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Saturday brings the state cross-country meet in Plattsburgh (and the Bonac girls' first trip as a team), as well as the Pierson girls volleyball team's game for the Long Island Class C championship.

Last year about this time Sas Peters came into the Star office with an Ultimate disc medal around his neck that appeared to be gold in the office light, but was in fact silver. This year it was indisputably gold.

A top shootist competes in San Antonio, the Pierson girls and Shelter Island boys will join the Bonac girls team at the state cross-country meet Saturday, plus a report on the Dock Race in Montauk.

The season ended for East Hampton High’s girls and boys volleyball teams this past week as both squads were ousted in county Class A semifinal matchups.

East Hampton High School’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of Jane Brierley, Darcy McFarland, Julia Brierley, and Sophia Swanson qualified for the state meet by placing second to Northport-Commack’s team in Saturday’s county meet by two seconds.

Diane O’Donnell’s squad topped its Class B rivals Sayville and Bayport-Blue Point at Sunken Meadow State Park Friday, assuring it of a trip upstate on Saturday — the first ever for East Hampton High School girls cross-country.

The cross-country teams hit the state qualifier at Sunken Meadow Friday, while Bonac boys volleyball hosts Hauppauge in the playoffs. Sunday brings the Dock Race out in Montauk.

Twenty mixed teams of men and women vied outside the Montauk Brewery Saturday in the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s Brewathlon, a relay race comprising a 5,000-meter rowing machine leg, a 7-mile bike, a 3.1-mile run, and a 2,500-meter row.

A javyee football wrap-up, Bridgehampton’s Carl Johnson is honored, and Bonac’s Evan Masi was 12th in the county at Sunken Meadow last week.

James Bradley, an eighth grader who played number-one on East Hampton High School’s young golf team this fall, “was three shots shy of making all-county” as a result of the 86-83-169 he shot in the recent Suffolk County individual tournament at Rock Hill in Manorville.

Anthony Daunt ran seven marathons in seven days on the South Fork between Oct. 19 and Oct. 25, raising close to $14,000 through a GoFundMe account on behalf of a relative who had recently undergone a breast cancer operation.

East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball team, after playing a bit ner­vously in the first set here last week, which they lost 25-17, cruised the rest of the way against Half Hollow Hills West, winning in four. “Everybody played well,” Alex Choi, the team’s coach, said, “it was a good match.”