As the week began, East Hampton High’s boys tennis team was leading League IV with a 3-0 record and was 4-1 over all; the softball team, while 0-3, was proving to be competitive; the winless track team’s coaches were nevertheless citing impressive individual performances, and the 0-4 flag football team, whose roster, its coach, Erin Gillot, said, includes a number of first-timers, was “getting better and better in every game.”
Moreover, the South Fork Islanders, a Southampton-based boys lacrosse team on which a number of East Hamptoners play, followed up a 16-0 loss at Westhampton Beach on March 28 with 16-4 and 11-5 wins over Port Jefferson and Patchogue-Medford, and members of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, the Hurricanes, reportedly did creditably at the recent Y national meet in Greensboro, N.C.
As for the swimmers, Angelika Cruz, one of Tom Cohill’s assistant coaches, said in an email that Miles Menu had, in a time trial, set a team record in the 100 breaststroke and that the boys 200 medley relayers, Nick Chavez, Menu, Jasiu Gredysa, and Liam Knight, had lowered the team-record time they’d swum at the state meet. Moreover, she said that, in a time trial, Lizzie Daniels qualified to swim in next year’s national 200 breaststroke, and had in a 100 breaststroke final shaved .28 off her previous-best time.
Cruz added that her daughter, Daisy Pitches, who had qualified in a number of events, “got sick the day before we arrived, but, despite feeling lousy, still swam and did the best she could. . . . In the 50 free she was only .05 off her best, which was fantastic considering how she was feeling. She was extremely disappointed after every swim and by the timing of her illness, but there are things beyond our control — in sports, as well as in life.”
The boys tennis team breezed to a 6-1 win at Riverhead on Friday, winning at all but fourth doubles. The day before, the Bonackers, playing at home, defeated Mattituck 5-2.
Also on Friday, the girls track team lost a squeaker here to Hauppauge, by a score of 76.5-73.5. “It seems that when we go up against Hauppauge it tends to come down to the relays,” Yani Cuesta, East Hampton’s coach, said in an emailed report.
“We had some great performances . . . all our dual meets are just preparation for the counties. We want to take as many girls to them as we can.”
Among East Hampton’s winners on Friday were Lucia Mogavero in the triple jump, Sophia Figueroa in the 100 high hurdles, Sara O’Brien in the 400 intermediate hurdles, Leah McCarron in the long jump and shot-put, Sierra Stumpf in the high jump, Vicky Chen in the pole vault, and the 4-by-800 relay team of Laura Martinez, Josie Mott, O’Brien, and Greylynn Guyer.
At the Longwood Invitational on Saturday, Mogavero won the triple jump, C.J. Echavarria placed second in the 100 hurdles, O’Brien was the 400 hurdles runner-up, Guyer was third in the 1,500, and McCarron was third in the discus and in the long jump.
As for the boys, Max Bellenoue won the 3,200 and was second in the 1,600 at Hauppauge, Abe Stillman won the pole vault, Xavier Johnson won the 400, Joseph Bobek was second in the discus, Eduardo Calle was second in the long jump, and Alex Cardona was the triple jump’s runner-up.
