Yani Cuesta, East Hampton’s girls winter track team coach, said the 4-by-400 relay team of Bella Espinoza, Ava Engstrom, Penelope Greene, and Lillie Minskoff would have broken a school record in that event absent a disqualifying out-of-the-lane baton pass at the county small schools meet Friday.

Saturday takes the Bonac wrestlers to the league meet at Eastport-South Manor and the boys swimmers to the county meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, where the winter track state qualifier happens Monday night.

There is another Long Island bird count that follows on the heels of the annual longstanding Christmas count. It’s the winter waterfowl count that happens at about this time every year.