Sports

   Greg Drossel, a naturalist who last fall began giving a popular archery course at the Ross School, and who is soon to give the same course to adults as part of Ross’s continuing education program, said the other day that his love for the sport grew hand in hand with his love of the outdoors.

    “I grew up in the Stony Brook-Port Jefferson area and as a kid I roamed the woods with an uncle of mine who was five years older. After a rainstorm we’d find white quartz arrowheads from an old Native American settlement. Guess what we did with them?”

    “Shoot them?”

   One of the warmest days yet this year brought nine sailors to a seven-race regatta on Saturday afternoon at Sag Harbor’s Breakwater Yacht Club. Postponed from HarborFrost weekend in February because of the bay’s transformation to a sea of ice in a blizzard, the weather on this day was just right, according to Marty Knab of Sag Harbor, who served on the race committee.

   “One step at a time” is how Brigid Collins and Jim Stewart plan to create a bereavement center for children on the East End. They took a giant leap in that direction in October, when they secured not-for-profit status for Katy’s Courage Fund, named for their daughter, who died of hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer. The third Annual Katy’s Courage 5K race, which celebrates Katy and furthers her family’s progress toward their goal, will take place in Sag Harbor on April 13.

Thursday, April 4

GIRLS TRACK, East Hampton at Sayville, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS LACROSSE, Kings Park at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TRACK, Sayville at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 5

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

GIRLS LACROSSE, Sayville at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TENNIS, Southampton at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 6

SOFTBALL, Bayport-Blue Point at East Hampton, nonleague, 11 a.m.

Monday, April 8

SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 4:30 p.m.

   A good big team, the Green Devils, was matched against a good small one, the Kings, in the 11-and-up roller hockey championship game at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett Sunday.

    And, in the end, though it took 44 minutes of regulation and 2:40 of overtime to do it, the Devils, thanks to Matt Kreymborg’s fourth goal of the day, prevailed 7-6.

   The East Hampton High School teams that played Monday, which is to say boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse, softball, and baseball, lost, though the season is young and the teams are young.

    The week’s sole good news lay in the boys track team’s 76-64 league-opener loss at Miller Place. Chris Reich, the head coach, said in an e-mail account that “it was the closest we’ve come to beating Miller Place in three years. We have a great chance of winning a lot of meets this season.”

   Jacob Siwicki of Sagaponack, who in his high school career played for top football programs in suburban Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., before taking a postgraduate year at the Northfield Mount Hermon preparatory school in Gill, Mass., learned recently that he has been accepted at Dartmouth University, where he is expected to make an immediate impact.

Saturday, March 30

BOYS LACROSSE, Riverhead at East Hampton, nonleague, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, April 2

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Mattituck-Greenport-Southold, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 3

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

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

BOYS TENNIS, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 4

March 3, 1988

    There’ll be no trip to the state playoffs for Bridgehampton High School’s Killer Bees this year. The Bees, who last lost a county Class D championship game in 1983, were defeated in the D contest Saturday by Eastport, 60-46.

    . . . “We’re young,” said the Bees’ coach, John Niles. “We’ll be a very good team in two years — that is, if we keep the school,” he added, referring to the petition for a referendum to transport Bridgehampton’s upper grades either to Southampton or East Hampton.

   On his return from selling pretzels in Montauk Sunday as part of a fund-raiser to help underwrite the East Hampton High School softball team’s trip next week to Disney World in Orlando, Fla., Lou Reale said this season will be a challenge.

   March is when winter concludes and spring begins; the month when baseball is back and football is gone. Pro basketball and hockey are moving toward the playoffs, but are not quite there yet. So, in essence, March is the waiting period for sports — with the exception of one oh-so-important thing: March Madness.

    It’s the culmination of every college basketball season, when 68 teams are chosen by a committee because of their impressive records or because they’ve won their conference tournaments, which gives them an automatic bid into the “Big Dance.”

   The rain predicted for Saturday — snow, as it turned out — didn’t arrive until the afternoon, which allowed East Hampton High School’s baseball team to scrimmage Mattituck here.

    The initial outing gave Ed Bahns and Will Collins — and their volunteer assistant, Kevin Brophy — a chance to give their 17-player roster a look in a game situation, and afterward there was agreement that while there was much to work on, if the young team continued to work hard and made steady improvement, that would be fine.

   There was no paddle in Brazil, Fabio Minozi, who directs East Hampton Indoor Tennis’s platform tennis program, said during a conversation Sunday morning in the warm-up hut that lies between E.H.I.T.’s two raised wire-enclosed courts.

    “It’s too hot,” the Sao Paulo native and former A.T.P. tour player said by way of explanation. “Paddle’s a winter game, even though they’re trying to come up with a less bouncy ball to play with in hot weather.”

Thursday, March 21

BASEBALL, Southampton at East Hampton, scrimmage, 4 p.m.        

GIRLS TRACK, Miller Place at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TRACK, East Hampton at Miller Place, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, March 22

BOYS TENNIS, William Floyd at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Hampton Bays, scrimmage, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Mattituck, scrimmage, 4 p.m.

BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at North Babylon, nonleague, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Comsewogue, nonleague, 6:30 p.m.

   Rich Schneider, who’s been the spokesman of the East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch softball league for quite a while, phoned the other day to say that the league, which has been in existence since the late 1960s, might have to fold if some more teams — there are only four at the moment — did not come forward.

    In past years the town league, which replaced a fast-pitch one whose last champion was Schenck Fuels, has had as many as 14 teams in two divisions, but that was a while ago.

   Joe Vas, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, was sanguine regarding spring during a preseason talk at his office Monday.

    “Sunny days from here on in,” he said. “It’s supposed to be in the 40s all this week. Let’s hope we’ve seen the last of the storms.”

