The news was generally great for East Hampton High’s girls teams last week: The tennis team bageled Southampton 7-0 here on Sept. 28; the swimming team defeated West Babylon 80-62 at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter last Thursday, winning all but one event; the field hockey and girls volleyball teams cruised to easy wins Friday, and the girls cross-country team that day placed second in the varsity A race in the Tom Knipfing invitational at Fireman’s Field in Ridge, a 3.21-miler in which Dylan Cashin, Bonac’s top runner, was second over all, in 20 minutes and 5 seconds.
“It was a little longer than a 5K,” said the cross-country coach, Diane O’Donnell. “If it had been a 5K, Dylan would have broken 20.”
Ryleigh O’Donnell was East Hampton’s second finisher, and 10th over all, in 21:20. Teammates following her across the line were Zion Osei in 21:51, Briana Chavez in 23:24, Leah Fromm in 23:37, Emma Tepan in 24:05, Riley Miles in 24:20, Taylor Atwell in 28:52, and Ivy Zambrano in 30:45. All but the latter two were medalists. Charlie Weitz ran for East Hampton in the 1.7-mile freshman race. “Her goal was to finish, and she did,” said O’Donnell, “in 15:33.”
The swimming team easily defeated West Babylon here in its league-opener last Thursday. Cami Hatch was a triple-winner: as a member of the 200-yard medley relay team, in the 50 freestyle, and in the 500 free. Ditto Jane Brierley in the 200 medley relay, the 400 freestyle relay, and the 100 butterfly. East Hampton “exhibitioned” in the last four of the 12 events, which is to say forwent points.
Thus far, the team’s competitors have qualified to compete in the county meet in 11 events: the three relays, the 50, 100, 200, and 500 freestyle races, the 200 individual medley, and the 100 butterfly, backstroke, and breaststroke races. Jane Brierley, moreover, has qualified for the state meet in the 100 breaststroke. Last Thursday’s win improved East Hampton to 2-1-1 over all.
Katie McMillan and Ruby Tyrell, both juniors, were named as swimmers of the meet by the captains. McMillan dropped 2-plus seconds in finishing third in the 500 free, and Tyrell was a runner-up in the 200 free — the first time she’d swum the distance in competition — and in the 100 backstroke. The qualifier list includes Hatch, Brierley, Lily Griffin, Ava Castillo, and Lizzy Daniels.
The team’s coach, Craig Brierley, and his charges volunteered at the MightyMan triathlons in Montauk Sunday. “Their efforts were well appreciated by the triathletes. . . . The girls are learning the value in doing something for others,” the coach said in an email Monday.
Alex Choi’s volleyball team kept its playoff hopes alive by defeating Miller Place 3-1 here Friday. The Dig Pink game was played as a fund-raiser for breast cancer research, and Choi’s team, wearing pink uniforms, played with gusto, serving well, returning well, hitting well . . . “like a well-oiled machine,” he said. Caroline DiSunno had 9 kills, and Emma Terry served 5 aces. East Hampton was to have played at Rocky Point — a team it defeated at home — on Monday, and is to play at Comsewogue tonight.
Bonac’s field hockey players pretty much overpowered their Southampton peers, who rarely crossed the midfield stripe in Friday’s 6-0 win.
By the half, it was 4-0 East Hampton with goals having been scored by Toby Allen (two), Casey Stumpf, and Grace Merkert. Allen was assisted by Ava Arcoleo on her first one, scored midway through the first quarter. Kerri O’Donnell assisted on Allen’s second one, which came a minute later. O’Donnell also got the assist on Stumpf’s goal. Sienna Link Morse assisted on Merkert’s, which was scored with 10 minutes to go until the half. Merkert was to score twice more, giving her a hat trick, in the second half, with assists from Melina Sarlo and Emma McGrory.
The win improved Samantha James’s team’s record to 6-2.
Cara Nelson, the girls soccer coach, said in an email Monday that “we’re bringing back our Battle of the Bonackers staff soccer game benefiting a countywide Kicks For Cancer fund-raising effort on Friday, Oct. 14.” The last time this game was played, in the fall of 2018, the Pink team, led by Joe DiGirolomo, the assistant girls coach, and Don McGovern, the varsity boys coach, edged Nelson’s White team 5-4.
