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Alyssa Bahel PR’d in Paris Marathon

At her father’s Body Tech fitness studio on Pantigo Road the other day, Alyssa Bahel said she’d run the Paris Marathon in 3 hours, 10 minutes, and 15 seconds — her best time to date.

Apr 24, 2025
On the Water: A Friend Remembered

Despite keeping fishing notes in my logbook since 1975, I can’t precisely determine the exact date I first met Vincent (Butch) Maher, but I do know it happened at some point in May of 1986, according to my haphazard writings, when I climbed aboard the Lazybones.

Apr 24, 2025
The Lineup 04.24.25

The week ahead in local high school sports action.

Apr 24, 2025
Whalers Won as Kyle McGowin Looked On

The Pierson Whalers defeated Elwood-John Glenn 8-6 Saturday before some 250 Mashashimuet Park spectators who had earlier seen Kyle McGowin, a Pierson grad and former Washington Nationals pitcher, presented with a plaque that is to be displayed in the school’s trophy case.

Apr 24, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 04.17.25

A push for a bike path and a plan for a recreational park. This is how it was.

Apr 17, 2025
Garcia’s Run Club Drawing a Crowd

Last winter and the one just passed have proved less daunting for some here than in the past thanks to the presence of the Hamptons Run Club, which is overseen by Edwin Garcia, a Montauk personal trainer.

Apr 17, 2025
Padel Is Up and Running at EHIT

Anyone who has played a racket sport — tennis, platform tennis, squash, racquetball, pickleball — will be able to pick up padel readily, and it’s popularity is surging.

Apr 17, 2025
The Lineup 04.17.25

Your weekly list of high school sporting competition coming down the pike.

Apr 17, 2025
Bees and Baymen Rally Around Coach

This week, the Bridgehampton School varsity baseball team will rally around Michael DeRosa, the school’s athletic director and gym teacher as well as a coach of the Killer Bees baseball team. DeRosa underwent emergency surgery last week to remove a cancerous tumor in his brain.

Apr 10, 2025
Bonac Baseball No Longer Under the Radar

East Hampton capped a three-game sweep of Hauppauge with a 3-1 win here on Sunday afternoon in a game that had been twice-postponed because of the damp, dreary weather.

Apr 10, 2025
Pleasing Results on Courts and Track

The latest on Bonac softball, boys and girls track, flag football, lacrosse, swimming, and boys tennis.

Apr 10, 2025
The Lineup 04.10.25

The week ahead in local action on the fields, courts, and track.

Apr 10, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 04.10.25

Iceboating awards, facing the best of UpIsland lacrosse, and the day youth swimming came to the RECenter.

Apr 3, 2025
Homer Record in 9-6 Loss to Eagles

East Hampton High’s softball team set a record with three over-the-fence home runs — by Maryjane Vickers, Isabel Briand, and Alexa Schaffer — in its home opener here with Hauppauge, but the visitors wound the winner.

Apr 3, 2025
Miles Run, Walked for Worthy Causes

Montauk was the destination of long-distance running and beach-walking fund-raising efforts last week — a five-day run from Lake George in support of mental health counseling, and a four-day beach walk for early colorectal screening that began at Robert Moses State Park and ended in downtown Montauk in time for Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Apr 3, 2025
Spring Teams Show Plenty of Promise

The majority of East Hampton High’s eight springs sports teams saw action last week, the results of their contests, while mixed, constituting a rather good start to the season.

Apr 3, 2025
The Lineup 04.03.25

This week's schedule of high school sports contests.

Apr 3, 2025
Bonac Baseball Begins With a Big Win

East Hampton High’s baseball team made it clear with a 4-1 season-opening home victory over Hauppauge Monday that the Bonackers will contend for the League V title.

Apr 1, 2025
Hurricanes Finish Second Again at States

The Hurricanes, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter youth swim team, placed second to Huntington, whose numbers are far greater, in the three-day Y state meet in Rochester last weekend.

Mar 27, 2025
Milly Wasserman Fell and Fell in Love on the Ice

Milly Wasserman, a Buckskill Winter Club instructor on the verge of a professional figure-skating career, had to overcome childhood epilepsy to get where she is.

Mar 27, 2025
The Lineup 03.27.25

The week ahead in local sports action.

Mar 27, 2025
An Unbelievable State Hoops Final

Against an older, bigger Panama squad that was just as quick, Bridgehampton High’s boys basketball team staged an extraordinary second-half comeback Saturday in the state Class D final, losing in the end 78-69.

Mar 24, 2025
Bees Take Wing at SUNY Bing

Bridgehampton High School’s boys basketball team went into Friday’s state Class D semifinal with perhaps more confidence than it should have, for Loudonville Christian proved to be a formidable foe, overcoming seemingly comfortable Bee leads on several occasions before yielding in the end, 63-53.

Mar 21, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 03.20.25

A look back on news of the Montauk Rugby Club and the early days of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

Mar 20, 2025
Ex-Fighter Leaves His ‘Rage on the Page’

Seamus McDonagh, who visits Springs frequently, is a good man. And a good storyteller. He has timing, wit, a light Irish brogue giving music to his words, and a hard-gained wisdom that lands as powerfully as a shot from a heavyweight boxer. Which he once was — a cruiserweight who went up a class to face Evander Holyfield, challenging the legendary champion for his title.

Mar 20, 2025
Bees and Fans Delight in Regional ‘Laugher’

Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees eviscerated the Yellow Jackets of Eldred from the start in Saturday’s Class D regional final, stealing and scoring repeatedly as their opponents from Sullivan County looked on, helpless to stop the onslaught.

Mar 17, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 03.13.25

Looking back on news of the Montauk Rugby Club and a Maidstoners softball trip to Cuba,

Mar 14, 2025
Bob Vishno, 93, Sag Harbor Coach and Mentor

“Youth is full of sport” is written above Bob Vishno’s photo in the Branford (Conn.) High School yearbook of 1949, a fitting saying for one who would go on to coach golf, basketball, and baseball at Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School for a generation, a 31-year tenure that he and his late wife, Lillian, who also was a Sag Harbor teacher, set forth upon in 1956. 

Mar 13, 2025
The March Alversa Couldn’t Wait for Is Here

March is here, and during an open workout Sunday at East Hampton High’s baseball field, the varsity coach Vinny Alversa said something he hasn’t said in a decade at Bonac’s helm: that this year’s senior-heavy varsity team can win the league championship.

Mar 13, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 02.06.25

A look back at sports and athletic news from 2000.

Mar 6, 2025