Sports

Gino Fava has for a while been a proponent of the underhand serve, the use of which often is viewed as an underhanded tactic by receivers.

“We can either win everything or we can bomb,” Kevin Bunce said of the Section XI Warriors the other day.

Kal Lewis, Shelter Island High School’s star long-distance runner, topped all public high school contestants in the state’s 1,600-meter indoor race at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island Saturday.

Boys tennis plays at Half Hollow Hills East Tuesday, and the girls lacrosse team is home Wednesday for a scrimmage.

Wrestling is not only good for the body, but also for the mind and spirit, said Ethan Mitchell, East Hampton’s assistant coach, the best sport for preparing one for life.

Sophia Swanson, who signed a letter of intent to attend Marist College on a partial athletic scholarship Tuesday and swims the year round, said that she had not tired of looking at the Y pool’s black lines.

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School girls basketball team was looking to upset Westhampton Beach Saturday at St. Joseph’s College, but fouls and an injury didn’t help their cause.

Sydney Wood, a daughter of Kenny Wood, who led East Hampton High School to a state boys basketball championship in 1989, and her Northwestern University teammates earned at least a share of the Big 10 title with a 75-58 win over Illinois Saturday.

The state meet for swimmers is Friday and Saturday at the Nassau County Aquatic Center, and the Pierson girls play East Rockaway Monday for the Long Island Class C basketball title.

It’s been 40 years since Brid­gehampton High fielded a baseball team, but now one’s in the making.

“Do you want to know what her day is like?” Kevin McConville, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls and boys tennis teams, said of his number-one singles player, Juliana Barahona. “She goes to school until 3, hits with me from 3 to 4:45, and then goes to work at the Sag Harbor Gym from 5 to 10.”

Vinny Alversa, East Hampton High’s baseball coach, and Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown, the softball coach, had their charges rotate among stations that focused on hitting, fielding, pitching, catching, and on catching fly balls.