Sports

It looked as if the Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School Whalers were going to blow out Port Jefferson in the early going of the county Class C boys basketball championship game played at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue on Feb. 15, but the Royals came back in the third quarter to make a game of it.

Bridgehampton, which is aiming to play in its first state Final Four tournament at Glens Falls since 2015, duked it out with the Smithtown Christian Knights on Feb. 15, nailing a 3-pointer at the buzzer to send the game to overtime.

Three fast-paced futsal (indoor soccer) finals were played before a large crowd at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett Saturday night, capping a season of play in which 28 teams vied in the open men’s league, 10 in the over-37s, and eight in the women’s group.

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School Whalers once again bested their neighbors, the Killer Bees of Bridgehampton, this time in the county C-D boys basketball game played at Southampton High on Tuesday. 

The Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League has opened up internship applications for its summer 2023 season in the areas of game-day operations, broadcasting, and data analytics.

Though Amityville went into the county boys basketball playoff game here on Thursday at 8-6, and East Hampton was 13-2 in league play, it was immediately evident the teams were evenly matched. 

Playing seven games in three days this past week, the Peconic Hockey Association’s 10-and-under Wildcats, coached by Jason Craig, improved to 20-3-1, and thus clinched a playoff spot in the Long Island Amateur Hockey League’s 10-U Tier III division.

Meredith Spolarich, a senior at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, can do it all when it comes to sports — and when it comes to her studies as well.

East Hampton High’s boys swimming team, which recently placed fourth in the league meet, placed eighth, among 24 schools, in the county meet held Saturday at Stony Brook University.

East Hampton Town’s training for future lifeguards and for summertime participants in its Junior Lifeguard ocean readiness program will begin on March 5 in the pool at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

The boys basketball teams from East Hampton, Bridgehampton, and Pierson (Sag Harbor) High Schools have made the postseason, and on Thursday East Hampton, which won Division IV with a 13-2 record, will play host at 5 p.m. to the Amityville-Hampton Bays winner.

While only two of the East Hampton wrestling team’s starters advancd to the county tournament at Stony Brook University, the season, during which the young and relatively inexperienced team won 11 matches vis-á-vis 11 losses, was a great one.