Sports

The week ahead in local sports action.

While the Bonac girls tennis fell in the county tourney, the girls swimming team finished the regular season at 4-1 with a win at Hauppauge last week.

Joe McKee, East Hampton High’s head football coach, said following Monday’s practice that, given the sport’s numbers at the moment, he plans to field varsity and junior varsity teams here next fall.

A former town board member’s reminiscences on the joy of sports fandom.

A quarterfinal finish in the recent United States Tennis Association’s national Level 1 clay court tournament at Pinehurst, N.C., assured Frank Ackley of the top-10 ranking he’d sought since turning 70 last February.

Given the green light by his coach, Shelter Island High School’s four-time county Class D cross-country champ clocked in at 15 minutes and 40.43 seconds.

Don McGovern’s charges, with visions of playoffs dancing in their heads, were the aggressor throughout 80 minutes against Kings Park, winding up a 3-0 victor last Thursday.

East Hampton High School’s girls cross-country team, thanks to a 26-29 win over Miller Place at Sunken Meadow on Oct. 15, finished the season at 3-3, “the best we’ve done in quite a while,” according to the team’s coach, Diane O’Donnell.

Flag football wraps it up at Herrick, while Bonac girls tennis storms the playoffs and the cross-country teams hit Sunken Meadow for the divisional meet Tuesday.

East Hampton High’s girls swimming team defeated Harborfields 93-77 in its senior meet here last Thursday, but junior varsity football floundered at Bayport-Blue Point.

Despite the East Hampton High School field hockey team boasted the highest-scoring duo in Bonac history, they were swept by Rocky Point in a first-round county playoff game in 1994.

A win Monday would have enabled East Hampton High’s field hockey team to stay on the cusp of a playoff berth, according to its coach, Nicole Ficeto, though Port Jefferson, which had been outplayed for 56 minutes, dashed that hope in the 57th with a goal that resulted from a corner play, the Royals’ first corner play of the game.