By Jesse Rosenthal
Returning for her second season as Pierson’s varsity softball coach, Melissa Edwards has high hopes for her Lady Whalers. With a variety of weapons at her disposal both on the field and in the batter’s box and a coaching philosophy rooted in hard work, fundamentals and unity, optimism may end up becoming more [...]

Pierson High School physical education instructor Dan White hosted a three-on-three basketball tournament at the school last weekend as a fundraiser for a Sag Harbor 16-and-under AAU travel team.
Competition opened Saturday, the fifth and sixth grade and the seventh and eighth grade brackets crowning their champions. On Sunday, the fun and games continued in the [...]

By Jesse Rosenthal
The 2010 season marks a changing of the guard at field level for the Pierson baseball Whalers, with Jonathan Tortorella taking over coaching duties from 22-year Whaler veteran Sean Crowley. Benito Vila will be returning for his 2nd year as assistant coach.
In Crowley’s last year, the Whalers posted a 12-6 regular season record [...]

Sunshine and warm temperatures greeted the Pierson teams this week for their first workouts. The weekend rain won’t keep their younger counterparts from getting ready for spring.
The Sag Harbor-Bridgehampton Little League will hold its final winter clinic in the Pierson High School gym on Sunday. Seven-to-nine year old softball players are expected in from 1 [...]

All-American wrestler, and Sag Harbor third grader, Adam Busiello out-grappled five opponents last Saturday to take the New York State 65-pound Intermediate Division title in Endicott, New York in an event sanctioned by USA Wrestling.
His first match lasted eleven seconds and his second match eight seconds, the young Busiello quickly pinning those two opponents before [...]

By Benito Vila

In November, eleven teams and their parents came together in the Pierson High School auditorium to celebrate the school’s fall athletic program. The scene was somewhat chaotic and unfamiliar to many, the ceremony being a first-time event, the administration opting to provide closure on those seasons then rather than waiting until the spring.
Last [...]

By Benito Vila

In Texas the 1970s, it was said that boys were not men until they went to a ZZ Top concert, built their own car and outran a cop with it.
Rites of passage being what they are, Pierson athletic director Montgomery Granger has been considering how to best counteract a prevalent problem in many [...]

By Benito Vila

In every game there are moments that make the game for one team and break it for the other. Saturday’s county Class C and D championship contests were no different.
In the noon game, Greenport used a 14-2 second quarter run to get ahead of Bridgehampton and go on to earn their fifth consecutive [...]

Sag Harbor brothers Adam and John Busiello took first in their weight classes in last week’s Suffolk County wrestling championships at John Glenn High School in Elwood, an event sanctioned by USA Wrestling.
Despite their obvious youth, Adam is a third grader at Sag Harbor Elementary and John is a sixth grader at Pierson, both boys [...]

By Benito Vila

There was no way of knowing which way the basketball season would go for the Pierson Lady Whalers this winter. With only one returning starter, several players new to the sport and a number of eighth graders coming out for the team, coach Dennis Case acknowledged at the time, “This will certainly be [...]