Sports

Colin Ruddy, coming off his sophomore year pitching for Monmouth University in New Jersey, reflects on the solid foundation he got pitching for Bonac, and what’s next for him on the mound.

Tim Garvin and the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett played host last Thursday to 66 young golfers and 22 pros from all over the Island in the Met PGA Long Island Pro Junior championship, a best-ball competition contested by foursomes.

I know that the East End is a well-known hot spot. I realize that nothing stays the same, but I miss the more simple days when courtesy, respect, and kindness ruled the road and water. Is it too much to ask for today?

As the school year comes to a close, accolades and achievements continue to roll in for student-athletes here, including college signings and Dellecave Award announcements.

Family members and friends of Roy Lee Mabery will be on hand Saturday to rededicate the newly renovated and relocated basketball courts at East Hampton’s Herrick Park in his memory.

F.C. Tuxpan, the runner-up to Maidstone Market in last fall’s 7-on-7 men’s soccer league’s championship game, has taken the early lead in the summer standings. The hourlong games are played at East Hampton’s Herrick Park on Tuesday evenings.

The recent heat wave zapped my energy for getting on the Rock Water and wetting a fishing line. But I sucked it up and checked on my lobster traps anyway.

With the arrival of summer comes the return of junior lifeguard programs for kids 9 to 15 run by East Hampton Town and East Hampton Village, both happening on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 to 11 a.m.

Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor celebrated its 25th anniversary last week with a block party of sorts behind the Bridge Street studio.

Ryan Fowkes, who is racing royalty when it comes to the East End running community, capped his 2024 competitive season with a third-place overall finish in the Shelter Island 10K on Saturday. The top women's division finisher was Angie Rafter of Vernon, Conn., whose photo finish was called "really exciting" by the race director.

Benefiting from an over-the-pitch-limit ruling that had resulted in Smile Navy Beach having to forfeit a seeming semifinal playoff win, the Amagansett Fire Department’s 11-and-12-year-old Little League team nevertheless acquitted itself well in a 7-5 loss to Race Lane in the Major League championship game played at Stephen Hand’s Path on June 10.

Hours before the start of the Shelter Island 10K on Saturday, the Beacon of Hope 5K run/walk in Montauk kicked off as another successful fund-raiser for the Coalition for Women’s Cancers, drawing runners from all over Long Island, New York, and New Jersey to a race boasting some of the best views around.

After a good catch of bluefish, I steered back to port in Sag Harbor, but my engine stalled out a few minutes later. Not good.

William Huffman, a professional triathlete, won the 43rd Mighty Montauk Triathlon on Saturday for the third year in a row. The next day, the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s Montauk Mile was won by Jason Green of Shelter Island.

Kathy Masterson, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, and a cafeteria-full of parents and friends commended the student-athletes of the class of 2024 at a senior awards dinner on June 4.   

East Hampton High’s Hall of Fame committee has named this year’s inductees: Cole Brauer, who recently sailed solo around the world, Ashley West Harvey, an all-state and all-county cross-country and track star when a student here, and the 1995 county-championship baseball team.

The D.E.C. has announced changes to recreational fishing regulations to improve management of protected shark species. Plus, a record blue-claw crab hits the counter at Tight Lines Tackle.

Suffolk County’s boys tennis singles champion, Eduardo Menezes of the Ross School, made it to the quarterfinal round of the state tourney over the weekend on the U.S. Open courts in Flushing, Queens.

The Pierson and Bridgehampton High School baseball teams lost in close games to upstate opponents in Southeast Regional state playoff games Saturday, the Whalers, a Class C school, by a score of 3-1 to Burke Catholic of Goshen, and the Killer Bees, who are combined in baseball with the Ross School, by a score of 7-5 to the defending state Class D champion, Chapel Field Christian.

Dylan Cashin, an East Hampton High School senior who is to attend the United States Naval Academy in the fall, set a school record Friday as she finished third in the 1,500-meter racewalk in 6 minutes and 57.65 seconds. The old record, of 7:14.82, was held by Nina Piacentine, a 2016 graduate.

The race season here, from 5Ks to triathlons to and bay and ocean swimming competitions, will begin Saturday with the Robert J. Aaron memorial Olympic-distance triathlon in Montauk, to be followed on Sunday by the Montauk Mile.

In local waters there has been a decrease of kelp, much of which was typically found from the east side of Gardiner’s Island all the way to Montauk. A new project looks to change this.

The East Hampton Indoor/Outdoor Club has the racket sports covered now that it offers padel, a fast-moving four-wall doubles game combining the serving and volleying of tennis with squash’s off-the-wall shots.

If you’ve been to a high school basketball game, a tennis match, or a 5K on the South Fork any time in the last 45 years, you’ve probably seen The East Hampton Star’s sports editor, Jack Graves, on the sidelines, faithfully scribbling notes. But before Graves took over the sports desk back in 1979, he was The Star’s sole full-time reporter for about a decade and had begun his long-running column,“Point of View.”

From the Montauk Rugby Club toughing it out in the top 10, to a first season of Bonac lacrosse, it happened here.

Fishing-wise, things are much better than my 62-year-old body or my Jeep Wrangler’s transmission.

The Ross School boys tennis team won the county’s small schools tournament at Smithtown East High School Friday, besting Bayport-Blue Point, last year’s finalist, by a score of 4-3.

A rundown of sporting action in the week ahead, from tennis and baseball playoffs to an awards dinner.

The East Hampton High School girls track team scored 56 points, its highest total ever, at the Suffolk County meet on May 20. The boys, a small team that is rebuilding, fared well too.

From the birth of East Hampton lacrosse to a look at some past track and field glories (the SATs be damned).