Sports

Save “the Marinackers” for another year: The Bonackers will go it alone in football next season, East Hampton’s head coach, Joe McKee, said Friday.

East Hampton High’s girls and boys winter track teams finished at the bottom of the standings in league meets at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood over the weekend — the boys placing 10th among 11 teams, and the girls last.

Hoops heats up in Sag Harbor and East Hampton Friday, and Futsal returns to Sportime in Amagansett Saturday.

East Hampton High’s boys swimming team improved its League II record to 4-0 last week after lopsided wins over North Babylon and Northport.

Ally Friedman, a senior in the Ross School’s tennis academy, is to receive an award from the United States Tennis Association that commends her tennis-centered empowerment work here with young girls.

East Hampton’s football program is considering whether to continue going it alone, or whether it wants, as was suggested last week, to merge with Southampton.

Girls winter tracksters do well at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, while Bonac’s wrestlers hit the mats at an invitational in Copiague.

Speed-skating clinics come to Buckskill Thursday and Saturday. In boys hoops, Southold is at Bridgehampton Friday and Islip visits Bonac Saturday. And the girls winter track team will run at the League IV championship meet in Brentwood Friday evening.

For the third time in the past few years, the possibility of East Hampton and Southampton High Schools combining football programs is again being considered.

Vicki Littman, chairwoman of the East Hampton Food Pantry, the annual plunge’s beneficiary, said 260-plus hit the water at Main Beach in the village.

Caroline Brown is the United States Lifesaving Association’s female junior lifeguard of the year, the first one from here to be so honored.

Tight Lines Tackle on Bay Street in Sag Harbor is jammed from the roof to the floorboard with just about every kind of tackle, apparel, and bait imaginable. You name it, you will likely find it.