Of the three squads that were fighting for playoff spots here last week, one, East Hampton’s softball team, was eliminated, while the other two, Bonac’s baseball team and the Southampton-based South Fork Islanders boys lacrosse team on which a half dozen Bonackers play, remained in contention as this week began.
There was pleasing news, meanwhile, in boys tennis as the Ross School and East Hampton registered big wins. Ross, playing at home on May 1, thwarted Westhampton Beach 4-3, winning all three singles matches and first doubles, and, on Friday at home, East Hampton bested Shoreham-Wading River, which came in undefeated in League IV play, 5-2.
Pablo Montesi, East Hampton’s coach, said it was the best match his team had played this spring, adding that “all our seniors,” Nick Cooper, Cam Mitchell, and Miguel Garcia, “won epic three-setters.”
Ross was to have played at Shoreham Tuesday. A win there would have assured Marcelo Reda’s Ravens of an undefeated league season.
Teams on the Edge
East Hampton’s baseball team, coached by Vinny Alversa and Henry Meyer, will have to sweep its final series with East Islip in order to make the postseason, a tall order inasmuch as East Islip was as of Monday League V’s runner-up, with a 10-5 record. East Hampton was 7-8. The series was to have begun here Tuesday. East Hampton is to play at East Islip today, and the teams are to wind up the series here tomorrow.
To make the playoffs, the lacrosse team, which overwhelmed Brentwood 19-0 here last Thursday — it was 11-0 after the first quarter — needed to win one of its last two. The Islanders, who as of Monday were 12th among Division One’s 21 power-rated teams, were to have played third-place Ward Melville in Southampton Monday, and were to have finished the regular season at Commack yesterday.
Softball Out
The softball team wound up the season with a 9-6 win at Rocky Point on May 1, but playoff-wise it was moot, as Westhampton Beach’s 11-0 shutout of Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown’s charges here on April 30 had eliminated them. The visitors’ pitcher, Celi Addison, was virtually untouchable that day. She notched 16 strikeouts and had a no-hitter going into the bottom of the seventh inning when her opposite number, Katie Kuneth, lofted a single over second base. Two subsequent second-to-first groundouts sandwiched around a flyout to center field, and that was it.
Katie Burke, Westhampton’s third batter, and Ashley Erbis, who led off, hit over-the-fence home runs. The Hurricanes, whom the Bonackers had defeated 10-7 earlier in the spring, overcoming a 5-1 deficit in doing so, also tallied seven doubles.
Ironically, East Hampton’s young team topped League V with a 7-1 record as of Monday. Cangiolosi Brown said in an email that she thought her squad, which finished with an overall record of 9-9 — just one win short — was worthy of a playoff spot, arguing that, apparently in contrast to Westhampton, which is playoff-bound, “all of our nonleague games were with teams in Leagues III and IV. We didn’t play any nonleaguers with teams in leagues lower than ours.”
Back to tennis, the East Hamptoners who won matches versus Shoreham opponents Friday were: Nick Cooper at second singles by a score of 6-3, 5-7, 6-0; Garcia at third singles by a score of 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Cameron and Kiefer Mitchell at first doubles by a score of 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; Griffin Beckmann and C.J. Baumrind at second doubles by a score of 7-6, 6-3, and Carlos Quintana and Marcus Wechsler at third doubles by a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Ross’s winners in its match with Westhampton were Eduardo Menezes by 6-0, 6-0 at first singles; Jagger Cohen by 6-0, 6-0 at second singles; Teddy Brodlieb at third singles by 6-0, 6-2, and Henry Tietz and Leonardo Carmo at first doubles by 6-4, 6-2.
A Girls Track Nail-Biter
East Hampton High’s girls track team “lost a nail-biter at Hauppauge on April 29,” the team’s head coach, Yani Cuesta, said in an emailed report. “It was 81-69 them, but it was super exciting.”
Among Bonac’s winners were: Lucia Mogavero in the triple jump, 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, Laura Martinez in the 3,000, Kaili Moore in the shot-put, and Vicky Chen in the pole vault.
“We lost both the 4-by-100 and 4-by-400 relays even though our squads” — Fiorella Duran, Sam Ruano, Addi Barletta, and Chen in the 4-by-1, and O’Brien, Martinez, Guyer, and O’Donnell in the 4-by-4 — “ran season-best times.”
At North Babylon’s invitational meet Saturday, Cashin won the 1,500 racewalk in 7 minutes and 20.68 seconds, just six seconds shy of the school record; Josie Mott was third in the freshman-sophomore 1,500; O’Brien was third in the 400 hurdles, and the 4-by-400 relay team of O’Brien, Mogavero, Mott, and O’Donnell finished fourth.
There will be a meet with East Islip here at 4 this afternoon, and the East End Classic invitational meet will be held here Saturday, beginning with the pentathlon at 9:30 a.m.
