Sports

   Agony and ecstasy met together at the Shoreham-East Hampton girls high school basketball game here last Thursday.

    A good-sized crowd had turned out to see Kaelyn Ward, who had already established herself as the highest-scoring female player in Bonac hoop history, score her 1,000th point. And, of course, the fans hoped too that their team would defeat Shoreham-Wading River.

    “Only Kaelyn should have been nervous — not all of them,” East Hampton’s coach, Howard Wood, said in the wake of the disappointing 64-35 loss.

   Though the East Hampton High School boys basketball team was missing two key players — Juan Cuevas, who starts, and Rolando Garces, the valuable sixth man — Bill McKee, the Bonackers’ coach, said during a conversation the day following a disappointing 56-55 loss at Shoreham-Wading River that “we just didn’t, for whatever reason, play well — we didn’t lose because Juan and Rolando weren’t there.”

    The East Hampton High School boys swimming team evened its league record with a 99-85 win at Huntington this past week.

    While Huntington had a state-record-holding swimmer, Gunther Cassel, in its lineup, and had divers to boot, East Hampton’s depth turned the tide.

   Just a few East Hamptoners have played on collegiate national championship teams over the years; Brandon West is the latest.

    West and his Messiah College teammates of Mechanicsburg, Pa., went 23-0-2 this past season on their way to winning Division III’s men’s soccer championship. It was the eighth national title for the Falcons in the past 11 years.

   The honors keep coming in for Ed Petrie, New York State’s winningest public high school boys basketball coach, though the latest, in the form of his induction into his high school’s Hall of Fame, was a long time in coming.

Don’t Ask

    Neither Steve Tseperkas nor his assistant, Louis Russo, was inclined to talk during Monday’s practice about Bonac’s recent 49-30 wrestling loss at Mount Sinai.

    “We didn’t win one match,” said Tseperkas. “All our points resulted from forfeits.”

    Adding injury to insult, Lucas Escobar, arguably the team’s best wrestler, who has been competing this season at 120 pounds, suffered a broken clavicle and a separated shoulder during his 7-5 loss.

Thursday, January 10

BOWLING, East Hampton vs. Rocky Point, Port Jefferson Bowl, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, January 11

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn, 4 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Amityville, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 12

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Comsewogue tournament, 7:30 a.m.

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton girls at Jim Howard meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 10 a.m.

Tuesday, January 15

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point, 4 p.m.

   East Hampton High’s winter track teams, while rather low in numbers, have some goers, mostly young, who have kept it interesting for their coaches, Chris Reich in the boys’ case and Shani Cuesta in the case of the girls.

    As 2012 began, Dr. Paul Weinhold, a sports psychologist, said that “The best are confident — in any sport. They’re not adding an enormous amount of pressure on themselves because they’ve already incorporated into themselves the knowledge that they will not always be perfect. It makes no difference whether you’re an athlete or a surgeon or a musician. . . . They want to be focused, confident, to quiet the mind.”

Thursday, January 3

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Shoreham-Wading River, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

Friday, January 4

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Mount Sinai, 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, January 6

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton girls at crossover meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 2:30 p.m.

Monday, January 7

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton boys at crossover meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, January 8

December 10, 1987

    Ground will be broken Monday in Hampton Bays for a 60,000-square-foot building that will house an ice hockey and figure skating rink, the first such on the East End.

    To be known as the Southampton Civic Center, the building, which, besides an Olympic-sized 90-by-200-foot rink, is to include training and Nautilus rooms, locker rooms, a pro shop, and public meeting rooms, is being put up by Gerry Hart, a former New York Islander, and Ed Broidy, partners in a land developing and building business on Southampton’s North Highway.

   The East Hampton High School boys basketball team lost its first game of the season Friday as the Dalton School, sporting a formidable point guard and a 6-foot-5-inch center, prevailed over the Bonackers 64-54 in the first round of the Southampton Recreation Center’s Holiday Classic tournament.

