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1 week ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
Ricky Smith, a former professional and University of Virginia lacrosse player who has spent the past four years overseeing youth lacrosse programs here with his wife, Meredith (also a Virginia lacrosse alum), was happy to say the other day that East End Lacrosse “has grown to include 144 boys and girls, after starting with just a handful of kids in the first clinics held at the Neighborhood House with Project Most.” The group now includes kids from Southampton to Montauk.
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
Ethan Mitchell, one of East Hampton High's special education teachers — and the school's varsity wrestling coach — has for several years now not only overseen his "uniquely abled" students' academic work, but also has, with the help of volunteers from the student body, coached them in the "unified" sports of bowling and basketball, an experience that has led him to conclude that it's not only been a win for his athletes, but also for their fans in the stands and their peer "partners" on the...
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2 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
An Ultimate disc tournament for about 40 veteran players, some of them former collegiate champions, some of them — as is the case with the tournament's organizer, Sas Peters — world champions, was held recently at the John M. Marshall Elementary School field with games contested over the course of two days by 50 through 71-year-olds, men and women. "Did we win?
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
About 200 well-wishers turned out at the Clubhouse in Wainscott Friday to celebrate Howard and Kenny Wood's induction into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame the night before. Howard led the first East Hampton High School boys basketball team to the school's first state championship in 1977, and Kenny did likewise in 1989.
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
On her return from the 140-team county AAA track meet Friday, Yani Cuesta said her East Hampton High girls team's third-place finish, with 90 points -- behind Hauppauge and East Islip -- was the best that she could remember. Sean Knight, who coaches East Hampton's boys, reported "some fantastic results" from the county boys meet, as well.
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3 weeks ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
There wasn't much to write home about when it came to Saturday's 4-0 final-round loss to East Islip, though East Hampton High's 18-6 baseball team, as its coach, Vinny Alversa, had predicted last winter, had a fine season. In early March, Alversa, who, along with his assistant, Henry Meyer, played on the school's last county championship team 30 years ago, said he'd be shocked if the senior-heavy Bonackers didn't finish at the top of League V.
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1 month ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
For the first time in 30 years, an East Hampton High School baseball team will play for a county championship, at 3 p.m. on Saturday at the Middle Country Athletic Complex in Selden versus undefeated East Islip. Should East Hampton win Saturday, it will have to play East Islip again, at the same place and at the same time, on Sunday.
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1 month ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
The basketball careers of Howard and Kenny Wood, who are to be inducted into the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame tonight, will be celebrated tomorrow as well at a party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott from 5 to 7 p.m. Scott Rubenstein, who co-captained the 1977 state-championship East Hampton High School basketball team with Howard Wood and oversees the Clubhouse, invited one and all to to celebrate the two inductees and said in a flier that there will be “complimentary small bites, friends,...
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1 month ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
Justin Prince, a senior who hasn’t started a game since the second week of the season and who is fourth in East Hampton High’s pitching rotation, answered the call Monday, grinding his way to a 2-1 win over Half Hollow Hills West in a tense contest here that afternoon, a win that set up another showdown at top-seeded Eastport-South Manor Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
easthamptonstar.com | Jack Graves
East Hampton High’s baseball team remained in the county’s AA tournament by virtue of a 15-4 shellacking of Rocky Point here Saturday after having lost 7-6 at Eastport-South Manor, the undefeated top seed, the day before. Thus, the fourth-seeded Bonackers faced the eighth-seeded team, Half Hollow Hills West, here on Memorial Day to determine which of the 2-1 teams would advance in the double elimination tourney.
