, Claude Beudert, said was not quite as difficult as the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, where the team usually plays its home matches.

The feat persuaded Newsday to name Wright as its athlete of the week.

“I can’t remember the last time an East Hampton athlete was its athlete of the week,” said Beudert, whose team was to have played Pierson at the Noyac Golf and Country Club on Monday. A win there would probably result in a three-way tie with Westhampton Beach for the league championship.

Thursday, October 19

GOLF, East Hampton vs. Center Moriches, Rock Hill Golf and Country Club, Manorville, 4 p.m.

Friday, October 20

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Huntington at East Hampton, 5:45 p.m.

Saturday, October 21

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at invitational tourney, Smithtown West High School, 8 a.m.

RUNNING, Shelter Island 5K, Crescent Beach, Shelter Island Heights, 11 a.m.

RUGBY, Brooklyn Rugby Club vs. Montauk R.C., Herrick Park, East Hampton, 1 p.m.

Sunday, October 22

MEN’S SOCCER, over-30s, Sporting America vs. Hampton United, Hampton Bays High School, 4 p.m.

Monday, October 23

GOLF, league championships, Rock Hill Golf and Country Club, Manorville, 9:30 a.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Class A outbracket games if necessary, sites of higher seeds, 2 p.m.

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

Tuesday, October 24

CROSS-COUNTRY, divisional meets, Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park, 1 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, League III meet, Hauppauge High School, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, October 25

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

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

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

The Section XI Warriors, a young rugby 7s side with players spanning East Hampton and East Islip, continue to impress, according to one of their coaches, Kevin Bunce, who said that the junior varsity side won two games and tied one at a tournament in Pelham, N.Y., this past weekend.

“This was the second of a five-tournament series, and our kids played really, really well,” Bunce said Monday morning. “They’re spreading the ball out, moving it from side to side and finding the gaps, and they’re also tackling well, hitting low with their heads out and wrapping up the arms, taking the ball carriers down quickly and playing the ball out. You don’t have to be big in rugby; if you’re doing things correctly technique-wise, it’s anybody’s game.”

“Since we’re not the biggest team, we’re staying away from scrums and lineouts and not kicking much. We’re keeping the ball in our hands, which translates into points.”

The Warriors, who play fellow high school junior varsity teams, from Westchester County by and large, defeated Thornton-Donovan 19-0 to begin with, after which they played to a 20-20 tie with Pelham High School, and edged a combined Keio Academy and French American Academy team 25-23. “We took it to them — that was a terrific win,” said Bunce. “They beat us 36-0 the week before. Their coach was kind of surprised, not too happy. I gather they hadn’t lost in a while.”

“Our kids tackled hard, they passed the ball, they’d learned their lessons. The key was the tackling. We were scoring every time we touched the ball.”

Among the Warriors’ scorers, Bunce said, were Christian Soloviev, Jake Jablonski (Bunce’s fellow coach Mike Jablonski’s son), Kevin Bunce Jr., Chris Vedder (who wrestles at 126 pounds for Shoreham-Wading River), and Jacob Ehrens, a St. Anthony’s student from East Islip.

“We’ve been getting about 20 at our practices” at East Hampton’s Herrick Park on Tuesday and Thursday nights, and at Shoreham-Wading River on Wednesdays and Fridays. “Fourteen made the trip. We’ve been renting a 15-person van from A-Car Auto Rental in Blue Point, which gave us a good deal.”

The winner of the series will be determined at the end of it, using win-loss records and points for and against. “At the moment, we’re a solid second,” said Bunce.

He added that Jablonski and he plan to pick Long Island select 15s and 7s sides in the spring, teams that will enter regional tournaments, “where college coaches see you. . . . We’ll send out letters to the some seven high schools on Long Island that play rugby and have tryouts in the spring, probably at either Calverton or Stony Brook. We’ll see what happens.”

Ari Weller, the founder of Philosofit, the fitness studio across the street from the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, gave a movement and stretching class at one of his client’s houses this past summer, in which, as it turned out, one of the participants was Dr. Mehmet Oz of television fame, who, until he encountered Weller, had thought there was nothing to be done about his chronic knee pain.

The kind of stretching he champions, Weller said during a recent conversation, simultaneously lengthens and strengthens muscles, resulting in musculature that is strong and long, the high school swimmers he’s been working with for the past few years being “a perfect example.” Yet, in truth, what he calls “stability stretching,” using gravity-loaded eccentric exercises and, sometimes, a folded hand towel, were good, he said, for everyone.

