Sports

Last week was a big one for Alex Davis, a Bridgehampton High School sophomore who scored his 1,000th point during a 64-52 loss to the Ross School. Plus Bonac and Pierson hoops reports.

East Hampton High’s girls winter tracksters went to the maximum at the League 3 meet in Brentwood, while the boys swimming and girls basketball teams are in the thick of it.

All the local sports action ahead . . .

Cole Brauer, a 2012 East Hampton High School graduate who last summer became the first female sailor to the win the Bermuda One-Two, was as of last Thursday sitting in second place in the Global Solo Challenge, an around-the-world singlehanded sailing race that for her began on Oct. 29, when she set forth aboard First Light from A Coruña, Spain.

East Hampton High’s wrestling team earned a first-ever win over Huntington. Plus, Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees avenged themselves on Smithtown Christian.

Yani Cuesta, East Hampton High’s girls winter track coach, called Melina Sarlo “one of those all-around athletes that you rarely see anymore.”

East Hampton’s girls winter track team set school records in the 4-by-800 relay and the distance medley relay, while Ryleigh O’Donnell improved on her 600-meter mark.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes drew raves from their coaches, Tom Cohill, Angelika Cruz, and Sean Knight, following two big university swim meets over the weekend.

Tales of a Bonacker’s adventures with professional basketball in Spain, and more from The Star’s sports pages of yore.

The East Hampton High School wrestling team clipped the wings of the Deer Park Falcons here on Jan. 3, flattening the visitors 58-9.

“They’re coming along,” Samantha James, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls basketball team, said after the team had won back-to-back games, while the boys are looking to improve their defense and shooting.

Ryleigh O’Donnell, a senior on the Bonac girls indoor track team, set a school record in the 1,000 meters Sunday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood. The boys swimmers, meanwhile, had an easy time of it.

Don McGovern, East Hampton High’s boys soccer coach, took seven of his charges to the Suffolk County Soccer Coaches Association’s awards banquet last month at Villa Lombardi in Holbrook.

East Hampton High’s girls track team broke school records in the 4-by-800 and distance medley relays at the Ocean Breeze Holiday Festival meet on Staten Island last week.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball, boys swimming, and wrestling teams had losing records going into the Christmas break, but all three of them have been battling in the thick of it.

When darkness closed out the Audubon Montauk Christmas Bird Count and the species were tallied, participants agreed that the good weather might have played a role in the total: 134 were found, the highest in a decade.

Left out of last week’s “A Look at Sports in the Year 2023” were the honoring of Black basketball coaches here and Tim Garvin’s P.G.A. award for his work as a mentor at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett.

The year 2023 began with Shelly Snyder Schaffer’s gift to East Hampton Town’s young people of Hub 44, a pitching and batting facility, continued with the hiring of Kathy Masterson as athletic director, and included a number of notable playoff runs.

Low spawning levels have spurred the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to put forth a comprehensive management plan to rebuild the stocks of striped bass.

Colin Mather has plunged on New Year’s Day for years, jogging the 1.6 miles to the ocean at the end of Beach Lane with whoever shows up at his Wainscott shop. His plunges have been more low-key than those at East Hampton’s Main Beach, but this year will be different.

Newsday announced that Emma McGrory, a senior midfielder on Bonac’s playoff field hockey squad, has been named to its 12-player all-Long Island team, and tiny Bridgehampton High’s boys basketball team beat Riverhead — a rarity.

Padel, a racket sport new to America, but not to Mexico, South America, and Europe, will be added to the East Hampton Indoor/Outdoor Club’s list of offerings come the spring.

East Hampton’s boys basketball team cruised to the Kendall Madison Tip-Off championship on Saturday, easily defeating Mattituck 60-43.

Justin Kulchinsky, 50, won the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter 5K at East Hampton’s Main Beach over the weekend, and the high school’s boys and girls track teams competed indoors at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team won 78-66 over Deer Park-North Babylon at the Y.M.C.A. here, while the Hurricanes were the top New York team at the Holiday Invitational in Nassau County.

Out on the water for a last chance to catch some blackfish, The Star’s fishing columnist enjoyed some good camaraderie, and if the fish were to cooperate, so much the better.

A visit from South Africa, a season when the Bonac boys basketball team was flying high, and more from the sports reportage of yore.

East Hampton High’s wrestling team was the runner-up in the 45th Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament it hosted on Saturday, while the Bonac boys swimmers started a tough league schedule last week.

Three athletes and the 1953-54 boys basketball team are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame Saturday, and the Kendall Madison hoops tournament starts here Friday night.

The plight of our beloved scallop is a sad one. For five straight years, we have witnessed a summer die-off. Baymen never have it easy.