Six of East Hampton High’s 11 fall teams were to have vied in postseason competition this week.
The golf team, which won the Conference IV championship last week after going undefeated in league play, was to have played rounds on Monday and Tuesday at the Smithtown Landing Country Club.
The team comprises the defending county champion, James Bradley, Trevor Stachecki, Nico Horan-Puglia, J.P. Amaden, Juan Palacios, and Carter Dickinson.
Palacios, with a 79, was East Hampton’s top scorer in the 18-hole conference tournament played at the Cherry Creek Golf Links in Riverhead, followed by Horan-Puglia with an 81, Bradley with an 82, and Stachecki and Amaden, each with 83s. Their 408-stroke total bested those the other nine schools shot. The closest one to East Hampton was Westhampton Beach, at 418.
All of the above qualified to play in the county’s individual tournament, as did Carter Dickinson, whose 90 was not included in East Hampton’s conference score but was nevertheless three strokes under the county cutoff.
Also on Monday, the boys soccer team, seeded 10th among the county’s Class A teams, was to have played a first-round game at seventh-seeded Wyandanch, the ninth-seeded girls volleyball team, following a wild regular-season-ending win over Mount Sinai here on Oct. 20, was to have played an out-bracket game at eighth-seeded Eastport-South Manor, and Sandrine Becht and Maya Molin were to have played first-round matches at the county individual girls tennis tournament at Smithtown East High School.
Molin, East Hampton’s number-two singles player, Bella Walsh, a second doubles player, who quit the team after its final league match, and Arely Gutierrez, a “super sub,” were absent from the lineup when sixth-seeded Patchogue-Medford played here in a first-round county team tournament match last week, a match that the third-seeded Bonackers lost 5-2.
Kevin McConville, the team’s coach, said Molin and Gutierrez were absent “because of exams they couldn’t miss. . . . Stella Peterson, filling in at fourth singles, lost in three sets, and our third doubles team that day, which included a sub, Bella Pilarski, lost in two close sets. Our third doubles teams went 13-1 on the season, testimony to how much depth we had.”
“All in all, it was a great season, one in which our players improved greatly. Sandrine Becht, our only senior, who was all-state last year in doubles, was all-county in singles this time, and our team finished third among the 19 schools in the county’s east division.”
The boys and girls cross-country teams were to have run in county divisional meets at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park on Tuesday, and East Hampton’s girls swimming team was to have vied in the League III championships at West Islip High School yesterday. If the boys soccer team won at Wyandanch, it will play at second-seeded Amityville today. Semifinal games are to be played at the higher seeds Monday. The Class A final is to be played at Longwood High School next Thursday at 5 p.m.
East Hampton’s field hockey team fell short of making the county Class B tournament, but Pierson is to play Greenport in the Class C final at Pierson on Monday at 5 p.m.
East Hampton’s football team, which was not in playoff contention because it had moved down to Division IV so that the program could be rebuilt, lost 20-0 at Greenport Friday night, but the result might well have been different had the
Bonackers not been missing four key starters, Charlie Corwin, Finn Byrnes, Danny Lester, and Santi Maya, all of whom were injured in East Hampton’s homecoming game with Port Jefferson on Oct. 16.
Corwin, the quarterback, is in concussion protocol, as is Byrnes, the team’s chief running back. Lester has a broken wrist, and Maya a separated shoulder.
“Because of two injuries and a suspension, we started our fourth-string quarterback, Aryan Chugh, at Greenport,” said Joe McKee, the Bonackers’ head coach.
All things considered, he added, the team had played with heart. “We got inside their 20 a couple of times, but couldn’t sustain the drives. . . . Michael Hill and Michael Moret ran the ball well, and after they intercepted and ran it back to our 2, we stopped them three times before they scored their second touchdown, near the end of the first half, on a controversial play.”
The home team’s third touchdown, the result of a broken tackle and a 40-yard run, was scored in the third quarter, McKee said,
The team is to play its final game of the fall tomorrow evening at Miller Place.
As for the program itself, McKee, who began rebuilding it from scratch about five years ago, noted that there are 170 kids in K-6 flag football, whose games are played Friday evenings at East Hampton’s Herrick Park, that there are 53 on the East Hampton Middle School squad, which is to play Center Moriches at the high school on Nov. 1, at 4:30 p.m., and that the junior varsity, coached by Jaron Greenidge, which is to play at Hampton Bays Monday, was 2-1 at the moment.
As the result of racial slurs aimed at a fellow student that had been posted online recently, the jayvee’s roster has been reduced “by three players so far,” McKee said at last Thursday’s practice session.
In other football news, Frank Vespe of Springs wants to begin a coed one-hand touch football league for 21-and-older players. Games would
be played on weekends at East Hampton’s Herrick Park. The website eastendfootball.com has more details.
