Sports

The league-champion East Hampton High School boys soccer team is to vie with Sayville for the Class A county title this afternoon at Dowling College

    East Hampton High’s girls and boys volleyball teams were ousted from the playoffs this past week, though they went grudgingly, not gently, into the off-season.

    On Monday here, Danny Weaver’s boys team went the distance with Sayville, a team it had beaten twice before, before losing 26-24 in the fifth.

    The East Hampton High School boys and girls cross-country teams have, according to their coaches, Kevin Barry and Diane O’Donnell, enjoyed “breakthrough” seasons.

    Consequently, both the boys and girls teams are to run in Class B races in the county meet tomorrow at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, and two of the girls, Ashley West, a senior, and Dana Cebulski, a ninth grader, could advance to the state meet, which would, said O’Donnell, be a “first” for the girls team, which she has coached for the past 19 years.

    Girls soccer, the first of East Hampton High’s teams to play in the postseason this week, thrilled its fans here Monday, defeating Westhampton Beach 4-3, thus coming out on top in the decade-old program’s first-ever playoff appearance.

    Tiffany Lamprecht, the varsity assistant coach, who played on East Hampton’s first girls soccer team in 2000, said afterward that “we were playing today for Mike [Vitulli, East Hampton’s head coach, whose mother died this past weekend]. The girls dedicated this win to him.”

    A United States International Tennis Federation senior tennis team on which two locals, Frank Ackley and Vinnie Horcasitas, played recently won the Amigos Cup in Merida, Mexico.

    Ackley, Horcasitas, and Mark Harrison, who, in the summer, is the head pro at the East Hampton Tennis Club, played together in the same tournament two years ago, but the Mexicans successfully argued then that they should keep the Cup even though Hurricane Ida, with Mexico holding a slim 6-4 lead, had forced the cancellation of 50 of the scheduled 60 matches.

    The postseason was to have commenced in earnest this week for seven of the nine East Hampton High School teams that earned berths in them.

    Only football, which bowed out at 0-8 in the foulest of foul weather here Saturday, and field hockey came up short.

    Girls tennis last week turned in a surprisingly good effort in a 5-2 second-round loss to the eventual county champion, Half Hollow Hills East.

Friday, November 4

CROSS-COUNTRY, Suffolk County meet, Class B boys race, 2 p.m., Class B girls race, 3:20 p.m., Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park.

GIRLS SWIMMING, League III meet, Hauppauge High School, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class A tournament, first round game, site of higher seed, time to be announced.

Saturday, November 5

TOUR OF THE SHORE TRIATHLON, benefit for Paddlers 4 Humanity, 2-mile kayak, 11.5-mile mountain bike, and 4-mile beach run, Lazy Point, Amagansett, 9:30 a.m., registration from 8:30.

October 2, 1986

    The East Hampton High School golf team set a school record for medal play, a 201, in a recent 7-2 win at Mattituck, led by Duane Bock, Bill Segelken, Pat Bistrian III, and John Becker. The former record was 204, said the team’s coach, Lee Dion, who added that in a recent 8-1 loss to Westhampton, Bock, East Hampton’s number-one, came within a stroke of tying Chris Becker’s one-round record of 35.

October 16, 1986

The East Hampton High School boys soccer team played to a hard-fought 3-3 double-overtime tie to win its second league championship in the past three years.

    A half-dozen East Hampton High School teams are eyeing the postseason, foremost among them Claude Beudert’s undefeated golfers, though they’ll have to wait until next spring for that sport’s conference and county championships.

    The 12-0 golfers finished up last week with an 8.5-.5 win over Shelter Island on the Bonackers’ home course at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett. Ian Lynch, the junior number-one, led the way with a 35-to-43 win over Jay Card, who had bested Lynch 41-43 when they played on Shelter Island.

    Four years ago, Lee Oldak, who owns the Amagansett Beach Company, and who, though not a rower himself, had been selling shells down by the seashore, went to the Snowflake Regatta on the Peconic River in Riverhead, and became hooked.

    “I loved the tailgate scene, with people cheering on the rowers from the shore . . . and I thought, ‘I can do this.’ That’s the short of it — that’s what got me started.”

All-American

    Skye Marigold, who swims for Tom Cohill’s Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes team, has been named by U.S.A. Swimming as one of its scholastic All-Americans, a designation that takes into account swimming and scholastic achievements. Marigold is one of 1,000 female athletes nationwide to be so honored. Cohill said Marigold, who is a freestyler primarily, is the first Hurricane to be named an All-American.

    On a beautiful windy fall day, the East Hampton High School boys soccer team took Shoreham-Wading River to school here by a score of 4-0.

    Saturday’s was as good a game as the team has played this season — smooth sailing for the entire 80 minutes, leaving only superlatives in its wake.

    “We dominated today, playing our style,” said a very proud Rich King, East Hampton’s coach, afterward. “J.C. [Jean Carlos Barrientos] played a great game today.” The center midfielder had the ice-breaking goal in the first half and an assist in the second.

