Sports

Teachers Team Up to Paddle the Block Island Challenge

Christine Sampson
People from all over the East End have different reasons for signing up for Paddlers for Humanity’s annual Block Island Challenge, the 18-mile, open-ocean stand-up paddleboarding and kayaking event that serves as one of the nonprofit organization’s primary fund-raisers.
The Lineup 07.28.16

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Women’s A Team Won for Fourth Straight Time

Jack Graves
East Hampton’s women’s A team, for the fourth straight year, won the Main Beach invitational lifeguard tournament last Thursday.
High Hopes for Hoops 4 Hope Documentary

Jack Graves
A 22-year-old University of North Carolina graduate, Taylor Sharp, recently showed here a compelling documentary he and a fellow North Carolinian, Dan Hedges, have made about Mark Crandall’s Hoops 4 Hope mentoring project in Zimbabwe and South Africa — a film that could, once distributed, net for Hoops 4 Hope the full-court backing it has never...
Landscapers Scraping by in Women’s Slow-Pitch League

Jack Graves
Groundworks Landscaping, which has been the pre-eminent team in the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball league the past few years, winning three of the four championship series contested since 2012 — it had to forfeit to Provisions in 2013 after winning game one because its collegians had to return to school — is barely scraping by in...
The Lineup 07.21.16

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Montauk Mustangs in Second Place

Jack Graves
As of Saturday, the Montauk Mustangs were in second place, behind the Westhampton Aviators, in the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League with a 20-13 record. The Sag Harbor Whalers, at 15-19, were in fifth place among the league’s seven teams. The top four make the playoffs.
25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 07.21.16

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A ‘First’ at the Montauk Lighthouse Sprint Triathlon

Jack Graves
Tom Eickelberg made it six in a row at the Montauk Lighthouse sprint triathlon Sunday, skimming over the water, pounding the bike, and breezing through the run to a 1 hour, 3 minute, and 17 second finish.
Speechless After Little League Loss

Jack Graves
Ken Dodge, who has coached East Hampton’s 9-to-10-year-old entry in the District 36 (eastern Long Island) Little League tournament, had no words, he said during a conversation Tuesday morning, to describe the heartbreaking loss the young Bonackers had suffered in the district’s championship game at Riverhead the night before.