    There was still snow on East Hampton’s turf field when the boys and girls lacrosse teams practiced there Saturday morning, and when Rich King and Don McGovern conducted a soccer clinic there for kindergartners through eighth graders on Sunday.

   Bridgehampton High School’s boys basketball team, which had only one senior starter and a thin bench, took its coaches and fans on a playoff joy ride that hit the wall in the last half-second of the Class D regional final Friday in the form of a desperation 3-point shot from the top of the key that knifed through the nets and put a dagger in the hard-playing Killer Bees’ hearts.

   Coaches of youth sports programs at a special meeting of East Hampton’s school board Monday night convened to consider various fees attending the use of the district’s fields and gyms here on weekends claimed that added costs would effectively lessen participation, and would in time erode the competitiveness of Bonac’s teams.

    Ashley West, a runner who comes from a talented soccer family, winced when asked if she’d ever played the game.

    “Just once,” she said. “I scored . . . but it was the wrong goal.”

    And so began a running career whose latest goal is to compete in the national Division III championships.

    Whitney Reidlinger, a special education teacher at the Springs School, reported that the following East Hampton youngsters were gold medalists at a Special Olympics bowling tournament at the East Hampton Bowl Sunday:

    Paula Retana, of East Hampton, and Kerri Schleider, of Montauk, in the female ramp divisions; Isaiah Brodie, of East Hampton, in a male ramp division; Jennifer Brito, of East Hampton, in a female division, and Joshua Guaman, Oswald Duarte, Paul Anderson, and Bryan Chacon, all of East Hampton, in male divisions.

Max Cure Spin

    Fly Wheel Sports at 85 Montauk Highway, East Hampton, is participating in a nationwide fund-raiser for the Max Cure Foundation this Saturday, beginning at 2 p.m.

    Richard Plotkin, the foundation’s founder, who is a part-time Amagansett resident, said in an e-mail that Fly Wheel has allocated 55 spinning bikes to the foundation, whose “mission is to fund pediatric cancer cures, to develop less toxic treatments for children with the disease, and to support low-income families whose children have been struck by cancer.”

Thursday, March 14

BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at William Floyd, scrimmage, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Hauppauge, scrimmage, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, March 15

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Southampton, scrimmage, 4 p.m.

Saturday, March 16

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at multi-team scrimmage, Connetquot High School, 9 a.m.

BASEBALL, Mattituck at East Hampton, scrimmage, 10 a.m.

SPINNING, benefit Max Cure Foundation, Fly Wheel Sports, 85 Montauk Highway, East Hampton, 2 p.m.

February 4, 1988

    The Bridgehampton High School boys basketball team would have to “win one more game to make the playoffs,” its coach, John Niles, said following the Killer Bees’ 89-84 victory Monday over Pierson, a Class D and League Seven rival.

    The Sag Harbor team, 3-6 as of Tuesday, proved to be a worthy opponent. After almost giving up the ghost last week, at 1-5, the Whalers came back to upend Hampton Bays twice, and seemed to be coming on just as the Bees, who played poorly in Friday’s 72-62 loss at Center Moriches, were faltering.

   Now is the time for all worthy nominees to come the attention of East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame committee, its chairman, Jim Nicoletti, said in so many words during a conversation Friday.

    “We want to keep the momentum going,” said Nicoletti, who oversaw the induction of the Hall’s first class at homecoming weekend last September, a day he aptly described at the time as “one of the greatest days in Bonac sports history.”

   Hayden Ward, a Montauker, whose basketball talent was called into question by his peers when he first arrived at East Hampton High School, has been named as the State University of New York Athletic Conference’s player of the year.

   The Hampton Lifeguard Association will begin its junior lifeguard training program for boys and girls age 9 through 14 at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter pool Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

   The program, which is free, is to benefit from a fund-raising dinner at East by Northeast restaurant in Montauk tomorrow from 7 to 11 p.m. The tickets cost $40 per person ($75 for a couple) in advance, or $45 and $85 at the door. The party committee members are Kathy Piacentine, John Ryan Sr., Mary Lownes, Stephanie Bogetti, Lynne Calabrese, and Marigrace Ryan.

   Scorpion, a team led by Antonio Padilla, Mario Olaya, and Danny Bedoya, defeated the very competitive Virgen del Milagro entry, whose lineup included Missael Piadranarte and the league’s leading goal scorer, Marco Bautista, 3-1 in a hotly contested men’s open futsal final at the Sportime arena in Amagansett Saturday night.

    Thomas Brierley and Trevor Mott, the first members of East Hampton High School’s boys swimming team ever to qualify for state meet competition, did well at this past weekend’s open meet at Webster-Schroeder High School outside Rochester.

Friday, March 8

BOYS BASKETBALL, state Class D regional final, Bridgehampton-John A. Coleman winner vs. Section IX winner, New Rochelle High School, 4:30 p.m.

LIFEGUARDING, fund-raising dinner for junior lifeguard training program, ENE restaurant, Montauk, 7-11 p.m.

Sunday, March 10

FIGURE SKATING, exhibition, Buckskill Winter Club, 1 p.m.

LIFEGUARDING, first session of free junior lifeguard training program for boys and girls aged 9 through 14, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter pool, 1:30-2:30, registration from 1:15.

    A sportswriter in search of something to write about Sunday morning, this being the depths of winter, stopped off first at the Buckskill Winter Club where Joanne Doran, the manager and figure skating director, told him of a number of new offerings there, after which he swung by Sportime’s Arena in Amagansett for a talk with its manager, Mike Ritsi, Tyler Jarvis, and Bob Nicholson, whose 9-year-old son, Brett, plays on four traveling roller hockey teams, including a 17-and-under squad.