East Hampton High School’s golf coach, Claude Beudert, wasn’t sure when the fall began that his squad would repeat as the League VIII champion.

    Well, the East Hampton High School football team lost the game, and by a lopsided score, but its opening drive at Rocky Point Friday night was a thing of beauty.

    Following the kickoff into Bonac’s end zone, Dan Barros was hit behind the line, but then, on second-and-12, Cortland Heneveld, the sophomore quarterback, drove up the middle for 5 yards, and, on third down, Heneveld hit Sergio Betancur with a pass for a first down at the 31.

    The Montauk Rugby Club pulverized the Union Mudturtles, who hail from New Jersey, with a 44-11 win at a Division II match at Herrick Park in East Hampton Saturday.

    With three games left in the season, the Sharks (5-0) played excellent offense, and are well on their way to the championship.

Thursday, October 20

GIRLS SWIMMING, Hauppauge vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 4:30 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Port Jefferson at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, October 21

FOOTBALL, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 6:30 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Mount Sinai, 7 p.m.

Saturday, October 22

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Lindenhurst tournament, 9 a.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at Miller Place, 10 a.m.

Monday, October 24

    John McGeehan had promised the meet between the East Hampton and Harborfields High School girls swimming teams last week would be a barn burner, and it was.

    So, as a matter of fact, had been the last two meets between these teams, though this time instead of the Tornadoes winning, the Bonackers did.

    It all went down to the final relay, which East Hampton, with Maddie Minetree, Carly Drew, Laura Gundersen, and Marina Preiss, won, earning an all-important 8 points, which put McGeehan’s team over the top, 88-82.

    Kathy McGeehan, who coaches East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball team, had circled Oct. 12 on her calendar — the date of a return match with one of Bonac’s chief rivals, Westhampton Beach.

    East Hampton High’s girls swimming and boys soccer teams enjoyed big wins this past week. The swimmers swamped Huntington in a meet at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, evening its record at 1-1, and the soccer team, playing away, bested Elwood-John Glenn 3-1 to gain a share of the league lead.

    The East Hampton Police Athletic League football program, now in its fourth year, will hold a fund-raiser tomorrow at the Beachhouse restaurant on Route 27 from 6 to 9 p.m.

    There will be food, drinks, a D.J., raffles, and a silent auction of more than 100 donated items.

    Money raised will go toward new equipment, said Don Reese, who heads the program and coaches its 11-year-old traveling team, which is ranked among the Island’s top 20.

    The Ross School’s Tennis Academy, the first of its kind on the East Coast inasmuch as its students play and study at a school — their 12-hour day being pretty much evenly divided between sport and studies — has six members, all boys between the ages of 11 and 15, in its first class.

Sharks in First

    The Montauk Rugby Club improved its Met Union record to 4-0 Saturday with a 26-14 win over the Lansdowne R.F.C. in Yonkers. Thus the Sharks are now in sole possession of first place in Division II, though to clinch a playoff spot they’ll probably have to defeat Bayonne, N.J., in an away game on Oct. 22. Meanwhile, Union, N.J., is to play here Saturday at 1 p.m.

Thursday, October 13

GOLF, Westhampton Beach vs. East Hampton, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 4 p.m.

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

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Center Moriches, 6:15 p.m.

Friday, October 14

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at William Floyd, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 4 p.m.

YOUTH FOOTBALL, fund-raiser at Beachhouse restaurant, Route 27, East Hampton, 6-9 p.m.

VARSITY FOOTBALL, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 7 p.m.

    A beautiful day, some of the best trails out here, and the recent untimely death of Andrew Walsh, a 45-year-old Irish-born outdoorsman and gifted landscape designer known to many of them, brought some 70 mountain-bikers and runners to the Edward V. Ecker Preserve in Montauk Sunday to contest, following silent moments of remembrance, the Serpent’s Back Duathlon overseen by Mike Bahel, the 12-mile mountain-bike leg bracketed by two-and-a-half-mile trail runs.

    Though the East Hampton High School football team lost 53-13 to fourth-place Comsewogue here Saturday, there were several things to write home about in the second quarter, to wit an 80-yard touchdown pass in which the quarterback, Cort Heneveld, and Pete Vaziri combined, an onsides kick fumble recovery by Juan Varon, and an interception by Sergio Betancur.

Continuing to roll Saturday, the Montauk Rugby Club upended the Met Union’s Division II leader, Danbury, by a convincing score of 25-7.

A fleet of 24 boats contending in the North American JY-15 championships sailed 10 races mostly over windward-leeward courses in Sag Harbor last weekend.

Thursday, October 6

GOLF, East Hampton vs. Ross, East Hampton Country Club, 3:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton at Islip, 3:30 p.m.

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

FIELD HOCKEY, Southampton at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Westhampton at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

Sunday, October 9

SERPENT’S BACK DUATHLON, Ed Ecker County Park, Navy Road, Montauk, 9 a.m.

Monday, October 10

GIRLS SOCCER, Amityville at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

Harry de Leyer, “the Galloping Grandfather” who is now a great-grandfather as well, spent four hours here at East End Stables Saturday afternoon.