Friday, November 2

CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton girls and boys at Suffolk County championship meet, Sunken Meadow State Park, 2 and 3:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL, junior high, Southampton at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, November 3

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at county championship meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 10 a.m.

Monday, November 5

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Class A tournament semifinal, Islip-Kings Park winner at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, November 7

MEN’S SOCCER, 7-on-7 league, Maidstone Market vs. Hampton F.C.-Pool Shark, 6:30 p.m.; Tortorella Pools vs. F.C. Tuxpan, 7:25, and Sag Harbor United vs. Hampton Construction, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

Thursday, November 8

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class A tournament final, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 5 p.m.

BASEBALL, pitching clinic given by Kyle McGowin of the Washington Nationals for 7 through 14-year-olds, Pro Sports Academy, 990 Station Road, Bellport, 6-7:30 p.m.

Cross-Country Division Meet

Kevin Barry said this week that his boys cross-country team had placed fifth among 14 schools in the division meet at Sunken Meadow State Park on Oct. 23. Moreover, he said that Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton High’s top runner, a senior, had placed second in the championship race, in 17 minutes and 23 seconds, a personal best by 12 seconds, and that Evan Masi, a freshman, had placed 10th in the division team race in 18:17, bettering his previous-best Sunken Meadow time by 45 seconds.

The boys are to compete in the county meet at Sunken Meadow tomorrow, as are Ava Engstrom and Bella Tarbet, the leading runners on Diane O’Donnell’s girls team.

Kyle McGowin Baseball Clinic

Kyle McGowin, the Sag Harborite who was called up from the Syracuse Chiefs to pitch for the Washington Nationals in September, is to give a pitching clinic for 7 through 14-year-olds at the Pro Sports Academy at 990 Station Road in Bellport next Thursday, Nov. 8, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

According to a flier, McGowin will help the clinic-takers with their grips, mechanics, control, and velocity. The clinic’s cost is $50 for those registered by today, $60 for those registering after today. 

When, after her East Hampton High School girls volleyball team had swept through the Westhampton Beach Hurricanes 3-0, sealing an undefeated league season, Kathy McGeehan was asked how many undefeated teams she’d had in the past, she directed her questioner’s gaze upward. The first banner he saw was that of her 2002 team, which, indeed, had been undefeated.

Still, undefeated seasons have been a rarity in McGeehan’s 38-year coaching career — the 2009 team, her only one to go upstate, took a 19-0 record into New York’s Final Four. And while things have yet to be played out, this team seems to be the most balanced one McGeehan’s ever had.

It certainly was hitting on all cylinders here against Westhampton last Thursday. Before the match began, the team’s nine seniors — Mary McDonald, Madyson Neff, Nicole Realmuto, Elle Johnson, Ella Gurney, Connie Chan, Claire Hopkins, Erin Decker, and Julia Kearney — were honored, its being “senior night.”

And then, with Neff serving, East Hampton jumped out to a 3-0 lead, the third point resulting from a double block by Johnson and Gurney. A double-contact call on Westhampton turned the ball over a moment later, and, with Gurney serving, the Bonackers extended their margin to 7-1, and so it went. By the time the visitors were able to put together back-to-back points, for 17-6 and 17-7, the die had been cast: East Hampton was to win 25-13. 

McGeehan’s crew maintained the lead throughout the second set too. Molly Mamay, who rarely lets the ball touch the floor on defense, served six straight points as the Bonackers went from 8-3 to 14-3, at which point Gurney, playing in the middle, was called for touching the top of the net. A timely tip to the floor by Mamay made it 19-9, bringing Mickela Junemann to the service line. Kills by Neff sandwiched around a Hurricane error made it 22-9. The last three East Hampton points resulted from yet another double-contact call assessed Westhampton, a long kill attempt by one of its hitters, and a kill by East Hampton’s setter, Johnson, that closed it out, at 25-11.

The match had drawn a large crowd, filling the bleachers on the right side of the gym. Cries of “Bonac! Bonac!” greeted Johnson as she stepped to the line at the beginning of the third set. A kill by Junemann, a long hit by Westhampton, another double block, by Realmuto and Kearney, a Westhampton error, an ace by Johnson that just went over the net, and a kill by Realmuto, who had missed the previous match because of an ankle injury, put the Hurricanes in a 6-0 hole. 

