Sports

East Hampton’s boys basketball team cruised to the Kendall Madison Tip-Off championship on Saturday, easily defeating Mattituck 60-43.

East Hampton High’s wrestling team was the runner-up in the 45th Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament it hosted on Saturday, while the Bonac boys swimmers started a tough league schedule last week.

A visit from South Africa, a season when the Bonac boys basketball team was flying high, and more from the sports reportage of yore.

The plight of our beloved scallop is a sad one. For five straight years, we have witnessed a summer die-off. Baymen never have it easy.

Three athletes and the 1953-54 boys basketball team are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame Saturday, and the Kendall Madison hoops tournament starts here Friday night.

After breeding on the northern lakes, loons arrive on the East End in the autumn and increase in numbers through the winter as their breeding territories freeze. They can survive our winter water because they’re so well insulated.

The Maidstone Market won the Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men's soccer final on Nov. 20, defeating top-seeded F.C. Tuxpan 4-1. Plus, Bonac boys soccer players awarded.

With the season for blackfish and sea bass concluding in a few weeks, our columnist headed toward Block Island on a trip organized by Bill Bennett of Sag Harbor. They enjoyed consistent action all morning.

Sunny and brisk, Thanksgiving was a good day for running 3 and 6-mile loops around Fort Pond, and many took advantage. Ryan Fowkes, a former standout in track and cross-country at East Hampton High, won the 6-miler.

The Bonac winter sports schedule starts with swimming and continues with Saturday’s Sprig Gardner wrestling tournament, while boys hoops gets a coach out of retirement and boys indoor track will be led by the cross-country coach.

Sas Peters’s gold medal from the recent world Ultimate Disc championships in Florida is the seventh that the 67-year-old Amagansett resident has won in the free-flowing, spirited sport.

Notes from Pierson’s 1998 field hockey wars, and the story behind a celebrity basketball tournament benefiting the Bridgehampton School.