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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.

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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. 

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Kieran Hildreth of Montauk, a 15-year-old sophomore at the Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont, dominated the Eastern Region U-16 circuit, winning the United States Ski and Snowboard Association Regional Performance Series super-G race at Copper Mountain, Colo., in December, which he followed up by winning all six giant slalom and slalom races at an annual RPS event at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks.

Liam Knight, a junior, led the East Hampton High School boys swimming team to a third-place finish in the League 2 championship meet at Sachem East High School on Jan. 27, accounting for 80 of the team’s 225 points in the four events he swam, the 100 and 200 freestyle races, which he won, and as a member of the second-place 400 free relay team and the fourth-place 200 free relay team.

Playing its best game of the season, the East Hampton High School boys basketball team, at full strength at last, routed Harborfields 67-34 here on Jan. 27. In girls track, Greylynn Guyer set an indoor school record in the 3,000-meter race in 10 minutes and 48.90 seconds, and C.J. Echavarria ran a school-record 9.43 seconds in the 55-meter high hurdles.

This week's high school sports schedule.

It’s been four years since Richie Daunt has been in the ring. Now, with his 35th birthday on the horizon, the wiry, hard-hitting welterweight from Montauk is giving it one more go.

The Hurricanes, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, are beginning an especially crucial part of the season, during which they will compete at the state and national levels.

Bonac’s third-place boys swimming team finished the league season at 4-2, and the boys were on fire on the track. The boys basketball team lost its seventh straight, but the girls won one.