Sports

East Hampton High’s teams are going full tilt, with field hockey losing its first game of the season, girls swimming beating West Babylon, and boys soccer defeating Eastport-South Manor, among other results.

Field hockey, undefeated as of Monday, continued to give Bonac plenty to cheer about, defeating Sayville 2-1 here last week, while boys soccer bageled Westhampton Beach 4-0. The football team, however, lost its homecoming game with Harborfields.

They ran 48 miles over the course of 48 hours, with cat naps in between four-mile jogs, raising more than $145,000 for the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Parkinson’s disease research work.

Rick Slater would have quarterbacked the 1978 East Hampton High School football team, but three “taxpayer revolt” budget defeats torpedoed the team. “It’s still a nightmare,” he said.

Just as Tropical Storm Ophelia ushered out summer, Ken Morse, the man behind Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor, is moving out — to Southampton.

Despite the foul weather, almost a thousand runners turned out for the Hamptons Marathon, Half-Marathon, and 5K at the Southampton Intermediate School Saturday. The races were won, respectively, by Jake Gallagher, 36, of Larchmont, N.Y., in 2 hours, 43 minutes, and 45 seconds, Jordan Daniel, 28, of Westhampton Beach in 1:08:43, and Danny Cohen, 24, of Solon, Ohio, in 18:01. 

Ron White, the former president of the Bridgehampton School Board who also served as the varsity boys basketball head coach for six years, is stepping down from the board, according to a meeting agenda put out by the school on Wednesday afternoon.

There was a lot going on in September of 1998, including the day cricket came to Southampton.

George Cafiso is about to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame for the second time, as a member of its 1953-54 boys basketball team. Here he talks about that and the 1952 football team.

There’s bad news for anglers in NOAA’s analysis of its annual recreational fishing survey.

Last week was an especially good one for East Hampton High’s girls swimming, boys soccer, and field hockey teams.

East Hampton’s boys soccer team had its first loss of the season on Friday to Comsewogue, but the players were quick to shake it off, routing New Rochelle 7-1 in a nonleague game played at Jericho High School on Saturday.

East Hampton High’s field hockey team was at the top of Division II’s standings Monday morning, with wins over Pierson (Sag Harbor), Smithtown West, and Southampton already under its belt.

Scoring in every quarter, the East Hampton High School football team cruised to a 32-8 home-opening victory over Rocky Point Saturday. Hauppauge is next.

Adam Nagler has raised $175,000 to support mental health by logging 3,500 offshore stand-up paddling miles over the past four summers, ending his latest solo ocean-borne trek, the Wicked 1000, at Vanderveer Marina’s launching ramp at the head of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton. 

If you fish in saltwater in New York and are over the age of 16, you must possess a free Department of Environmental Conservation marine registry permit. But now the marine registry may soon cease to exist, as the D.E.C. is considering a fee-based license for fishing in the state’s marine waters.

This season marks the 100th anniversary of Bonac football, always known as hard-nosed foes. That gritty tradition is to be celebrated with a party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott at 5 p.m. on Sept. 23, following the homecoming game with Harborfields, which is to begin at 1. 

In initial outings East Hampton High School’s boys soccer team did well, while field hockey shut out Pierson. The football team, however, fell as expected to Half Hollow Hills, 42-20.

Jimmy Buffett, who had a house on North Haven, loved the waters of the East End, whether surfing, sailing, or fishing.

The course for Sunday’s $425,000 Longines Grand Prix at the Hampton Classic showgrounds was particularly challenging, with only two riders making it clean into the jump-off. Daniel Bluman and his 15-year-old gelding, Ladriano Z, won it.

It happened here, sports fans.

Sixty-eight leadliners ages 2 through 7 got the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show going Sunday morning in the Grand Prix ring as triumphant music played and parents and relatives waved and cheered them on.

“I’ve been so very fortunate,” Paul Annacone said last week at the outdoor players’ lounge at the U.S. Tennis Open in Flushing Meadows. His tennis career, which started on the humble courts at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor, brought him three A.T.P. titles and a career-high ranking of 12th in the world.

The outlook for the bay scallop season, which is set to start in early November, is once again poor. For the fifth summer in a row, there has been a significant die-off of mature bay scallops in local waters.

Just over the lip of the dune bordering the lot at Scott Cameron Beach is one of the most important habitat areas for shorebirds on the entire East End: Mecox Inlet.

Red Devil Swims of one-quarter, one-half, or one-mile distances start from Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. East Hampton Ocean Rescue is the beneficiary.

The fall season has already begun or soon will for a number of East Hampton High School's teams. Presumably, given the fact that eight of the 11 made the postseason in 2022, the prospects are likewise promising this year.

The weeklong Hampton Classic, an International Federation of Equestrian Sports’ five-star-rated show, with more than 200 classes in six rings on showgrounds off Snake Hollow Road in Bridgehampton, is to begin at 8 a.m. Sunday with leadline classes for children 2 through 7 in the Grand Prix ring that are to be judged by Joe Fargis, a three-time Olympic medalist.

“When I created Lifted, I really wanted to use what I learned as a pro athlete,” said Holly Rilinger, a former professional basketball player turned trainer and all-around inspiration to a largely middle-aged female crowd aspiring to get, and stay, in shape. The workout and wellness studio that she created with her life partner and business partner, Jennifer Ford, occupies a space on Montauk Highway in East Hampton.

The Kraken, the Hamptons Adult Hardball team seeking a three-peat in that over-30 baseball league’s playoffs, was soundly defeated 10-5 in game two of the final series by the Sag Harbor Royals at Bridgehampton High School’s field last weekend. The decisive game in the playoff final was to be played Thursday or Sunday.