Sports

Girls winter tracksters do well at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, while Bonac’s wrestlers hit the mats at an invitational in Copiague.

East Hampton High’s boys swimming team improved its League II record to 4-0 last week after lopsided wins over North Babylon and Northport.

East Hampton’s football program is considering whether to continue going it alone, or whether it wants, as was suggested last week, to merge with Southampton.

For the third time in the past few years, the possibility of East Hampton and Southampton High Schools combining football programs is again being considered.

A look back at how a girls basketball coach greatly helped a group with impaired motor skills, in terms of both movement and self-esteem.

Caroline Brown is the United States Lifesaving Association’s female junior lifeguard of the year, the first one from here to be so honored.

Vince Horcasitas finished 2019 ranked fifth nationwide in the United States Tennis Association’s men’s 55 singles division, owing largely to recent wins in national tournaments played in Phoenix and in Longboat Key, Fla.

Vicki Littman, chairwoman of the East Hampton Food Pantry, the annual plunge’s beneficiary, said 260-plus hit the water at Main Beach in the village.

The fate of the football program here will be discussed Thursday night in the high school cafeteria. In girls hoops, East Hampton hosts Hauppauge Friday, while Pierson plays Mattituck in Sag Harbor. And winter track takes the Bonac girls to meets at Suffolk Community College Friday and Sunday.

Tight Lines Tackle on Bay Street in Sag Harbor is jammed from the roof to the floorboard with just about every kind of tackle, apparel, and bait imaginable. You name it, you will likely find it.

“Did we . . . win?” the sportswriter asked on arriving late at East Hampton High. “They won,” a young fan answered on his way out.

Hoops rivalries will be the order of the day Friday, as Bridgehampton visits Greenport, and Southold plays at Pierson in Sag Harbor. Monday takes the Bonackers bowling against Greenport-Southold at the All Star lanes in Riverhead.