The Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees had won by 4 points at Greenport on Dec. 18, so it figured that Friday’s high school boys basketball game with the Porters in the Beehive would be a battle. It was for about the first five minutes, and then, urged on by their coach, Carl Johnson, with the score tied at 9-9, the Bees awoke and stung.
Well, not immediately: It was 15-15 with a minute left in the first quarter, but by the time the second was half over the Bees were in the driver’s seat at 29-17, Alex Davis, a junior forward who became Bridgehampton’s 18th 1,000-point scorer last season, having scored 8 points during that 14-2 run. He ended up with 16.
Davis’s fellow junior guard, Jai Feaster, who had numerous assists that night and who wound up with 10 points, had scored his 1,000th point two nights before at the Ross School. It’s the first time Bridgehampton has had two 1,000-point scorers on the same team since Josh Lamison and Tylik Furman played in 2016. The impressive list, which hangs on the gym wall, also includes Billy DePetris, Carl Yastrzemski, Lenny Hopson, Gordon Johnson, Wayne Hopson, Julian Johnson, Troy Bowe, Duane White, Bobby Hopson, Joe Niles, J.P. Harding Sr., Maurice Manning, Caanan Campbell, J.P. Harding Jr., and Allen Hopson.
Friday night’s 71-37 rout improved Bridgehampton, whose ultimate goal is to win another state Class D championship, to 11-0 in league play and to 11-1 over all.
Alas, things have not gone as well for East Hampton High’s boys basketball team in recent games. The Bonackers took a four-game losing streak into Hauppauge Saturday. As expected, Amityville, one of the top two teams in the league, won here last Thursday, by a score of 87-46.
The Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School boys basketball team, whose ranks were depleted by recent defections, lost 47-38 at Babylon last Thursday. A win there would have earned the Whalers a Class B playoff berth.
Swimming Report
East Hampton’s boys swimming team likewise lost, 91-74, to league-leading West Islip at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter last Thursday, though the team as of Monday was 3-2 in League II meets and 3-4 over all.
Before the meet began, the three seniors, Cristian Sigua, Justin Orellana, and Jack Zeimer, were honored.
With Ben Kriegsman and Dylan Knapik, East Hampton went 1-2 in the 50-yard freestyle, and Luca Speranza and Zeimer finished second and third in the 500 free. Likewise, Kriegsman and Sigua were second and third in the 100 backstroke. East Hampton’s 200 free relay team of Liam Knight, Nick Chavez, Zeb Ryan, and Knapik was a close runner-up in the 200 free relay. The 400 free relay team of Ryan, Kriegsman, Knight, and Sigua won, with their teammates Luca Borghi, Jasper Samuelson, Watts Comly-Bolick, and Zeimer taking second. Samuelson, a freshman named as swimmer of the meet by the captains, additionally placed third in the 200 free.
East Hampton was to have vied with Sayville-Bayport at the Sayville Middle School Tuesday. The League II championship meet is to be held Monday at Ward Melville High School.
Track and Wrestling
Despite finishing last in the 10-team League III girls winter track meet Friday, Yani Cuesta, East Hampton’s coach, said the team “had many personal records, and Sophia Figueroa set a school record in the 55-meter high hurdles just after C.J. Echavarria had set one in her heat.”
Moreover, Greylynn Guyer was the runner-up in the 3,000; the 4-by-800 relay team of Sara O’Brien, Danett Gonzalez-Alcala, Heidi Jimenez-Bustos, and Guyer placed third; O’Brien finished fifth in the 600, and Guyer was fifth in the 1,500.
East Hampton’s wrestling team, which was 2-4 in league meets as of Monday, lost 42-32 at Huntington on Jan. 15, with Bronco Campsey at 108 pounds, Juan Roque at 116, Josue Elias at 124, Matias Gonzalez at 152, Francesco Palombino at 215, and Juan Espinoza at 285 winning.
Campsey, who recently placed second in the Eastern States Classic in Albany, defeating the returning Section V champion, the returning Suffolk County champion, and the returning state Division II champion before losing to the returning state Division I champion, won his match by a technical fall; Roque, who won two matches at the Eastern States, pinned his man midway through the first period; Elias won by a major decision; Gonzalez won by pin in the second period; Palombino won by a technical fall, and Espinoza pinned his opponent in the second period.