Not long after, a double block by Johnson and Gurney extended East Hampton’s lead to 15-5, after which the visitors’ setter was called again for double contact. A rare kill to the floor that eluded Mamay and Junemann brought the visitors to within six, at 23-17, but, in the midst of a din, Neff notched a kill to side out, after which she served what was to be the final point of the night, resulting from yet another double-contact call on Westhampton’s setter.

With the victory, which capped a 12-0 league season, relatives and friends of the players ran out onto the floor to join them in the celebration. McGeehan was hugged and kissed. As aforesaid, undefeated seasons have not been the norm in her long career. 

“Their setter struggled,” she was to say when questioned afterward, “and, consequently, they were tight and could never get into a rhythm. . . . We served well, our offense was clicking, and we had great blocking. It was great to have Nicole back. . . .”

The next day, McGeehan learned that, as expected, East Hampton had been awarded the top seed among the six teams in the county Class A playoffs, entitling it to a first-round bye. Westhampton Beach is the second seed. The Bonackers are to meet the Islip-Kings Park winner in a semifinal match at home Monday, at 4 p.m. McGeehan said she’d try to keep her team sharp in the interim, perhaps mixing some scrimmages in with practice sessions.

The Class A final is to be played next Thursday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, at 5 p.m. The Long Island championship game is to be played on Sunday, Nov. 11, at Farmingdale State College, at 5 p.m. The Class A Final Four tournament is to be contested at Glens Falls over the Nov. 17-18 weekend.

East Hampton High’s girls swimming team, while not the official winner of the League III meet at Hauppauge High School on Oct. 24, finishing second over all to Sayville-Bayport, bested everyone in the swimming events. 

What turned the meet in Sayville-Bayport’s favor was its 36 diving points. “Going into the diving, we were up by 10,” Rich Swanson, one of the parents, said over the weekend. “Then, all of a sudden, there was a big swing.”

East Hampton has no divers, a fact that doesn’t hurt it at home meets — the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter having no diving board — but often does in away ones.

Absent Say-Bay’s diving points, Craig Brierley’s Bonackers would have won 295-277. As it was, they were the runners-up, by a score of 313-295.

East Hampton apparently could have prevailed even so had it won the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay. Sayville-Bayport’s team won that, in three minutes and 45.62 seconds, with Hauppauge second at 3:46.52, and East Hampton third at 3:58.96, a season-best for Olivia Brabant, Kiara Bailey-Williams, Emma Wiltshire, and Camryn Hatch. 

The Bonackers — a young team, there being only two seniors, Oona Foulser and Wiltshire — did win the other two relays, however, the 200 medley relay, with Julia Brierley, Jane Brierley, Sophia Swanson, and Foulser, and the 200 free relay, with Foulser, the Brierleys, and Swanson. 

“The girls set the tone right at the very first event,” Coach Brierley said in an emailed account, “blowing away the field in the 200 medley relay,” touching the wall eight seconds ahead of second-place Harborfields, in 1:51.97. That time “dropped three seconds from the team’s season-best and qualified it for the state meet.”

Swanson, he added, “followed up a fantastic medley relay swim with a lifetime-best 59.73 in the 100 butterfly.” That time, which earned her a third-place finish, also qualified her for the state meet.

“There were so many swims worth highlighting,” said the elder Brierley. “A few of them were Oona Foulser’s lifetime-best 25.37 in winning the league’s 50 freestyle; Jane Brierley’s winning time of 1:09.49 in the 100 breaststroke; Darcy McFarland’s county-qualifying time of 1:07.76 in the 100 backstroke, a personal best by 1.6 seconds, and Emma Wiltshire’s lifetime-best 1:00.08 in the 100 free, a county-qualifying time as well.”

“Officially, Sayville won the meet, but our girls know they came out on top in the swimming portion of the league championships! This competition was a complete team effort. For those competing, every race mattered, as well as for the remainder of the team who were cheering their teammates on.”

In other events, Swanson, Jane Brierley, and Bailey-Williams finished third, fourth, and fifth in the 200 I.M.; Julia Brierley was fourth in the 50 free; Foulser was second in the 100 free; Caroline Brown, McFarland, and Hatch finished third, fourth, and fifth in the 100 backstroke, and Julia Brierley placed third in the 100 breaststroke.

After Sayville-Bayport and East Hampton in scoring came Hauppauge, with 228 points, Harborfields, with 196, West Islip, with 131, and West Babylon, with 85.

Foulser and Wiltshire, the team’s captains, were named by Brierley and their teammates as swimmers of the meet.

