Sports

The high school spring sports season has begun, with softball, girls lacrosse, baseball, and tennis all contested this week.

Nancy Richer began dancing at the age of 6, went on to a professional career that took her all over the world, and has now opened her own ballet and Pilates studio, Richer Movement, in Water Mill.

The two-time-defending state champion Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Hurricanes were edged by Huntington in the state’s three-day Y swim meet at the Nassau County Aquatic Center this past weekend, but there was no shame in that. Huntington’s squad numbered more than 120, East Hampton’s 65. 

West Hempstead, nine deep, athletic, and well coached, played well in transition on the way to a 75-54 win over the Pierson Whalers for the Long Island Class B title last week.

Formal spring season practices started on Monday. Here’s an early look at East Hampton’s teams, from baseball to lacrosse to track.

The day the Maidstoners softball club hit Havana. And more from the sports pages of yore.

After successfully completing her 27,759-mile solo nonstop sail around the world last Thursday as part of the Global Solo Challenge, Cole Brauer received myriad thank-yous from near and far for having not only inspired a generation of young women (and at the beginning of International Women’s Month, no less) who might not otherwise have taken up a historically male-dominated sport, but also for having inspired everyone — young and old, male and female. 

Cole Brauer, the 29-year-old East Hampton native who has been sailing solo around the world since Oct. 29, arrived at the Global Solo Challenge race’s finish line in A Coruña, Spain, early Thursday morning, as her 40-foot boat, First Light, “would have wanted it,” becoming the first American woman to sail solo nonstop around the world’s three great capes, and the 18th woman to do it overall. 

Hundreds of anglers were saddened to learn last week that Paulie’s Tackle Shop, operating in downtown Montauk for over 20 years, had closed its doors forever.

East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard training, evaluation, and testing in advance of the summer junior lifeguard program for kids 9 to 15 is underway at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter on Sundays. All new and returning participants are required to attend.

Sixty-one youngsters in second through sixth grade turned out for the first Bonac Bolts youth track club’s practice Sunday afternoon at East Hampton High School.

Notes from the glory days of Bonac softball, and a look back at the spread of lacrosse to high schools here.

The outcome of Bridgehampton’s Class D game on Feb. 29 was expected — Smithtown Christian’s senior-heavy lineup is strong, inside and out — as was Pierson High School’s 53-39 win later over Babylon in the Class B tilt.

Cole Brauer, the 29-year-old East Hampton High graduate who has been sailing solo around the world in the Global Solo Challenge race, was as of Monday speeding in advance of a low pressure system bearing strong and unfavorable winds toward the finish line at A Coruna, Spain.

Odds are, you’re not going to see an American bittern, despite its large size. Frankly, the American bittern doesn’t want to be seen; it chose invisibility as its superpower. Still, this is the best time of year to try; make the experience at least as much about the journey as the destination.

Katy Stewart, the late daughter of Brigid Collins and Jim Stewart, was remembered Saturday at an all-day fund-raiser at the Buckskill Winter Club that included an evening ice show and a youth hockey game.

“Teaching people to tap into that strength they have inside is our special sauce,” Sinead FitzGibbon said at her and George Wilson’s Latitude Physical Therapy studio on Sag Harbor’s Bay Street the other day.

As of Monday, Cole Brauer, the 29-year-old sailor who graduated from East Hampton High School in 2012, was within 2,000 miles of finishing the Global Solo Challenge singlehanded race around the world’s three great capes and heading for the Azores.

From glory days of Bonac wrestling to a shocking hoops upset to rugby in Fiji, it happened here.

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) and Bridgehampton High School boys basketball teams have berths in the Feb. 29 playoffs, and Buckskill Winter Club’s ice show Saturday will benefit the Katy’s Courage Foundation.

Sally Jenkins’s “The Right Call” traces athletic success under pressure to an abiding concern with seven foundational elements, discipline and intention among them.

Revisiting happy outcomes for Bridgehampton girls hoops and a Bonac team that clinched a league crown.

Meet the 29-year-old Iranian-born figure-skating instructor at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton.

Bonac's Juan Roque, a 124-pounder, placed sixth on the mats, while boys swimmers took ninth in the county meet at Stony Brook, and Pierson has a new 1,000-point scorer.

Tonight, a banner attesting to Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School’s sole state championship boys basketball team is to be raised midway through the Babylon-Whalers game, and that team’s coach, Bob Vishno, is hoping to be there.

For the 2024 season, fisheries along the Atlantic Coast (except in Chesapeake Bay) will continue to adhere to a one-fish daily limit of a striped bass between 28 to 31 inches. Commercial fishermen will also see a 7-percent reduction in their harvest quotas this year.

After the league meet last week, five East Hampton High School wrestlers qualified to compete in the county meet at Stony Brook University this weekend, while the boys swimming team did well and the tracksters hit the large-schools indoor meet.

The local sporting scene — the week that is to be.

When East Hampton’s Cole Brauer finishes the round-the-world Global Solo Challenge sailing race, she will “make the history books by becoming the first American female ever to complete a solo, nonstop circumnavigation by the three great capes, joining an elite of fewer than 200 humans who have achieved this — ever,” Marco Nannini, organizer of the race, said in a report Friday.

It was a tale of 24 fouls for the boys basketball team of Bridgehampton High, which lost Tuesday for the second time in three tries against Class D rival Smithtown Christian.