East Hampton’s girls tennis team, seeded 14th among the 19 vying in the county’s large schools team tournament, is to play 19th-seeded East Islip at home Thursday afternoon. The winner is to play at third-seeded Smithtown East Tuesday.
The Ross School, which finished the regular season with only one league loss — to Westhampton Beach, the top seed in the large schools tourney — is second-seeded in the county’s small schools tournament, behind Bayport. Shoreham-Wading River, the third seed, is to play at Ross Thursday. The winner is to play the Bayport-Mount Sinai winner for the small schools championship at Smithtown East High School Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Ross’s top singles player, Lola Dangin, one of five ninth graders on Vinicius Carmo’s squad of 25, led Ross to the small schools final last year and played in the state singles tournament after having placed third in the county tourney. The talented team, which bageled East Hampton 7-0, is very young, with no seniors on it and only one junior.
Ross finished the League IV campaign at 11-1, behind 12-0 Westhampton Beach. William Floyd at 10-2, Shoreham-Wading River at 9-3, and East Hampton at 8-4 followed.
Further on the playoff front, East Hampton’s boys soccer team, whose record stood at 5-5-1 as of Monday, was, according to its coach, Don McGovern, “still in the hunt for a playoff spot.” As of Monday, “we have three games remaining. A win and a tie in any of those matches will assure us of a post-season spot. We’ll take it one at a time.”
In recent action, the boys lost 5-0 at Half Hollow Hills West on Oct. 9, and 2-1 at home on Oct. 7 to Harborfields, a team it had defeated earlier in the season.
As of Monday, Hills West led League VI with an 8-2-1 record, followed by Amityville at 7-2-2, Hauppauge at 8-3-0, Harborfields at 7-4-0, East Hampton at 5-5-1, Comsewogue at 5-6-0, Eastport-South Manor at 1-10-0, and Westhampton Beach at 1-10-0.
Westhampton was to have played here Tuesday. East Hampton is to play at Amityville Thursday and is to wind up the regular season at home with Hauppauge on Monday.
Josh Brussell, the boys volleyball coach, said in an email over the weekend that “at the moment we are in the six spot, which would put us in the playoffs. . . . We have five games left and we could win them all. At the worst, I think we’ll go 3-2, which would put us in the playoffs.”