The county meet is to be Saturday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, at 10 a.m. Swanson, Jane Brierley, Julia Brierley, Bailey-Williams, Foulser, Hatch, Wiltshire, Brown, McFarland, and Margaret Breen have posted county-qualifying times in individual events.

Also last week, the boys soccer team, the 11th seed, lost a quarterfinal-round contest at third-seeded Elwood-John Glenn by a score of 1-0 last Thursday.

Don McGovern, East Hampton’s coach, said Glenn’s goal came off a corner kick midway through the first half, as the result of a head flick from the near post that sailed over the reach of East Hampton’s goalie, Kurt Matthews, the ball coming to rest within the nets at the far post.

Zane Musnicki, Brian Gonzalez, and Sebastian Fuquen, whose goal in a first-round game with sixth-seeded Kings Park advanced East Hampton to the quarterfinals, “had good chances,” said McGovern, adding that “we weren’t too efficient in the box.”

“It was a typical John Glenn team, physical and always a threat on set plays.”

While he’ll lose 11 seniors to graduation, Musnicki, Matthews, Fuquen, and Gonzalez among them, the coach said he thought East Hampton, whose jayvee, coached by Mike Vitulli, went undefeated this fall, would again be a contender next year. “At one point in the Glenn game we had six sophomores on the field,” he said.

Thursday, October 18

GIRLS SWIMMING, Harborfields vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at Hampton Bays, 5:45 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Walt Whitman, Huntington Station, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, October 19

GIRLS TENNIS, county team tournament, second-round match, William Floyd-Mattituck winner at East Hampton, 3 p.m.

Saturday, October 20

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Horseheads, N.Y., invitational tournament, 9 a.m.

CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton boys and girls at New York City Cross-Country Carnival, Fordham Preparatory School, the Bronx, 9 a.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, county team tournament, third-round match at Westhampton Beach, 10 a.m.

RUNNING, Shelter Island 5K, benefit East End breast health organizations, Crescent Beach, Shelter Island Heights, 11 a.m.

Monday, October 22

GOLF, league qualifying tournament, Rock Hill Country Club, Manorville, 8 a.m.

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A tournament, outbracket game, site of higher seed, 2 p.m.

FOOTBALL, junior varsity, Center Moriches at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Miller Place at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, October 23

CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton boys and girls at division championships, Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park, 1 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at League III meet, Hauppauge High School, 4:15 p.m.

Wednesday, October 24

MEN’S SOCCER, 7-on-7 league, Maidstone Market vs. Hampton Construction, 6:30 p.m.; Tortorella Pools vs. Sag Harbor United, 7:25, and F.C. Tuxpan vs. Hampton F.C.-Pool Shark, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

October 7, 1993

I am one of the few sportswriters, it seems, who thinks that soccer can indeed become a popular sport in this country. The evidence is all around us locally, as more and more children realize what a kick it is to boot a ball around.

. . . It used to be — about 10 or 15 years ago — that there was one men’s team here, an excellent team, but only one. Now, there must be at least a half-dozen in East Hampton and its environs of comparable strength. The level of play makes for good spectating, certainly on a par with a good South Fork high school basketball game, probably more exciting than most high school football or baseball games, and undoubtedly more riveting than men’s slow-pitch softball games.

. . . Speaking of the Latino League, rather than be shunted to a remote field out by Montauk Point, it should remain right where it is, and the powers-that-be should see to it that the grass is cut regularly, as is the case at Herrick Park and at the town’s Terry King baseball field on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett. — Point of View

Bob Nugent of Southampton and John Kenney of Shelter Island sublimated their competitive instincts as they neared the end of the 5K Georgica Jog Sunday. They crossed the finish line at East Hampton’s Main Beach together, at 15 minutes and 41 seconds, their hands raised.

When the question of who would accept first prize came up, Kenney replied, “Bob wins the tiebreaker — he’s got four kids, I’ve got three.”

October 14, 1993

East Hampton’s golf coach, Claude Beudert, thought Southampton, the defending New York State champion, which reportedly had not lost a league match in the past 10 years, was ready to be taken, and yesterday, at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, he was proved right.

The Bonackers, who had dropped an 8-1 decision at Southampton recently, prevailed on their home course by a score of 7-2 as Kevin Somers, at one, Carl Libert, at three, Tony Berkhofer, at four, and Mike Brady, at six, won their matches. 

October 21, 1993

Having seen the worst of it, according to its coach, Mike Gunther, the East Hampton High School boys volleyball team can look forward to a winning second half of the season, barring disaster.

