Sports

East Hampton High’s boys tennis team lost 6-1 at top-ranked Ward Melville in a nonleaguer on March 21, while the girls flag football team debuted at William Floyd on Friday, losing 31-13.

Carl Johnson, who played on three state-championship teams and won four as a coach under Bridgehampton High School’s banner, a feat that remains unique in state basketball history, was inducted into New York’s Basketball Hall of Fame at Glens Falls during the championship weekend two weeks ago.

Despite a “quick, tight turnaround,” in the coach Yani Cuesta’s words, East Hampton High’s girls track team began the season here last Thursday with a 76-64 win over Hauppauge.

Cardinals, among our earliest singer each spring, are so familiar you might forget to appreciate them, but a century ago they were rare in New York.

At the world amateur Strongman championships held recently in Columbus, Ohio, Montauk’s Cristian Candemir acquitted himself well in the lightweight division.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, the Hurricanes, repeated as New York State Y.M.C.A. champions at Erie Community College in Buffalo last weekend.

As balls rocketed back and forth at East Hampton High School’s tennis courts during Friday’s practice, the coach, Kevin McConville, said this year’s team is the best he’s had since Johnny De Groot’s group in 2019. Perhaps even better.

“We’re definitely aiming for the playoffs this year,” Annemarie Brown, the varsity softball coach, said of her team, which will play 19 games starting at Sayville on Wednesday.

Turnout for East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard and lifeguard training programs, which kicked off on March 5, was on the low side. About a hundred kids and teens had signed up, and 75 came for the youth evaluation and training, while only eight came for the first session of lifeguard training.

A girls flag football team is debuting this spring at East Hampton High School, which is particularly fitting because two East Hampton graduates, Teresa Schirrippa and Crystal Winter, have represented the United States in international flag football competition.

Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School got off to a slow start, but tied the game with under three minutes left before losing to Haldane of Putnam County 57-53 Friday night.

Hunter Eberhart, Jack Dickinson, and Will Darrell, seniors, will lead the East Hampton High School pitching staff this spring.

I’m not sure if Leonard Cohen was into birds, but if he was, he might have appreciated the mess that is the European starling.

The spring sports season may be a few weeks off, but there’s plenty of news for and about local athletes.

The final score was 58-53 in favor of Chapel Field Christian of Orange County over Bridgehampton's Killer Bees on Tuesday night in a New York State Class D semifinal boys basketball game. It reminded Ron White, the Bees' head coach, of last year's game — same opponent, same playoff round, same outcome.

Last Saturday's Katy’s Courage daylong fund-raiser included an ice show, pickup hockey games for 10-through-14-year-olds and for adults, as well as raffles, a silent auction, and a bake sale.

Kids here who swim, and who play hockey, soccer, baseball, and softball, have been active of late honing skills at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton, the Sportime Arena in Amagansett, and at the Hub 44 building on the way to Springs.

Saturday’s game, which the Mariners won handily, 69-52, was the third time Southampton had defeated Sag Harbor this winter, though Pierson’s coach could take heart in the fact that at times his players looked pretty smooth in breaking a vaunted run-and-jump press.

Three fast-paced futsal (indoor soccer) finals were played before a large crowd at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett Saturday night, capping a season of play in which 28 teams vied in the open men’s league, 10 in the over-37s, and eight in the women’s group.

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School Whalers once again bested their neighbors, the Killer Bees of Bridgehampton, this time in the county C-D boys basketball game played at Southampton High on Tuesday. 

It looked as if the Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School Whalers were going to blow out Port Jefferson in the early going of the county Class C boys basketball championship game played at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue on Feb. 15, but the Royals came back in the third quarter to make a game of it.

Bridgehampton, which is aiming to play in its first state Final Four tournament at Glens Falls since 2015, duked it out with the Smithtown Christian Knights on Feb. 15, nailing a 3-pointer at the buzzer to send the game to overtime.

The Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League has opened up internship applications for its summer 2023 season in the areas of game-day operations, broadcasting, and data analytics.

Though Amityville went into the county boys basketball playoff game here on Thursday at 8-6, and East Hampton was 13-2 in league play, it was immediately evident the teams were evenly matched. 

East Hampton High’s boys swimming team, which recently placed fourth in the league meet, placed eighth, among 24 schools, in the county meet held Saturday at Stony Brook University.

East Hampton Town’s training for future lifeguards and for summertime participants in its Junior Lifeguard ocean readiness program will begin on March 5 in the pool at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

Playing seven games in three days this past week, the Peconic Hockey Association’s 10-and-under Wildcats, coached by Jason Craig, improved to 20-3-1, and thus clinched a playoff spot in the Long Island Amateur Hockey League’s 10-U Tier III division.

Meredith Spolarich, a senior at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, can do it all when it comes to sports — and when it comes to her studies as well.

The boys basketball teams from East Hampton, Bridgehampton, and Pierson (Sag Harbor) High Schools have made the postseason, and on Thursday East Hampton, which won Division IV with a 13-2 record, will play host at 5 p.m. to the Amityville-Hampton Bays winner.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team placed fourth in the League II meet at Ward Melville High School last Thursday and will be well represented at the county meet on Saturday at Stony Brook University.