East Hampton High’s girls swimming team, which is to host its chief league rival, Sayville-Bayport, at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Thursday evening, remained undefeated, at 4-0, after triumphing over West Islip 58-41 on Oct. 3. The girls volleyball team had as of Monday won four straight, improving its league mark to 6-5. And the 4-1 junior varsity football team, with the varsity’s coach, Joe McKee, among the spectators, crushed Comsewogue’s jayvee here Saturday morning 44-6.
“We jumped out to a 7-3 lead in the first event, the 200 medley relay, and were able to hold onto the lead throughout,” Craig Brierley, the swimming team’s coach, said in an emailed report. “The girls took first in all but one event — two, counting diving — and even went one-two in five of them,” namely the 100 butterfly, with Ava Castillo and Ginger Griffin, the 100 free, with Lily Griffin and Vanessa Rizzo, the 500 free, with Lizzy Daniels and Lucy Knight, the 100 backstroke, with Vanessa Rizzo and Daniels, and the 100 breaststroke, with Castillo and Lily Caplin.
Before Thursday night’s “senior meet,” the team’s six seniors — Caplin, Cloe Ceva, Kate McMillan, Quackenbush, Sidney Rawsen, and Ruby Tyrrell — are to be honored. Sayville-Bayport is the defending League III champion.
Swimmers of the meet at West Islip were Daniels, a sophomore, and Evann Castillo, a ninth grader. Daniels, who volunteered to swim the 100 back even though she was to swim in the 400 free relay two events later, “did awesome, going a best time in taking second. As for Evann, the captains wanted her to know that they were well aware of her amazing team spirit and the energy she puts into cheering for her teammates.”
Joe McKee, whose varsity team was to lose 14-0 at Comsewogue later that day — a game in which Comsewogue’s defense pretty much shut the Bonackers down — had to be pleased with what he saw Rob Rivera’s jayvee do here Saturday morning.
The jayvee, with Theo Ball at quarterback, and with Jackson Ronick running the ball, Cole Dunchick catching it, and Juan Espinoza kicking it, jumped out to a 7-0 lead four minutes into the fray. Before the first quarter was over, the young Bonackers were to score two more times, as the result of a 33-yard interception return by Zane Karoussos and a six-yard carry into the visitors’ end zone by Ronick.
A 23-yard touchdown pass from Ball to Dunchick made it 25-0 as the second quarter began, and later in the period Jackson Carney, who can move, rushed for 50 and 93-yard touchdowns. And so it went.
The visitors finally got on the scoreboard by way of a 54-yard catch-and-run in the opening minute of the fourth quarter. East Hampton scored its seventh TD as Owen Rogers carried the ball in from the five-yard line with five minutes remaining.
Comsewogue’s varsity topped East Hampton’s 14-0, scoring as the result of a six-yard pass in the opening minutes of the second quarter, and on a rush from the five at the beginning of the third. Alex Davis ran well for East Hampton, but mostly, it seemed, Charlie Corwin, East Hampton’s stellar quarterback, found himself facing third-and-long situations.
Turning to girls volleyball, Natalie Mongan, a junior right side, Katie Kuneth, a senior outside hitter, and Olivia Yellen, the senior setter, made valuable contributions in East Hampton’s 25-18, 25-18, 15-25, 19-25, 15-7 win over Deer Park here Friday.
Mongan had six kills, nine assists, and 17 digs; Kuneth had six kills, four aces, and eight digs, and Yellen had nine assists and seven digs.
It was the fourth straight win for East Hampton, extending a streak that began on Sept. 28.
