Sports

A look back at the East Hampton field hockey team that won county championships back to back.

It was windy, but not very cold on Thanksgiving Day, and thus the turn­out for the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s 3 and 6-mile Turkey Trots around Montauk’s Fort Pond was bountiful.

“We’ll get better,” Dan White, who coaches East Hampton High School’s boys basketball team, said following the Bonackers’ 56-47 win Friday over Greenport in a first-round matchup of the Kendall Madison Foundation tournament here.

The East Hampton girls finished their season last weekend as four of Craig Brierley’s charges — his daughter Julia, Jane Brierley, Sophia Swanson, and Darcy McFarland — competed in the state meet at Ithaca College.

Time for the Turkey Trot in Montauk, and Bonac basketball gets going with the Kendall Madison benefit tourney here Friday and Saturday.

The East Hampton and Pierson High School boys and girls basketball teams met in scrimmages this past week, with the Sag Harborites arguably getting the better of it in both cases.

One day on the Deer Park gridiron, blood flowed in the veins like the river wild, sparks flew, emotions soared, tears flowed. East Hampton pulled it out. Those were the days . . .

The top two teams in the Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer league faced off in the league’s playoff final at East Hampton’s Herrick Park on Nov. 20, with Maidstone Market winning its 15th championship trophy since entering the league in 2008.

Bonac basketball, boys and girls, gets going this week, while on Saturday the Pierson girls volleyball team plays in the state Class C Final Four in Glens Falls.

Pierson’s Grace Brosnan said following the Whalers’ impressive Long Island Class C volleyball championship 3-1 win over Oyster Bay Saturday that she and her teammates often get off to a slow start before getting into the zone.

The numbers are good in all of East Hampton High School’s winter sports, which begin this week, and the Bonac girls cross-country team does well in frozen Plattsburgh.

The recent Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer semifinals were played in frigid weather, though the games were hotly contested.