Basketball Nail-Biters
East Hampton High’s junior varsity and varsity boys basketball teams engaged in nail-biters with their West Babylon peers here Friday, with East Hampton’s jayvee winning 81-74 in triple overtime, and with the varsity losing 50-49, after having erased a 30-23 halftime deficit.
Luke Reese, the freshman guard, led the Bonac varsity with 16 points, 10 of them coming in the second half. Charlie Condon, the center, finished with 14, Topher Cullen with 8, Jeremy Vizcaino with 7, and Frank Bellucci and Travis Wallace with 2 each.
Earlier in the week, on Jan. 21, East Hampton enjoyed a rare win, at Rocky Point, by a score of 62-52. Reese led the way there too, with 22 points. As of Tuesday, the Bonackers were 2-10 in League V play.
School Record in Track
Bella Espinoza has broken a school record in the pole vault, Yani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls winter track team, reported following the Art Mitchell and Ocean Breeze invitational meets over the weekend. Espinoza’s vault of 9 feet 6 inches eclipsed Danielle Futerman’s 9-0 vault of three years ago.
According to Cuesta, Penelope Greene had, in winning the Mitchell meet’s open 3,000-meter division, run a personal-best time of 11 minutes and 1.78 seconds, with her teammate Ava Engstrom second in a season-best 11:14.70. Lillie Minskoff’s stellar 27.74 in the 200-meter dash came within seconds of bettering Allura Leggard’s 27.42 at the Marine Corps Holiday Classic at the Armory in New York City in 2015, but Leggard still holds the school record.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Allura Leggard's 2015 school record had been broken. In fact, the coach was in error in reporting that. Leggard ran a 28.12 at the St. Anthony's developmental meet on Dec. 23 of that year, but six days later ran a 27.42 at the Marine Corps Holiday Classic.