Sports

To take advantage of the extra cross-training opportunity that otherwise might not have worked with preseason scheduling, Kevin Barry entered a few athletes from his East Hampton High School boys cross-country team.

Thanks to Covid-19, the two teams competed online, instead of at East Hampton's Herrick Park, to see who could raise more money for local nonprofit organizations.

The decade-old Wounded Warrior Project's Solider Ride, for which East Enders come together every July, will look different this summer in light of Covid-19, but the tradition itself will soldier on.

Truth Training is hosting an online kettlebell-swinging challenge to benefit Project Most starting Aug. 3.

Covid-19 has struck out the 2020 East Hampton Artists and Writers Softball Game, originally scheduled for Aug. 15 at Herrick Park. The charity game's organizers have decided it is not yet safe enough to play, but will continue to raise money for the four nonprofits the game supports.

The New York State Public High School Athletic Association postponed the start of fall sports for high schoolers by about a month, from Aug. 24 to Sept. 21, and canceled regional and state championship events.

Sam O'Hara, a 15-year-old who lives in Rye, N.Y., and East Hampton, and who plays golf at the Maidstone Club, and Mia Sessa, a 16-year-old who plays at the East Hampton Golf Club, won the Long Island Boys and Girls Championship at the Smithtown Landing Golf Club on June 24.   

"The Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick, whose retirement house in Noyac, not far west of Trout Pond, still stands, is to be among those inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 1.   

There are plans to play the big charity softball game in Herrick Park on Aug. 15, but it is by no means a sure thing. Leading up to it, the two sides will engage in an online competition to see which team can raise the most money for the game's beneficiaries.

​​​​​​​Rather than traverse the accustomed Montauk Firehouse to Lions Field route along Edgemere Road, this year's Montauk Mile participants were asked to run, jog, or walk the distance wherever they wanted over a two-week period, and to submit their times to the race's sponsor, the Old Montauk Athletic Club.

Many businesses have struggled to survive during the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic shutdown, but one niche industry is witnessing solid sales. Bait and tackle shops around Long Island have seen a significant uptick in business as more people take up fishing as a social distancing pastime.

Ally Friedman, who for the past three years at the Ross School in East Hampton has been using tennis as a vehicle through which to boost her 7 through 12-year-old female students' self-esteem, health, and resilience, is one of seven young people from across the country to have won a Billie Jean King Youth Leadership Award, which includes a $10,000 scholarship.