    Bill McKee’s team, which had gone into the tourney with a 6-0 record, played hard, but Dalton’s energetic man-for-man defense made the Bonackers work hard for their shots.

   It took about 10 minutes for East Hampton High School’s boys basketball team to warm up in a league game played here on Dec. 19 with Miller Place.

    A steal by Rolando Garces early in the second quarter that Thomas Nelson followed with a fast-break layup, and a subsequent coast-to-coast drive by Garces, following a steal by Nelson, got the blood flowing, and from that point on the Bonackers, who improved to 6-0 as a result of the 60-39 win, were in the driver’s seat.

   Pat Hand, who coaches East Hampton High School’s bowling team, confessed after Dec. 18’s big win here over Eastport-South Manor, the defending league champion, that she had been pleasantly surprised.

    The Sharks, after all, had been racking up some 1,000-plus-point games, while East Hampton’s best game as of that day had been a 934.

    The visitors, dressed in dark blue jerseys and khaki cargo shorts, exuded confidence on their arrival at East Hampton Bowl. And they started off strong, sweeping the alleys clean of pins in the early going of the first game.

Thursday, December 27

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Half Hollow Hills East tournament, also Friday, 9 a.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson-Bridgehampton at Hampton Bays tournament, 11 a.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Bridgehampton at Mattituck, 3 p.m.

Saturday, December 29

BOYS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Rocky Point, noon.

Tuesday, January 1

   The East Hampton High School boys swimming team and the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton

RECenter Hurricanes enjoyed productive outings in pools this past week.

    While the boys, coached by Craig Brierley, lost 102-79 at Sayville, “we put up some good times,” said the coach, who added that “we’re not in our racing phase yet — we’re concentrating on building up our endurance. The other coach said afterward that he was ‘a little nervous,’ that he didn’t expect us to be so strong.”

   The East Hampton High School bowling team was said to be “on fire” in a recent published report, and Pat Hand, the team’s coach, acknowledged during a conversation this past week that that was so.

    Going into Tuesday’s match here with Eastport-South Manor, a team that has had some 1,000-point-plus games, East Hampton was 4-0.

   Five female athletes from East Hampton were in the news this past week.

   Maddie Minetree, a freshman at Rollins College in Florida, and her three 800-meter relay teammates broke the school record by 13 seconds at a regional meet in Fort Lauderdale over the weekend, qualifying for the National Collegiate Athletic Association meet that is to be held in Birmingham, Ala., in March. It’s the first time that a Rollins relay team has done so.

   Things have been going swimmingly for the East Hampton High School boys and girls basketball teams thus far.

    The boys, 5-0 over all as of Tuesday, had a big win at Mount Sinai Friday, besting the Mustangs, who have a 6-foot-8-inch Division 1-bound center, 65-63.

Thursday, December 20

BOYS SWIMMING, East Hampton at Sachem East, nonleague, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson-Bridgehampton at Port Jefferson, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, December 21

BOYS BASKETBALL, holiday tournament, East Hampton vs. Dalton, 6 p.m., and Southampton vs. Bridgehampton, 8, Southampton High School.

Saturday, December 22

BOYS BASKETBALL, holiday tournament, consolation game, 9 a.m., championship game, 11, Southampton High School.

   East Hampton High School’s young wrestling team bore testimony to its schooling as it won three matches Saturday before losing to Centereach in the Doc Fallot Memorial Duals tournament at Hampton Bays.

    On the way to the final, the Bonackers, who had three freshmen in the lineup — Axel Alanis, at 170 pounds, Robert Padilla, at 126, and Malachy Mitchnick, at 138 — defeated West Babylon’s B team 59-18, Sayville’s B team 52-24, and Long Island Lutheran 66-15 before losing to a strong Centereach team that had come out of the A Pool (East Hampton was in the B Pool).

   This past fall was a breakout season for the East Hampton High School boys and girls cross-country teams.

