Ross Boys Basketball (5-4)
The Ross Cosmos boys varsity basketball team look playoff bound after coming off a string of victories this past week. On Saturday, January 28 the Cosmos beat the visiting Knox Falcons, 58-43, in a non-league match. Ross popped out to a 24-5 lead at the end of the first quarter, not trailing [...]

By Andrew Rudansky

The good news just keeps rolling in for the Pierson Whalers boys’ varsity basketball team, which clinched its Class C playoff berth this past week. Dominating on both sides of the ball, the Whalers first beat the Bridgehampton Killer Bees in a decisive 73-57 victory on Friday, January 27. The following Tuesday, January [...]

By Andrew Rudansky

In a game that had all the appearances of an upset, The Pierson/Bridgehampton Lady Whalers girls’ varsity basketball team slipped behind late and fell to the Shelter Island Indians, 37-30. Both team’s entered the Tuesday, January 31 contest with a 5-2 record, but the high scoring Indians and their star forward Kelsey McGayhey [...]

Pierson Boys Basketball
The Pierson Whalers boys’ varsity basketball team will be going into Friday’s cross-turnpike rivalry game against the visiting Bridgehampton Bees (4-3) with momentum after beating the Southold Porters (3-4) in a 61-39 rout. The Southold game, held on Friday, January 20 had the Whalers back to their sharpshooting ways, with nine different players [...]

Cosmos Basketball: Move closer to postseason contention
By Andrew Rudasky

The Ross Cosmos are cruising through their schedule with a string of dominating home games this week, beating down their boys varsity basketball League VIII rivals by wide double-digit margins.
On Friday, January 20 the Cosmos whooped visiting Smithtown Christian 64-36. They followed up on this with another [...]

Lady Whalers Basketball: Lady Settlers dominate in 39-20 loss
By Andrew Rudansky
The Pierson/Bridgehampton Lady Whalers girls’ varsity basketball team was in a great position to pull off an upset over the first place Southold Lady Porters on Thursday, January 19. They were riding a three-game winning streak, averaging 41.3 points per game in that stretch, had [...]

By Andrew Rudansky

The Hive faithful were treated to an offensive show on Tuesday, January 17 when the Bridgehampton Killer Bees outscored the visiting Ross Cosmos in a 92-77 barn burner. The high powered offenses on both teams were in rare form, culminating in a final scoreboard that looked more appropriate for a professional-caliber game.
Killer Bees [...]

By Andrew Rudansky

It can be a long night when the shots don’t fall like they are supposed to. That was the case on Friday, January 13 when the Pierson Whalers boys’ varsity basketball team lost to the Greenport Porters in a League VIII North Fork-South Fork rumble.
The Whalers, a smaller team in League VIII known [...]

Lady Whalers
The Pierson/Bridgehampton girls varsity basketball Lady Whalers improved to a record of 4-1 in League VIII play after beating the Stony Brook Bears, 34-25, in an away game on Tuesday, January 17. Emily Hinz, was effective getting to the line for the Lady Whalers, and led the team in scoring with 9 points. Bridget [...]

by Robbie Vorhaus

Sag Harbor’s Ken Lasiuk was fond of saying; “I would find it easier retiring from my work at the United Nations, rather than deciding when to end playing ice hockey.”
In 2009, retiring from his job as an executive officer in the UN’s Office of Legal Affairs, Mr. Lasiuk thankfully didn’t have to make [...]