East Hampton High School’s boys basketball team remained at the top of Division IV as of Monday given its two lopsided wins over Eastport-South Manor and Miller Place last week.
“It’s all good,” Dan White, the team’s coach, said over the weekend. “We’re healthy and we’re getting better.”
On Jan. 16, the Bonackers easily defeated Eastport-South Manor 65-43, and, on Friday they won 64-31 at Miller Place. In that game, Finn Byrnes, one of East Hampton’s inside men, who is to play football at Stony Brook University come the fall, scored a career-high 19 points. Toby Foster, a freshman subbing at one of the guard positions for Liam Fowkes, who was ill, finished with 11, and Jack Dickinson and Luke Reese each had 10. The win improved East Hampton to 8-1 in league play. The Bonackers were to have played Hampton Bays at home Tuesday, and are to play Sayville here this evening.
Boys Swimming
The boys swimming team’s coaches honored the team’s five seniors — Nicky Badilla, Ottavio Petrocino, Daniel Rossano, Luke Tarbet, and Tenzin Tamang — last Thursday at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter before a meet with Northport, which only had five competitors. It was the last home meet of the season for Craig Brierley’s squad, which cruised to an 83-41 win, evening its league record at 3-3, and improving its overall record to 5-4.
Before the meet began, each of the seniors was met at the end of a 25-yard “highlight lap” by a junior they’d picked to succeed them as a team leader next season.
Bonac swimmers won the first six events contested — the 200 medley relay, the 200 freestyle, the 200 individual medley, the 50 freestyle, the 100 butterfly, and the 100 freestyle — before Northport won one, the 500 freestyle. That was the only blip that night as the home team went on to win the final four races — the 200 free relay, the 100 backstroke, the 100 breaststroke, and the 400 free relay.
Badilla won the 50 free and the 100 breast in personal best times. Petrocino’s 50-yard backstroke lap in the 200 medley relay was a season-best. Rossano swam in the three relays and turned in a personal best time in the 50 free. Tamang also swam in three relays, and won the 100 butterfly race in a personal best time. And Tarbet swam best times in the 50 free and 100 fly.
More Basketball
Six seniors on East Hampton High’s girls basketball team — Claire McGovern, Baye Bogetti, Chloe Swickard, Caroline DiSunno, K.K. Gilbert, and Grace Merkert — were feted on Friday at a “Senior” game with Smithtown Christian, a team that had given East Hampton trouble earlier in the season, but which the Bonackers clobbered 62-26 that night.
Samantha James, East Hampton’s coach, said Bogetti led the way with 19 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 steals. Swickard had 12 points, Caroline DiSunno had 10 points and 7 rebounds, McGovern had 5 points and 6 rebounds. Katie Kuneth had 5 points, Susie DiSunno and Kaili Moore each had 4 points, and Merkert, 3. Everyone on the bench leaped up when, near the end of the game, Merkert banked in her first basket of the season.
It was the fourth win of the winter vis-á-vis six losses for the resurgent girls who were to have played Southampton here Monday.
In other basketball news, Bridgehampton High’s boys team, the Killer Bees, won 65-47 at the Ross School on Friday, the big news being that the Bees, who had been cold from the 3-point arc in a recent loss at Pierson, drained a dozen 3-pointers, with Alex Davis leading the way with five. Davis finished with 17 points, Mikhail Feaster had 11, and Kris Vinski had 10.
The Bees, with Savion Ward making the winning shot, defeated Port Jefferson 45-43 on Jan. 18. The team was second in the league, with a 9-1 record, as of Monday. Southampton, a Class B school — the Bees are a D — topped the division at 7-0.