June 4, 1998
Notching 12 strikeouts, a season-high, and hitting a home run in the bottom of the second inning that gave East Hampton a 1-0 lead, Annemarie Cangiolosi and her Bonac teammates turned back a stiff Westhampton Beach challenge here Tuesday to advance to the Suffolk County Class B final at Fireman’s Field in Ridge this afternoon.
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Taneesha Harris, a Bridgehampton High School junior who competes with the Bonac girls track team, became the Suffolk County 200-meter champion Saturday, “blowing out the field,” according to one of her coaches, Diane O’Donnell, in 25.8 seconds, the fastest 200 time for Harris to date. . . . The last time a Bonac girls team member qualified for the state track meet was in 1991 when Bridgehampton’s Sandy McFarland, a Syracuse graduate who was then a junior, won the county 100 and 200. The 24.8 that McFarland ran that year still stands as the East Hampton High School record.
June 11, 1998
East Hampton had four hits to Islip’s three, but Islip scored the only run.
That’s the way it went at Fireman’s Memorial Park in Ridge last Thursday as the top-seeded Bonackers fell 1-0 to the second-seeded Buccaneers in the county Class B softball championship game. . . . Nevertheless, “it was a great season, a great four years, in fact,” East Hampton’s coach, Lou Reale, said. Four of the team’s five seniors — Annemarie Cangiolosi, Mylan Le, Vanessa Wirth, and Jessica Haab — have been with Reale ever since he came to East Hampton from Bayport four years ago.
“Our goal from the beginning has been to win the county championship and play in the states. We didn’t make it, but we gave ourselves the chance to. The kids have worked hard and they took the loss hard, especially the seniors, but three of them — Annemarie, Mylan, and Jessica — are going on to play softball in college, the parents built us dugouts, kids are getting scholarship money now. So, aside from the wins and the losses, the program has become really successful.”
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Mylan Le, a softball, field hockey, and basketball star, and Ryan Gallop, who played football and competed as a jumper with the winter indoor and spring track teams, were named winners of the Paul Yuska award Tuesday night at East Hampton High School’s athletic awards dinner.
June 18, 1998
Kevin Barry, who coaches the East Hampton High School boys cross-country and spring track teams, won Sunday’s East Hampton Classic 5K race sponsored by the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce.
The victory was especially sweet for Barry — the only runner to finish in under 17 minutes — who had lost to two of his teenage proteges, Jeremy Blutstein and Craig Gaites, in the last Thanksgiving Turkey Run in Montauk.
“And you better believe,” Barry said with a smile, as he and Blutstein, Sunday’s third-place finisher, talked afterward, “not one day went by when they didn’t remind me of it.”
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Chuck Sperazza, a 40-year-old triathlete from Norwalk, Conn., repeated as the winner of the Montauk Triathlon Saturday morning, leading a field of 400 through the swim, bike, and run course in 1 hour, 59 minutes, and 12 seconds.
Sperazza, who had already qualified for Hawaii’s Ironman, where he’s expected to win the 40-to-44 age group and probably finish in the top 15 over a ll, was the sole contestant to finish in under two hours. Last year, there were five who did so, led by Sperazza’s 1:49.23.
