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Joe Vas, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, said last Thursday that East Hampton would go it alone in the fall when it comes to football.

On the heels of its first-ever League II championship, the East Hampton boys swimming team took second place out of 28 schools at the county championship meet at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood on Saturday.

Ryan Fowkes, a senior and East Hampton's top trackster, followed up his win in the 1,000-meter indoor event at the county small schools race last week with a second place at that distance Monday night in the Section XI state qualifier.

It is fitting that Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown is now East Hampton High’s softball coach inasmuch as the dugouts, built by her father and her brothers, Phil and Paul, were dedicated to her grandmother, the late Molly Cangiolosi, who started the push for Title IX here years ago.

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East Hampton High’s football program continues to be on thin ice, as it were, with the prospects as of earlier this week remaining as iffy as they have been over the course of the past half-dozen years.

For the first time since the program began here in 2010, an East Hampton High School boys swimming team is a two-time champion, not only in the regular season, which it sailed through at 7-0 (9-0), but also in the postseason League II meet, which took place last Thursday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood.

Ryan Fowkes topped the county’s 47-man 1,000-meter field Sunday in winning the small schools race in 2 minutes and 34.75 seconds, breaking the school record that he had held and, as a result of bettering the 2:35.24 cutoff time, earning the senior a trip to the state meet should he finish in the top three at the state qualifier meet Monday.

Before Monday’s showdown between Shelter Island and Bridgehampton at the Beehive, the Hardings, father and son, stood side by side for photos with the son’s 1,000th-point ball, and not long afterward the Killer Bees’ high-scorer put on a show, to the delight of his father and a gym largely packed with the Bridgehampton High School boys basketball team’s fans.

Thursday, February 7

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton faculty-alumnae game, East Hampton High School, 4 p.m., and Mattituck at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 6:15 p.m.

Saturday, February 9

BOYS SWIMMING, East Hampton at Suffolk County championship meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 10 a.m.

Sunday, February 10

SKATING, Katy’s Courage fund-raiser, with raffles, puck throw contest, recital, skate-a-thon, and hockey game, Buckskill Winter Club, Buckskill Road, East Hampton, from 12:15 p.m., rain date Feb. 17.

Monday, February 11

Asked after Saturday’s home win over Westhampton Beach, in which the boys knocked down nine 3-pointers, if they weren’t leading the county in 3s, Dan White, the coach, said the team was probably the county’s worst rebounding team.

It’s a rarity, or so it has been of late, that the Ross School can boast of a league champion, much less an undefeated one, but it happened recently as its middle school girls volleyball team completed a 10-0 season.

Both teams competed against the best of the Northeast; Ryan Fowkes ran a personal-best 4:27 mile at Ocean Breeze.

Thursday, January 31

BOYS SWIMMING, East Hampton at League II meet, Hauppauge High School, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Pierson at Southampton, 6 p.m.

Friday, February 1

BOYS BASKETBALL, Wyandanch at East Hampton, and Bridgehampton at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 6:15 p.m.

Saturday, February 2

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Smithtown Christian at Pierson, Sag Harbor, and Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, noon.

GIRLS TRACK, East Hampton at small schools championship meet, Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, 1:30 p.m.

A meeting of parents in the Sag Harbor, Southampton, East Hampton, and Bridgehampton School Districts, including Ross School parents, was to have been held at Pierson High in Sag Harbor Wednesday night to discuss the future of football here.

East Hampton was urged on enthusiastically that night by the school’s band and its dance team, which performed a tightly choreographed number at halftime.

As expected (though it was not a lead-pipe cinch), the East Hampton High School boys swimming team won at West Islip on Jan. 16 to cap an unprecedented undefeated league-championship season at 7-0 (9-0). It was the first such for boys swimming since the program began here under Jeff Thompson in 2010.

Sunday’s weather was pretty awful, but Saturday was a good day for skating at the Buckskill Winter Club, which, its manager, Cory Lillie, said has been doing well since opening around Thanksgiving.

The Buckskill Winter Club, as it has in the past few years, will play host to a Katy’s Courage fund-raiser on Sunday, Feb. 10, with proceeds to go to the foundation created by Jim and Brigid Collins Stewart in memory of their daughter.

The Harlem MagicMasters are to play an East Hampton School District faculty basketball “Dream Team” at the high school’s gym Saturday evening to raise money for the class of 2020.

It’s been a rarity here when a female is a male team’s number-one, but that is the case on East Hampton High’s bowling team this season.

Thursday, January 24

BOWLING, East Hampton vs. Comsewogue, Port Jeff Bowl, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Smithtown Christian at Bridgehampton, 6 p.m.

Friday, January 25

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Port Jefferson at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 5 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Ross School at Pierson, Sag Harbor, 7:15 p.m.

Saturday, January 26

WINTER TRACK, East Hampton at Ocean Breeze invitational meet, Ocean Breeze athletic complex, Staten Island, 9 a.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Miller Place at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

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With a convincing win over Sayville-Bayport Monday, and with a similarly stellar victory over Hauppauge, the defending league champion, last Thursday, it appeared likely that the East Hampton High School boys swimming team would wind up as a league titlist for the first time since the program began here under Jeff Thompson in 2010.

Last week was the best of times and the worst of times for the Killer Bees of Bridgehampton, who, after an exciting win over Pierson at home, went on to lose, 65-62, at Shelter Island, a fellow Class D school.

Yani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls winter track team, said during a conversation Monday that her girls — she has a dozen — proved to be quick studies when it came to the Zeitler Relays at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood last Thursday.

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East Hampton High’s girls basketball team had a chance to win a second game this season — an unheard of feat in recent years — versus hitherto-winless Wyandanch here Saturday, but, in the end, it was not to be.