The young Bonackers finished the first half at 4-4, having reeled off four straight wins before succumbing to Hauppauge in five here on Friday.

. . . Tim Ross, Bonac’s talented sophomore setter, was sidelined Friday because of a neck injury that he had suffered off the court. His substitute, Josh Brussell, “did a good job,” said Gunther. “Our problem that day was we couldn’t serve the ball into their court.”

In general, Gunther said, “We’re passing well, hitting well . . . I only had one hitter last year, Scott Smith. This year, I’ve got four — Chris Bernier, Mike Bennett, Jesse Libath, and Josh. But you haven’t seen our best hitter yet, and that’s because he’s been setting the whole time — Tim Ross.”

October 28, 1993

The best soccer team East Hampton High School has ever fielded was waiting yesterday to learn which team it will face in a county out-bracket playoff game this afternoon. It is the first time a Bonac soccer squad has made the playoffs.

A scale model and drawings of a $2 million youth center for East Hampton, designed by the acclaimed architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, have been in Town Hall for the last two weeks, as the Town Board considers whether to underwrite the center’s operating expenses.

Under a cooperative agreement not yet formalized, East Hampton Village would donate the property behind the G&T Dairy (also known as the Chicken House) for the building. The Youth Alliance, an ad hoc group organized by an East Hampton resident, David Silver, of West End Road, would be responsible for raising funds for its construction, and the town would cover operating expenses.

The proposal nearly created a partisan shouting match at a Town Board meeting Tuesday, however.

. . . As Supervisor Bullock and Mr. Cooper defended the project, the discussion took on an angry tone. . . . “We have an operating budget of $4.5 million for the Police Department alone,” Mr. Bullock said. “Are you saying you can’t find a half million for a youth center this town has wanted for 30 years?”

When Kathy McGeehan was asked Monday if the East Hampton High School girls volleyball team she coaches should be considered league champs, she said, “Oh my God, don’t say that . . . this league may not be decided until the last ball hits the floor.”

McGeehan’s crew, 9-0 as of that day in league play, and 10-0 over all, was to have played a tough opponent, Islip, yesterday, has Miller Place at home Monday, and finishes up the regular season with Westhampton Beach, its perennial rival, at home next Thursday.

Meanwhile, the team is to play in a high-powered tournament in Horseheads, N.Y., near Elmira, this weekend. East Hampton and Elwood-John Glenn, an undefeated Class B team (East Hampton’s an A) are to be Suffolk’s representatives.

In its sole match this past week, East Hampton defeated Amityville 3-0. Madyson Neff led the way offensively with 10 kills, Elle Johnson had 30 assists, the team recorded 15 aces, and Molly Mamay had 12 digs.

Likewise, Craig Brierley, East Hampton’s girls swimming coach, demurred when on Monday this writer asked if his team, 4-0 that day in League III meets, hadn’t wrapped up its second league title in a row — last year’s being its first ever.

Today’s meet with once-defeated Harborfields at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter is the last of the regular season. Brierley said he thought his team, which has only two seniors on it, had a good chance to win.

In the past week, Bonac’s swimmers had wins over Stony Brook, a nonleague opponent, and West Islip.

“We had five first-place finishes in the 11 events at Stony Brook, including two of the three relays,” Brierley said in an emailed account. “There were only four lanes, which helped keep the meet exciting, though Bonac poured it on in the final three events [the 100 backstroke, the 100 breaststroke, and the 400 freestyle relay] to win the meet 53-40.”

At West Islip — another school with a four-lane pool — last Thursday, East Hampton nevertheless won easily. “Again, we were limited to only two entries per event,” said the coach, “instead of the usual three, which again made for an exciting meet.”

“Oona Foulser won the 200 freestyle by 1.14 of a second; Jane Brierley posted a blistering 24.90 in winning the 50 free, missing the state cut by .06, but qualifying for the county meet in that event; Emma Wiltshire swam a lifetime best 1:02.00 in winning the 100 free, and Sophia Swanson dropped 10 seconds from her time in the 500, which she won in a county-qualifying time of 5:38.67.”

Emily Dyner, for recording a personal best in the 100 backstroke and a near-best in the 100 butterfly, was named as swimmer of the Stony Brook meet by the captains, who, according to Brierley, “appreciate the freshman’s hard work and consistency in taking on challenging events like the 100 fly and 100 back throughout the season.”

