Sports

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.

East Hampton High’s boys and girls soccer teams and its boys and girls volleyball teams had wins this past week, while the girls swimming team lost 93-82 Sayville-Bayport, the defending league champion, 13 of whose points were awarded for diving.

A win Monday would have enabled East Hampton High’s field hockey team to stay on the cusp of a playoff berth, according to its coach, Nicole Ficeto, though Port Jefferson, which had been outplayed for 56 minutes, dashed that hope in the 57th with a goal that resulted from a corner play, the Royals’ first corner play of the game.

When Joe Amato, Pierson’s boys cross-country coach, crossed the line following the arduous Serpent’s Back (run-mountain-bike-run) duathlon Sunday, he said he’d won “because nobody’s here.”

Teams made up of East Hampton School District teachers are to vie Wednesday on the high school’s turf field in a fund-raising “Kicks For Cancer” game whose proceeds are to go to the Hauppauge High School-based organization founded 11 years ago to help families contending with the disease.

Bonac's field hockey and girls soccer teams head to Harborfields on Friday, girls volleyball team will play at the Horseheads invitational tournament Saturday, and the girls swimming will hop in the pool at Hauppauge on Monday.

Revisiting William Hartwell’s advice to the young about togetherness through sports, and the day Steve Graham rolled a perfect game at the late lamented East Hampton Bowl.

Bonac’s homecoming week saw wins by the girls volleyball, swim, and tennis teams, and good showings by boys soccer and both cross-country squads.

The latest win, a 29-0 shutout, came Saturday on East Hampton High’s turf field before homecoming spectators, including parents of the visiting William Floyd players, a team as good as any jayvee around.

A rundown of the high school action from Monday, from girls tennis and volleyball to field hockey, plus the results of the inaugural Run Down the Runway 5K, and OMAC names who will be honored at its holiday dinner.

Bonac's Field hockey team welcomes Greenport-Southold Friday, boys soccer hosts West Babylon Saturday, and both cross-country teams hit the tough Sunken Meadow course Tuesday.

It took Mae Mougin 10 years to give birth to “Waterproof,” a 40-minute lifeguard-centered documentary film that celebrates the core of East Hampton, a community that she and the film’s Academy Award-winning director, Ross Kauffman, find to be exemplary in the way it pulls together.

A fond look back at the Maidstoners ball club's Zen master, a reminder of the big push for the Lumber Lane youth center, and William Hartwell on the challenges facing the young — then as now.

All 11 of East Hampton High School’s teams will be on display here this week — beginning today with boys and girls cross-country, girls swimming, and boys volleyball — as it’s homecoming, for which Bonac’s 1965-66 boys basketball team will be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame Saturday.

East Hampton High School’s boys volleyball team has been sailing along in divisional play, and could well find itself as the county small schools tournament’s top seed in November provided it continues firing on all cylinders.

After having begun the fall season at 0-3, East Hampton High’s girls tennis team, whose 14-player roster is evenly divided between students from Sag Harbor and East Hampton, has been coming on of late.

The Hamptons Marathon in Southampton and the MightyMan triathlons in Montauk drew a thousand competitors over the weekend, while Saturday brings the Run Down the Runway 5K at East Hampton Airport.

From a teachers-students soccer game Thursday to benefit Kick Out Cancer, to the Bonac golfers taking on Westhampton Beach in Gansett Friday, to a Hall of Fame breakfast and jayvee football at the high school on Saturday.

The score was 36-8, but Joe McKee, East Hampton High’s football coach, told his junior varsity charges that they would meet much tougher teams than Center Moriches down the road, and that there was much work to do.