Sports

Milly Wasserman, a Buckskill Winter Club instructor on the verge of a professional figure-skating career, had to overcome childhood epilepsy to get where she is.

The week ahead in local sports action.

Against an older, bigger Panama squad that was just as quick, Bridgehampton High’s boys basketball team staged an extraordinary second-half comeback Saturday in the state Class D final, losing in the end 78-69.

Bridgehampton High School’s boys basketball team went into Friday’s state Class D semifinal with perhaps more confidence than it should have, for Loudonville Christian proved to be a formidable foe, overcoming seemingly comfortable Bee leads on several occasions before yielding in the end, 63-53.

A look back on news of the Montauk Rugby Club and the early days of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

Seamus McDonagh, who visits Springs frequently, is a good man. And a good storyteller. He has timing, wit, a light Irish brogue giving music to his words, and a hard-gained wisdom that lands as powerfully as a shot from a heavyweight boxer. Which he once was — a cruiserweight who went up a class to face Evander Holyfield, challenging the legendary champion for his title.

Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees eviscerated the Yellow Jackets of Eldred from the start in Saturday’s Class D regional final, stealing and scoring repeatedly as their opponents from Sullivan County looked on, helpless to stop the onslaught.

Looking back on news of the Montauk Rugby Club and a Maidstoners softball trip to Cuba,

“Youth is full of sport” is written above Bob Vishno’s photo in the Branford (Conn.) High School yearbook of 1949, a fitting saying for one who would go on to coach golf, basketball, and baseball at Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School for a generation, a 31-year tenure that he and his late wife, Lillian, who also was a Sag Harbor teacher, set forth upon in 1956. 

March is here, and during an open workout Sunday at East Hampton High’s baseball field, the varsity coach Vinny Alversa said something he hasn’t said in a decade at Bonac’s helm: that this year’s senior-heavy varsity team can win the league championship.

A look back at sports and athletic news from 2000.

The first half of Sunday’s county Class D high school boys basketball championship game between Bridgehampton and St. Pius V of Melville — which the Bees ended up winning 53-42 — was more akin to football at times, with as many as three or four players splayed out on the floor grappling for possession.

Bronco Campsey, East Hampton High’s standout 108-pound wrestler who is a Pierson High sophomore, was a finalist last weekend in the state tournament in Albany, losing 12-4 to the division’s top seed, Will Soto of Newburgh.

The Hackers Hockey Club’s manager, Tim Garneau, who took the baton from one of the club’s founders, John Battle, six years ago, grew up with winter sports in suburban Minneapolis, and, at 59, remains active athletically here during January, February, and March.

The Hackers Hockey Club and the Hamptons First Responders squared off at the Buckskill Winter Club Sunday night and on the night of Feb. 26, with the Hackers prevailing 4-3 in the first one and the First Responders edging the Hackers 10-9 in Sunday night’s finale.

Back to the Bees-Porters wars on the hardwood, and when Montauk Rugby made good in major league play.

Emma Dahl, a Buckskill Winter Club figure skating instructor and East Hampton native, provides youngsters with the foundation they need “to level up — whether it’s speed skating, hockey, or figure skating.”

In an otherwise quiet shoulder season, this weekend brings Bronco Campsey in the state wrestling tournament and the county Class D championship boys basketball game between Bridgehampton and St. Pius V.

Testing and training for East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard program for ages 9 to 15 and lifeguard training and conditioning for those who will be 15 by July 1 will begin on Sunday at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter pool.

Figure skaters glided and hockey players collided at the Buckskill Winter Club’s ice rink last weekend, raising money for the Katy’s Courage Foundation.

Back to glory days of 125-pound wrestling and Bonac and Bees hoops.

Austin Bronco Campsey, a 15-year-old Pierson High School sophomore who wrestles at 108 pounds for East Hampton High’s team, on Sunday became the first champion Bonac has produced in almost 40 years.

Dave Conlon had a young high school boys basketball team to coach this year, his first here, and his charges showed grit through a season of challenges.

Two futsal championship games, in men’s open and men’s 37-plus, Saturday at Sportime were decided in shootouts, while the East Hampton Futbol Club took the women’s open championship.

Sunday is to be Katy’s Courage Day at the Buckskill Winter Club, an all-day fund-raiser for pediatric cancer research that will include a professional ice-dancing show.

A trip into the past to revisit a basketball barn-burner and a martial arts powerhouse at the Ross School.

East Hampton High’s Bronco Campsey at 108 pounds and Franco Palombino at 215 won League III wrestling championships Saturday, the boys county swimming meet qualifiers placed eighth among 19 squads, and the boys basketball team ended the League V season at 5-11 and 7-13 over all.

Miczar Garcia, a Bridgehampton senior who rarely plays, launched the ball from beyond the arc in the final seconds Friday and it swished through, topping off a 104-51 blowout of Shelter Island and unleashing pandemonium. 

Shawn Mitchell, an Amagansett School kindergarten teacher who not long ago took over a youth basketball league in Sag Harbor, now oversees the East End Basketball Organization for third through sixth graders. 

A look back at athletic news from 25 years ago.