“Sometimes muscles get stiff because they lose stability — they tighten up to protect themselves,” he said. “Some athletes are really tight — they tear their muscles sometimes because they are so tight, like a new rubber band that snaps. Other athletes have too much flexibility; their muscles can become too long and tear too, like an old rubber band that’s lost its elasticity. You get the same injuries from the opposite ends of the scale.”

“So,” he continued, “we want to achieve a middle ground, through stretches that yield an equal amount of flexibility and strength. . . . You want to balance your body out so that you no longer have pain. When there’s an imbalance, you have pain, and there’s no gain with pain.” 

Dr. Oz, Weller said, “had an imbalance in the musculature that surrounds his knee. His ‘brakes’ weren’t strong in descending stairs or going downhill. It’s very common. When you’re descending you decelerate and a lot of pressure is put on the joint.”

After doing Weller’s exercises for a while, his quads, glutes, and hamstrings were rebalanced to such a degree that Dr. Oz declared himself cured and invited the fitness trainer, along with a pain specialist from Princeton, onto one of his shows to demonstrate that moving into and out of stretches was to be preferred to static stretching, and that eccentric stretching was far to be preferred to using opioids to combat pain.

“Drugs don’t solve the problem — they’re a Band-Aid,” said Weller. “The dysfunction is still there.”

Weller likes to liken the body to a corporation. “The brain and the nervous system are the C.E.O. For a corporation to be successful everybody has to do their job — every muscle, every bone, every sinew, every organ has a job to do. You know that at work not everybody does their job, and, consequently, some people have to overcompensate for those who don’t do their jobs. And that makes them tired, stressed, and angry, and maybe it even causes them to quit — which is to say in the body’s case an injury occurs, because there’s an imbalance somewhere. The lower back, for instance, is doing a lot of work that the glutes should have been doing. . . . You find the imbalances and fix them. . . . When people move better, they feel better.”

One of Weller’s clients who is feeling better is Steve Gaustad, who played on Pitt’s national-championship football team in 1976. The former tight end said he is much looser now. He can touch his toes, for example, which he never could do when he was playing football. “I’ve been with Ari for five or six years now. He’s been amazing, always introducing new things. We did a little bit of stretching in my day, but nothing like this. No more static stretching — we’re constantly moving.”

On the other end of the spectrum, Cynthia Del Mastro, whom Weller described as “hyper flexible,” came to him to build stability into her frame, hoping chiefly that she could ameliorate knee pain and the need for knee replacement surgery.

A former yoga and dance instructor, Del Mastro said, “I cannot say enough about him — his program is very intelligent, very well thought out. I’ve learned more from Ari than I’ve learned from anybody else, and I’ve been doing this kind of thing for a long time. I was once told I was ‘dangerously flexible.’ I’ve become stronger with Ari’s exercises, and, so far, though you never should say never, I have avoided knee replacement. I have far less knee pain than I’ve ever had. I’m so grateful to him.”

Stability stretching videos can be seen for free on Weller’s website, Philosofit. com.

Hampton United, the over-30 men’s team that plays in the Suffolk Men’s Soccer League, ascended to first place in the Division I standings Sunday by virtue of a 6-2 win over previously undefeated Sporting America at Hampton Bays High School, H.U.’s home field.

Quique Araya, the goalie, reported Monday that it had been a good game. Hampton United took a 2-1 lead into the halftime break, thanks to goals by Luis Barrera and James Stones.

Sporting America tied it at 2-2 early in the second, but thereafter Hampton United, said Araya, took advantage of the opponent’s eagerness to take the lead — and, later, its efforts to tie the game — by countering its attacks.

A penalty kick by Antonio Gonzalez put the locals up for good, at 3-2, after which, said Araya, “Gehider Garcia went crazy. He finished with a hat trick.”

Jose Almansa, the team’s captain that day in the absence of Glen McKelvey, “ran the show from his center back position,” Araya said.

As a result of the win, Hampton United improved to 4-0-1. Massapequa, a team it is to play in an away game on Nov. 12, is in second, at 4-1-0, followed by Charruas 1950 (3-0-2), Sporting America (3-1-1), Celtic (2-1-2), Manorville S.C. (2-3), Inter United (1-3-1), S.F.C. New Castle (0-2-3), Stony Brook Arsenal (0-4-1), and Smithtown (0-4-1).

