The East Hampton High School girls lacrosse team, with Melina Sarlo scoring her 100th goal and with Ava Tintle scoring her 100th point in the first half, trounced Southampton 13-2 here last Thursday, the same day that the South Fork boys lacrosse team, on which a half-dozen Bonackers play, was losing 12-10 at Sachem North. The Flaming Arrows’ goalie was credited with 19 saves, an indicator that the South Fork team outshot the Flaming Arrows.
Also that day, East Hampton’s boys tennis team lost 5-2 here to Center Moriches — though Pablo Montesi, Bonac’s first-year coach, said East Hampton was missing five starters — and the girls track team, which is especially strong in the middle and long-distance races, cruised to a 99.5-43.5 win at Rocky Point.
Yani Cuesta reported that “it was a nice way to start the season. Most of our point-getters were newbies. If they work hard, this can be a really exciting spring for them.”
Among East Hampton’s long list of winners were: Ryleigh O’Donnell in the 400, the 800, the 400 intermediate hurdles and as the anchor of the winning 4-by-400 relay team; Dylan Cashin in the 3,000; Sierra Stumpf in the 100 high hurdles, in the high jump, and as a member of the winning 4-by-100 relay team; Leah McCarron in the 100, in the discus, and as the winning 4-by-100 relay team’s anchor; Angie Castillo in the 1,500 racewalk; Greylynn Guyer in the 200 and as a member of the winning 4-by-400 relay team; KK Moore in the shot-put; Vicky Chen and Addi Barletta as members of the winning 4-by-100 relay team, and Sara O’Brien and Laura Martinez as members of the winning 4-by-400 relay team.
At the Deer Park invitational Saturday, a meet in which East Hampton placed sixth among 20 schools, Cashin won the 3,000, O’Donnell placed second in the 800, Guyer placed fifth in the 1,500, and Moore placed sixth in the shot-put.
“We scrapped our 4-by-100 and 4-by-8 relays because the meet was going on too long for us, and girls were pulling muscles because of the cold temperatures and high winds,” Cuesta said.
The next day, at East Hampton’s track, Cashin, who was training 50 or so members of the Bonac Bolts youth track club who are to run at the May Day 5K mental health fund-raiser that she and O’Donnell oversee in East Hampton Village, said she was hoping for a good turnout at this Saturday’s Katy’s Courage 5K in Sag Harbor as well.
Katy’s Courage, a fund-raising race run in memory of the late daughter of Brigid and Jim Stewart, longtime educators here now living during the school year in upstate Andes, where she is the superintendent of a small school district, is to start at 8:30 a.m. on West Water Street. The cost is $25 in advance at katyscourage.org, or $30 on the day of the race.
Proceeds from the race go to the Katy’s Courage Foundation, which benefited in March from Peter Ambrose and Michael Variale’s tasting and dance party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott, and from a fund-raiser in February at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton. The foundation helps underwrite pediatric cancer research and provides scholarships for Pierson and East Hampton High School seniors.
Last year’s Katy’s Courage — this is the 12th year it’s been held — drew a field of 500. Sergey Avramenko won it in 16 minutes and 15.90 seconds. Neil Falkenhan was the runner-up in 16:49.22. The female winner, and 17th over all, was Alyssa Bahel in 20:42.02.