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“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.”

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

“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.”

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

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Vinny Alversa, East Hampton’s head baseball coach, wants to retire the number 22 worn by Ross Gload, a 1994 grad and former Major Leaguer.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team finished sixth among the 22 schools that vied in the county meet Saturday.

“Now that’s basketball!” a fan exulted after Logan Gurney nailed, in the final second, a 3-pointer from the right wing that treated the Bonackers to a 57-55 win over favored Hauppauge on Feb. 5.

The county boys basketball Class C and D championship games are Friday at East Hampton High.

Yani Cuesta, East Hampton’s girls winter track team coach, said the 4-by-400 relay team of Bella Espinoza, Ava Engstrom, Penelope Greene, and Lillie Minskoff would have broken a school record in that event absent a disqualifying out-of-the-lane baton pass at the county small schools meet Friday.

Craig Brierley, the Bonac boys swimming coach, said last week’s league meet “had the makings for us to accomplish something extraordinary . . . for the second consecutive season we were the league champion.”