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Youth Soccer Teams Vie Islandwide

Jack Graves
Spring having arrived, Marcelo Merchan has delivered on his vow last fall to field at least three youth soccer teams that would vie under East Hampton’s banner in the Long Island Junior Soccer League.
No Shuffling Off to Buffalo for the Montauk Rugby Club

Jack Graves
Last fall, after it became known that the Montauk Rugby Club had squeaked into the Empire Geographic Region’s playoffs’ top eight — as the seventh seed — Charlie Collins, a club spokesman, said he thought the Sharks could make a run.
Lacrosse Teams Competing; Baseball Still Looking for a Win

Jack Graves
East Hampton High’s baseball team was still looking for its first win as of earlier this week, having been outscored 36-1 in the three games with Shoreham, a team that Vinny Alversa, East Hampton’s coach, thinks may well win a state championship, and also this past week the boys and girls lacrosse teams had their moments in games they were to lose.
The Lineup: 04.20.17

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Indoor Soccer Duels at Sportime

Jack Graves
Three East Hampton Football Club players, namely Julian Barahona, Antonio Padilla, and Xavi Piedra Martel, figured prominently in the indoor soccer finals played at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett Saturday night.
Purcell Swam in Two National Finals

Jack Graves
Tom Cohill, who coaches the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, the Hurricanes, said on his return from the Y nationals in Greensboro, N.C., this week that his six competitors — Maggie Purcell, Sophia Swanson, Julia Brierley, Maddie Jones, Caroline Oakland, and Cecilia De Havenon — all had done well, especially Purcell, who became...
Shoreham’s Ace No-Hits Bonackers

Jack Graves
A bevy of major league scouts with radar guns were gathered behind the backstop at East Hampton High’s baseball field Monday afternoon, though, unfortunately insofar as Bonac fans were concerned, they were there to watch the other starting pitcher, Shoreham-Wading River’s Brian Morrell.
With Five Absent Softball Loses to Westhampton Beach

Jack Graves
The good news insofar as East Hampton High School’s softball team went this past week was Friday’s 7-2 win at Southampton, its second win of the season vis-a-vis four losses. That is, until Monday, when the girls, with five teammates on vacation, three of them starters, were bageled 9-0 here by Westhampton Beach.
Sports Briefs: 04.13.17

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The Lineup: 04.13.17

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The Football Club Gets Back on Track

Jack Graves
The East Hampton Football Club remained in second place, behind Glen Cove Avellino, in Flight A of the Long Island Soccer Football League’s top division Sunday by easily defeating the Port Jefferson Fusion 2-0 at the Ross School.
Boys Tennis Strings Together Wins, Softball Notches a Shutout

Jack Graves
To the good news first: East Hampton High’s boys tennis team could well be on the way to a third consecutive undefeated season in league play.
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports: 04.06.17

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Project Most Kids Learning Golf From a Pro and a Peer

Jack Graves
Nick Haas, who has for the past two winters analyzed golfers’ swings in a basement room at the former Hampton Kids building at East Hampton Indoor Tennis, returns soon to the Atlantic Golf Club, where he is an assistant pro, buoyed by the knowledge that in the off-season he has introduced the game to scores of Project Most kids from Springs and...