East Hampton High School’s boys soccer team, at 5-2-1, was as of Monday tied with Half Hollow Hills West for second place in the League VI standings behind 7-1-0 Hauppauge, which defeated the Bonackers 2-0 on Sept. 23.
Don McGovern’s team rebounded with a 2-0 win over Eastport-South Manor last Thursday. The coach said in an emailed report that “we moved the ball effectively and generated many scoring chances, but could only find the back of the net twice. Our goals were scored by Juan Salcedo and Yandel Parra. Juan’s goal was unassisted; Ariel Garcia assisted on Yandel’s goal.”
“Eastport, which was much improved since the last time we played them, threatened us on a few occasions, but our boys responded well. Our goalie, Randy Japa, made a great save on a long-ranged shot, pushing it wide. . . .
Over all, we rebounded well from our loss to Hauppauge, a strong, physical team that moved the ball efficiently.”
As for the Hauppauge game, McGovern said, “They scored off a free kick from 30 yards out that was deflected by one of our defenders onto the scorer’s foot, and they scored off a corner kick — Randy got to the ball, but the ref said it had crossed the line. We continued to attack throughout the match, and had some good chances, but it wasn’t meant to be that day.”
The team was to have played at Comsewogue Tuesday, and Babylon is to play here Saturday at 10 a.m.
Girls Soccer and Swimming
East Hampton’s girls soccer team on Sept. 25 won its first game of the season, shutting out Wyandanch 7-0 here. Amy Torres (two), Sofia Pantosin (two), Elle Reidlinger, Nayive Chapa, and Shayla Buestan scored the goals. Jennifer Penafiel, Kenia Flores, Torres, and Emily Hurtado had assists. Leah McCarron, the goalie, had to make only two saves.
Cara Nelson, the team’s coach, said in an email that “this win should be the start of a strong finish to our season, which we hope will end with a winning record.”
The girls swimming team last Thursday won its League III opener here with West Babylon 78-58. Craig Brierley, the team’s coach, said that because West Babylon’s team is small “it gave us a chance to challenge our swimmers by putting them into events they don’t ordinarily do, the idea being to get them out of their comfort zones and to help them prepare for the challenges ahead.”
East Hampton won 10 of the 11 events contested. The winners were the 200-yard medley relay team of Vanessa Rizzo, Lizzy Daniels, Ava Castillo, and Lily Griffin; Molly Grande in the 200 freestyle race; Cybelle Curry in the 200 individual medley; Ginger Griffin in the 50 free; Ashley Leon in the 100 free; Lylah Metz in the 500 free; the 200 freestyle relay team of Daniels, Lily Early, Allison Farez, and Valeria Gutierrez; Griffin in the 100 backstroke; Castillo in the 100 breaststroke, and the 400 free relay team of Rizzo, Farez, Maya Dias, and Metz.
Golf and Tennis
Of East Hampton’s golf team, which he coaches, Rich King said that “we’ve been playing really well the past couple of weeks. We won three individual matches and shot 203 in losing by one shot to Southampton, the league’s second-best team, and won two matches in a loss to Westhampton, which tops the league, shooting 202 to their 192. We shot a season-low 193 in defeating Pierson last Thursday, which underlines what I said earlier about our team starting to play some solid golf.”
The girls tennis team was 7-2, and in fourth place in League IV, as of Monday, having been bageled 7-0 by the Ross School on Sept. 23 and having been edged 4-3 by Westhampton Beach, the undefeated league leader, on Sept. 25.
Of the Westhampton match, Pablo Montesi, East Hampton’s coach, said that “it was a great one. At one point, we were up in fourth doubles, and had we won it we would have beaten them, though, at any rate, it was a fun, intense day of tennis.”
East Hampton swept the three singles matches, with Hailey Rigby winning 6-2, 6-2 at one, Ella Menu winning 7-5, 6-2 at two, and with Stella Peterson winning 6-1, 4-6, 10-6 at three.
All four doubles teams lost. Colleen McKee and Caleigh Barletta were defeated 6-1, 6-1 by Matilda Buchen and Ava Borrugo; Ava Mintz and Sienna Hummel were defeated 6-0, 6-0 by Shannon Killoran and Ana Way; Molly Stillman and Sophia Sanchez were defeated 6-0, 6-0 by Zoe Grellet-Aumont and Gaby Arango 6-0, 6-0, and Dylan and Fallon Centalonza were defeated 6-4, 6-2 by Diana Elliott and Maddie Montgomery.
Field Hockey
East Hampton’s field hockey team was 4-5 and sitting in 10th place among Division II’s 17 teams as of Monday. Kerri O’Donnell and Izzy Briand scored in East Hampton’s 2-0 win here over West Islip on Sept. 23, with Ava Tintle and Georgia Kenny getting assists. Addi Barletta, assisted by Sierra Stumpf — a freshman brought up from the junior varsity — scored the lone goal in East Hampton’s 1-0 win at Smithtown West on Sept. 25.
Rocky Point defeated East Hampton 1-0 on Friday. Danielle Schuster, the team’s coach, said that “it was a battle, a tough one to lose. It’s the best game we’ve played this season. We fought for every ball and really started to trust one another. We held Rocky Point scoreless until three minutes into the fourth quarter. . . . They had 15 corner plays to our one. [Schuster’s daughter, Caeleigh, made 23 saves.] Once we figure out how to transition quickly from defense to offense, we should be unstoppable.”
