Sports

East Hampton's 1-0 county Class A final loss to Harborfields on Saturday came down to one set play. "If we played them 10 times, we'd win five and they'd win five," Bonac's coach said of the matchup.

East Hampton High's girls cross-country runners ran in a steady downpour at Sunken Meadow State Park last Thursday, and the team emerged, barely, as Division IV's Class B winner.

"Though it took 45 minutes for me to learn that we'd won -- by 1 point," Diane O'Donnell, Bonac's coach, said during a telephone conversation Sunday.

The reason for the long delay in posting the results had much to do with the fact that "all the electronic timing equipment had been removed. . . . Instead of chips, the girls had 3-by-5 cards clipped to their shirts with their names and numbers."

After triumphing over the county's top seed, Half Hollow Hills West, in a 5-1 rout Wednesday afternoon, East Hampton High School's boys soccer team will play in a county final for the first time since 2014, facing Harborfields at Diamond in the Pines in Coram on Saturday.

There is an old fishing proverb: "Wind from the west, fish bite the best. Wind from the east, fish bite least. Wind from the north, do not go forth. Wind from the south, blows bait in their mouth."

East Hampton High's field hockey team lost a first-round playoff game Saturday at Rocky Point. 

On Monday, for the first time this season, East Hampton High's golf team, which this past week wound up league play at 10-0, was able to play at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett.

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team, putting in its best effort of the season, placed second to Sayville-Bayport in a virtual League III meet Friday.

The fourth-seeded East Hampton High School boys soccer team defeated fifth-seeded Hauppauge 1-0 in a quarterfinal-round game here on Friday.

The 8-1-1 East Hampton High School boys soccer team, as it turned out, finished as the runner-up to 9-1-0 Amityville in league play, by 1 point, and was accorded the fourth seed in the county’s Class A tournament, behind Half Hollow Hills West (9-1-0), Amityville, and Harborfields (7-1-1).

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team defeated Lindenhurst 53-43 on April 6 and Harborfields 91-77 at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Friday to finish the league season as the runner-up, at 4-1, to undefeated Sayville-Bayport.

The East Hampton High School field hockey team qualified for the county playoffs by virtue of a hard-fought 2-1 win here over Pierson Tuesday, and the boys cross-country team qualified for the county Class B championship meet at Sunken Meadow next week, after a third-place finish at the division meet there Tuesday.

East Hampton's varsity football team went out on a high note Saturday, smothering Hampton Bays 30-0 for its first win of the season. The players had improved in every game, their coach said.