Sports

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School girls basketball team was looking to upset Westhampton Beach Saturday at St. Joseph’s College, but fouls and an injury didn’t help their cause.

The Pierson girls basketball team will play for the county B-C-D championship Saturday at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue.

Vinny Alversa, East Hampton High’s baseball coach, and Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown, the softball coach, had their charges rotate among stations that focused on hitting, fielding, pitching, catching, and on catching fly balls.

The day the world champion double Dutch rope-jumping team visited East Hampton High, and memories of Paul Giardina’s thoroughbred training days.

“Do you want to know what her day is like?” Kevin McConville, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls and boys tennis teams, said of his number-one singles player, Juliana Barahona. “She goes to school until 3, hits with me from 3 to 4:45, and then goes to work at the Sag Harbor Gym from 5 to 10.”

A fund-raiser for the Katy’s Courage Foundation, a nonprofit in memory of Katy Stewart, who at the age of 12 died of a rare form of liver cancer nine years ago, is to be held at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton Sunday.

It’s been 40 years since Brid­gehampton High fielded a baseball team, but now one’s in the making.

Little League clinics will be held on Saturday at East Hampton High School.

Taking up most of one wall in her office, Krista Brooks, East Hampton High’s girls basketball coach, has stats from all the games so that her players can see where they stand vis-à-vis the positions they play.

Richard Cooney Sr., the East Hampton School District’s athletic director for the past 20 years, has announced that he will retire, according to the Feb. 9, 1995 edition of The Star.

Smithtown Christian had never until Friday night won a county boys basketball championship. The Knights did it, unhorsing Shelter Island 57-37 in East Hampton High School’s gym.

Kal Lewis, a Shelter Island senior, won the state qualifier 1,600-meter race at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood on Feb. 10 in 4 minutes and 24.87 seconds.