Homecoming: Plenty to Cheer About
Despite the absence of a centerpiece football game, there was plenty to cheer about over the homecoming weekend just past as boys soccer, girls volleyball, boys volleyball, and field hockey registered wins here while the girls swimming team was improving its league-leading record to 4-0 at Stony Brook.
“Our girls had seven first-place finishes in the 11 events offered,” Craig Brierley, the swim team’s coach, said in an emailed report. “There were many wonderful efforts, including Olivia Brabant’s and Oona Foulser’s times in the 500, Kiara Bailey-Williams’s performance in the 200 individual medley, one second shy of qualifying for that event in the county meet, and Darcy McFarland’s personal best times in the 50 backstroke and in the 100 butterfly.”
The team’s final league meet, with Harborfields (2-1), was to have been held at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter yesterday.
The girls volleyball team’s 3-1 win over Shoreham-Wading River clinched it a playoff spot, said the coach, Kathy McGeehan.
That game was played here Friday, with East Hampton winning 21-25, 25-17, 25-11, and 25-10. Mikela Junemann led the way offensively with 22 kills. Elle Johnson, the setter, had 46 assists, and Molly Mamay, on the defensive side, had 20 service receptions and 17 digs.
The boys soccer team got homecoming underway with a 2-0 win here last Thursday over Mount Sinai, evening its record at 5-5-1. Two days before, the Bonackers played to a scoreless tie at Amityville, the undefeated league leader, attesting to the strength of Don McGovern’s team. In their first go-round, here on Sept. 13, Amityville prevailed 3-2.
Thursday’s game was pretty much all East Hampton, though it was scoreless at the half. The Bonackers got on the board with a goal in the 60th minute by Wilmur Guzman, a sophomore, who cashed in a free kick from about 20 yards out, beating the visitor’s goalie to the lower left corner.
Justin Carpio, a senior midfielder, put the game away with a score in the 73rd minute, having received a pass from Guzman, who had, in turn, gathered in a pass from Brian Farez, the left wing at the time.
McGovern’s squad was to have played at Miller Place on Monday. The Panthers were 0-10 as of that day.
On Saturday, the field hockey team, as expected, easily defeated Hampton Bays, by a score of 4-0. It was to have had a chance for revenge over Pierson-Bridgehampton here Monday afternoon. The Whalers outhustled Robyn Mott’s Bonackers at Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park on Sept. 25, winning 1-0.
In other sports action during the past week, Nate Wright, a junior who plays number-two on East Hampton’s golf team, shot a record-breaking 29 (seven birdies, two pars) on the Maidstone Club’s 9-hole east course in a match with Center Moriches on Oct. 10. East Hampton won the match 9-0, with its number-one (and defending county champion), Turner Foster, carding a 33, and its number-three, Jackson Murphy, shooting a 36.
Wright’s seven-under 29 bettered the 31s former Bonackers Zach Grossman and Ian Lynch recorded on the same course, which the coach, Claude Beudert, said was not quite as difficult as the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, where the team usually plays its home matches.
The feat persuaded Newsday to name Wright as its athlete of the week.
“I can’t remember the last time an East Hampton athlete was its athlete of the week,” said Beudert, whose team was to have played Pierson at the Noyac Golf and Country Club on Monday. A win there would probably result in a three-way tie with Westhampton Beach for the league championship.