Sports

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.”

East Hampton’s Little League organization is to benefit from several upcoming free clinics here.

The boys basketball season began here with three straight nonleague wins at home, then things got worse — the last home win was over Rocky Point on Dec. 16 — before they got better.

Matej Zlatkovic, a pro at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club, has begun overseeing pickleball games on one of the club’s indoor Har-Tru courts, a first here.

Saturday takes the Bonac wrestlers to the league meet at Eastport-South Manor and the boys swimmers to the county meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, where the winter track state qualifier happens Monday night.

For the second straight year the East Hampton High School boys swimming team has gone undefeated in league competition.

The Sportime Arena in Amagansett was bustling Saturday, with three intensely contested futsal (indoor soccer) finals played before a large group of spectators.

Vinny Alversa and Annemarie Cangiolosi have been doing their best to strengthen East Hampton High School’s baseball and softball programs, from Little League on up.

Two basketball games went down to the wire Friday, jayvee and varsity, and two school records were set in girls winter track over the weekend.

The Bonac boys swim at the league meet in Hauppauge today, while Friday brings two hoops games of interest, Bridgehampton at Pierson and Kings Park here.

East Hampton High’s girls and boys winter track teams finished at the bottom of the standings in league meets at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood over the weekend — the boys placing 10th among 11 teams, and the girls last.

Save “the Marinackers” for another year: The Bonackers will go it alone in football next season, East Hampton’s head coach, Joe McKee, said Friday.

The Bonac boys swimming team is to vie with Sayville-Bayport for the League II championship today at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

Hoops heats up in Sag Harbor and East Hampton Friday, and Futsal returns to Sportime in Amagansett Saturday.

It has been a long time since East Hampton High has been blessed with such numbers, Jim Stewart, who coached championship teams here from the mid-1980s into the ’90s, said.

Ally Friedman, a senior in the Ross School’s tennis academy, is to receive an award from the United States Tennis Association that commends her tennis-centered empowerment work here with young girls.

East Hampton’s football program is considering whether to continue going it alone, or whether it wants, as was suggested last week, to merge with Southampton.

Girls winter tracksters do well at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, while Bonac’s wrestlers hit the mats at an invitational in Copiague.

East Hampton High’s boys swimming team improved its League II record to 4-0 last week after lopsided wins over North Babylon and Northport.

Speed-skating clinics come to Buckskill Thursday and Saturday. In boys hoops, Southold is at Bridgehampton Friday and Islip visits Bonac Saturday. And the girls winter track team will run at the League IV championship meet in Brentwood Friday evening.

For the third time in the past few years, the possibility of East Hampton and Southampton High Schools combining football programs is again being considered.