Sports

After their final home dual wrestling meet on Jan. 16, the Bonackers said goodbye to eight of their seniors, honoring them with flowers, photos, and bittersweet farewells.

“I am very proud of how they all stepped up in the biggest meet of the season,” the track team's head coach, Kevin Barry, said on the ride home from Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, where the team finished sixth.

It was a tough week for Bonac basketball, as the boys dropped to 6-7 and lost Miles Menu, their best rebounder, to a knee injury.

Bonac’s girls track team had its best League IV championship finish since 2023, taking fifth place with 56.25 points. They set 17 personal records and broke two school records at the meet.

Roughly 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions get kicked to the curb by February, but not if LTV in Wainscott can help it. LTV has resolved to keep local bodies moving this winter, launching a new fitness program this week.

The Bonackers hosted West Islip on Jan. 18 in a crucial swim meet that paired two undefeated League II teams against each other. In the end, East Hampton prevailed 93-83.

The Bonacker girls basketball team was undefeated at home through Tuesday, their most recent win by 52-48 over Port Jefferson on Jan. 10.

The Bonac boys basketball team started off the year with a three-game win streak, adding victories against Hauppauge on Jan. 6 and Eastport-South Manor on Jan. 8 to the last win of 2025, a 78-65 triumph over Comsewogue on Dec. 30.

The winningest wrestler in Bonac history went into Eastern States ranked seventh in the 126-pound weight class and qualified for the quarterfinals, where he beat the number-two, Brock Frederick of South Jefferson, in a 4-0 decision. He then lost to third-ranked Vincent Mastrianni of Colonie in the semifinals.

From East Hampton High School to Hofstra University to Puerto Rico, if there is a lacrosse field, Melina Sarlo will find it. The college sophomore spent her winter break playing in the Pan American Lacrosse Association Sixes Cup in Humacao, Puerto Rico, where she represented Argentina and helped her team win a bronze medal.

She’s been playing middle school softball for only a year, but 12-year-old Ann Peterson is already hitting it out of the park. The Springs School pitcher competed in the All-American Select Games in Panama City Beach, Fla., this month, where she won the All-American Ace Award and was named tournament M.V.P.

The first meet after winter break was a wild one for the Bonac boys swim team. The head coach, Craig Brierley, called the adventure on the road “one for the books.”

After starting 3-0 and winning the Kendall Madison Classic on Dec. 13, there was talk that the Bonackers could go undefeated this season. Then they dropped four straight. What happened?

Bronco Campsey, East Hampton’s star wrestler, is the first Bonacker to achieve 100 wins in almost 40 years, notching wins 100 through 103 in competition at Westhampton Beach last weekend.

Bonac’s boys and girls indoor track teams kept busy over the school break, competing in holiday meets that traditionally present both challenges and opportunities.

Fifteen East Hampton-Bridgehampton-Pierson wrestlers participated in the Sal DiFazio Holiday Tournament at Half Hollow Hills East High School on Dec. 28. Seven of them placed. Two of them placed first.

The Bonac boys swim team remained undefeated in League II, improving to 3-0 after a 77-31 home win over Lindenhurst on Dec. 15, and Knight and Chavez competed at Farmingdale.

A small crew represented Bonac boys indoor track at a crossover meet at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood on Dec. 21, but the track and field athletes who did compete turned in impressive performances.

The East Hampton girls varsity basketball team won its first game of the season at home on Dec. 19 — a 38-34 come-from-behind victory over Mattituck — improving to 1-2 over all and 1-0 in League VII.

East Hampton High School’s girls indoor track-and-field squad performed well at its rescheduled meet at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood on Dec. 20, the small turnout allowing athletes to try new events.

The 96th annual Audubon Montauk Christmas Bird Count was held on Dec. 20, when 45 participants found 127 bird species despite a morning wind chill of 16 degrees.

For the Bonac cheerleaders, keeping spirits bright is the name of the game no matter the season.

We either win or we learn. That’s Ethan Mitchell’s motto. He’s been coaching East Hampton wrestling for five years, and last week his team did both.

No nail was left unbitten at the Kendall Madison championship on Saturday. The Bonackers basketball team beat the Bridgehampton Killer Bees by just 2 points in a tight defensive game, with a final score of 47-45.

At the Bonackers’ second meet of the season Saturday at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, the 4-by-800-meter relay team took second place to Smithtown West with a time of 8:50.4, the fourth-fastest finish in Section XI.

Week four was a busy one for the Bonac boys varsity swim team, which traveled to Sachem for its second and final nonleague meet of the season on Dec. 9 and hosted Ward Melville at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter last Thursday.

East Hampton wrestling had a mixed weekend — earning a strong league win over Eastport on Dec. 12, but struggling the next day at the annual Doc Fallot Dual Tournament in Hampton Bays, where the team dropped all five matches.

A Cassin’s sparrow, the first ever reported in Suffolk County and only the second ever in New York State, has been found off the parking lot at Montauk State Park.

The East Hampton High School bowling team lost its first two matches of the winter season, but the scores don’t reflect how quickly the team is coming together.

Eight East Hampton High School seniors made their college commitment announcements on Dec. 3, recruited for their outstanding performance as varsity athletes. At an event in the high school library, their families and coaches celebrated their achievements.