The Bonac boys track team opened the season with Comsewogue on March 29 and won 60-58 thanks to the 4-by-400-meter relay team of Isaac Rodriguez, Robert Stewart, Diego Rojas, and Brayan Rivera. Other Bonac winners that day were Rivera in the 1,600, Francesco Palombino in the shot-put, and Wyatt Smith in the high jump.
Second and third-place finishes kept Ben Turnbull’s team in the running. The runners-up were Rodriguez in the 110-meter high hurdles and in the 400 intermediate hurdles, Eduardo Calle in the 100-meter dash, Rivera in the 800, David Armijos in the long jump, and Mikhail Feaster in the triple jump.
The girls track team arrived late for a meet at Comsewogue on the 29th. “It was almost 6 when we started,” East Hampton’s coach, Yani Cuesta, said in an emailed report, adding that the meet had ended in a 63-63 tie. The long jump, the last event, which was, said Cuesta, contested in the dark, might have put the Bonackers over the top, but Leslie Samuel, who often wins the event in dual meet competitions, fouled on all three of her tries, as did her teammates Melanie Vizcaino and Angie Castillo.
“We measured Leslie’s last two to see what they would have been, and they came in at 16 feet 1 inch and 17-9 respectively,” said Cuesta. “She would have won with either of them.”
East Hampton’s scorers were led by Ryleigh O’Donnell, who won the 400, the 400 intermediate hurdles, and the 800, Samuel, who won the 100 and 200, and Meredith Spolarich, who won the high jump at 4 feet 10 inches.
Among the runners-up were Spolarich in the 200 and in the long jump, Kaili Moore in the shot-put, with a personal best heave of 29-2, Rebecca Trowbridge in the discus, with a throw of 80-6, a personal best for her, and Leah McCarron, in the triple jump.
Among East Hampton's third-place finishers were Dylan Cashin in the 800, Vizcaino in the triple jump, Lucie Bifulk in the 400, and Alexa Gomez-Tabares in the 400 intermediate hurdles.
The girls were to have gone up against Westhampton Beach, a perennially strong team, here yesterday.