Sports

Ryleigh O’Donnell, a senior on the Bonac girls indoor track team, set a school record in the 1,000 meters Sunday at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood. The boys swimmers, meanwhile, had an easy time of it.

Don McGovern, East Hampton High’s boys soccer coach, took seven of his charges to the Suffolk County Soccer Coaches Association’s awards banquet last month at Villa Lombardi in Holbrook.

East Hampton High’s girls track team broke school records in the 4-by-800 and distance medley relays at the Ocean Breeze Holiday Festival meet on Staten Island last week.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball, boys swimming, and wrestling teams had losing records going into the Christmas break, but all three of them have been battling in the thick of it.

When darkness closed out the Audubon Montauk Christmas Bird Count and the species were tallied, participants agreed that the good weather might have played a role in the total: 134 were found, the highest in a decade.

Left out of last week’s “A Look at Sports in the Year 2023” were the honoring of Black basketball coaches here and Tim Garvin’s P.G.A. award for his work as a mentor at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett.

The year 2023 began with Shelly Snyder Schaffer’s gift to East Hampton Town’s young people of Hub 44, a pitching and batting facility, continued with the hiring of Kathy Masterson as athletic director, and included a number of notable playoff runs.

Low spawning levels have spurred the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to put forth a comprehensive management plan to rebuild the stocks of striped bass.

Colin Mather has plunged on New Year’s Day for years, jogging the 1.6 miles to the ocean at the end of Beach Lane with whoever shows up at his Wainscott shop. His plunges have been more low-key than those at East Hampton’s Main Beach, but this year will be different.

Newsday announced that Emma McGrory, a senior midfielder on Bonac’s playoff field hockey squad, has been named to its 12-player all-Long Island team, and tiny Bridgehampton High’s boys basketball team beat Riverhead — a rarity.

Padel, a racket sport new to America, but not to Mexico, South America, and Europe, will be added to the East Hampton Indoor/Outdoor Club’s list of offerings come the spring.

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

Justin Kulchinsky, 50, won the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter 5K at East Hampton’s Main Beach over the weekend, and the high school’s boys and girls track teams competed indoors at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team won 78-66 over Deer Park-North Babylon at the Y.M.C.A. here, while the Hurricanes were the top New York team at the Holiday Invitational in Nassau County.

Out on the water for a last chance to catch some blackfish, The Star’s fishing columnist enjoyed some good camaraderie, and if the fish were to cooperate, so much the better.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Four 7-on-7 men’s soccer teams, F.C. Tuxpan, Tortorella Pools, the Maidstone Market, and Sag Harbor United, battled it out at East Hampton’s Herrick Park last week in the league’s semifinal playoff round.

“I honestly don’t think I missed a fish, as they were taking the bait with such abandon,” Joel Fisher said of the waters off Big Gull Island. “All were in the 14-to-17-inch range. It was a great way to end the season.”

Eight East Hampton High School student-athletes aiming to play at the college level were feted last week at the school.

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.

In just a few weeks, since the end of October, a crew of 20 has transformed the Buckskill Tennis Club into the Buckskill Winter Club, which on Saturday is to begin its 21st year of operation in East Hampton.