Sports

Wrestling is not only good for the body, but also for the mind and spirit, said Ethan Mitchell, East Hampton’s assistant coach, the best sport for preparing one for life.

The day the world champion double Dutch rope-jumping team visited East Hampton High, and memories of Paul Giardina’s thoroughbred training days.

A fund-raiser for the Katy’s Courage Foundation, a nonprofit in memory of Katy Stewart, who at the age of 12 died of a rare form of liver cancer nine years ago, is to be held at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton Sunday.

It’s been 40 years since Brid­gehampton High fielded a baseball team, but now one’s in the making.

“Do you want to know what her day is like?” Kevin McConville, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls and boys tennis teams, said of his number-one singles player, Juliana Barahona. “She goes to school until 3, hits with me from 3 to 4:45, and then goes to work at the Sag Harbor Gym from 5 to 10.”

The Pierson girls basketball team will play for the county B-C-D championship Saturday at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue.

Vinny Alversa, East Hampton High’s baseball coach, and Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown, the softball coach, had their charges rotate among stations that focused on hitting, fielding, pitching, catching, and on catching fly balls.

Richard Cooney Sr., the East Hampton School District’s athletic director for the past 20 years, has announced that he will retire, according to the Feb. 9, 1995 edition of The Star.

“Wow!” a spectator brought to her feet at Friday’s Pierson-Southold county Class C championship game here said as the Settlers’ Nick Grathwohl with six seconds to go pulled up and drained an N.B.A. 3-pointer that torpedoed the stunned Whalers 62-60.

Taking up most of one wall in her office, Krista Brooks, East Hampton High’s girls basketball coach, has stats from all the games so that her players can see where they stand vis-à-vis the positions they play.

Smithtown Christian had never until Friday night won a county boys basketball championship. The Knights did it, unhorsing Shelter Island 57-37 in East Hampton High School’s gym.

Kal Lewis, a Shelter Island senior, won the state qualifier 1,600-meter race at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood on Feb. 10 in 4 minutes and 24.87 seconds.

Little League clinics will be held on Saturday at East Hampton High School.

The last game ever to be played on Bridgehampton High’s storied bandbox basketball court was contested by Shelter Island and the Killer Bees on Feb. 5.

Vinny Alversa, East Hampton’s head baseball coach, wants to retire the number 22 worn by Ross Gload, a 1994 grad and former Major Leaguer.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team finished sixth among the 22 schools that vied in the county meet Saturday.

“Now that’s basketball!” a fan exulted after Logan Gurney nailed, in the final second, a 3-pointer from the right wing that treated the Bonackers to a 57-55 win over favored Hauppauge on Feb. 5.

The county boys basketball Class C and D championship games are Friday at East Hampton High.

Yani Cuesta, East Hampton’s girls winter track team coach, said the 4-by-400 relay team of Bella Espinoza, Ava Engstrom, Penelope Greene, and Lillie Minskoff would have broken a school record in that event absent a disqualifying out-of-the-lane baton pass at the county small schools meet Friday.

Craig Brierley, the Bonac boys swimming coach, said last week’s league meet “had the makings for us to accomplish something extraordinary . . . for the second consecutive season we were the league champion.”

East Hampton’s Little League organization is to benefit from several upcoming free clinics here.

The boys basketball season began here with three straight nonleague wins at home, then things got worse — the last home win was over Rocky Point on Dec. 16 — before they got better.

Matej Zlatkovic, a pro at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club, has begun overseeing pickleball games on one of the club’s indoor Har-Tru courts, a first here.

Saturday takes the Bonac wrestlers to the league meet at Eastport-South Manor and the boys swimmers to the county meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, where the winter track state qualifier happens Monday night.

For the second straight year the East Hampton High School boys swimming team has gone undefeated in league competition.

The Sportime Arena in Amagansett was bustling Saturday, with three intensely contested futsal (indoor soccer) finals played before a large group of spectators.

Vinny Alversa and Annemarie Cangiolosi have been doing their best to strengthen East Hampton High School’s baseball and softball programs, from Little League on up.

Two basketball games went down to the wire Friday, jayvee and varsity, and two school records were set in girls winter track over the weekend.

The Bonac boys swim at the league meet in Hauppauge today, while Friday brings two hoops games of interest, Bridgehampton at Pierson and Kings Park here.

East Hampton High’s girls and boys winter track teams finished at the bottom of the standings in league meets at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood over the weekend — the boys placing 10th among 11 teams, and the girls last.