Sports

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, the Hurricanes, repeated as New York State Y.M.C.A. champions at Erie Community College in Buffalo last weekend.

As balls rocketed back and forth at East Hampton High School’s tennis courts during Friday’s practice, the coach, Kevin McConville, said this year’s team is the best he’s had since Johnny De Groot’s group in 2019. Perhaps even better.

A girls flag football team is debuting this spring at East Hampton High School, which is particularly fitting because two East Hampton graduates, Teresa Schirrippa and Crystal Winter, have represented the United States in international flag football competition.

Turnout for East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard and lifeguard training programs, which kicked off on March 5, was on the low side. About a hundred kids and teens had signed up, and 75 came for the youth evaluation and training, while only eight came for the first session of lifeguard training.

Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School got off to a slow start, but tied the game with under three minutes left before losing to Haldane of Putnam County 57-53 Friday night.

I’m not sure if Leonard Cohen was into birds, but if he was, he might have appreciated the mess that is the European starling.

The spring sports season may be a few weeks off, but there’s plenty of news for and about local athletes.

Hunter Eberhart, Jack Dickinson, and Will Darrell, seniors, will lead the East Hampton High School pitching staff this spring.

The final score was 58-53 in favor of Chapel Field Christian of Orange County over Bridgehampton's Killer Bees on Tuesday night in a New York State Class D semifinal boys basketball game. It reminded Ron White, the Bees' head coach, of last year's game — same opponent, same playoff round, same outcome.

Last Saturday's Katy’s Courage daylong fund-raiser included an ice show, pickup hockey games for 10-through-14-year-olds and for adults, as well as raffles, a silent auction, and a bake sale.

Kids here who swim, and who play hockey, soccer, baseball, and softball, have been active of late honing skills at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton, the Sportime Arena in Amagansett, and at the Hub 44 building on the way to Springs.

Saturday’s game, which the Mariners won handily, 69-52, was the third time Southampton had defeated Sag Harbor this winter, though Pierson’s coach could take heart in the fact that at times his players looked pretty smooth in breaking a vaunted run-and-jump press.