“We’ve won Division II, but we’ve never won Division I,” Araya said in answer to a question. “The guys think this could be the year.”

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team finished second in this past week’s league meet, behind Sayville-Bayport-Blue Point, but it should be noted that absent the points awarded for diving (East Hampton has no divers) the Bonackers would have won handily.

Craig Brierley, who coached the team to an undefeated regular season and to its first league title, said in an emailed report, “The girls swam their hearts out — we had lifetime bests in all but one event!”

East Hampton’s boys cross-country team was also a winner, in the division meet’s championship race — one contested by 20 teams — at Sunken Meadow State Park, though its coach, Kevin Barry, initially thought his team had been the Division III runner-up to Kings Park “by 3 points.” He and, needless to say, his runners were pleasantly surprised when the official results were posted about 15 minutes later, showing that East Hampton had won 55-59.

It was the second time in three years that a Barry-coached team had won a division championship.

Ryan Fowkes led the way for East Hampton, in 17 minutes and 40 seconds, good for third place, behind Miller Place’s Tom Critton (17:00) and Shoreham-Wading River’s Joey Krause (17:26). Geo Espinoza (18:18) and Ethan McCormac (18:30) were ninth and 10th, earning them all-division honors, and Frank Bellucci (17th in 18:58) and Robert Weiss (21st in 19:06) rounded out the scoring. Omar Leon, who ordinarily is East Hampton’s third or fourth runner, “had stomach issues,” Barry said, “but gutted it out.”

The county’s top-ranked Class B team at the moment, East Hampton is to run in the county meet at Sunken Meadow tomorrow, at 2 p.m. A win there will earn it a trip to the state championships that are to be held in the Rochester area on Nov. 11.

Barry also reported that two Bonac-bred collegians, Dana Cebulski and Erik Engstrom, performed notably in the past week. Cebulski, a sophomore at the State University at Geneseo, placed fourth in the SUNYAC cross-country championships Sunday in Potsdam. Her time for the 6K (3.7-mile) course was 22:53. Geneseo, said Barry, is at present ranked third in the nation in Division III.

Engstrom, a University of Massachusetts sophomore, led his team to a sixth-place finish in the Atlantic-10 championships in Fairfax, Va., this past week, Barry said. He placed 19th over all, running the 8K (4.96-mile) course in 25:57, missing an all-conference designation by nine seconds.

Back to swimming, East Hampton, with Catalina Badilla, Madison Jones, Sophia Swanson, and Julia Brierley, won the 200 freestyle relay, and though that was its sole first-place finish, Bonac swimmers figured prominently in every one of the 12 swimming events.

East Hampton runners-up were the 200 medley relay team of Darcy McFarland, Brierley, Swanson, and Jones; Brierley, in the 50 free and in the 100 breaststroke; Badilla, in the 100 butterfly, and Swanson, in the 100 free.

Third-place finishers were the 400 free relay team of Badilla, Emma Wiltshire, Oona Foulser, and Olivia Brabant; Swanson, in the 200 free; Foulser, in the 50 free, and Jones, in the 100 free.

Sayville-Bayport-Blue Point won the meet with 315.5 points, followed by East Hampton (297.5), Harborfields (200), Hauppauge (185), Stony Brook (175), and West Babylon (59). 

Minus the winners’ 33 diving points, East Hampton would have bettered Sayville (a team it beat earlier in the season 94-89) 297.5 to 282.5.

In his account, Brierley said that Sayville’s team edged his by a half-second in the meet’s opening event, the 200 medley relay. “That set the tone for what was to follow — it was a close meet between the top two schools.”

“There were so many swims worth highlighting. . . . The 200 free relay team dropped three seconds from its season-best time, and is within one second of a state qualifying time; the 400 free relay team dropped a whopping 14 seconds from its season-best time; Oona Foulser dropped 1.3 seconds in the 50 free and swam a season-best 5:49.72 in finishing sixth in the 500; Emma Wiltshire dropped 2.4 seconds in her leg in the 400 free relay, and Catalina Badilla dropped 3.1 seconds in the 100 fly.”

Foulser and Wiltshire were named by the captains as swimmers of the meet. 

Besides the above, others who scored for East Hampton that day were Vanessa Betancur, Kiara Bailey-Williams, Caroline Brown, and Lucy Emptage.

