Sports

Bonac Guards Sweep Invite

Jack Graves
For the first time in 12 years, the East Hampton Town lifeguards’ A team won last Thursday’s Main Beach invitational tournament, besting the perennial champion, Smith Point, by 14 points.
Football: So Far, So Good

Jack Graves
Joe McKee, who is trying to revive East Hampton High’s football program, said Monday that he’d finished assembling his staff and that “it looks like we’ll have between 25 and 30 on the varsity and on the junior varsity this fall.”
Sports Briefs 07.23.15

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The Lineup: 07.23.15

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The Gettlings: A Marital Union of Martial Artists

Jack Graves
Tom Gettling, the 54-year-old karate grand master, who began teaching at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center some 35 years ago, was feted recently by 130 well-wishers, many of his former students among them, at the Elks Club in Southampton.
A Walk-Off Slam Eats Bonac’s Dreams

Jack Graves
They came so close they could taste it, Tim Garneau said of the East Hampton Little League traveling all-star 11-and-12-year-old team’s 8-5 loss to the North Shore Americans in the District 36 tournament’s final in Rocky Point Saturday.
Swim Across America Here Nets $80K

Jack Graves
Ninety-eight swimmers, apportioning themselves among 5K, 1-mile, and half-mile legs in Gardiner’s Bay in Amagansett Saturday morning, raised money under the Swim Across America banner for that cancer-fighting organization and for Fighting Chance in Sag Harbor, which offers free professional counseling to cancer patients and their families.
Coach Reale in The Eye of a Storm

Jack Graves
Lou Reale, who recently was named one of the top eight high school softball coaches in the United States, and who stands fourth on New York State’s all-time win list, said Sunday he had been forced by the East Hampton School District’s superintendent, Rich Burns, to retire.
The Lineup: 07.16.15

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Thursday, July 16 LIFEGUARDING, invitational tournament, Main Beach, East Hampton, 4 p.m. COLLEGIATE BASEBALL, Westhampton Aviators vs. Montauk Mustangs, Montauk School, 5 p.m. WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH, Bono vs. Groundworks, 6:45 p.m., and...
Softball Coach Is Under Fire

Jack Graves
Lou Reale, the longtime East Hampton High School softball coach, said Sunday he had been forced to retire. Now parents are trying to rally support.