East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, seeded seventh among 11 schools in the county tournament’s Class AA bracket, is to play 10th-seeded Deer Park here on Saturday at 2 p.m. The winner is to play at second-seeded Half Hollow Hills West Monday at 2:30.
A thrilling 4-3 win over Hauppauge here on Monday earned Don McGovern’s team a playoff berth.
In other postseason news, the 14th-seeded girls tennis team, which had upset the county team tournament’s third seed, Smithtown East, by a score of 4-3 on Tuesday, was defeated 5-2 the next day at sixth-seeded Commack, ending the best run Bonac girls tennis has had in nine years.
Stella Peterson, playing at third singles, won 6-2, 6-3, and Molly Stillman and Sophia Sanchez Cleary at fourth doubles won 7-6, 6-3. Sienna Hummel lost 6-2, 6-0 at first singles, and Natalie Yellen, at second singles, lost 6-1, 6-0. At first doubles, Ella Menu and Ava Mintz lost 7-5, 6-0, Caleigh Barletta and Colleen McKee, at two, lost 6-4, 7-5, and, at three, Dylan and Fallon Centalonza lost 6-1, 6-2.
East Hampton’s field hockey team was defeated 1-0 in a county Class B play-in game by East Islip here Thursday, East Islip being the team East Hampton had edged in a shootout on Oct. 17 to get into the playoffs. It was pretty much all East Islip in the first quarter, during which the visitors’ Sara Murria put a corner play rebound past Bonac’s goalie, Caeleigh Schuster. And that was it for those who were hoping East Hampton would knot the score and thus bring about another shootout.
Schuster finished the first quarter with seven saves, and ended the game with 13. The visitors’ goalie, who was credited with two all told, wasn’t called upon to make a save until early in the fourth quarter, when she parried a corner-play shot by Brynley Lys. East Hampton was up a player for two minutes at one point in the fourth period, but couldn’t take advantage.
The Bonackers were on the move with two and a half minutes remaining thanks to a long feed up to the forwards by Georgia Kenny, who had stopped a breakaway, but a call against East Hampton — to the dismay of the team’s coaches, Danielle Schuster and Nicole Ficeto — stifled the promising attack.
East Islip, the B bracket’s ninth seed — East Hampton was the eighth — is to play at top-seeded Miller Place on Monday.
Speaking of East Islip, East Hampton’s boys volleyball team, sixth-seeded among the six entrants in the county’s small schools tournament, is to play there Saturday at 1 p.m. East Islip is the tournament’s third seed. The winner will play at second-seeded Westhampton Beach on Tuesday.
