Sports

East Hampton's field hockey, soccer, volleyball, and cross-country teams were on the field, court, and course this week as a belated fall season got underway.

Anthony Daunt of Springs barely got any sleep for four and a half days straight not long ago, but it wasn't his infant daughter, Mila, who was keeping him up, but rather the Moab 240, an ultra race in Utah.

The junior varsity team has begun a 10-day quarantine period after one of its players, a Pierson student who played in Saturday's game with Babylon's jayvee, tested positive for Covid-19 over the weekend.

The first game to be played on East Hampton High School's turf field in a long while was contested by the East Hampton and Pierson boys soccer teams Monday in typically brisk Bonac spring weather. The nonleaguer — the first of the season for both teams — was, in contrast, hotly contested, though the Bonackers proved to be the more solid squad, and thus wound up winning 2-0.

There were to have been five athletic contests involving East Hampton High School teams Tuesday, and three — field hockey, boys soccer, and boys volleyball — went off as scheduled. A boys cross-country meet with Islip that was to have been held at Belmont Lake State Park in West Babylon that afternoon was canceled.

"Right now, our plans are all systems go, but we recognize that anything could still change," said Marty Bauman, the show's communications director.

The Peconic Hockey Foundation hopes to build a covered ice rink in the Riverhead area, perhaps at Calverton, that would provide youngsters on the North and South Forks with a place to play.

Eleven teams — teams that normally would play in the fall — began practicing Monday, namely football, boys and girls volleyball, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls cross-country, girls tennis, golf, girls swimming, and field hockey.

East Hampton High School on Monday will spring into the fall season insofar as its athletic offerings are concerned. Eleven teams are to begin practice that day, teams that in normal times would have played in the fall, namely football, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls volleyball, boys and girls cross-country, golf, girls tennis, girls swimming, and field hockey.

On Saturday, the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Jack Duryea, Daniel Piver, Aidan McCormac, and Colin Harrison placed third in 1 minute and 34.03 seconds, as all four swam personal-best 50-yard legs, Duryea in 22.90 seconds, Piver in 22.88, McCormac in 25.91, and Harrison in 22.34.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball team was thrown a curve, as it were, on Feb. 17 when its coach, Dan White, learned with three minutes left in that day's game with Bayport-Blue Point that a Mattituck player had that morning tested positive for Covid-19.

In winter track, whose meets have been contested outdoors rather than at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood's field house, as has been customary, East Hampton's girls were outnumbered and overpowered by Sayville here Sunday, though there were a number of personal bests.