    Kevin Barry, the boys coach, recently said that although he had the youngest team in the county, it was the best squad he’d had in five years, and, in time, might well prove to be the best he’s had in a decade.

    “We won county championships in 2001 and ’02, with Chris Reich [who now coaches the boys winter and spring teams] and Joe Sullivan and the Ahearn twins. . . . That was a long time ago, but these kids seem to want it.”

    Connor Miller and James Lock shared the Montauk Rugby Club’s player of the year award at the club’s holiday dinner at Page at 63 Main restaurant in Sag Harbor on Friday.

    Miller, a 23-year-old inside center who was a wrestler in high school and college, and the English-born Lock, who is in his early 30s, were key factors in the Sharks’ 6-1 fall season, a finish that resulted in their receiving a bye in the first round of this coming spring’s regional playoffs.

   While she is technically conversant, Marie Minnick, were she a child again, wouldn’t be sitting inside playing video games or such, she would be outdoors.

    “I was out playing in Central Park all the time when I was a kid,” the longtime platform tennis pro said during a recent conversation. “We used to roller-skate, we played stoop ball . . . hopscotched, we’d sled, ride horses. . . .”

Thursday, December 13

BOWLING, East Hampton vs. Southampton, Wildwood Lanes, 3:30 p.m.

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Riverhead, 6 p.m.

Friday, December 14

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Mount Sinai, 4 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Mount Sinai at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

Saturday, December 15

WRESTLING, East Hampton at Hampton Bays tournament, 7:30 a.m.

BOYS WINTER TRACK, East Hampton at crossover meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, December 16

November 5, 1987

    The East Hampton-Pierson cross-country team continued its stellar season Saturday by adding the Conference Four title to the league championship it had already won.

    Led by Jim Lattanzio, East Hampton-Pierson won five of the top 10 places in the 3.1-mile race over the hilly Sunken Meadow State Park course to easily defeat its rival, Stony Brook, 25 to 38. East Hampton and Stony Brook, in turn, bested Mattituck, Westhampton, Hampton Bays, LaSalle Military Academy, and Center Moriches.

    The East Hampton High School boys and girls basketball teams began their seasons on the right foot this past week as the boys, thanks to a 20-4 third quarter, reeled in the Eastport-Manor Sharks, and as Ashley Rojas, in cool-cookie fashion, made both ends of a one-and-one in the final seconds to defeat Westhampton Beach 31-29.

   Three watermen, Scott Bradley, Ed Cashin, and Fred Doss — and one waterwoman, Shelter Island’s Amanda Clark, a two-time Olympic sailor — were among the honorees at Monday’s Old Montauk Athletic Club holiday dinner.

    Bradley, who recently won his age group in the world paddleboarding championships’ 11-mile open-water race in Cabo San Lucas, was the club’s athlete of the year. Cashin, who oversees the Exceed Fitness studio on Plank Road, and Doss, a consultant to nonprofit organizations, were the recipients of OMAC’s community service award.

   As the result of semifinal-round victories, Maidstone Market, the nine-time defending champion, and Tortorella Pools were to have met once again in a Wednesday evening 7-on-7 championship game at East Hampton’s Herrick Park earlier this week.

    The same teams vied in the summer final in August, with the Market coming out on top 3-1.

    Tortorella had the easier time of it in the semis on Nov. 28 as two goals by David Rodriguez, with 75 Main a man down in the second half as the result of Tony Shoshi’s red-carding, put Leslie Czeladko’s team over the top.

Thursday, December 6

BOWLING, Rocky Point vs. East Hampton, East Hampton Bowl, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, December 7

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Pierson, nonleague, 6 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Hampton Bays tournament, 5:15 p.m.

RUGBY, holiday dinner, Page restaurant, Main Street, Sag Harbor, 7 p.m.

Saturday, December 8

WRESTLING, Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament, East Hampton High School, from 9 a.m.

Sunday, December 9