Sports

A grass-court pro-am at Buckskill on Saturday, while Sunday morning brings the Firecracker 8K in Southampton.

Molly Cuevas, a former all-American field hockey player at Adelphi, finished the last leg of her 3,000-plus-mile cross-country fund-raising run at around 10 a.m. Saturday morning at the Circle in Montauk, where she was greeted by a crowd of about 50.

A look back at the baseball exploits of East Hampton's Ross Gload, plus the Potatohampton 10K follies.

Richie Daunt, the wiry, hard-punching fighter from Montauk, two for two in recent bouts, is looking forward to a regional tournament early next month. The winners are to advance to the nationals, whose winners, in turn, are to go on to the Olympic trials.

Molly Cuevas, 24, a former All-American field hockey player at Adelphi, can also say come Saturday that she is a cross-country runner, inasmuch as she will have run in the course of three months 3,000-plus miles from Santa Monica, Calif., to Montauk.

“It’s a rite of summer,” said Scott Barter as about 150 youngsters ages 9 through 15 gathered on “the mound” at Amagansett’s Indian Wells Beach Saturday morning, where they were welcomed by John Ryan Sr. and John Ryan Jr. to the 2019 junior lifeguard season.

The Little League tournament is here, plus plenty of slow-pitch in the coming week.

The postseason slate of District 36 Little League playoff games began last weekend, with good results insofar as East Hampton’s traveling all-star boys teams were concerned.

Lots of slow-pitch softball and men's 7-on-7 soccer in the week ahead.

Two coaches, Bill Herzog and Kathy McGeehan, two individual athletes, Emily Hren and Nicole Fierro, and the 1965-66 boys basketball and 1993 field hockey teams are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame at homecoming on Oct. 5.

Bonac high school games will be live-streamed come the fall, and the Pierson (Sag Harbor) baseball team's postseason run ends in the semifinals of the state tourney.

The weather was about as good as it’s ever been at the Shelter Island 10K Saturday, bright with a fortifying wind out of the southwest, a good day for the 1,000-plus finishers.