Sports

East Hampton High's field hockey team lost a first-round playoff game Saturday at Rocky Point. 

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team, putting in its best effort of the season, placed second to Sayville-Bayport in a virtual League III meet Friday.

On Monday, for the first time this season, East Hampton High's golf team, which this past week wound up league play at 10-0, was able to play at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett.

The fourth-seeded East Hampton High School boys soccer team defeated fifth-seeded Hauppauge 1-0 in a quarterfinal-round game here on Friday.

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team defeated Lindenhurst 53-43 on April 6 and Harborfields 91-77 at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Friday to finish the league season as the runner-up, at 4-1, to undefeated Sayville-Bayport.

The 8-1-1 East Hampton High School boys soccer team, as it turned out, finished as the runner-up to 9-1-0 Amityville in league play, by 1 point, and was accorded the fourth seed in the county’s Class A tournament, behind Half Hollow Hills West (9-1-0), Amityville, and Harborfields (7-1-1).

The East Hampton High School field hockey team qualified for the county playoffs by virtue of a hard-fought 2-1 win here over Pierson Tuesday, and the boys cross-country team qualified for the county Class B championship meet at Sunken Meadow next week, after a third-place finish at the division meet there Tuesday.

East Hampton's varsity football team went out on a high note Saturday, smothering Hampton Bays 30-0 for its first win of the season. The players had improved in every game, their coach said.

Joe McKee, East Hampton High School's varsity football coach, told his players after Saturday's 25-14 loss at Port Jefferson that it was the best they'd played, "by far," this season. The boys volleyball team, coached by Josh Brussell, won its first game.

After last Thursday's 4-2 loss here to Miller Place, Nicole Ficeto told her East Hampton High School field hockey players, whose record had dropped to 4-5, that they would have to win out if they wanted to make the playoffs. Apparently they listened.

East Hampton's girls cross-country team took a 3-0 record into the season-ending meet with Amityville on Tuesday. The girls volleyball team is playing well, but a win is proving elusive.

A 3-0 win over Miller Place Monday night put East Hampton at 8-1-1, with a good chance at winning or sharing a league title.