Sports

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.

Saturday brings the state cross-country meet in Plattsburgh (and the Bonac girls' first trip as a team), as well as the Pierson girls volleyball team's game for the Long Island Class C championship.

Last year about this time Sas Peters came into the Star office with an Ultimate disc medal around his neck that appeared to be gold in the office light, but was in fact silver. This year it was indisputably gold.

The season ended for East Hampton High’s girls and boys volleyball teams this past week as both squads were ousted in county Class A semifinal matchups.

Twenty mixed teams of men and women vied outside the Montauk Brewery Saturday in the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s Brewathlon, a relay race comprising a 5,000-meter rowing machine leg, a 7-mile bike, a 3.1-mile run, and a 2,500-meter row.

East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball team, after playing a bit ner­vously in the first set here last week, which they lost 25-17, cruised the rest of the way against Half Hollow Hills West, winning in four. “Everybody played well,” Alex Choi, the team’s coach, said, “it was a good match.”

A javyee football wrap-up, Bridgehampton’s Carl Johnson is honored, and Bonac’s Evan Masi was 12th in the county at Sunken Meadow last week.

The cross-country teams hit the state qualifier at Sunken Meadow Friday, while Bonac boys volleyball hosts Hauppauge in the playoffs. Sunday brings the Dock Race out in Montauk.

Anthony Daunt ran seven marathons in seven days on the South Fork between Oct. 19 and Oct. 25, raising close to $14,000 through a GoFundMe account on behalf of a relative who had recently undergone a breast cancer operation.

James Bradley, an eighth grader who played number-one on East Hampton High School’s young golf team this fall, “was three shots shy of making all-county” as a result of the 86-83-169 he shot in the recent Suffolk County individual tournament at Rock Hill in Manorville.

A former town board member’s reminiscences on the joy of sports fandom.

On the eve of the playoffs, East Hampton High’s girls and boys volleyball coaches, Alex Choi and Josh Brussell, like their chances.

Joe McKee, East Hampton High’s head football coach, said following Monday’s practice that, given the sport’s numbers at the moment, he plans to field varsity and junior varsity teams here next fall.

A quarterfinal finish in the recent United States Tennis Association’s national Level 1 clay court tournament at Pinehurst, N.C., assured Frank Ackley of the top-10 ranking he’d sought since turning 70 last February.

While the Bonac girls tennis fell in the county tourney, the girls swimming team finished the regular season at 4-1 with a win at Hauppauge last week.

Rowers hit Riverhead’s Peconic River for a regatta Sunday. The East Hampton boys soccer team loses in the first round to Elwood-John Glenn. And don’t forget OMAC’s Brewathlon Saturday.

The week ahead in local sports action.

Don McGovern’s charges, with visions of playoffs dancing in their heads, were the aggressor throughout 80 minutes against Kings Park, winding up a 3-0 victor last Thursday.

East Hampton High School’s girls cross-country team, thanks to a 26-29 win over Miller Place at Sunken Meadow on Oct. 15, finished the season at 3-3, “the best we’ve done in quite a while,” according to the team’s coach, Diane O’Donnell.

Given the green light by his coach, Shelter Island High School’s four-time county Class D cross-country champ clocked in at 15 minutes and 40.43 seconds.

East Hampton High’s girls swimming team defeated Harborfields 93-77 in its senior meet here last Thursday, but junior varsity football floundered at Bayport-Blue Point.

Flag football wraps it up at Herrick, while Bonac girls tennis storms the playoffs and the cross-country teams hit Sunken Meadow for the divisional meet Tuesday.

Despite the East Hampton High School field hockey team boasted the highest-scoring duo in Bonac history, they were swept by Rocky Point in a first-round county playoff game in 1994.