The East Hampton High School boys tennis team was without two of its top three players when the Bonackers played Friday at the Ross School, though the private school’s team is so powerful that it might not have made much difference.
The Ravens won 7-0 that day, with Henry Cooper having the unenviable task of facing Ross’s number-one, Eduardo Menezes, a native of Brazil who looks as if he’ll be a strong contender for the county singles championship.
Marcelo Reda, Ross’s coach and the school’s athletic director, said in an email afterward that “regardless of the outcome, it’s always nice hosting East Hampton at our tennis center. . . . We missed seeing Nick Cooper,” East Hampton’s number-one, “whom I’ve coached in the past, and Kiefer Mitchell. . . . Our players performed at a high level in all of the match-ups. Despite the loss to Eduardo, who played with a high level of intensity, Henry Cooper acquitted himself very well. We wish East Hampton and its coach, Pablo Montesi, the best of luck during the rest of the season.”
While the tennis team was losing at Ross, East Hampton’s baseball and softball teams were winning games at Bonac’s fields not far away. The baseball team, coached by Vinny Alversa and Henry Meyer, evened its league record at 6-6 by defeating Half Hollow Hills West 9-4. The UpIsland team had won the first two games of the series. Carter Dickinson, East Hampton’s ace, was the winning pitcher.
The softball team, a young, competitive one coached by Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown and Melissa Edwards, defeated Rocky Point 10-7, its third win in four recent outings. The Bonackers enjoyed a huge third inning capped by Gaby Payne’s home run over the left field fence. At that point it was 9-1 East Hampton.
The girls were to have finished a game here Monday morning with North Babylon, picking it up in the top of the seventh inning with the score tied at 5-5, after which they were to have played Bellport.
Cangiolosi-Brown said in an email over the weekend that “we have been doing much better lately. We beat Eastport-South Manor 9-7 on the 13th, lost 6-5 to Huntington, a game that Katie Kuneth,” East Hampton’s frontline pitcher, “couldn’t make because she was sick, and then beat Westhampton and Rocky Point, each by scores of 10-7. . . . Things are looking up!”
Things apparently were looking up too for East Hampton’s girls track team, which, on Friday, in a meet contested here, defeated Westhampton Beach, a perennial power, 75-56.
Yani Cuesta, the coach, reported that among East Hampton’s winners were: Greylynn Guyer in the 1,500-meter race; Ryleigh O’Donnell in the 400 and 800; Dylan Cashin in the 1,500 racewalk; Sara O’Brien in the 400 intermediate hurdles; Kayla Kenlock in the high jump, and KK Moore in the shotput and discus.
Bonac’s runners-up were Alex Kolhof in the long jump, Cashin in the 3,000; O’Donnell in the 400 intermediate hurdles, Leah McCarron in the shot-put and discus, Guyer in the 800, O’Brien in the 400, and Sierra Stumpf in the triple jump.
In the Joe Brandi invitational relays at Connetquot High School Saturday, the mile medley relay team of Guyer (400), Ali Munoz (200), Sam Ruano (200), and O’Donnell (800) placed third, and the distance medley relay team of O’Donnell (1,200), Josie Mott (400), Guyer (800), and Cashin (1,600) also placed third.
The 100 high hurdle relay team of Stumpf, Liliana Hopson, C.J. Echavarria, and Sophie Figueroa placed sixth, as did the high jump relay team of Stumpf and Lilly Wood.
In other recent meets, the girls won 79-66 at Eastport-South Manor on April 10, and lost 85-52 at Comsewogue on April 17.
Bonac’s winners at Comsewogue were Cashin in the 1,500-meter racewalk, O’Brien in the 400 intermediate hurdles, and Moore in the shot-put. The runners-up were Moore in the discus, Stumpf in the high jump, Guyer in the 200, McCarron in the 100, O’Donnell in the 400, and Ruano in the triple jump.