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Still Teeing Up at Montauk Downs

Golf is apparently the last game in town, and, according to the head pro at Montauk Downs, Mark Fretto, new rules have enabled the beautiful public course there to remain open for play during the coronavirus siege.

Apr 2, 2020
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports: 20.03.19

The way it was, sports fans, from a mountain climber’s close call to happier roller hockey days to good times with the Killer Bees.

Mar 19, 2020
Antsy on Harbor View

All of a sudden, it seems everything is off-limits. With no high school sports for three weeks — and who knows for however long after that — I am at loose ends.

Mar 19, 2020
East Hampton High’s Teams Take a Breather

On Friday as Joe Vas, East Hampton’s athletic director, announced that Section XI, the governing body for public high school sports in Suffolk, had postponed all games and contests through April 3.

Mar 19, 2020
If He Tries It, He’ll Be Good

Eddy Quiroz, a native of Puebla, Mexico’s fourth-largest city, has been obsessed with sports from an early age. Soccer, golf, tennis, platform tennis, bowling, boxing, taekwondo, and rowing are among those at which he’s become adept.

Mar 19, 2020
Sports Briefs: 20.03.19

Down in San Antonio, Matthew Griffiths is a National Sporting Clays Association Krieghoff all-American.

Mar 19, 2020
Sunday Was a Good One to Be Outside

“We’re taking it day by day — things are changing every day,” said Claude Okin, the owner of Sportime in Amagansett. “Hopefully, if we’re smart, we can all get through this together.”

Mar 19, 2020
An Upbeat Wielder of an Offbeat Serve

Gino Fava has for a while been a proponent of the underhand serve, the use of which often is viewed as an underhanded tactic by receivers.

Mar 12, 2020
Eastern L.I. Rugby Side Buoyed by 15 Bonackers

“We can either win everything or we can bomb,” Kevin Bunce said of the Section XI Warriors the other day.

Mar 12, 2020
Kal Lewis Wins Fifth State Title

Kal Lewis, Shelter Island High School’s star long-distance runner, topped all public high school contestants in the state’s 1,600-meter indoor race at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island Saturday.

Mar 12, 2020
Teams at Play on First Day of Spring Sports

The weather was fine Monday as East Hampton High’s teams — boys and girls track, girls lacrosse, baseball, softball, and boys tennis — engaged in inaugural spring practices.

Mar 12, 2020
The Lineup: 03.12.20

Boys tennis plays at Half Hollow Hills East Tuesday, and the girls lacrosse team is home Wednesday for a scrimmage.

Mar 12, 2020
Swimmer Swanson Signs With Marist

Sophia Swanson, who signed a letter of intent to attend Marist College on a partial athletic scholarship Tuesday and swims the year round, said that she had not tired of looking at the Y pool’s black lines.

Mar 5, 2020
Sydney Wood Makes Good

Sydney Wood, a daughter of Kenny Wood, who led East Hampton High School to a state boys basketball championship in 1989, and her Northwestern University teammates earned at least a share of the Big 10 title with a 75-58 win over Illinois Saturday.

Mar 5, 2020
The Lineup: 03.05.20

The state meet for swimmers is Friday and Saturday at the Nassau County Aquatic Center, and the Pierson girls play East Rockaway Monday for the Long Island Class C basketball title.

Mar 5, 2020
With Dryden Sitting, Hurricanes Win Small Schools Game

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School girls basketball team was looking to upset Westhampton Beach Saturday at St. Joseph’s College, but fouls and an injury didn’t help their cause.

Mar 5, 2020
Wrestlers Seize the Moment

Wrestling is not only good for the body, but also for the mind and spirit, said Ethan Mitchell, East Hampton’s assistant coach, the best sport for preparing one for life.

Mar 5, 2020
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports: 02.27.20

The day the world champion double Dutch rope-jumping team visited East Hampton High, and memories of Paul Giardina’s thoroughbred training days.

Feb 27, 2020
Katy’s Courage Fund-Raiser at Buckskill Winter Club

A fund-raiser for the Katy’s Courage Foundation, a nonprofit in memory of Katy Stewart, who at the age of 12 died of a rare form of liver cancer nine years ago, is to be held at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton Sunday.

Feb 27, 2020
Reviving a Bridgehampton Pastime

It’s been 40 years since Brid­gehampton High fielded a baseball team, but now one’s in the making.

Feb 27, 2020
Sportive Siblings Eye Scholarships

“Do you want to know what her day is like?” Kevin McConville, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls and boys tennis teams, said of his number-one singles player, Juliana Barahona. “She goes to school until 3, hits with me from 3 to 4:45, and then goes to work at the Sag Harbor Gym from 5 to 10.”

Feb 27, 2020
The Lineup: 02.27.20

The Pierson girls basketball team will play for the county B-C-D championship Saturday at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue.

Feb 27, 2020
Turnouts Were Big at Saturday’s Little League Clinics

Vinny Alversa, East Hampton High’s baseball coach, and Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown, the softball coach, had their charges rotate among stations that focused on hitting, fielding, pitching, catching, and on catching fly balls.

Feb 27, 2020
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports: 02.20.20

Richard Cooney Sr., the East Hampton School District’s athletic director for the past 20 years, has announced that he will retire, according to the Feb. 9, 1995 edition of The Star.

Feb 20, 2020
Boys Basketball: Fatal Swing in C Tilt

“Wow!” a spectator brought to her feet at Friday’s Pierson-Southold county Class C championship game here said as the Settlers’ Nick Grathwohl with six seconds to go pulled up and drained an N.B.A. 3-pointer that torpedoed the stunned Whalers 62-60.

Feb 20, 2020
Girls Hoops to Address Turnovers, Two Wrestlers Place

Taking up most of one wall in her office, Krista Brooks, East Hampton High’s girls basketball coach, has stats from all the games so that her players can see where they stand vis-à-vis the positions they play.

Feb 20, 2020
Knights Ride Off With the D Crown

Smithtown Christian had never until Friday night won a county boys basketball championship. The Knights did it, unhorsing Shelter Island 57-37 in East Hampton High School’s gym.

Feb 20, 2020
Sports Briefs: 02.20.20

Kal Lewis, a Shelter Island senior, won the state qualifier 1,600-meter race at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood on Feb. 10 in 4 minutes and 24.87 seconds.

Feb 20, 2020
The Lineup: 02.20.20

Little League clinics will be held on Saturday at East Hampton High School.

Feb 20, 2020
A Fond Farewell in the Bee Hive

The last game ever to be played on Bridgehampton High’s storied bandbox basketball court was contested by Shelter Island and the Killer Bees on Feb. 5.

Feb 13, 2020