Not much is going on sportswise here at the moment, though the basketball playoffs, in which the Pierson (Sag Harbor) and Bridgehampton High School boys teams and Pierson’s girls team have earned berths, are to begin next Thursday.
The Killer Bees will play top-seeded Smithtown Christian in the county Class D boys championship game at Southampton High School at 3:30 p.m. Smith Chris won two of three from the Bees during the regular season.
The Pierson boys are also to play at Southampton High next Thursday, at 7:30, versus the Babylon-Mattituck winner to determine the county’s B champion. Southold will play Greenport at 5:30 for the C title.
Pierson’s girls team, seeded fourth in the county B tournament, is to play at top-seeded Babylon Wednesday at 5. Babylon defeated Pierson 41-24 on Jan. 19, and 33-23 on Feb. 9.
State regional Class B and D semifinal boys games are to be played at Center Moriches High School on March 4. The Class D regional final is to be played there on March 7, with the B regional final to be contested the following day off the Island.
Final Four boys tournaments are to be played between March 14 and 17 at the Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls.
For Katy’s Courage
At the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton Saturday there will be an all-day fund-raiser for the Katy’s Courage scholarship fund, an event that is to include raffles, a silent auction, public skating, curling, an ice show at 6:15 p.m. with performers from the Ice Theatre of New York and from Buckskill, followed, at 7:30, by a 14-and-under hockey gamein which local youngsters who now practice and play at the covered rink in Calverton are expected to vie.
Buckskill’s event is one of several during the course of the year here that benefit the Katy’s Courage Foundation, which was established by her parents, Brigid Collins and Jim Stewart, following her death at the age of 12 in December of 2010. Her parents now live upstate.
Final Run of Indoor Girls Track
The Katy’s Courage 5K in Sag Harbor last April attracted a field of 500 runners, many of them from local schools, including members of East Hampton High’s girls track team, whose winter coach, Yani Cuesta, reported this week that the 4-by-800-meter relay team of Greylynn Guyer, Dylan Cashin, Sara O’Brien, and Ryleigh O’Donnell had placed fourth in the state qualifier meet on Feb. 14, and that O’Donnell had placed seventh in the 600-meter race.
“It was a tough meet, but I’m super proud of what these girls have accomplished all season,” Cuesta said in an emailed report. “We’re looking forward to this spring. I hope the three weeks respite will give them time to rest up and recover in time so that we can hit the ground running when the spring track season begins on March 11.”