Lookee here, sports fans, for the local high school action ahead.
Lookee here, sports fans, for the local high school action ahead.
From the East Hampton Little League organization’s opening day to Bonac and Pierson varsity games, baseball was the sporting item of the day.
The East Hampton High School girls lacrosse team romps, while Bonac girls track makes strides at a big invitational in Deer Park.
The Ross School’s athletic director and tennis coach, Marcelo Reda, is more interested in nurturing a winning mentality than in winning per se.
High school sports here: the week that is to be.
East Hampton High’s baseball team and the Southampton-based South Fork boys lacrosse team, with a lineup of half a dozen Bonackers, could boast of 3-0 records as of earlier this week. East Hampton’s girls lacrosse team was 2-0.
College will have to wait for Chase Lieder, the 18-year-old champion surfer from Montauk. He’s doing too well as a pro.
“That kids from these small towns, from Sag Harbor, East Hampton, and Southampton, can now go toe-to-toe with the established programs up the Island is quite something,” in the words of one coach.
A dozen women from the Breakwater and Shelter Island Yacht Clubs recently took part in a racing clinic given by North U in St. Petersburg, Fla. It really upped their games.
East Hampton High’s girls lacrosse team made its debut here last week, defeating North Babylon, while the softball team took on Deer Park.
John Ryan Jr., the chief of East Hampton Town’s lifeguards for the past 34 years, was recently named as a delegate to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States Lifesaving Association.
Drew Smith, who manages East Hampton Village's Main Beach and is the chief of the village's lifeguards, said recently that anyone looking to work this summer as a lifeguard, on the village beaches or on the East Hampton Town beaches overseen by John Ryan Jr., "should either contact me or John as soon as possible — I can't emphasize that enough. Reach out to us and let us know your interest."
The two-time-defending state champion Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes were edged by Huntington in the state’s three-day Y swim meet at the Nassau County Aquatic Center this past weekend, but there was no shame in that. Huntington’s squad numbered more than 120, East Hampton’s 65.
Nancy Richer began dancing at the age of 6, went on to a professional career that took her all over the world, and has now opened her own ballet and Pilates studio, Richer Movement, in Water Mill.
The high school spring sports season has begun, with softball, girls lacrosse, baseball, and tennis all contested this week.
The day the Maidstoners softball club hit Havana. And more from the sports pages of yore.
Formal spring season practices started on Monday. Here’s an early look at East Hampton’s teams, from baseball to lacrosse to track.
After successfully completing her 27,759-mile solo nonstop sail around the world last Thursday as part of the Global Solo Challenge, Cole Brauer received myriad thank-yous from near and far for having not only inspired a generation of young women (and at the beginning of International Women’s Month, no less) who might not otherwise have taken up a historically male-dominated sport, but also for having inspired everyone — young and old, male and female.
West Hempstead, nine deep, athletic, and well coached, played well in transition on the way to a 75-54 win over the Pierson Whalers for the Long Island Class B title last week.
Cole Brauer, the 29-year-old East Hampton native who has been sailing solo around the world since Oct. 29, arrived at the Global Solo Challenge race’s finish line in A Coruña, Spain, early Thursday morning, as her 40-foot boat, First Light, “would have wanted it,” becoming the first American woman to sail solo nonstop around the world’s three great capes, and the 18th woman to do it overall.
Notes from the glory days of Bonac softball, and a look back at the spread of lacrosse to high schools here.
Sixty-one youngsters in second through sixth grade turned out for the first Bonac Bolts youth track club’s practice Sunday afternoon at East Hampton High School.
East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard training, evaluation, and testing in advance of the summer junior lifeguard program for kids 9 to 15 is underway at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter on Sundays. All new and returning participants are required to attend.
Hundreds of anglers were saddened to learn last week that Paulie’s Tackle Shop, operating in downtown Montauk for over 20 years, had closed its doors forever.
The outcome of Bridgehampton’s Class D game on Feb. 29 was expected — Smithtown Christian’s senior-heavy lineup is strong, inside and out — as was Pierson High School’s 53-39 win later over Babylon in the Class B tilt.
Cole Brauer, the 29-year-old East Hampton High graduate who has been sailing solo around the world in the Global Solo Challenge race, was as of Monday speeding in advance of a low pressure system bearing strong and unfavorable winds toward the finish line at A Coruna, Spain.
As of Monday, Cole Brauer, the 29-year-old sailor who graduated from East Hampton High School in 2012, was within 2,000 miles of finishing the Global Solo Challenge singlehanded race around the world’s three great capes and heading for the Azores.
Katy Stewart, the late daughter of Brigid Collins and Jim Stewart, was remembered Saturday at an all-day fund-raiser at the Buckskill Winter Club that included an evening ice show and a youth hockey game.
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