Sports

The Bad News Bubs, for the third straight year, and the Jetty Grinders, coming out of the losers brackets, won the A and B championships in the four-day Travis Field memorial coed slow-pitch softball tournament held from last Thursday through Sunday at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

After coaching East Hampton High School’s boys basketball team for the past seven years, Dan White resigned last week to coach at Pierson High in Sag Harbor, where he teaches.

East Hampton Town’s men’s and women’s teams won the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s invitational tournament last Thursday at East Hampton Village’s Main Beach.

The heroism of Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter was remembered Sunday morning as more than 400 runners and walkers, some carrying United States and Marine Corps flags, looped through Sag Harbor.

“It’s been a great season thus far,” Harvey Bennett, former owner of the Tackle Shop in Amagansett, said of blue-claw crabs. “They are large and plentiful. More people need to take advantage of it. Blue-claws are the best to eat.” 

A repeat was not to be for the Sag Harbor Whalers in the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League this year, given their semifinal-round series loss last week to the South Shore Clippers of Bellport.

A benefit softball game between the staff and members of the South Fork Country Club last month raised $30,000 for the East Hampton, Springs, and Montauk food pantries.

The defending-champion Sag Harbor Whalers have been in a playoff fight this week with the South Shore Clippers, losing the deciding third game Thursday at Mashashimuet Park.

For years, the East Hampton Town summer sailing program was beloved by many, giving people 12 and older a fun and affordable way to learn to sail on Gardiner’s Bay, but for the second summer in a row the popular program is off the calendar, leaving people to wonder if it will ever return. “The town intended to continue offering the program last summer and this summer, but was unable to fill the program director position," said the recreation superintendent.

If I truly wanted to catch a fluke, for all practical purposes I would need to hop aboard one of the several fine party boats that set sail from Montauk, which are significantly closer to the more productive fishing grounds.

The invitational East Hampton ocean lifeguard tournament is to be held Thursday, July 27, at East Hampton Village's Main Beach and will be bigger than it's ever been, what with 14 men's and nine women's teams. Distance swims, landline rescues, rescue board relays, beach run relays, run-swim-run relays, and beach flags are to be contested.

The fishing for fluke has continued to deteriorate in Block Island Sound where dozens of boats used to drift their baited hooks on a daily basis in summer. Looking at my log book on the ride out, I noted that I had made two trips last summer and we failed to land a keeper. Not good.