Sports

East Hampton’s varsity flag football team picked up its first win of the year at home on March 31, with a rout of Southampton. The girls will return to their home field against Smithtown Christian on April 14.

The Ross School’s first-ever girls golf match is set for 4 p.m. on April 13 at the Noyac Golf Club.

The East Hampton Hurricanes started spring break on the blocks, diving into the Y.M.C.A. National Swimming Championship in Greensboro, N.C., from March 30 to April 3.

South Fork Lacrosse wasted no time scoring on Brentwood in its home opener on March 26, netting eight goals in the first quarter on the way to a 19-1 blowout.

The cold and wind were no match for East Hampton’s boys tennis team, which won its first home competition against Riverhead, 6-1, on March 23.

The Bonac girls track and field team won its first home meet handily, beating Comsewogue 101-37 on March 25 and placing first in 13 of 16 events, and then it was on to a chilly Longwood Invitational.

Bonac softball is racking up the wins, starting the season 4-0 with some outstanding performances, both at home and away.

East Hampton’s girls lacrosse team had a dominant 17-7 win over North Babylon, a nonleague opponent, for a promising start to the season in its first game at home on Saturday.

In his first national competition, Jasper Samuelson, an East Hampton High School sophomore racing as a member of the Old Montauk Athletic Club, ran a personal best time of 4:35.35, good for second in his heat.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton Hurricanes left the Nassau County Aquatic Center in East Meadow Sunday night as the 2026 New York State champions, breaking record after record to swim their way into the top spot among 1,109 athletes from 28 teams, including Huntington, the defending state champs. 

The Bonac Bolts youth track program is back. After a year’s hiatus, the club will return to the East Hampton High School track on Sundays from 1 to 2 p.m., from March 29 until the May Day 5K on May 3, except Easter Sunday (April 5).

This season, Kathy Masterson, East Hampton's athletic director, said, “I expect big things from everyone. We have a great commitment here.”

On Friday afternoons at the Clubhouse in Wainscott, a smiling group of high schoolers takes to the bowling lanes to let loose after a long week of school and get to know their fellow students. At first glance, it’s an unlikely bunch, with varying abilities and aptitudes, but it works in a million different ways.

By the end of the state championship weekend at Ithaca College, the Bonackers had finished first among the Section XI teams competing, overcoming adversity to rise to the top.

It was an unprecedented winter season for the Ross Lower School’s boys basketball teams.

Danielle Epstein and Maxim Bellenoue, mother and son, are bringing an E-Motion Movement Community grief program to East Hampton this spring.

The Bonac Boys 4-by-800-meter relay team tried one more time to break East Hampton’s 23-year-old school record last weekend at the Long Island Elite Meet. Their time of 8:42.53, while not record-breaking, still earned them a third-place finish at St. Anthony’s High School.

At the 2026 state championships in Albany last weekend, Bronco Campsey, a junior from Pierson High School, clawed back from a loss in the second round to place fifth in the state in the 126-pound weight class.

Two of Bonac’s top female track and field athletes competed at the Long Island Elite Meet at St. Anthony’s High School.

“Those unexpected rest days turned out to be a blessing in disguise” ahead of the state meet this weekend, Coach Craig Brierley said.

Alyssa Bahel, a 2015 East Hampton High School graduate and track star, ran the 2026 Tokyo Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 3:09:34, the 275th woman to finish in a field of nearly 39,000 runners.

Buried beneath the budgets and bond updates at the East Hampton School Board meeting Tuesday was the announcement nobody wanted to hear: The district's athletic director, Kathy Masterson, is retiring at the end of this school year. 

After more than a decade at the helm of a resurgent East Hampton High School football program, Joe McKee is retiring. Jaron Greenidge, the defensive coordinator, will take over.

Five Bonackers will compete at the state boys swimming and diving championships on March 6 and 7 at Ithaca College: Nick Chavez, Liam Knight, Jasiu Gredysa, Aidan Menu, and Zeb Ryan.

Just before this latest snowstorm, the Buckskill Winter Club hosted a full day of fun, from hockey games to skating lessons to an ice show, to raise money for Katy’s Courage. Now the club may extend its season.

The Bonac boys basketball season ended in spectacular fashion: a 61-57 double-overtime loss at Northport High School that had everything you could ask for in a game — tension, talent, and even two nosebleeds.

Bronco Campsey is the Suffolk County wrestling champion in the 126-pound weight class once again, the first Bonacker in modern history to capture the championship two years in a row.

Canada geese far outnumber other waterfowl on the East End, according to the 2026 New York State Ornithological Association count, but there are pleasant surprises in the mix as well.

Both of East Hampton’s winter track teams competed in the state qualifier championship meet at Suffolk Community College on Feb. 9 and 10. The girls, in particular, set some new school records, thanks to two days of outstanding performances from Leah McCarron.

Bonac’s wrestling team received its first piece of fan mail, from 90-year-old Carol Sherman, who wrote of Bronco Campsey, “People’s comments about you — they said not only are you a wonderful athlete, but you’re modest, and you’re polite, and you’re a great kid. And I said, ‘Well, that sounds like the kind of guy I’d like to meet!’ ”