Jane Brierley, an eighth grader, was dubbed swimmer of the West Islip meet. “The captains,” said the coach, “were in awe of Jane’s determination in her races [the 50 free and 100 breast, each of which she won] and how she consistently has given a maximum effort in any race she has been in all season. . . . She’s been showing great promise.”

While the girls volleyball and girls swimming coaches weren’t quite ready to claim a league title on Monday, 

Rich King, in his first year as the golf coach, was. 

By virtue of his team’s recent 6-3 win here at the South Fork Country Club over Westhampton Beach, the Bonackers finished at 8-2 in league play, a mark that tied them with Westhampton for the league championship. Southampton, which was to have played Pierson Monday, may have made it a three-way tie at the top.

“We played our best golf of the season here against Westhampton,” said King, whose lineup comprised Turner Foster, a senior, at one, Nate Wright, a senior, at two, J.P. Amaden, an eighth grader, at three, Trevor Stachecki, an eighth grader, at four, Ryan Bahel, a senior, at five, and Aiden Cooper, a sophomore, at six.

The league qualifiers are to be played at the Rock Hill Country Club in Manorville next Thursday. The county championships (Foster won two years ago and was the runner-up last year) are to be played on Oct. 30, also at Rock Hill. The state golf tournament is to be played next June.

“Turner and Nate have great shots at making the county tournament,” King said.

The Y.M.C.A. East Ham­pton RECenter has, under Rosie Orlando, the Y’s health and wellness director, been working with those who have Parkinson’s disease for the past two years, at the instance of Steve Sicilian, a Y member who has Parkinson’s and also participates in Epic Martial Arts’ boxing sessions.

The Thursday afternoon Power Over Parkinson’s sessions have included weight training, balance exercises, and support-group discussions concerning “wellness, stress-reduction techniques, and how to continue a healthy lifestyle.” 

One of the participants, Alice Siegel, who’s 70, began playing tennis again following a 15-year hiatus as a result of the program, according to a release.

Orlando was delighted to learn recently that the Applied Energy Group’s South Fork Peak Savers energy-efficiency project plans to support her work, not only with those who have Parkinson’s, but also with those who have chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

“Funding has always been a concern each year,” Orlando said, when Jessica Torsiello, South Fork Peak Savers’ marketing director, vouchsafed the news. “It’s great to know we [she and her fellow coaches, Jackie Perrine and Claudia Gonzalez] can keep on.”

Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton High’s standout senior cross-country runner, , the country’s largest high school cross-country race, Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

Kevin Barry, who left some of his competitors at home “because they’ve been racing a lot and needed a rest,” said in an email Monday that Fowkes had covered “the famous 2.5-mile course” in 13 minutes and 29 seconds, reportedly a personal best for him at that distance. Three of the dozen freshmen Berry has, Aidan Klarman, Luke Brunn, and Hector Maldonado, medaled in the 1.25-mile freshman race — Klarman in 6:39, Brunn in 7:21, and Maldonado in 7:22.

Diane O’Donnell, East Hampton’s girls coach, said Ava Engstrom and Bella Tarbet, who are sophomores, also medaled, Engstrom for having finished 19th and Tarbet 49th in a 198-runner field. Engstrom’s time over the 2.5-mile course was 15:55, Tarbet’s 16:47. Emma Hren (18:00), Stella McCormack (21:33), Megan Fowkes (21:45), and Sydney Salamy (22:34) also ran. Hren and McCormack are ninth graders, Fowkes is a junior, and Salamy is a senior.

While Van Cortlandt’s course was “not easy by any means,” it was “not as hard as Sunken Meadow,” O’Donnell said.

The girls, said O’Donnell, have won two league meets thus far, over Amityville and Miller Place. The boys, who also have a couple of wins, lost twice in a tri meet at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park last week, to Sayville and Miller Place, by 25-30 margins.

Fowkes, hampered by a stomach bug, placed third, behind two Miller Place runners. Evan Masi, Joshua Vazquez, and Klarman, all freshmen, were the next East Hamptoners to score, Masi placing eighth, Vazquez 11th, and Klarman 12th. Mikko Negroponte, a sophomore, “who is improving with every race,” was 13th, the final Bonacker to be scored.

“Next up for us is the New York City Cross-Country Carnival at Fordham Prep this Saturday,” said Barry, who added that “the Division III championships are to be at Sunken Meadow on Tuesday.”

