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Among the trainers who are excited to be part of a turnaround are, from left, Avery Crocker, Connor Miller, and Mike Roesch, who were at Studio 89 the other day with the owner, Rich Decker (behind Roesch) and Gary Stanis. P.A.L. Course for 11 to 13-Year-Olds Could Be Uplifting

    Gary Stanis, who brought traveling Police Athletic League football to East Hampton in 2008, said this week that to give the high school program a boost, the East Hampton P.A.L. organization hopes to put 20 to 25 seventh and eighth graders through a 12-week strength, speed, agility, and nutrition program at Sag Harbor’s Studio 89 this summer.

Nov 17, 2011
Preiss Qualifies for States

    Marina Preiss, an East Hampton High School sophomore, qualified this past weekend at the county girls swimming championships for the state meet in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle races.

    Preiss won the 50, in 24.58 seconds, and was second in the 100, in 52.96. The state meet is to be held this weekend at Erie Community College in Buffalo.

    In other postseason action, Dana Cebulski, East Hampton’s freshman all-county cross-country runner, placed 40th among 132 runners in the state Class B race Saturday in Verona, N.Y., which is near Rome.

Nov 17, 2011
The Lineup 11.17.11

Saturday, November19

RUGBY, Northeast regional semifinal games, Portland, Me., vs. Middlesex,  Mass., noon, and Burlington, Vt., vs. Montauk Rugby Club, 2, Newport, R.I.

Thursday, November 24

RUNNING, Thanksgiving Day races, 3 and 6-milers around Fort Pond, the Circle, Montauk, 10 a.m.

Nov 17, 2011
With No Olaya, Boys Lost

    With their high-scoring field leader, Mario Olaya, absent because he had allegedly celebrated excessively East Hampton’s first county championship in the program’s 35-year history at Dowling College three days before, the East Hampton Bonackers lost 2-1 to Jericho in the Class A Long Island boys soccer championship game played at Adelphi University in Garden City Sunday.

Nov 17, 2011
Dana Cebulski was the center of attention following her fifth-place finish in the county girls Class B race at Sunken Meadow Friday. It’s On to States for East Hampton’s Dana Cebulski

    Bettering her division meet time by nine seconds, Dana Cebulski, East Hampton High’s freshman phenom, placed fifth in the county Class B girls race at Sunken Meadow State Park Friday, a finish that enabled her to become the first female runner from Bonac ever to advance to the state meet in the sport, whose program was begun here in 1991.

    Also as a result, she was named to the all-county second team, another “first.”

Nov 10, 2011
Brian Anderson, who has replaced the retired Andy Reilly at scrum half, ladled the ball out of a scrum during the Montauk Rugby Club’s 61-0 rout of the Connecticut Yankees here Saturday. Sharks Look To Playoffs

Playing back-to-back games this past weekend, the Montauk Rugby Club won both, capping its first undefeated Met Union season since 2005.

Nov 10, 2011
Morgan German, Carly Drew, and Lilah Minetree cheered on Maddie Minetree, whose swift anchor leg helped East Hampton to a second-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay, the final event of the League III championships at Hauppauge High School Friday. Swimmers Third in League Meet

    The East Hampton High School girls swimming team placed third in the league meet at Hauppauge High School Friday, behind Sayville-Bayport-Blue Point and Harborfields, a result with which Bonac’s coach, John McGeehan, was not displeased, though absent the diving — an event in which East Hampton does not compete — the girls would have been in first place following the seventh event, the 100-yard freestyle.

Nov 10, 2011
The Lineup 11.10.11

Thursday, November 10

BOYS SOCCER, Suffolk County Class A final, East Hampton vs. Sayville, Dowling College, 4 p.m.

Saturday, November 12

CROSS-COUNTRY, state meet, Verona, N.Y., 9 a.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, county meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 1 p.m.

Sunday, November 13

DOCK RACE, 3.3-miler, Montauk Post Office to the Dock restaurant, 11 a.m., benefit Montauk senior nutrition center, $20 donation, free beer.

