Sports

The Hamptons Adult Hardball League began its 2024 season and ended its 2023 season at Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park Sunday. Games continue at the park Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon.

The striped bass showed up en masse for their annual residency off Montauk on May 1. It was a true sign that spring had sprung for those who wet a line for the highly prized linesiders.

All the local high school sports competition you could possibly want for the coming week, right here.

It’s been sad to watch the demise of our local inshore lobster fishery. I’ve seen a clear downward spiral that’s been especially acute in the past five years.

East Hampton High School’s softball team is in first place, in boys lacrosse the South Fork Islanders beat highly ranked Huntington, and the baseball squad needs to win three of its last four games to make the playoffs.

This year’s May Day 5K, which benefits the Tyler Project, a youth mental health nonprofit, happens on Sunday at 9 a.m. at Main Beach in East Hampton. 

East Hampton High’s girls flag football team won a game in dramatic fashion over the spring vacation, girls lacrosse battled Eastport-South Manor, and the boys and girls track teams hit the Port Jeff Steeplefest.

East Hampton’s baseball and softball teams won games at Bonac’s fields and East Hampton’s girls track team defeated Westhampton Beach, a perennial powerhouse.

This week's schedule of games, meets, and athletic events.

The recent closure of the only tackle shop in downtown Montauk was a blow for fishermen, but all is not lost for those who wet a hook and line in Montauk. The Montauk Anglers Club, right near the Montauk inlet on East Lake Drive, is looking to fill the void left by the departure of Paulie’s by adding more tackle, bait, lures, gear, and services to its already well-stocked marine and tackle store. 

The South Fork boys lacrosse team, on which a number of East Hampton High School athletes play, had a chance last week to reap some power points in games with Riverhead and Smithtown East, but fell short by one goal on both occasions. In any event, the team, as anyone who has seen it play could attest, is a very good one, capable of giving any opponent all it can handle. 

A reconstructed baseball diamond for Herrick Park, complete with dugouts, will be playable by "Memorial Day weekend, give or take," Chris Hines, an account manager with the LandTek Group, told the East Hampton Village Board at Friday's meeting. The board determined that the project will have little environmental impact, and approved $535,720.60 for the work, which will come out of the village's general fund.

Lookee here, sports fans, for the local high school action ahead.

The Katy's Courage 5K in Sag Harbor on Saturday drew a large crowd despite the particularly blustery winds, with 471 people runners and walkers finishing the course. 

The life of Kenny Carter, a state-champion Bonac basketball player who died at the age of 63 on Feb. 27, is to be celebrated at the Clubhouse in Wainscott on April 27 from 5 to 9 p.m.

This week we hear from Lou Reale, a local legend among softball coaches. And more from yesteryear’s sports pages.

The question was whether I should stay in port on April 9 or put out my lobster traps for the season. Sounds simple, yes? But it wasn’t. Hear me out.

The East Hampton High School girls lacrosse team romps, while Bonac girls track makes strides at a big invitational in Deer Park.

High school sports here: the week that is to be.

From the East Hampton Little League organization’s opening day to Bonac and Pierson varsity games, baseball was the sporting item of the day.

The Ross School’s athletic director and tennis coach, Marcelo Reda, is more interested in nurturing a winning mentality than in winning per se.

East Hampton High’s baseball team and the Southampton-based South Fork boys lacrosse team, with a lineup of half a dozen Bonackers, could boast of 3-0 records as of earlier this week. East Hampton’s girls lacrosse team was 2-0.

College will have to wait for Chase Lieder, the 18-year-old champion surfer from Montauk. He’s doing too well as a pro.

“That kids from these small towns, from Sag Harbor, East Hampton, and Southampton, can now go toe-to-toe with the established programs up the Island is quite something,” in the words of one coach.

A look ahead at local sports action.

East Hampton High’s girls lacrosse team made its debut here last week, defeating North Babylon, while the softball team took on Deer Park.

Here is the week that is to be, sports-wise.

John Ryan Jr., the chief of East Hampton Town’s lifeguards for the past 34 years, was recently named as a delegate to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States Lifesaving Association.

A dozen women from the Breakwater and Shelter Island Yacht Clubs recently took part in a racing clinic given by North U in St. Petersburg, Fla. It really upped their games.

Drew Smith, who manages East Hampton Village's Main Beach and is the chief of the village's lifeguards, said recently that anyone looking to work this summer as a lifeguard, on the village beaches or on the East Hampton Town beaches overseen by John Ryan Jr., "should either contact me or John as soon as possible — I can't emphasize that enough. Reach out to us and let us know your interest."