February 24, 2000
Louis Russo, an East Hampton High School sophomore who wrestled this season at 125 pounds, won all-county honors last weekend as the result of placing fourth in his division at the county wrestling tournament at the State University at Stony Brook.
. . . Russo, who was unseeded, shut out William Floyd’s Rob Carasiti, the League I champion, 5-0 in the first round, but was then sent into the wrestlebacks by the eventual champion, Dan Roberts of Bellport.
In the wrestlebacks, Russo pinned Eastport’s Joe Faine in the first period, decisioned John Glenn’s Chris Gross 4-2, and defeated Josh Federico, the League IV champ, 8-3 before losing 6-4 to Northport’s Brian Gatta in the match for third place.
Thus Russo finished the season with a 28-6 record. “Certainly a county championship is within his reach,” East Hampton’s coach, Jim Stewart, said of Russo, who was the only one to make all-county among the five wrestlers Stewart took to the tournament.
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Playing the best game of his career thus far, Jesse Shapiro, East Hampton’s senior point guard, led his team to a 59-33 victory over Harborfields in a first-round county Class B boys basketball playoff game played here Tuesday.
It was one of those nights. While Harborfields was concentrating on Bonac’s 6-foot-3-inch center, Kyle Russell, down low, Shapiro launched bomb after bomb from beyond the arc, making good on five of seven attempts on his way to a game and career-high 24 points.
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The Greenport and Bridgehampton High School boys basketball teams wound up sharing the League VIII title as the result of the Porters’ 47-41 win over the Killer Bees last Thursday in the North Fork school’s gym.
. . . Allen Edwards, Greenport’s coach, offered to have the Bees share in cutting down the net, inasmuch as the schools were co-champions, but Carl Johnson, Bridgehampton’s coach, declined. It was Greenport’s day, just as it had been the Bees’ day on Jan. 21, when they edged their rivals 65-64 in the Beehive.
While Gerald Crenshaw, the Porters’ outstanding sophomore shooting guard, was that team’s take-charge guy in the end, it was the 6-foot-6-inch sophomore center, Sam Carey, who scored 12 of his 15 points in the first half, and who anchored Greenport’s 2-3 zone, whom Johnson credited with making the difference.
