Sports

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.

A look back at how a girls basketball coach greatly helped a group with impaired motor skills, in terms of both movement and self-esteem.

Vicki Littman, chairwoman of the East Hampton Food Pantry, the annual plunge’s beneficiary, said 260-plus hit the water at Main Beach in the village.

Tight Lines Tackle on Bay Street in Sag Harbor is jammed from the roof to the floorboard with just about every kind of tackle, apparel, and bait imaginable. You name it, you will likely find it.

Caroline Brown is the United States Lifesaving Association’s female junior lifeguard of the year, the first one from here to be so honored.

Vince Horcasitas finished 2019 ranked fifth nationwide in the United States Tennis Association’s men’s 55 singles division, owing largely to recent wins in national tournaments played in Phoenix and in Longboat Key, Fla.

The fate of the football program here will be discussed Thursday night in the high school cafeteria. In girls hoops, East Hampton hosts Hauppauge Friday, while Pierson plays Mattituck in Sag Harbor. And winter track takes the Bonac girls to meets at Suffolk Community College Friday and Sunday.

“Our defense was good enough for us to win,” Dan White, East Hampton’s coach, said after a 45-30 loss to Eastport-South Manor here, but when it came to offense there wasn’t much to write home about.

It was cloudy and relatively warm on Friday, 50 degrees to be exact, which, when it came to skating, was fine with him, Doug De Groot said, the Buckskill Winter Club’s enemy this time of year being the sun.

Hoops rivalries will be the order of the day Friday, as Bridgehampton visits Greenport, and Southold plays at Pierson in Sag Harbor. Monday takes the Bonackers bowling against Greenport-Southold at the All Star lanes in Riverhead.

“Did we . . . win?” the sportswriter asked on arriving late at East Hampton High. “They won,” a young fan answered on his way out.

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.