Sports

The Section XI Warriors, a youth rugby team coached by two former Montauk Rugby Club players, bested Bishop Loughlin’s 15s side at Mattituck High School on Sunday.

The girls in Theresa Roden’s ever-growing I-Tri program who packed the East Hampton Middle School’s auditorium for a Mentoring Day were urged by the Rev. Tisha Williams to “show up and shoot your shot.”

The girls in Theresa Roden’s ever-growing I-Tri program who packed the East Hampton Middle School’s auditorium for a Mentoring Day were urged by the Rev. Tisha Williams to “show up and shoot your shot.”

A look back at Bobby Hopson’s basketball exploits, and a fond memory of the late lamented East Hampton Bowl.

The success of the undefeated seventh and eighth-grade girls basketball team at the Montauk School bodes well for East Hampton’s varsity.

“There was a big buildup to this match” with one of the county’s strongest teams, “and the kids were too excited,” Coach Kevin McConville said. “There were a lot of double faults and blown shots.”

League play is about to get underway at the Montauk Downs golf course. A Wednesday morning men’s league starts this week; three women’s leagues start in June.

The Bonac girls lacrosse team, with four players from Pierson, has been finding the nets, while the baseball team’s coach, Vinny Alversa, remains upbeat despite three recent losses.

Check it out: spring high school sports are heating up.

A trip into the Killer Bees’ past (remember Bobby Hopson at Wagner College?) and a visit with a dart master, Joe Landi.

Coach Kevin McConville said his four singles players — Jonny De Groot, Ravi MacGurn, Luke Louchheim, and Max Astilean — were changing it up, their more varied games a large part of the team’s early success.

As spring sports kick into high gear, here’s a rundown, from lacrosse to tennis to track.

Aggressive play against Pierson leaves Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown, Bonac’s softball coach, pleased, while baseball’s Vinny Alversa says the team should be able to play with anybody.

18-and-under Section XI Warriors, coached by two Montauk Rugby Club players, beat Blackthorne R.F.C. of Pennsylvania at Iona College.

When a longtime spectator said he hadn’t seen so many hits in 10 years, Vinny Alversa, who’s in his third year coaching East Hampton High’s varsity baseball team, said Saturday’s display here versus Hampton Bays had surprised him a bit too.

East Hampton High’s senior-heavy boys tennis team is expected to have another standout season.

A strong showing in a scrimmage against Hampton Bays, and a new turf field, too, so “no more bad bounces — thank goodness,” Coach Vinny Alversa said.

A report from the clay courts of Miami, a laps fund-raiser at the Y, and lifeguard training sessions.

The week ahead in South Fork sports.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes’ 8-through-19-year-old swim team keeps raising the bar.

A regional playoff loss in the state tournament despite a strong showing by Bridgehampton’s J.P. Harding, who had 28 points and 19 rebounds, 11 of them off the offensive boards.

Joe Vas, East Hampton High’s athletic director, touts new coaches for softball and girls lacrosse, baseball’s new turf field, and Ryan Fowkes, Bonac’s top runner, who signed a letter of intent to attend George Washington.

The week ahead in spring sports.

The Pierson Whalers were handled roughly last weekend by the Millbrook Blazers, the top-rated Class C team in the state and the classification’s defending state champion.

Jim Stewart, who recently retook the coaching reins about a decade after giving them up, says the program is on its way back, with 36 seventh and eighth graders having joined.

This week, a look back at Leroy DeBoard, a four-sport athlete.

Ryan Fowkes leads a contingent of three other Bonackers, one boy and two girls, to compete at St. Anthony’s High School’s indoor track Saturday.

The smell of empanadas and home-cooked spare ribs wafts through the Sportime Arena in Amagansett.

The Montauk boxer has tough competition at 152 pounds in the Ring Masters Road to the Garden series.

“Aerobic exercise that these girls are participating in, plus all of the peer mentoring and adult mentoring they receive, increase self-efficacy in science and cognitive processes that improve academic achievement.”