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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!’ ”

Bonac basketball’s last game of the regular season was disappointing, a 55-52 loss to Harborfields, but the two could face each other again in the postseason. Meanwhile, East Hampton celebrated its senior players.

Five Bonac wrestlers are heading to the Suffolk County championship meet at Stony Brook University this weekend: Bronco Campsey, Juan Espinoza, Caleb Mott, Orson O’Brien, and Franco Palombino.

Bonac boys swimmers hit state-qualifying times in several events at the Suffolk County championship meet last weekend, sending five to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Boys Swimming and Diving Championships on March 6 and 7.

Mike Angiulo of Montauk was inducted into the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame Class of 2026, as the recipient of the Cecil Lear President’s Award, given to an individual who has made a lasting contribution in leadership or mentoring to East Coast surfing.

Before their final home meet on Sunday, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes swim team hosted a grand send-off for its four seniors: Lizzie Daniels, Liam Knight, Lylah Metz, and Daisy Pitches.

The Bonac boys basketball team is playoff bound after a thrilling 72-67 victory over Westhampton Beach in overtime on Monday. The game capped an intense finish to the season, highlighted by scrappy home wins over Comsewogue and Hauppauge.

The Bonackers lost five of their last six matchups to end the regular season, but Bronco Campsey continued his winning ways, notching his 115th. Next up, the League V championships at West Islip on Saturday.

Bonac’s boys and girls track teams competed at the small schools championship meets last weekend. The girls set five personal records and broke the school record in the 55-meter high hurdles. The boys won the 4-by-800 meter relay and nearly broke the school record.

The Bonac boys swim team managed to glide into third in the League II swim championships, even though they had a disqualification in the 200-yard medley relay when the backstroke went past 15 meters under water off the start.

The score didn’t tell the full story of the Sink Pink game at East Hampton High School — though congratulations to Pierson on the dominant 48-19 win. This game was all about two local girls basketball teams coming together in the fight against cancer.

Toby Foster, Bonac’s senior point guard, scored his 1,000th career point, a rare milestone, on a 3-point shot early in the Jan. 23 home game against West Islip.

The Hurricanes migrated south this month to turn in strong performances in Winterfest, a three-day invitational meet hosted by the Severna Park Y.M.C.A. swim team at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Bonac boys and girls took to the track at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood on Saturday, preparing for the Small School Championship meet this coming weekend.