Sports

    Howard Wood and his assistant, Louis O’Neal, spoke many times last season about the need for the East Hampton High School girls basketball team’s players to practice in the off-season.

    Apparently, however, not many did, aside from Kaelyn Ward, the junior point guard from whom more big things are expected this year, and Quincy King, Ward’s sister, a sophomore.

    In recounting during a conversation the other day how he’d come to place third in a recent men’s physique show in New York City, a finish that has qualified him to compete in national shows and has opened doors to a professional modeling career, Beni Shoshi said, “The key is dieting.”

The ebullient Kosova-born 24-year-old business owner said it was his trainer, Chris Cosich of the East Hampton Gym, who clued him into this when he went to him to train at the beginning of last summer.

    Steve Tseperkas, who coaches East Hampton High School’s wrestling team, is reasonably sure, with the exception of 285 pounds, “and possibly one or two other holes,” that he can fill most of the 15 weight classes this season, though, because the Bonackers are very young, he doesn’t expect much when it comes to the win column.

Road Races

    Besides this morning’s 3 and 6-mile Turkey Day road races in Montauk, there will be a post-Thanksgiving 5K run-walk in Sag Harbor Saturday, starting and finishing at West Water Street in the village.

    The race, which is to benefit the Old Whalers Community House Fund, is to begin at 8:30 a.m. Registration will be held from 7:30.

Golf Champs

    Troy Smith recently won the men’s championship at the Sag Harbor Golf Club; Russell Miller was the senior men’s champion, and the men’s low qualifier was Mark Weinhardt.

Thursday, November 24

RUNNING, Turkey Day races, 3 and 6 milers around Fort Pond, The Circle, Montauk, 10 and 10:10 a.m.

Saturday, November 26

RUNNING, Old Whalers Community House Fund 5K run-walk, West Water Street, Sag Harbor, 8:30 a.m.

Monday, November 28

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East End Waves tryouts for girls 11-through-18-years-old, Sportime at the Arena, Amagansett, 7-9 p.m.

    The 9-year-old Police Athletic League football team here crowned a division-championship season with a 26-6 win over Three Villages on East Hampton High School’s turf field Sunday.

    “This is the first championship season an East Hampton P.A.L. team has had since the 10-year-olds won two years ago,” said Bob Nicholson, who, along with Andy Baris, Chris Stewart, and Kieran Brew assisted Joe Hren III in coaching the 9-year-olds, who went 9-1 this fall in the Pioneer Division.

    “There’s a new sheriff in town,” the Speed Channel announcer Greg Kramer said after Ryan Pilla drove an MX5 Spec Mazda to a win in a Sports Car Club of America race last month at the New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville.

    From sheriff, Pilla soon ascended to attorney general status as he followed up the Jersey win with an American Road Racing Championship at Road Atlanta, a race for Mazdas that attracted “all the top drivers from Canada to California

. . . the best of the best.”

    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.

    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.

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.

    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.

    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.”

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

    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.

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.

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.