East Hampton’s dozen or so qualifiers are to swim in the county meet Saturday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, at 10 a.m.

In other playoff news, the girls volleyball team, seeded fourth among the Class A schools, was to have played fifth-seeded East Islip here Tuesday. The winner is to play in a semifinal at the site of the higher seed tomorrow, at 4 p.m. The Class A final is to be played at S.C.C.C.-Brentwood next Thursday, Nov. 9, at 5:30 p.m.

The boys volleyball team, Division II’s fourth seed, is to play at first-seeded Hauppauge Saturday at noon. The final is to be played at S.C.C.C.-Brentwood on Tuesday at 5 p.m.

Thursday, November 2

GOLF, Division III and IV championships, Rock Hill Golf and Country Club, Manorville, 9 a.m.

Friday, November 3

CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton at county meet, Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park, 2 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class A semifinal, East Hampton-East Islip winner at Kings Park, 4 p.m.

Saturday, November 4

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at county meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 10 a.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Division II semifinal, (4) East Hampton at (1) Hauppauge, noon. 

RUGBY, Rockaway Rugby Club vs. Montauk R.C., Herrick Park, East Hampton, 1 p.m.

BREWATHLON, 5,000-meter row, 15K bike, 5K run, and 2,500-meter row, Montauk Brewery, 2 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, state Class C regional final, Section I-IX winner vs. Pierson, Diamond in the Pines, Coram, 2 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, state Class C regional final, Section VIII-Section XI winner vs. Section I champion, Patchogue-Medford High School, 2 p.m. 

Sunday, November 5

MEN’S SOCCER, over-30s, Manorville S.C. vs. Hampton United, Hampton Bays High School, 2:45 p.m.

Tuesday, November 7

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Division II final, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, November 8

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

Foster Wins

East Hampton’s Turner Foster, the defending county champion, prevailed on the fifth hole of a playoff to win League VII’s individual title on Monday at the Rock Hill Golf and Country Club in Manorville. East Hampton’s team placed second, with 419 strokes, to Pierson-Bridgehampton, which had 415.

Soccer Loss

The East Hampton High School boys soccer team, which, despite tying the undefeated league champion, Amityville, recently, drew the ninth seed among the county’s Class A schools, lost 3-1 in an outbracket game at eighth-seeded Wyandanch on Monday. East Hampton’s coach, Don McGovern, had been hoping for a higher seed — and thus a home game — but “we had too many one-goal losses,” he said in an email. 

The Bonackers, nevertheless, ended the season as winners, with a 6-5-1 record in League VI play, and a 9-7-1 record over all. Wilmur Guzman scored East Hampton’s goal in the playoff game.

Boys Volleyball

East Hampton High’s boys volleyball coach, Josh Brussell, said before Monday’s match here with Smithtown East that he was happy that his young crew had made the playoffs. The Bonackers are the fourth seed in the Division II bracket whose first-round games are to be played Nov. 4.

Smithtown East won Monday’s first set with relative ease, at 25-16, after which its coach called off the dogs, going to his bench in the second set, which the Bonackers wound up winning in exciting fashion 31-29. In that second set, East Hampton’s Sutton Lynch, Clark Miller, Eamon Spencer, and James Kim found the floor with kills, and Morgan Segelken, the libero, made a great one-handed save to tie the count at 29-29, after which Smithtown East erred twice, handing East Hampton the victory. The visitors won the third and fourth sets 25-14 and 25-18.

Young Ruggers

The Section XI Warriors, a junior varsity rugby 7s team coached by Kevin Bunce, played its way into first place in a series of tournaments being played at Pelham High School upstate this past weekend by winning two games and losing one, to the host school, by a 12-10 score.

“I thought this would be our letdown week, that we’d go 0-3 or 1-2, something like that, but it wasn’t,” the coach said during a conversation Tuesday morning. “We were missing some guys, but the kids I had stepped up. We beat Bishop Loughlin 19-0 to begin with and then followed up with a 17-10 win over Thornton-Donovan before losing on an extra-point kick in the final seconds to Pelham.”

Last year, said Bunce, “we played at the varsity level, but our kids were too young to do that this year, which is why we went with a jayvee. That’s the same thing I hope they do with wrestling here. We’ve got some good young wrestlers, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth graders, but you don’t want to put ninth graders into an untenable situation where they’ll get killed all the time and quit.”