Sports

After last Thursday's 4-2 loss here to Miller Place, Nicole Ficeto told her East Hampton High School field hockey players, whose record had dropped to 4-5, that they would have to win out if they wanted to make the playoffs. Apparently they listened.

Joe McKee, East Hampton High School's varsity football coach, told his players after Saturday's 25-14 loss at Port Jefferson that it was the best they'd played, "by far," this season. The boys volleyball team, coached by Josh Brussell, won its first game.

East Hampton's girls cross-country team took a 3-0 record into the season-ending meet with Amityville on Tuesday. The girls volleyball team is playing well, but a win is proving elusive.

A 3-0 win over Miller Place Monday night put East Hampton at 8-1-1, with a good chance at winning or sharing a league title.

East Hampton High's golf team began the season Friday with two wins. Its football team fell short on Friday, and its boys vollebyall team, as of Monday had yet to get its starting lineup on the floor, due to quarantines in its own ranks and among the teams it was supposed to play.

East Hampton's girls cross country team could well win another county title later this month. Results were mixed for the girls field hockey, volleyball, and tennis teams.

East Hampton High School's boys soccer team improved its record to 6-1-1 here Monday morning by way of a 3-0 win over Islip -- its seventh shutout of the season -- thus setting up a big game with league-leading Amityville that was to have been contested here yesterday.

The East Hampton High School boys soccer team put itself in position to win a league title by defeating Amityville 1-0 in an extremely hard-fought game played here Wednesday morning.

The March-April season has thus far gone swimmingly, at least as far as most of East Hampton High's teams are concerned, for the girls teams especially.

Since playing to a 1-1 tie with Hampton Bays on March 12, Don McGovern's team defeated Wyandanch 4-0 on the 15th, shut out Shoreham-Wading River 4-0 on the 17th, and blanked Bayport-Blue Point 2-0 here Friday.

East Hampton High's footballers may have lost 18-8 last Thursday, but their improved performance augured well.

John Ryan Sr. and John Ryan Jr. learned Monday that they can go ahead with lifeguard and junior lifeguard training at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter's pool as of Saturday.