Sports

Celebrating the standout 1994 football team, and the day the badminton pros came to Amagansett.

The link between sports and good works was further strengthened here in 2019, what with the polar bear plunge at Main Beach, the Katy’s Courage race in Sag Harbor, Ellen’s Run in Southampton, Montauk’s triathlons, the Shelter Island 10K, the Artists and Writers Softball Game, and the I-Tri program for teenage girls.

Boys and girls hoops continues apace, and Wednesday brings polar bear plunges to Montauk, East Hampton, and Wainscott.

Recounting the football team’s heartbreaking Division III county playoff championship loss to Comsewogue.

Bridgehampton High’s all-time leading scorer in basketball, two late coaches who contributed greatly to that small school’s winning tradition, and two graduates who have given back generously over the years were inducted into Bridgehampton’s Hall of Fame Friday.

The Bonac boys basketball team led with its defense over Rocky Point Monday, the swimmers sank Lindenhurst, and some personal bests were recorded in winter track.

There’s wrestling here tomorrow night, Bonac winter track continues apace in Brentwood this weekend, and boys hoops hosts Eastport-South Manor midday Saturday.

Kevin Bunce Sr. thinks the chances of the Montauk Rugby Club reviving are slim, but things are looking up for one of his protégés, Brandon Johnson.

A look back at the effort to stop the Montauk Playhouse from becoming affordable housing, and the time when East Hampton football could crush Half Hollow Hills West.

A well-rounded boys winter track team had its first meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood Saturday, and the girls competed there the next day, with three of Yani Cuesta’s charges — Hanna Medler, Leah Hatch, and Penelope Greene — recording personal bests.

Persistence and strength of character were highlighted at the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s holiday awards dinner on Dec. 2.

In boys hoops, Shelter Island plays at Pierson Friday, while Rocky Point is at East Hampton on Monday and on Wednesday Smithtown Christian visits Bridgehampton, where there’s a Hall of Fame induction dinner Friday night.

At the Y.M.C.A. here last Thursday, the boys swimming team tied Connetquot-East Islip, a nonleague opponent, thanks to first and third-place finishes in the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay.

A look back at the East Hampton field hockey team that won county championships back to back.

East Hampton High School’s varsity and junior varsity boys basketball teams were finalists in the Kendall Madison Tip-Off tournament here Saturday, with the varsity winning and the jayvee losing in overtime.

It was windy, but not very cold on Thanksgiving Day, and thus the turn­out for the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s 3 and 6-mile Turkey Trots around Montauk’s Fort Pond was bountiful.

“We’ll get better,” Dan White, who coaches East Hampton High School’s boys basketball team, said following the Bonackers’ 56-47 win Friday over Greenport in a first-round matchup of the Kendall Madison Foundation tournament here.

In boys hoops, the Ross School hosts Pierson on Friday, while the Bonackers play at home against Half Hollow Hills West. East Hampton wrestlers travel to Sayville for a tournament on Saturday.

One day on the Deer Park gridiron, blood flowed in the veins like the river wild, sparks flew, emotions soared, tears flowed. East Hampton pulled it out. Those were the days . . .

The East Hampton girls finished their season last weekend as four of Craig Brierley’s charges — his daughter Julia, Jane Brierley, Sophia Swanson, and Darcy McFarland — competed in the state meet at Ithaca College.

The East Hampton and Pierson High School boys and girls basketball teams met in scrimmages this past week, with the Sag Harborites arguably getting the better of it in both cases.

The top two teams in the Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer league faced off in the league’s playoff final at East Hampton’s Herrick Park on Nov. 20, with Maidstone Market winning its 15th championship trophy since entering the league in 2008.

Time for the Turkey Trot in Montauk, and Bonac basketball gets going with the Kendall Madison benefit tourney here Friday and Saturday.

The numbers are good in all of East Hampton High School’s winter sports, which begin this week, and the Bonac girls cross-country team does well in frozen Plattsburgh.

The recent Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer semifinals were played in frigid weather, though the games were hotly contested.

Bonac basketball, boys and girls, gets going this week, while on Saturday the Pierson girls volleyball team plays in the state Class C Final Four in Glens Falls.

Pierson’s Grace Brosnan said following the Whalers’ impressive Long Island Class C volleyball championship 3-1 win over Oyster Bay Saturday that she and her teammates often get off to a slow start before getting into the zone.

Diane O’Donnell’s squad topped its Class B rivals Sayville and Bayport-Blue Point at Sunken Meadow State Park Friday, assuring it of a trip upstate on Saturday — the first ever for East Hampton High School girls cross-country.

East Hampton High School’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of Jane Brierley, Darcy McFarland, Julia Brierley, and Sophia Swanson qualified for the state meet by placing second to Northport-Commack’s team in Saturday’s county meet by two seconds.

A top shootist competes in San Antonio, the Pierson girls and Shelter Island boys will join the Bonac girls team at the state cross-country meet Saturday, plus a report on the Dock Race in Montauk.