Sports

It’s been four years since Richie Daunt has been in the ring. Now, with his 35th birthday on the horizon, the wiry, hard-hitting welterweight from Montauk is giving it one more go.

The Hurricanes, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, are beginning an especially crucial part of the season, during which they will compete at the state and national levels.

Much basketball in store this week, and the Bonackers take part in winter track championships in Brentwood this weekend.

Bonac’s third-place boys swimming team finished the league season at 4-2, and the boys were on fire on the track. The boys basketball team lost its seventh straight, but the girls won one.

The Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees followed up a 4-point win at Greenport in December with a 71-37 blowout Friday in the Beehive. Plus Bonac swimming, track, and wrestling updates.

Basketball and bowling on tap in the week ahead.

Betsy Kenyon woke up at dawn on her 59th birthday two days after Christmas and decided to commemorate it with a 25.8-mile beach walk from Flying Point in Water Mill, where she lives part time, to Montauk.

Dzmitry Daniliuk, the Buckskill Winter Club’s personable 30-year-old Belarus-born hockey coach, began playing the sport in Minsk at the age of 6, soon after fleeing a ballet class in which his mother had enrolled him.

Chris Vaccaro, the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame’s president, announced this week that Howard and Kenny Wood, who led East Hampton High School basketball teams to state championships and played professionally, are among those who will be inducted into the Hall on May 29 in St. James.

The Whalers, a first-year entry in the Suffolk County High School Hockey League’s freshman division, routed Patchogue-Medford 11-1 Sunday night, plus winter track and Bonac hoops updates.

This week's schedule of high school sports matchups.

Nine Pierson High School varsity basketball players, five of them seniors, have left the team, frustrated by the behavior of the head coach, Dan White. Some parents have called for his removal, while some players who remain on the team have spoken up in support of him.

Student-athletes Zone awarded, remembering Martin Quigley, and more from the sports pages of yore.

East Hampton High’s boys swimming team won two meets last week; results were mixed for wrestlers.

Anthony Daunt, Groundworks Landscaping’s 32-year-old project manager, added to his lengthening list of ultra challenges a recent 127-mile, 46-hour Times Square-to-Montauk Lighthouse Skyline to Shoreline run that he did to raise money for children who have cancer.

A thousand point scorer on the Bonacker hoops team, more Killer Bees glory, and the magic of iceboating.

It was almost balmy on New Year’s Day when around 500 intrepid people plunged into the ocean at East Hampton Village’s Main Beach, with at least twice as many fellow citizens cheering them on.

All the local sports action for the week ahead.

A requiem Mass for John Conner, a champion international and national age-group runner who built affordable houses here that enabled many to remain in their hometown, is to be recited at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton at noon on Saturday, with burial to follow in the church’s cemetery on Cedar Street.

The year just past was an inspiring one when it came to sports here, from Cole Brauer’s circumnavigation of the world in a sailboat solo and nonstop, to the community volunteer work of Dylan Cashin and Ryleigh O’Donnell, top East Hampton track athletes.

David Brandman and the Artists and Writers Softball Game’s impresario, Leif Hope, recently handed out $10,000 checks to four beneficiaries — the Eleanor Whitmore Center, the Retreat, Phoenix House, and East End Hospice.

In October, Craig Berkoski and Andrew Drake ran a legendary Grand Canyon route known as a "rite of passage" for ultra runners. The so-called Rim to Rim to Rim trail involves descending 4,500 feet down the South Rim, crossing the canyon floor and the Colorado River, and then running up the nearly 8,000-foot North Rim, and back. 

Plungers will be “freezin’ for a reason” at ocean beaches in East Hampton Village and Wainscott on New Year’s Day, their mad dashes into the frigid surf arguably motivated by desires for personal renewal and for their fellow citizens’ well-being, inasmuch as the proceeds from the usually very well-attended events go to food pantries in Sag Harbor and East Hampton Town.

The water was 24 degrees at Clearwater Beach in Springs at 8 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 13, when around a dozen people gathered to jump into Gardiner’s Bay for their weekly cold-water swim. The group is called the Clearwater Coldwater Club, and it began meeting in September, after Suzanne Sandbank, who moved to Springs three years ago, got everybody together.

East Hampton High School’s wrestlers won a close one against Northport here on Dec. 11, before going on to battle the reigning county champ, North Babylon, two days later.

A switch to a zone defense and Toby Foster’s fourth-quarter heroics led East Hampton over the Killer Bees in the championship game. Shelter Island topped the Ross School in the consolation game.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball season is to begin in earnest Friday with the Kendall Madison Tip-Off tournament here. Bridgehampton, Shelter Island, and the Ross School are the other teams contending.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s children’s programs and camp will benefit from a 5K run and walk on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. at Main Beach.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team began its season last week with losses to Half Hollow Hills-Kings Park and to Ward Melville, but notched a number of personal bests and county-qualifying times in the process.

The timeless draw of rugby, and memories of a triumphant Sprig Gardner wrestling tournament.