Sports

Frank Ackley, who last was heard from a year ago, phoned the other day to say he and a doubles partner with whom he’d been playing for the first time had made it to the semifinals of the United States Tennis Association’s clay court championships recently in New Orleans.

The second leg of what has come to be known as Montauk’s Grand Prix, the 3.3-mile Dock race, attracted more than 220 entrants Sunday, a record. The entries included scooters, skateboards, baby strollers, bicycles of all sizes, and dogs of all sizes.

Friday, November 16

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton qualifiers at New York State meet, Ithaca College, from 8 a.m., also Saturday.

Sunday, November 18

MEN’S SOCCER, Suffolk over-30 league, S.F.C. Newcastle vs. Hampton United, Hampton Bays High School, 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 22

RUNNING, Town Recreation Department 3 and 6-mile Runs for Fun, Montauk Circle, 10 a.m., check-in from 8 to 9:30.

The East Hampton High School girls volleyball team, which had cruised through league play undefeated this fall, at 12-0, and which seemed poised to win the county’s Class A championship and possibly go upstate for the first time since 2009, was dealt a cruel blow here Monday by fifth-seeded Kings Park, a well-balanced team like the Bonackers, but one that in the end that afternoon made fewer mistakes.

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East Hampton High’s girls swimming team, which cruised through the league season undefeated, winning its second championship in a row, placed sixth among the 25 schools contending in the county championship meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood Saturday — in fourth place, its coach, Craig Brierley, noted, absent the points award for diving, an event in which the Bonackers do not compete.

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A half dozen women in their 40s who train at Ed and Caroline Cashin’s Truth Training fitness studio in East Hampton ran in the New York City Marathon Sunday, and for most of them it was their first attempt at the grueling 26.2-mile distance.

When, after her East Hampton High School girls volleyball team had swept through the Westhampton Beach Hurricanes 3-0, sealing an undefeated league season, Kathy McGeehan was asked how many undefeated teams she’d had in the past, she directed her questioner’s gaze upward. The first banner he saw was that of her 2002 team, which, indeed, had been undefeated.

Friday’s under-the-lights junior varsity football game at Southampton High School provided all the excitement that has attended East Hampton-Southampton matchups since the early 1920s.

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East Hampton High’s girls swimming team, while not the official winner of the League III meet at Hauppauge High School on Oct. 24, finishing second over all to Sayville-Bayport, bested everyone in the swimming events.

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Vinny Alversa, who has been a physical education teacher and boys soccer and baseball coach at the Springs School during the past 20 years, was the chief honoree at that school’s first-ever homecoming last Thursday, in a gym packed with about 300 students.

Three of the top seven finishers in the Shelter Island Fall 5K Saturday were Krauses — Janelle Kraus Nadeau, the first of Cliff Clark’s long-distance stars, and her first cousins, Alex and Alysa Kraus of Fairfield, Conn.

The East Hampton High School girls tennis team, which wound up as the runner-up to undefeated Westhampton Beach in league play, won a first-round county team tournament match Friday, defeating William Floyd 6-1 here, the sole loss coming at first doubles.

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team bid farewell to its home pool at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter last Thursday by swamping Harborfields, usually a formidable foe, 104-66, though the reported score, because of customary largess, was somewhat closer.

Monday was an eventful day insofar as East Hampton High’s girls volleyball and boys soccer teams went.

Thursday, October 25

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A tournament, quarterfinal round, East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn, 4 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Westhampton Beach at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

Friday, October 26

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Half Hollow Hills at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton junior varsity at Southampton, 4 p.m. 

Saturday, October 27

BREWATHLON, for four-person teams, 5,000-meter row, 15K bike, 5K run, and 2,500-meter row, Montauk Brewery, Edgemere Road, Montauk, 2 p.m.

Sunday, October 28

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The Y.M.C.A. East Ham­pton RECenter has, under Rosie Orlando, the Y’s health and wellness director, been working with those who have Parkinson’s disease for the past two years, at the instance of Steve Sicilian, a Y member who has Parkinson’s and also participates in Epic Martial Arts’ boxing sessions.

Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton High’s standout senior cross-country runner, placed 11th in a field of 200 at the Manhattan College invitational, the country’s largest high school cross-country race, Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

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When Kathy McGeehan was asked Monday if the East Hampton High School girls volleyball team she coaches should be considered league champs, she said, “Oh my God, don’t say that . . . this league may not be decided until the last ball hits the floor.”

Six days a week, at her Epic Martial Arts studio in Sag Harbor, Sensei Michelle Del Giorno challenges and urges on numerous Rock Steady Boxing students of hers who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease — hard-charging 75-minute Parkinson’s-specific workouts that would test the stamina of most anyone.

East Hampton High’s girls volleyball and swimming teams continued undefeated in league competition this past week, one in which the field hockey team won three in a row, the boys and girls soccer teams won twice, the golf team, avenging itself on Westhampton Beach at the South Fork Country Club, might have played itself into a three-way share of the League VIII title, and the boys volleyball team won for the first time this season.

Kai Costanzo had been planning to do the Serpent’s Back Duathlon’s relay with his cousin, but the latter was a no-show at Ed Ecker County Park in Montauk Sunday morning, so Costanzo ran, biked, and ran his way to the win in 1 hour, 25 minutes, and 36 seconds

Nick West, who, had he not suffered a broken foot in a semifinal win, would have provided East Hampton High School’s boys soccer team with considerably more firepower in its 2014 state final versus Rochester’s Greece Athena, which the Bonackers lost 4-2, has been the collegiate men’s soccer scoring leader — that’s D-III, D-II, and D-I — in the nation this fall.

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James Bradley, a seventh grader who was a welcome addition to East Hampton High School’s golf team this fall, recently advanced, through a regional qualifier on the Winged Foot course in Mamaroneck, to the national Drive, Chip, and Putt finals at the Augusta National Golf Club next April.