The Harlem MagicMasters are to play an East Hampton School District faculty basketball “Dream Team” at the high school’s gym Saturday evening to raise money for the class of 2020.
Sports
Revived Bowling Team Is Having FunIt’s been a rarity here when a female is a male team’s number-one, but that is the case on East Hampton High’s bowling team this season.
Sports Lineup 01.24.19Jan 24, 2019
Thursday, January 24
BOWLING, East Hampton vs. Comsewogue, Port Jeff Bowl, 4:30 p.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL, Smithtown Christian at Bridgehampton, 6 p.m.
Friday, January 25
GIRLS BASKETBALL, Port Jefferson at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 5 p.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL, Ross School at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 7:15 p.m.
Saturday, January 26
WINTER TRACK, East Hampton at Ocean Breeze invitational meet, Ocean Breeze athletic complex, Staten Island, 9 a.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL, Miller Place at East Hampton, 10 a.m.
A Triumphant FarewellWith a convincing win over Sayville-Bayport Monday, and with a similarly stellar victory over Hauppauge, the defending league champion, last Thursday, it appeared likely that the East Hampton High School boys swimming team would wind up as a league titlist for the first time since the program began here under Jeff Thompson in 2010.
Bees Shocked, Bonac RockedLast week was the best of times and the worst of times for the Killer Bees of Bridgehampton, who, after an exciting win over Pierson at home, went on to lose, 65-62, at Shelter Island, a fellow Class D school.
Cuesta’s Girls Prove to Be Quick Studies at Zeitler RelaysYani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls winter track team, said during a conversation Monday that her girls — she has a dozen — proved to be quick studies when it came to the Zeitler Relays at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood last Thursday.
Girls Were in It Till Final MinuteEast Hampton High’s girls basketball team had a chance to win a second game this season — an unheard of feat in recent years — versus hitherto-winless Wyandanch here Saturday, but, in the end, it was not to be.
Swimmers Entered Week 5-0, Wrestlers Were 0-4Jim Stewart, East Hampton High’s wrestling coach, said before the meet with East Islip here Friday that he was still looking for some pieces with which to fill out his jigsaw puzzle — quite a few as it turns out, for the Bonackers had to forfeit in more than half the weights that day.
The Girls Indoor Track ReportYani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls winter track team, reported Sunday that her charges had done very well at the Art Mitchell invitational meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood earlier that day.
Bonac Girls Hoopsters Win a Game!When, after defeating Hampton Bays 36-33 in a nonleague high school girls basketball game Friday, Krista Brooks’s players leaped up and down in euphoric glee, she didn’t quite understand. Newly returned to coaching, Brooks hadn’t been aware of the losing streak.
Dan White Hopes for a Run; Craig Brierley’s Swimmers Are on OneNot again! Yes, another 1-point game, the fourth in the seven games the East Hampton High School boys basketball team has played thus far this season.
Cliff-Hangers on the Court, Blowouts in the PoolDan White, East Hampton High’s boys basketball coach, cannot remember when in his career a team of his had ever played in four successive games three of which were decided by 1 point.
Five Girls’ Personal Bests in Winter TrackDec 20, 2018
Five personal bests and a season best were recorded by members of East Hampton High’s girls winter track team at a crossover meet Saturday at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood.
Undaunted in Ultra TestAbout a week after returning from the 24-hour Spartan Ultra World Championships in Iceland, Anthony Daunt said, during a conversation Friday morning at Groundworks Landscaping in Amagansett, that he was beginning to feel okay again.
Y Swim Team Eyeing a Busy JanuaryThe recent days have been eventful for East Hampton’s swimming program, with the boys varsity upping its record to 3-0 with wins over Lindenhurst and Central Islip, and with the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, the Hurricanes — who were treated to clinics by an Olympian Saturday — faring well at an 18-team metropolitan-area meet at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County.
A Tense Two Weeks in Trans-Atlantic Sailing RaceWhen John Niewenhous, a retired pilot who lives in the Bay Point neighborhood near Sag Harbor, was visited on Dec. 2, some competitors in the Route du Rhum race to Guadeloupe were still heading across the Atlantic for that Caribbean island, having set off a month earlier, with much fanfare, from Saint-Malo, in northwest France.
Ava Engstrom Breaks School 3K RecordAva Engstrom, an East Hampton High School sophomore who is among a dozen on Yani Cuesta’s winter girls track roster, broke Dana Cebulski’s indoor 3,000-meter record at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood Saturday with her time of 10 minutes and 57.36 seconds.
Nick West Named Nation’s Division III Player of the YearNick West, the former East Hampton High School soccer star, received a singular honor this week inasmuch as he was named as the national player of the year in Division III.
Swimmers Win, Hoopsters LoseEast Hampton High’s boys swimming team, the largest the program has ever fielded, trounced Ward Melville, Division II’s runner-up last year, in a season-opening mandatory nonleague meet at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter on Dec. 5.
Masters Squad Shines, Bonac Boys Team Plunges InA squad of masters swimmers from the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter registered a number of impressive finishes at the Dr. Bill Ross Memorial Masters (18-and-over) meet at the Nassau County Aquatic Center last month.
Sas Peters at Top of His Ultimate GameSas Peters of Amagansett, who has extended the competitive career of Ultimate Disc players many years by founding three divisions for men and women — grand masters (over-40), great grand masters (over-50), and legends (over-60) — won a silver medal recently, as a member of Surly, a great grand masters team, in the national Ultimate championships in Sarasota, Fla.