Sports

Last winter and the one just passed have proved less daunting for some here than in the past thanks to the presence of the Hamptons Run Club, which is overseen by Edwin Garcia, a Montauk personal trainer.

Anyone who has played a racket sport — tennis, platform tennis, squash, racquetball, pickleball — will be able to pick up padel readily, and it’s popularity is surging.

Your weekly list of high school sporting competition coming down the pike.

This week, the Bridgehampton School varsity baseball team will rally around Michael DeRosa, the school’s athletic director and gym teacher as well as a coach of the Killer Bees baseball team. DeRosa underwent emergency surgery last week to remove a cancerous tumor in his brain.

East Hampton capped a three-game sweep of Hauppauge with a 3-1 win here on Sunday afternoon in a game that had been twice-postponed because of the damp, dreary weather.

The latest on Bonac softball, boys and girls track, flag football, lacrosse, swimming, and boys tennis.

The week ahead in local action on the fields, courts, and track.

Iceboating awards, facing the best of UpIsland lacrosse, and the day youth swimming came to the RECenter.

East Hampton High’s softball team set a record with three over-the-fence home runs — by Maryjane Vickers, Isabel Briand, and Alexa Schaffer — in its home opener here with Hauppauge, but the visitors wound the winner.

Montauk was the destination of long-distance running and beach-walking fund-raising efforts last week — a five-day run from Lake George in support of mental health counseling, and a four-day beach walk for early colorectal screening that began at Robert Moses State Park and ended in downtown Montauk in time for Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.

The majority of East Hampton High’s eight springs sports teams saw action last week, the results of their contests, while mixed, constituting a rather good start to the season.

This week's schedule of high school sports contests.

East Hampton High’s baseball team made it clear with a 4-1 season-opening home victory over Hauppauge Monday that the Bonackers will contend for the League V title.

The Hurricanes, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter youth swim team, placed second to Huntington, whose numbers are far greater, in the three-day Y state meet in Rochester last weekend.

Milly Wasserman, a Buckskill Winter Club instructor on the verge of a professional figure-skating career, had to overcome childhood epilepsy to get where she is.

The week ahead in local sports action.

Against an older, bigger Panama squad that was just as quick, Bridgehampton High’s boys basketball team staged an extraordinary second-half comeback Saturday in the state Class D final, losing in the end 78-69.

Bridgehampton High School’s boys basketball team went into Friday’s state Class D semifinal with perhaps more confidence than it should have, for Loudonville Christian proved to be a formidable foe, overcoming seemingly comfortable Bee leads on several occasions before yielding in the end, 63-53.

A look back on news of the Montauk Rugby Club and the early days of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

Seamus McDonagh, who visits Springs frequently, is a good man. And a good storyteller. He has timing, wit, a light Irish brogue giving music to his words, and a hard-gained wisdom that lands as powerfully as a shot from a heavyweight boxer. Which he once was — a cruiserweight who went up a class to face Evander Holyfield, challenging the legendary champion for his title.

Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees eviscerated the Yellow Jackets of Eldred from the start in Saturday’s Class D regional final, stealing and scoring repeatedly as their opponents from Sullivan County looked on, helpless to stop the onslaught.

Looking back on news of the Montauk Rugby Club and a Maidstoners softball trip to Cuba,

“Youth is full of sport” is written above Bob Vishno’s photo in the Branford (Conn.) High School yearbook of 1949, a fitting saying for one who would go on to coach golf, basketball, and baseball at Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School for a generation, a 31-year tenure that he and his late wife, Lillian, who also was a Sag Harbor teacher, set forth upon in 1956. 

March is here, and during an open workout Sunday at East Hampton High’s baseball field, the varsity coach Vinny Alversa said something he hasn’t said in a decade at Bonac’s helm: that this year’s senior-heavy varsity team can win the league championship.

A look back at sports and athletic news from 2000.

The first half of Sunday’s county Class D high school boys basketball championship game between Bridgehampton and St. Pius V of Melville — which the Bees ended up winning 53-42 — was more akin to football at times, with as many as three or four players splayed out on the floor grappling for possession.

Bronco Campsey, East Hampton High’s standout 108-pound wrestler who is a Pierson High sophomore, was a finalist last weekend in the state tournament in Albany, losing 12-4 to the division’s top seed, Will Soto of Newburgh.

The Hackers Hockey Club’s manager, Tim Garneau, who took the baton from one of the club’s founders, John Battle, six years ago, grew up with winter sports in suburban Minneapolis, and, at 59, remains active athletically here during January, February, and March.

The Hackers Hockey Club and the Hamptons First Responders squared off at the Buckskill Winter Club Sunday night and on the night of Feb. 26, with the Hackers prevailing 4-3 in the first one and the First Responders edging the Hackers 10-9 in Sunday night’s finale.

Back to the Bees-Porters wars on the hardwood, and when Montauk Rugby made good in major league play.