Sports

“Now that’s basketball!” a fan exulted after Logan Gurney nailed, in the final second, a 3-pointer from the right wing that treated the Bonackers to a 57-55 win over favored Hauppauge on Feb. 5.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team finished sixth among the 22 schools that vied in the county meet Saturday.

The county boys basketball Class C and D championship games are Friday at East Hampton High.

East Hampton’s Little League organization is to benefit from several upcoming free clinics here.

Matej Zlatkovic, a pro at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club, has begun overseeing pickleball games on one of the club’s indoor Har-Tru courts, a first here.

Craig Brierley, the Bonac boys swimming coach, said last week’s league meet “had the makings for us to accomplish something extraordinary . . . for the second consecutive season we were the league champion.”

The boys basketball season began here with three straight nonleague wins at home, then things got worse — the last home win was over Rocky Point on Dec. 16 — before they got better.

Yani Cuesta, East Hampton’s girls winter track team coach, said the 4-by-400 relay team of Bella Espinoza, Ava Engstrom, Penelope Greene, and Lillie Minskoff would have broken a school record in that event absent a disqualifying out-of-the-lane baton pass at the county small schools meet Friday.

Saturday takes the Bonac wrestlers to the league meet at Eastport-South Manor and the boys swimmers to the county meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, where the winter track state qualifier happens Monday night.

The Sportime Arena in Amagansett was bustling Saturday, with three intensely contested futsal (indoor soccer) finals played before a large group of spectators.

For the second straight year the East Hampton High School boys swimming team has gone undefeated in league competition.

Vinny Alversa and Annemarie Cangiolosi have been doing their best to strengthen East Hampton High School’s baseball and softball programs, from Little League on up.