Sports

For the third time in the past few years, the possibility of East Hampton and Southampton High Schools combining football programs is again being considered.

Vicki Littman, chairwoman of the East Hampton Food Pantry, the annual plunge’s beneficiary, said 260-plus hit the water at Main Beach in the village.

Caroline Brown is the United States Lifesaving Association’s female junior lifeguard of the year, the first one from here to be so honored.

Tight Lines Tackle on Bay Street in Sag Harbor is jammed from the roof to the floorboard with just about every kind of tackle, apparel, and bait imaginable. You name it, you will likely find it.

Vince Horcasitas finished 2019 ranked fifth nationwide in the United States Tennis Association’s men’s 55 singles division, owing largely to recent wins in national tournaments played in Phoenix and in Longboat Key, Fla.

A look back at how a girls basketball coach greatly helped a group with impaired motor skills, in terms of both movement and self-esteem.

The fate of the football program here will be discussed Thursday night in the high school cafeteria. In girls hoops, East Hampton hosts Hauppauge Friday, while Pierson plays Mattituck in Sag Harbor. And winter track takes the Bonac girls to meets at Suffolk Community College Friday and Sunday.

It was cloudy and relatively warm on Friday, 50 degrees to be exact, which, when it came to skating, was fine with him, Doug De Groot said, the Buckskill Winter Club’s enemy this time of year being the sun.

“Did we . . . win?” the sportswriter asked on arriving late at East Hampton High. “They won,” a young fan answered on his way out.

“Our defense was good enough for us to win,” Dan White, East Hampton’s coach, said after a 45-30 loss to Eastport-South Manor here, but when it came to offense there wasn’t much to write home about.

Hoops rivalries will be the order of the day Friday, as Bridgehampton visits Greenport, and Southold plays at Pierson in Sag Harbor. Monday takes the Bonackers bowling against Greenport-Southold at the All Star lanes in Riverhead.

The link between sports and good works was further strengthened here in 2019, what with the polar bear plunge at Main Beach, the Katy’s Courage race in Sag Harbor, Ellen’s Run in Southampton, Montauk’s triathlons, the Shelter Island 10K, the Artists and Writers Softball Game, and the I-Tri program for teenage girls.