25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports: 03.29.18
February 4, 1993
Question: What do you do when your archrival beats you in the last second of a basketball game by canning an unbelievable shot with a second left on the clock?
Answer: The next time you play, you throw up an even more unbelievable shot . . . from much farther away, and you drill it with one second . . . no, make that no time left on the clock.
Pick any superlative. Superfabulistic? It was better than that. Cosmic? That’s in the right neighborhood. Nothing less can describe watching the Killer Bees and the Southampton Mariners lock horns for 32 minutes. They play the kind of basketball a fan can usually only dream about.
Anxious to avenge a heartbreaking 70-69 loss on Jan. 11 on the Southampton College floor — a loss only absorbed after the Mariners’ Eddie Jeffries popped in a twisting fadeaway from the far corner with one second left in the game — Bridgehampton, the eventual winner of Tuesday’s game by 65-62, went in front early this time.
. . . Carl Johnson, Bridgehampton’s coach, knew his team had been in a ballgame. “I was scared,” he said. “They put fear in your heart.” — Rick Murphy
February 11, 1993
East Hampton’s senior standout, Scott Smith, recorded the 1,000th point of his career to pace Bonac’s boys basketball team to a resounding 67-56 victory over Pierson on the winner’s home court Tuesday.
The loss left Pierson’s postseason playoff hopes twisting in the wind, which is to say the Whalers will probably have to defeat Bridgehampton today in Pierson’s gym to wow the Section XI seeding committee. But unless the Whalers play a lot better than they have been in recent weeks, that simply ain’t gonna happen.
. . . The latest member of Bonac’s 1,000-point club joins a number of others, the most recent being Terrell Dozier and Kenny Wood, the University of Richmond star, whom Bonac fans can see on ESPN Monday afternoon.
. . . Today will be Pierson’s last chance to impress, and you can be sure Carl Johnson and company will be looking to prove the Whalers don’t deserve a shot at the title. — Rick Murphy
There’s no question ice doesn’t come as much as it used to, the past weekend’s freeze aside. Two hockey enthusiasts hoping to change that are spearheading an effort to build an ice hockey rink in East Hampton.
Bob McCall of Amagansett and Jim LaGarenne of East Hampton have rounded up an architect, engineer, attorney, and 40 others interested in building a rink on town land behind its softball field on Abraham’s Path.