Sports

McMahon’s won the first and second games of the best-of-five East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch softball series, lost the third, and took possession of the 2021 playoff trophy with last Thursday’s 13-6 victory.

Russell Huber, who has refereed scholastic athletic contests in New York State since 1969, has always preferred that the players, not he, get the attention. But at the Springs School on Sept. 27, it was the other way around.

Two East Hampton High School teams, field hockey and boys soccer, capped their regular seasons with wins this week, and as a result the boys will play in the county playoffs.

Playing as well as it has all season, the East Hampton High School boys soccer team took it to Harborfields Saturday.

The 2020 East Hampton High School Hall of Fame class that the coronavirus pandemic prevented from being inducted last fall was duly installed as part of Saturday’s homecoming activities.

The agony of defeat when it came to East Hampton High’s homecoming football game under the lights Saturday night was assuaged in great measure by the thrill of a community coming together for the first time in a long while.

As the gusty east winds finally abated last week after a four-day blow, the opening of blackfish season was eagerly welcomed by a multitude of anglers.

The golf team, the undefeated boys cross-country team, the once-beaten girls cross-country team, and several other Bonac teams were eyeing the postseason as of Monday.

East Hampton High’s girls tennis team, a number of whose players were new to the team when the season began, has improved greatly, in singles and in doubles.

The Bonac boys and girls cross-country teams continued undefeated last week, the girls swimmers improved to 3-2, and soccer and field hockey see action this weekend.

Bayport-Blue Point’s football team was a strong one, and while East Hampton could take heart in some big plays, they were too few and far between to avert a 55-13 loss.

A three-day blow over the holiday weekend put a severe damper on things for those intent to wet a line.

When it came to grit, to intransigence, the Bonackers were outmatched, at least on this day, and the final score, 41-7, reflected it.

The East Hampton High School boys and girls cross-country teams were undefeated and in contention for league championships earlier this week, though the boys perhaps had the clearer path.

The East Hampton High golf team’s record continued unblemished as Rich King’s crew handily defeated Pierson last Thursday at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, the Bonackers’ home course.

Sadly, I’ve not been fishing on my boat in well over a month, and my 30-foot Nova Scotia-built craft is high and dry on land while it receives a new stern deck.

“Oysters are incredibly hardy,” said Kim Tetrault, who oversees the Cornell Cooperative operations in Southold. “They can withstand a lot of what Mother Nature throws at them.”

Led by Charlie Corwin, the Bonac football team rolled to its second straight victory Saturday at Wyandanch, while boys soccer experienced its first losses of the season.

Brynn Maguire, an East Hampton High School graduate who was twice named to All-America field hockey teams while at Mary Washington, will be inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame on Feb. 5.

The news last week was good for the field hockey and girls cross-country and tennis teams.

The last time last year’s slow-pitch playoff finalists met, in early July, the Clubhouse beat McMahon’s with relative ease. This time it was a battle royal from start to finish.

The girls swim team took 10 of 12 events in a season-opener, the boys and girls cross-country teams won, the girls soccer team shut out Wyandanch, and the jayvee footballers beat Hampton Bays.

Owning a boat certainly has its ups and downs. Lately, it’s been more of the latter.

Jonathan Gore, whose mother’s family is from East Hampton, finished fourth in the 200-meter final for below-the-knee amputees and seventh in the 100 at the Tokyo Paralympics.

Down 2-1 at the break, Don McGovern’s charges took stock, regrouped, and came out to dominate play in the second half.

Yoga enthusiasts and equestrians alike may find appealing a pair of retreats being organized by a local woman whose professional training and teaching experiences are rooted in both worlds.

The race over an Olympic-distance course, with a .93-mile bay swim, a 24.8-mile bike leg, and a 6.2-mile run, was won by Roman Fedosieiev of Staten Island.

Dana Trotter's performance at the Hampton Classic was a rarity for a local rider in a show that attracts top-flight competitors.

East Hampton High's varsity football team dominated Hampton Bays 42-14 in the season opener Saturday.

I was all ready to shuck clams at the HarborFest contest in Sag Harbor on Saturday, but . . .