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First Win of the Season for Girls Lacrosse

Thu, 04/14/2022 - 10:29
Buoyed by its first win of the season Friday, East Hampton High’s girls lacrosse team turned out the next morning for the Katy’s Courage 5K in Sag Harbor. Three of them, Tahnie Sullivan, Eva McKelvey, and Melina Sarlo, topped the female 15-to-19-year-old division.
Jessica Sanna

East Hampton High’s girls lacrosse team got its first win of the season here Friday, outlasting Deer Park 12-11 thanks to a 9-yards-out free position shot that Melina Sarlo, one of the midfielders, netted in the final 30 seconds.

Sarlo’s game-winner — her third goal of the day — prompted cries of joy that resounded throughout the fields behind the high school, where the baseball and softball teams were also playing.

Claire McGovern, who could not play last season, having undergone surgery, tallied four goals, a career high for her, and Lola Garneau, Ava Tintle, Scout Lynch, Emma McGrory, and Ella Bistrian scored one each. Bistrian (two), McGrory (two), Lynch, and Lily Perello had assists.

In the absence of Laura Calderon, who was concussed when hit in the head at the end of a 19-4 loss to Mattituck-Southold on April 6, Ruby Tyrrell tended Bonac’s goal, finishing with seven saves in her first varsity game. It was likely that she would be in the goal again on Tuesday, when East Hampton was to have played under the lights at Southampton in a fund-raiser for Lucia’s Angels, a foundation working with late-stage women’s cancer patients and their families on the East End.

Katy’s Results

The boost that Sanna’s team experienced Friday apparently carried over into the Katy’s Courage 5K race in Sag Harbor the next day. The entire team went, the coach said, and three of her charges, Tahnie Sullivan, Eva McKelvey, and Sarlo, wound up as the top three in the 15-to-19-year-old female division.

Katy’s Courage, which attracted a 500-plus field, was won, in 16 minutes and 19.06 seconds by Erik Engstrom, 23, a University of Massachusetts graduate who was a county cross-country champion when at East Hampton High School. Rounding out the top five were P.J. Ramundo, Evan Masi, Amari Gordon, and Diego Rojas, all members of East Hampton High’s boys track team. Alyssa Bahel, 24, was the women’s winner, and 14th over all, in 20:08.48.

Boys Lax, Tennis

The Southampton-based boys lacrosse team, a young team that has 13 East Hamptoners on it, was 3-3 over all going into this week, with wins over Walt Whitman, Riverhead, and Copiague, the latter as the result of a forfeit. On April 6, the combined team, known as the Islanders, lost 16-5 to Huntington, one of the top three teams in Suffolk, according to the Islanders’ head coach, Matt Babb, who added that “we’ve got quite a few sophomores and only three seniors. We’re competitive, but we’re lacking some experience on the defensive end.”

East Hamptoners who play on the Islanders are Jack Cooper, Charlie Corwin, James Amaden V, Luke Castillo, Cooper Ceva, Jesse Cohen, Nicholas Cordone, Richard Maio III, John Quizhpe, Brandon Rodriguez, Nicholas Schaffer, Joseph Scully Jr., and Collin Villante.

East Hampton’s boys tennis team remained undefeated, at 6-0, this past week despite the continued absence of two of its starters, Nick Cooper (groin) and Chris Pilarski (shoulder). Ward Melville and Miller Place were also undefeated as of Monday, though Kevin McConville, East Hampton’s coach, wasn’t much worried about Miller Place. Ward Melville, on the other hand, was, he said during Sunday evening’s practice session at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club, “a really good team.”

“They’ve got two UTR 9s, two UTR 8s, and a 7,” the coach said, referring to those players’ universal 16-point scale tennis rankings.

Miller Place is to play here on May 2, Ward Melville on May 5. Presumably East Hampton’s redone courts will be painted by then.

McConville added that Max Astilean, his top singles player, who has upped his game significantly in the past months, is “one of the county’s top three.”


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