Sports

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) and Bridgehampton High School boys basketball teams have berths in the Feb. 29 playoffs, and Buckskill Winter Club’s ice show Saturday will benefit the Katy’s Courage Foundation.

Sally Jenkins’s “The Right Call” traces athletic success under pressure to an abiding concern with seven foundational elements, discipline and intention among them.

Revisiting happy outcomes for Bridgehampton girls hoops and a Bonac team that clinched a league crown.

Bonac's Juan Roque, a 124-pounder, placed sixth on the mats, while boys swimmers took ninth in the county meet at Stony Brook, and Pierson has a new 1,000-point scorer.

Meet the 29-year-old Iranian-born figure-skating instructor at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton.

For the 2024 season, fisheries along the Atlantic Coast (except in Chesapeake Bay) will continue to adhere to a one-fish daily limit of a striped bass between 28 to 31 inches. Commercial fishermen will also see a 7-percent reduction in their harvest quotas this year.

After the league meet last week, five East Hampton High School wrestlers qualified to compete in the county meet at Stony Brook University this weekend, while the boys swimming team did well and the tracksters hit the large-schools indoor meet.

Tonight, a banner attesting to Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School’s sole state championship boys basketball team is to be raised midway through the Babylon-Whalers game, and that team’s coach, Bob Vishno, is hoping to be there.

The local sporting scene — the week that is to be.

When East Hampton’s Cole Brauer finishes the round-the-world Global Solo Challenge sailing race, she will “make the history books by becoming the first American female ever to complete a solo, nonstop circumnavigation by the three great capes, joining an elite of fewer than 200 humans who have achieved this — ever,” Marco Nannini, organizer of the race, said in a report Friday.

It was a tale of 24 fouls for the boys basketball team of Bridgehampton High, which lost Tuesday for the second time in three tries against Class D rival Smithtown Christian.

Bonac boys basketball bounces back, swimming wins two, and girls indoor track wraps it up at the Last Chance meet.

A look at the sporting events coming down the pike here.

The East Hampton High School wrestling team has been doing well on the mats, with wins over Bayport-Blue Point and Riverhead.

From Pierson’s hardwood “cardiac kids” to a sneaker designer from Springs, it happened here, sports fans.

Last week was a big one for Alex Davis, a Bridgehampton High School sophomore who scored his 1,000th point during a 64-52 loss to the Ross School. Plus Bonac and Pierson hoops reports.

East Hampton High’s girls winter tracksters went to the maximum at the League 3 meet in Brentwood, while the boys swimming and girls basketball teams are in the thick of it.

All the local sports action ahead . . .

Cole Brauer, a 2012 East Hampton High School graduate who last summer became the first female sailor to the win the Bermuda One-Two, was as of last Thursday sitting in second place in the Global Solo Challenge, an around-the-world singlehanded sailing race that for her began on Oct. 29, when she set forth aboard First Light from A Coruña, Spain.

East Hampton High’s wrestling team earned a first-ever win over Huntington. Plus, Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees avenged themselves on Smithtown Christian.

Yani Cuesta, East Hampton High’s girls winter track coach, called Melina Sarlo “one of those all-around athletes that you rarely see anymore.”

East Hampton’s girls winter track team set school records in the 4-by-800 relay and the distance medley relay, while Ryleigh O’Donnell improved on her 600-meter mark.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes drew raves from their coaches, Tom Cohill, Angelika Cruz, and Sean Knight, following two big university swim meets over the weekend.

Tales of a Bonacker’s adventures with professional basketball in Spain, and more from The Star’s sports pages of yore.

The East Hampton High School wrestling team clipped the wings of the Deer Park Falcons here on Jan. 3, flattening the visitors 58-9.

“They’re coming along,” Samantha James, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls basketball team, said after the team had won back-to-back games, while the boys are looking to improve their defense and shooting.

Ryleigh O’Donnell, a senior on the Bonac girls indoor track team, set a school record in the 1,000 meters Sunday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood. The boys swimmers, meanwhile, had an easy time of it.

Don McGovern, East Hampton High’s boys soccer coach, took seven of his charges to the Suffolk County Soccer Coaches Association’s awards banquet last month at Villa Lombardi in Holbrook.

East Hampton High’s girls track team broke school records in the 4-by-800 and distance medley relays at the Ocean Breeze Holiday Festival meet on Staten Island last week.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball, boys swimming, and wrestling teams had losing records going into the Christmas break, but all three of them have been battling in the thick of it.