Sports

East Hampton's girls lacrosse team took two last week, while the South Fork boys squad honored five seniors before a game with league-leading Ward Melville.

The East Hampton High School softball team extended its winning streak to four by mercying Southold-Greenport-Mattituck 18-0 on the North Fork Friday. The Bonackers are now 5-8.

The East Hampton High School boys tennis team continued undefeated in league play last Thursday, easily turning back the Ross School here 6-1.

With East Hampton having stranded nine runners during the first four innings of Friday’s high school baseball game here with Comsewogue, it looked as if the visitors might steal a win, and thus the three-game series that the teams played last week, but, wonderful to tell, the Bonackers came back with a vengeance in the fifth, plating eight runs on the way to a satisfying 9-1 victory that kept them in playoff contention.

It’s hard to mistake the great egret: lengthy yellow bill, long black legs, large white body in between. They have sinewy necks, sometimes stretched straight, other times tucked into a squat S, as when they’re flying.

Kieran Hildreth, a 13-year-old Montauker who spends about five months of the year in northeastern Vermont, where he is a member of the Burke Mountain Academy Junior Program, continues to clean up in alpine skiing.

Striped bass have shown up en masse in local waters, and many casters are very pleased with their early, bountiful showing. “It’s wonderful to see,” said Ken Morse at Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor.

Sergey Avramenko, a native of Belarus and a frequent winner of road races here, won the Katy’s Courage 5K in Sag Harbor Saturday. The new season will continue with the May Day 5K at East Hampton Village’s Main Beach on May 7.

Annemarie Brown started five ninth graders in East Hampton's softball win over Hampton Bays Saturday, while the girls track team blew out Eastport-South Manor to improve to 2-1-1. And more in Bonac sports.

The Katy’s Courage 5K, the first road race of the season, is to be held Saturday morning in Sag Harbor. Then, at 2 p.m. that day, the two newly built turf Little League fields off Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton are to be dedicated.

Fueled by Jack Cooper and Tinley Edwards’s face-off wins, the South Fork Islanders boys lacrosse team took a seemingly insurmountable 16-6 lead into the fourth quarter on Saturday, but the next 12 minutes were to be agonizing if you were a South Fork fan.

The warming rays of the sun have begun to perk up the local fishing scene, with holdover striped bass making the biggest noise in recent days.