ROWING, Snowflake regatta, Peconic River, Riverhead, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Nov 10, 2011
Jean Carlos Barrientos (12) got East Hampton on the scoreboard with seven minutes to play in the first half of Monday’s boys soccer semifinal with Elwood-John Glenn. To Play For Title

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

Nov 10, 2011
The playoffs’ first round went well for the East Hampton High School girls volleyball team last Thursday, though it was to lose a tough quarterfinal match at Sayville the next day. VOLLEYBALL Playoff Teams Didn’t Go Gently

    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.

Nov 10, 2011
Dana Cebulski (Peconic T-shirt) is given a good shot — as is Ashley West — of going to the state meet. No East Hampton girls have ever done so before. Both Teams to Vie

    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.

Nov 3, 2011
Raffi Franey, center, scored three of East Hampton’s goals in a 4-3 win here Monday over Westhampton Beach in a county Class A outbracket game. Couple of Firsts For Girls Soccer

    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.”

Nov 3, 2011
Frank Ackley and Vinnie Horcasitas hit together frequently at the East Hampton Indoor-Outdoor Club, where, before he began to sell real estate, Horcasitas was a pro. Locals Take Home Amigos Cup

    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.

Nov 3, 2011
They cheered, but not for long at Saturday’s football finale here with Miller Place, a game played in the foulest of foul weather. Nine of Bonac’s 11 Teams in the Playoff Potpourri

    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.

Nov 3, 2011
The Lineup 11.03.11

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.

Nov 3, 2011
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 10.27.11

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

Oct 26, 2011
Donte Donegal, who recently returned to action after having rehabbed an early-season injury, scored the championship-clinching goal in Monday’s game here with Elwood-John Glenn. (The above photo was taken during the Oct. 19 game here with Westhampton Beach.) A Tie Assures the Boys Soccer Team the League Title

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.

Oct 26, 2011
Mikayla Mott, about to plunge in above, was one of Bonac’s record-setters in the meet here with Hauppauge last Thursday. Dreams of Postseason Dancing in Athletes’ Heads

    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.

Oct 26, 2011
Andrew Hart-Adler, at right, a founder of the University of North Carolina’s crew program, has been working in the Sag Harbor Community Rowing club’s quads with William Benedict, Andrew Mack, and Brett Listl. Sport Of Rowing Growing

    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.”

Oct 26, 2011
Sports Briefs 10.27.11

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.

Oct 26, 2011
Jean Carlos Barrientos, left, scissor-kicked in East Hampton’s first goal at the end of the first half. Bonackers Dominate

    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.

Oct 19, 2011
Ian Lynch, this fall’s number-one, assured his coach on Saturday that things would be okay. Golfers Win Eighth Straight Title

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.

Oct 19, 2011
Dan Barros carried the ball on the first drive. Opening Drive Thing of Beauty

    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.

Oct 19, 2011
The undefeated Sharks tore up the field. Sharks Take a Bite Out of New Jersey’s Mudturtles

    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.

Oct 19, 2011
The Lineup 10.20.11

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

Oct 19, 2011
Our girls have their eyes on the prize. Tornadoes Quelled for 1st Time

    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.

Oct 19, 2011
Though the Bonackers had a few moments to celebrate on Oct. 12, ultimately it was the Hurricanes that celebrated victory. Volleyers Blow 2-1 Lead In Loss to Hurricanes

    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.

Oct 19, 2011
East Hampton’s golfers, shown above with their coach, Claude Beudert, in front of the East Hampton Golf Club’s clubhouse, are, from left, Matt Griffiths, Cameron Yusko, Ian Lynch, John Pizzo, Riley McMahon, Jim McMullan, Andrew Winthrop, and Andrew Davis. Big Wins Recorded

    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.

Oct 13, 2011
East Hampton’s 10-year-olds were encouraged by their coach, Ron White, before taking the field in a P.A.L. game  here Sunday. Party for P.A.L. Traveling Teams

    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.

Oct 13, 2011
The academy’s first class, James Ignatowich, Fernando Fernandez, Lucas Larese, Jiahui Guo, and Trippie Tuff (Carl Grant was absent), with two of their coaches, Vinicius Carmo and Alejandro Tejerina Ross Tennis Academy Turning Out as Hoped

    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.

Oct 13, 2011