Turning to soccer, Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton’s boys team, was happy to say Monday that the team, whose record was 7-6 as of that day, had clinched a playoff spot. The Class A seedings won’t be known until tomorrow, he said.

The boys, who are playing in a much more organized fashion than they were earlier this fall, took a four-game winning streak into yesterday’s game here with league-leading Amityville, which was 11-0-1 as of Monday.

“They’re a good team, but we are too,” said McGovern. “We’ll challenge them.”

The Bonackers made the playoffs by virtue of a 1-0 win at Wyandanch Friday, avenging an earlier-season loss. Zane Musnicki, a wide-ranging senior defender, scored the all-important goal. 

In a game played here on Oct. 9, East Hampton easily handled Westhampton Beach 3-0 as Brian Gonzalez, Anthony Quito, and Alex Vanegas score the goals. Musnicki and Vanegas were credited with assists. 

East Hampton shut out Rocky Point 3-0 on Oct.4, and defeated Miller Place 5-2 on Oct. 2. As of Monday, it was in third place in League V, behind Amityville and Sayville (9-2-2).

“We may play a county tournament game on Monday or on Wednesday, depending on where we’re seeded,” said McGovern, who, when questioned, said the team had improved its possession-style game, and that the players were “determined” now, “tougher in the box.”

While Gonzalez, Musnicki, and Vanegas were leading the way, others have contributed offensively too, he said. “We’ve grown. We’re coming together. Hopefully, we’ll peak in the playoffs.”

The junior varsity football team on Monday routed Greenport-Southold’s jayvee 50-12. Christian Johnson scored four of the touchdowns. John Berti and Danny Ortiz each scored one. Topher Cullen, the quarterback, threw three touchdown passes, two of them to Johnson, spanning 30 and 45 yards, and one to Berti, a 35-yarder. He made good on nine of his 12 passing attempts. 

“We led 26-12 at the half, and then took advantage of some turnovers in the second,” Joe McKee, the coach, said. “The kids are coming along — we’ve seen a lot of improvement.”

The jayvee is to play the Center Moriches jayvee here Monday. The game is scheduled for 4:30, but McKee said he’d like to move it up to 4. 

The girls soccer team has been doing creditably. It went into Monday’s game here with Sayville, Division II’s fifth-place team, at 5-5-1. Alden Powers, who plays center midfielder, wasn’t in East Hampton’s lineup that day, and it hurt. The ball was in East Hampton’s end for pretty much the entire first half, during which the visitors’ striker scored twice, after beating defenders in the 10th and 29th minutes. Sayville had seven corner kicks in that half, and Lucy Short, East Hampton’s goalie, had five saves. She wound up with nine saves in the 3-1 loss. Nidia Bravo, a ninth grader, scored East Hampton’s goal in the second half.

Whether the field hockey team will make the playoffs was problematic as of earlier this week. A 2-1 loss to Shoreham-Wading River here on Oct. 9 hurt. The visitors scored off a corner play and on a breakaway in the first half, defensive lapses leading to both goals. East Hampton converted a corner play in the second, but could not put in another. 

The team was in seventh place among the 14 Division II teams as of Tuesday morning, with games left with Harborfields, Greenport-Southold, and Hampton Bays. A win at Harborfields Tuesday would undoubtedly have boosted the Bonackers’ chances inasmuch as Harborfields was in third place as of that day in the power-rated division, while Greenport-Southold was last and Hampton Bays was 12th.

Thursday, October 25

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A tournament, quarterfinal round, East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn, 4 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Westhampton Beach at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

Friday, October 26

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Half Hollow Hills at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton junior varsity at Southampton, 4 p.m. 

Saturday, October 27

BREWATHLON, for four-person teams, 5,000-meter row, 15K bike, 5K run, and 2,500-meter row, Montauk Brewery, Edgemere Road, Montauk, 2 p.m.

Sunday, October 28

MEN’S SOCCER, over-30 league, Smithtown vs. Hampton United, Hampton Bays High School, 4 p.m.

Monday, October 29

GOLF, county championship, Rocky Hill Golf Club, Manorville, 8 a.m., through Wednesday.

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A tournament, semifinal round, Glenn-East Hampton winner at second-seeded Hauppauge, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, October 30

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class A tournament, first-round matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, October 31

MEN’S SOCCER, 7-on-7 league, Tortorella Pools vs. Hampton Construction, 6:30 p.m.; Maidstone Market vs. Tuxpan, 7:25, and Sag Harbor United vs. Hampton F.C.-Pool Shark, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.