Sports

East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, the League VI champion, is to play seventh-seeded West Islip here in a first-round match today at 2 p.m., plus more sporting news, from field hockey to cross-country.

With interest in baseball here surging “through the roof,” in Tim Garneau’s words, he and other active community members are pushing to have a four-row, three-section, 132-seat grandstand built on leveled ground behind home plate at East Hampton High School’s varsity field in time for the spring season.

East Hampton High’s homecoming football win over Eastport-South Manor Saturday afternoon was rendered all the more dramatic owing to the fact that the team’s head coach, Joe McKee, was struck by a truck that morning as he was walking across Newtown Lane.

Cristian Candemir, a 29-year-old Montauker and Starbucks barista, is in training for the inaugural America’s Strongest Man under-200 championships in Orlando, Fla., next month.

As of earlier this week, the East Hampton boys volleyball team was riding a five-game winning streak, and its coach was anticipating making the playoffs. Plus much more from the world of Bonac sports, from cross-country to girls tennis.

The East Hampton High School boys soccer team is now in contention to win the League VI championship, and the field hockey squad continued on the upswing by beating Shoreham-Wading River, which came in at 11-1.

Before the water turns to ice here on the East End, the local fishing scene seems to be holding up just fine. Bass, bluefish, tuna, sea bass, porgies, and blackfish are hungry and on the feed.

Some of the best collegiate golfers in the country vied in the Maidstone Club’s fourth 54-hole intercollegiate tournament over the course of two sunny days last week, one of them shooting a club-record 60 on the beautiful links-style course.

Bonac girls volleyball has won four straight, girls swimming remains undefeated, and the J.V. football team crushed Comsewogue here on Saturday.

The closing of Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor is most unfortunate. Small mom-and-pop, one-man businesses like Ken Morse’s establishment continue to be squeezed out because of high rents. It’s a troublesome trend that has become too frequent here.

East Hampton High’s boys soccer team went up against league-leading East Islip here Saturday, and in a physical game triumphed 1-0 thanks to an early goal by John Bustamente.

From a homecoming celebration of 75 years of Bonac football to an epic hot dog eating contest, it happened here, sports fans.

There was doubly good news Saturday afternoon: It didn’t rain and East Hampton High School’s football team ran through Amityville’s line like a knife through warm butter.

East Hampton High’s teams are going full tilt, with field hockey losing its first game of the season, girls swimming beating West Babylon, and boys soccer defeating Eastport-South Manor, among other results.

“Yeah, the weather gods have not been cooperating of late,” Ken Morse at Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor said of the slow fishing. “The winds were relentless, but it appears things are finally going to calm down.”

Triathletes taking part in Event Power’s triathlon festival in Montauk on Sunday saw the distance swims canceled because of high bacteria levels, but still competed in bike and run legs.

They ran 48 miles over the course of 48 hours, with cat naps in between four-mile jogs, raising more than $145,000 for the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Parkinson’s disease research work.

Field hockey, undefeated as of Monday, continued to give Bonac plenty to cheer about, defeating Sayville 2-1 here last week, while boys soccer bageled Westhampton Beach 4-0. The football team, however, lost its homecoming game with Harborfields.

Rick Slater would have quarterbacked the 1978 East Hampton High School football team, but three “taxpayer revolt” budget defeats torpedoed the team. “It’s still a nightmare,” he said.

Just as Tropical Storm Ophelia ushered out summer, Ken Morse, the man behind Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor, is moving out — to Southampton.

Ron White, the former president of the Bridgehampton School Board who also served as the varsity boys basketball head coach for six years, is stepping down from the board, according to a meeting agenda put out by the school on Wednesday afternoon.

Despite the foul weather, almost a thousand runners turned out for the Hamptons Marathon, Half-Marathon, and 5K at the Southampton Intermediate School Saturday. The races were won, respectively, by Jake Gallagher, 36, of Larchmont, N.Y., in 2 hours, 43 minutes, and 45 seconds, Jordan Daniel, 28, of Westhampton Beach in 1:08:43, and Danny Cohen, 24, of Solon, Ohio, in 18:01. 

Last week was an especially good one for East Hampton High’s girls swimming, boys soccer, and field hockey teams.

There was a lot going on in September of 1998, including the day cricket came to Southampton.

There’s bad news for anglers in NOAA’s analysis of its annual recreational fishing survey.

George Cafiso is about to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame for the second time, as a member of its 1953-54 boys basketball team. Here he talks about that and the 1952 football team.

East Hampton’s boys soccer team had its first loss of the season on Friday to Comsewogue, but the players were quick to shake it off, routing New Rochelle 7-1 in a nonleague game played at Jericho High School on Saturday.

Adam Nagler has raised $175,000 to support mental health by logging 3,500 offshore stand-up paddling miles over the past four summers, ending his latest solo ocean-borne trek, the Wicked 1000, at Vanderveer Marina’s launching ramp at the head of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton. 

If you fish in saltwater in New York and are over the age of 16, you must possess a free Department of Environmental Conservation marine registry permit. But now the marine registry may soon cease to exist, as the D.E.C. is considering a fee-based license for fishing in the state’s marine waters.

Scoring in every quarter, the East Hampton High School football team cruised to a 32-8 home-opening victory over Rocky Point Saturday. Hauppauge is next.