East Hampton High’s baseball team won all three games of its series last week with Harborfields, thus improving its League V record to 6-3.
The Bonackers capped the sweep with a nail-biting 2-1 win here last Thursday. Mason Miles drove in the winning run with a walk-off line drive into the outfield after the visitors’ catcher didn’t touch a high popup of his that rolled foul after landing on the infield turf not far from home plate. Had the ball been caught, it would have ended the inning, but, given another life, Bonac’s number-three hitter took full advantage, lining the next pitch into left-center field, a walk-off hit greeted with glee by his teammates.
Carter Dickinson started for East Hampton that day, and pitched well over the course of five innings, giving way to Trevor Meehan with one out, runners at the corners, and the score tied at 1 in the sixth. The big left-hander got out of the jam thanks to a bases-loaded popup to third and a strikeout.
As Dickinson was pitching, his father, Paul, an Atlantic Golf Club pro, was about to leave for the P.G.A. professionals championship in Port St. Lucie, Fla., where, on Sunday, he shot a 67 in the first round that tied him for 13th place among the some 300 entrants. The tournament, whose top 20 qualify for next month’s P.G.A. championship in Charlotte, N.C., was to have ended yesterday.
Speaking of fathers and sons, Kai Alversa, whose father, Vinny, coaches East Hampton’s baseball team, pitched a five-inning no-hitter last week as Bridgehampton-Ross shut out Southold 11-0 in the opener of what was to be a three-game sweep. As of Monday, the Killer Bees sported a 9-4 record in League VIII, ranking them behind Smithtown Christian and Amityville.
Ross Tennis
In other recent high school sports action, the Ross School’s boys tennis team has served notice that it is the class of Division IV, dispatching its divisional opponents handily since the beginning of the season. Ross, which has on it three players — Leo Carmo and Carlos and Nacho Pena Lopez — whom Newsday ranked in its top 100, defeated East Hampton 6-1 here on April 22. That was the first divisional loss for the Bonackers, who, with an 8-1 record, were second in the Division IV standings as of Monday. East Hampton was to have played host on Monday to Westhampton Beach, a team that the Ravens shut out 7-0 on April 10.
Lacrosse News
Further, the girls lacrosse team enjoyed its third win of the season here last week, defeating Brentwood 18-7, Ava Tintle leading the way with six goals, and the girls flag football team acquitted itself well in a 25-20 loss to Deer Park on Friday.
The combined South Fork Islanders boys lacrosse team, whose roster includes 15 Bonackers, is to play its Senior Day game here with Bay Shore on Tuesday. Aman Chugh and Brandon Bistrian, both defensemen, will be among the seniors honored before the game begins.
The other Islander players from East Hampton are: Theo Ball, James Corwin, Cole Dunchick, Pema Edwards, Robert Hernandez, Manny Morales-Gonzalez, Diego Pinto, Jake Rivera, Tyler Rodgers, Zeb Ryan, Evan Schaefer, and James Smith, all juniors, and Zane Karoussos, a sophomore.
