As the East Hampton High School varsity boys swimming team continues to sail along, so, too, does its de facto feeder program, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes, which, at the midway point of the season, can boast of four national meet qualifiers thus far — Maggie Purcell, Ethan McCormac, Julia Brierley, and Sophia Swanson.
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On the Plunge and PantriesJan 9, 2018
The food pantries in East Hampton, Wainscott, Springs, and Amagansett are to split the more than $10,000 in proceeds from the New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge at East Hampton’s Main Beach, Vicki Littman, who chairs the East Hampton Food Pantry, said earlier this week.
The Lineup: 01.11.18Jan 9, 2018
Thursday, January 11
BOYS BASKETBALL, Kings Park at East Hampton, 6:45 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Kings Park, 6:45 p.m.
Friday, January 12
WRESTLING, East Hampton at Kings Park, 4:30 p.m.
BOYS BASKETBALL, Bridgehampton at Ross School, East Hampton, 4:30 p.m., and Southold at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 6:15.
Tuesday, January 16
BOYS SWIMMING, West Islip vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Islip at East Hampton, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 17
Wanted: One Hockey GoalieCory Lillie, when asked Saturday how his high school-age ice hockey team was doing at the Buckskill Winter Club, said, “We need a goalie.”
Wrestlers Bageled, Boys Hoopsters Slay SayvilleEast Hampton High’s boys basketball team, which was to have played back-to-back games Monday and Tuesday as a result of last Thursday’s blizzard, enjoyed an easy 71-49 win here on Jan. 2 over Sayville, a win that Dan White, the coach, attributed primarily to improved defensive play.
Fabiszak Getting Older and QuickerDennis Fabiszak, the executive director of the East Hampton Library, who is also an ultra runner, recently repeated as the winner of a 100-mile race near Cape Canaveral.
First Half of Friday’s Game Was FunIn boys basketball games in the latter part of December, East Hampton High’s team was fun to watch in two of them, though not so much fun to watch in the third, played here Friday with East Islip, the League V leader at the moment at 5-0.
The Lineup: 01.04.18Jan 2, 2018
Thursday, January 4
BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach,
4:30 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach,
5:45 p.m.
Friday, January 5
WRESTLING, East Hampton at West Babylon, 5 p.m.
Monday, January 8
BOYS SWIMMING, East Hampton at Sayville/Bayport,
Sayville Middle School, 5 p.m.
GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson-Bridgehampton at Mattituck,
5:45 p.m.
Tuesday, January 9
GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 5 p.m.
Polar Bear Plunges MondayDec 26, 2017
There will be ocean plunges Monday at Gurney’s Resort in Montauk, at Main Beach in East Hampton Village, and at Beach Lane in Wainscott.
Buoying Results in Pool, on MatsEast Hampton High School’s boys swimming team was atop the League II heap as of Tuesday, with a 2-0 record in league meets — the latest a 92-72 win at Deer Park last Thursday — and a 3-1 mark over all.
Coaches Have Hopes For Their Hoop TeamsRon White, a national junior college champion when he went a while ago to Suffolk Community College-Selden, has been told by his former coach there, Rich Wrase, not to worry when it comes to the high school coaching career upon which he recently embarked.
OMAC Honoree Recalls Those Who Gave Him a StartAt a holiday dinner held at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett earlier this month, John Broich, a triathlete with more than 100 of those swimming-cycling-running events to his credit, was cited as the club’s male athlete of the year.
Everyone’s In As Swim Meets BeginCraig Brierley has a dozen freshmen on the East Hampton High School boys swimming team he coaches, but you’d never know it the way the Bonackers have been performing. As of earlier this week, they were 2-1 over all and 1-0 in League II.
Hopes Pinned On Bonac WrestlersLast year was a lean one for East Hampton High School wrestling — by season’s end Anthony Piscitello, a Ross School wellness teacher who was in his first year of coaching here, had only eight left on a roster that began with somewhat more than 20.
Three-Peat in 7-on-7 Men's Soccer for Maidstone MarketThe top two seeds in the East End 7-on-7 Soccer League, the Maidstone Market and Hampton F.C.-Bill Miller, went at it in the playoff final at East Hampton’s Herrick Park recently, with the former winning 3-1.
Bonac Boys Meet Tip-Off Tourney TestEast Hampton High School’s boys basketball team commenced its season with an impressive win in the Kendall Madison Tip-Off tournament here this past weekend, trouncing McGann-Mercy 80-48 on Friday before besting Pierson (Sag Harbor) 60-47 in Saturday’s championship game.
Nick West Wins National Division III Soccer TitleWhen last Nick West was at a final — at the 2014 state boys soccer championships in Middletown — he was on crutches, having suffered a broken foot in a semifinal the day before.
Splashy Start for East Hampton’s Boys Swim TeamThe East Hampton High School boys swimming and girls basketball teams began their seasons this past week, with decidedly different results.
Bonackers' Hoops Coach OptimisticDan White, who is in his second year coaching the East Hampton High School boys basketball team, said following Saturday’s multiteam scrimmage at Mattituck, a scrimmage that also included Riverhead and Greenport, that he was “optimistic” when it came to the coming season.
Bountiful Turnout at Montauk Turkey TrotsThe weather was good on Thanksgiving Day, warmer apparently than was expected, so the turnout at the East Hampton Town Recreation Department and John Keeshan Realty’s three and six-mile Turkey Trots in Montauk was bountiful.
Buoyed by Results, Ackley to Get Into Fighting ShapeFrank Ackley, the East’s top-ranked 65-year-old United States Tennis Association singles player in 2015, said during a recent conversation at his house in Springs that he hadn’t played singles at the national level in a while, “ever since I broke my leg in a freaky accident on the grass courts at The Bridge.”