March 4, 1999
Following in the wake of their male counterparts, Southampton High School’s Lady Mariners, thanks to a huge 3-point basket by Kristel Pettaway in overtime, won the county Class B girls basketball championship Saturday at William Floyd High School by a score of 44-43, sending a feisty Bayport-Blue Point team home in tears.
There were tears on the Mariners’ side too, tears of joy. Following the final buzzer, Southampton’s players on the court, those on the bench, and the coach, Rich Wingfield, rushed together as Pettaway, who was soon to be swept up in myriad embraces, lay stunned on the floor.
March 11, 1999
Ralph Pepe, who coaches Southampton College’s men’s lacrosse team and oversees lacrosse camps at the college in the summer, said this week that he was very happy to see South Fork high schools beginning to play the sport.
Westhampton Beach has a varsity now, and Southampton and East Hampton are beginning to build programs this year with entries in a junior varsity league that also includes the Stony Brook preparatory school, Comsewogue, whose varsity was a state champion last season, Smithtown, Sayville (also, like East Hampton and Southampton, new to the sport), and, if it can find a coach, the Ross School.
Ralph Naglieri, who played midfield when he attended the State University at Albany, and Ed McGintee, who played his high school lacrosse at Great Neck, are coaching East Hampton’s jayvee team. . . .
“This year will be an experiment,” Naglieri said. “If we can get them to pick up ground balls and pass and catch, we’ll be happy!”
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Once again, the East Hampton High School softball team has been seeded number one in Conference III, a very tough loop of Class B-enrollment schools.
Annemarie Cangiolosi’s loss to graduation presumably will be felt — she had much to do with last year’s 22-2 record — though Lou Reale, the team’s coach, is hopeful that Erin Bock, a sophomore who played right field last season and wound up as the conference’s rookie of the year, will be able to take up the slack. Bock, who only pitched four or five innings last year, has speed. Control is the question, though she gained valuable mound experience playing on UpIsland traveling teams in the summer and winter. . . .
“What we’re going to need to win again is great pitching, and a lot of these young kids [Reale has five or so ninth graders whom he intends to keep on the varsity] will have to step up.”
Among those ninth graders are Jamie McMahon and Danielle Jack, both infielders, Diana Wells, an outfielder, and Jaclyn Ewing, a pitcher.
Last year was the first in which an East Hampton High School softball team had ever won a banner, and it was the first time, as well, that a Bonac softball team had been a county finalist.