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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
Bees Win County Title After a Shaky Start

The first half of Sunday’s county Class D high school boys basketball championship game between Bridgehampton and St. Pius V of Melville — which the Bees ended up winning 53-42 — was more akin to football at times, with as many as three or four players splayed out on the floor grappling for possession.

Mar 6, 2025
Campsey Is a State Finalist in Wrestling

Bronco Campsey, East Hampton High’s standout 108-pound wrestler who is a Pierson High sophomore, was a finalist last weekend in the state tournament in Albany, losing 12-4 to the division’s top seed, Will Soto of Newburgh.

Mar 6, 2025
Garneau Says ‘Yes’ to Winter

The Hackers Hockey Club’s manager, Tim Garneau, who took the baton from one of the club’s founders, John Battle, six years ago, grew up with winter sports in suburban Minneapolis, and, at 59, remains active athletically here during January, February, and March.

Mar 6, 2025
Last Tangle on Ice for Hackers and Responders

The Hackers Hockey Club and the Hamptons First Responders squared off at the Buckskill Winter Club Sunday night and on the night of Feb. 26, with the Hackers prevailing 4-3 in the first one and the First Responders edging the Hackers 10-9 in Sunday night’s finale.

Mar 6, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 02.27.25

Back to the Bees-Porters wars on the hardwood, and when Montauk Rugby made good in major league play.

Feb 27, 2025
A Skating Teacher Since She Was 16

Emma Dahl, a Buckskill Winter Club figure skating instructor and East Hampton native, provides youngsters with the foundation they need “to level up — whether it’s speed skating, hockey, or figure skating.”

Feb 27, 2025
Bronco Campsey and Bees Vying This Weekend

In an otherwise quiet shoulder season, this weekend brings Bronco Campsey in the state wrestling tournament and the county Class D championship boys basketball game between Bridgehampton and St. Pius V.

Feb 27, 2025
Junior Lifeguard Training Begins

Testing and training for East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard program for ages 9 to 15 and lifeguard training and conditioning for those who will be 15 by July 1 will begin on Sunday at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter pool.

Feb 27, 2025
They Skated for Katy at the Buckskill Rink

Figure skaters glided and hockey players collided at the Buckskill Winter Club’s ice rink last weekend, raising money for the Katy’s Courage Foundation.

Feb 27, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 02.20.25

Back to glory days of 125-pound wrestling and Bonac and Bees hoops.

Feb 20, 2025
Campsey Sweeps to a County Wrestling Title

Austin Bronco Campsey, a 15-year-old Pierson High School sophomore who wrestles at 108 pounds for East Hampton High’s team, on Sunday became the first champion Bonac has produced in almost 40 years.

Feb 20, 2025
Conlon Says There Is Work to Be Done

Dave Conlon had a young high school boys basketball team to coach this year, his first here, and his charges showed grit through a season of challenges.

Feb 20, 2025
Shootouts Decide Futsal Finals at Sportime Arena

Two futsal championship games, in men’s open and men’s 37-plus, Saturday at Sportime were decided in shootouts, while the East Hampton Futbol Club took the women’s open championship.

Feb 20, 2025
Katy’s Courage Fund-Raiser at Buckskill Club on Sunday

Sunday is to be Katy’s Courage Day at the Buckskill Winter Club, an all-day fund-raiser for pediatric cancer research that will include a professional ice-dancing show.

Feb 19, 2025
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 02.13.25

A trip into the past to revisit a basketball barn-burner and a martial arts powerhouse at the Ross School.

Feb 13, 2025
Campsey and Palombino Win at League Meet

East Hampton High’s Bronco Campsey at 108 pounds and Franco Palombino at 215 won League III wrestling championships Saturday, the boys county swimming meet qualifiers placed eighth among 19 squads, and the boys basketball team ended the League V season at 5-11 and 7-13 over all.

Feb 13, 2025
Love Fest Capped Rout in the Beehive

Miczar Garcia, a Bridgehampton senior who rarely plays, launched the ball from beyond the arc in the final seconds Friday and it swished through, topping off a 104-51 blowout of Shelter Island and unleashing pandemonium. 

Feb 13, 2025