Sports

Dave Conlon had a young high school boys basketball team to coach this year, his first here, and his charges showed grit through a season of challenges.

Two futsal championship games, in men’s open and men’s 37-plus, Saturday at Sportime were decided in shootouts, while the East Hampton Futbol Club took the women’s open championship.

Sunday is to be Katy’s Courage Day at the Buckskill Winter Club, an all-day fund-raiser for pediatric cancer research that will include a professional ice-dancing show.

A trip into the past to revisit a basketball barn-burner and a martial arts powerhouse at the Ross School.

East Hampton High’s Bronco Campsey at 108 pounds and Franco Palombino at 215 won League III wrestling championships Saturday, the boys county swimming meet qualifiers placed eighth among 19 squads, and the boys basketball team ended the League V season at 5-11 and 7-13 over all.

Miczar Garcia, a Bridgehampton senior who rarely plays, launched the ball from beyond the arc in the final seconds Friday and it swished through, topping off a 104-51 blowout of Shelter Island and unleashing pandemonium. 

Shawn Mitchell, an Amagansett School kindergarten teacher who not long ago took over a youth basketball league in Sag Harbor, now oversees the East End Basketball Organization for third through sixth graders. 

A look back at athletic news from 25 years ago.

Kieran Hildreth of Montauk, a 15-year-old sophomore at the Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont, dominated the Eastern Region U-16 circuit, winning the United States Ski and Snowboard Association Regional Performance Series super-G race at Copper Mountain, Colo., in December, which he followed up by winning all six giant slalom and slalom races at an annual RPS event at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks.

Liam Knight, a junior, led the East Hampton High School boys swimming team to a third-place finish in the League 2 championship meet at Sachem East High School on Jan. 27, accounting for 80 of the team’s 225 points in the four events he swam, the 100 and 200 freestyle races, which he won, and as a member of the second-place 400 free relay team and the fourth-place 200 free relay team.

Playing its best game of the season, the East Hampton High School boys basketball team, at full strength at last, routed Harborfields 67-34 here on Jan. 27. In girls track, Greylynn Guyer set an indoor school record in the 3,000-meter race in 10 minutes and 48.90 seconds, and C.J. Echavarria ran a school-record 9.43 seconds in the 55-meter high hurdles.

This week's high school sports schedule.

It’s been four years since Richie Daunt has been in the ring. Now, with his 35th birthday on the horizon, the wiry, hard-hitting welterweight from Montauk is giving it one more go.

The Hurricanes, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, are beginning an especially crucial part of the season, during which they will compete at the state and national levels.

Bonac’s third-place boys swimming team finished the league season at 4-2, and the boys were on fire on the track. The boys basketball team lost its seventh straight, but the girls won one.

Much basketball in store this week, and the Bonackers take part in winter track championships in Brentwood this weekend.

Betsy Kenyon woke up at dawn on her 59th birthday two days after Christmas and decided to commemorate it with a 25.8-mile beach walk from Flying Point in Water Mill, where she lives part time, to Montauk.

Dzmitry Daniliuk, the Buckskill Winter Club’s personable 30-year-old Belarus-born hockey coach, began playing the sport in Minsk at the age of 6, soon after fleeing a ballet class in which his mother had enrolled him.

The Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees followed up a 4-point win at Greenport in December with a 71-37 blowout Friday in the Beehive. Plus Bonac swimming, track, and wrestling updates.

Basketball and bowling on tap in the week ahead.

Student-athletes Zone awarded, remembering Martin Quigley, and more from the sports pages of yore.

The Whalers, a first-year entry in the Suffolk County High School Hockey League’s freshman division, routed Patchogue-Medford 11-1 Sunday night, plus winter track and Bonac hoops updates.

East Hampton High’s boys swimming team won two meets last week; results were mixed for wrestlers.

Nine Pierson High School varsity basketball players, five of them seniors, have left the team, frustrated by the behavior of the head coach, Dan White. Some parents have called for his removal, while some players who remain on the team have spoken up in support of him.

This week's schedule of high school sports matchups.

Chris Vaccaro, the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame’s president, announced this week that Howard and Kenny Wood, who led East Hampton High School basketball teams to state championships and played professionally, are among those who will be inducted into the Hall on May 29 in St. James.

A thousand point scorer on the Bonacker hoops team, more Killer Bees glory, and the magic of iceboating.

Anthony Daunt, Groundworks Landscaping’s 32-year-old project manager, added to his lengthening list of ultra challenges a recent 127-mile, 46-hour Times Square-to-Montauk Lighthouse Skyline to Shoreline run that he did to raise money for children who have cancer.

It was almost balmy on New Year’s Day when around 500 intrepid people plunged into the ocean at East Hampton Village’s Main Beach, with at least twice as many fellow citizens cheering them on.

All the local sports action for the week ahead.