Sports

Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton High School's best indoor and outdoor runner, and Rebecca Kuperschmid, number-one on the girls tennis team and a softball stalwart, were cited during a senior awards ceremony on June 12 at the Clubhouse. 

The Robert J. Aaron Memorial Triathlon in Montauk Saturday was won by Matthew Connelly of New York City, who made sure this time to go out first on the 10K run, the final leg of the event, content to let the pace car lead the way.

There’s a whole lotta slow-pitch in the week ahead, plus some men’s 7-on-7 soccer, too.

Of the running legends coming to Shelter Island this weekend, a list headed by Joan Benoit-Samuelson and Bill Rodgers, two of them, Benji Durden and Kyle Heffner, who made the Olympic marathon team to nowhere in 1980, will be on The Rock for the first time.

East Hampton High's spring sports awards, plus a local competitor in Pitch, Hit & Run at Citi Field.

Ryan Fowkes and Ava Engstrom, East Hampton High School’s top long-distance runners, are to have their names engraved on the John F. Conner Cup for having won, by handy margins, the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s Montauk Mile Sunday. 

Theresa Roden of I-Tri awarded, two races in Montauk this weekend, and a Project Most tennis benefit Saturday at Hampton Racquet.

East Hampton High’s track season wound up Saturday at Comsewogue High School, south of Port Jefferson, the scene of the county’s state qualifier meet over two days.

Ally Friedman, in her fifth year as a Ross Tennis Academy student, with one more to go, has overseen during the past six months a free tennis-based mentoring program for about a dozen girls here between the ages of 7 and 10.

From the Montauk Triathlon and Montauk Mile to the East Hampton High School athletic awards

On second thought, East Hampton High School is going to go with a junior varsity football team only in the fall, Joe McKee, the varsity’s head coach, announced Monday.

The race, coming up on June 15, has always “combined the excitement of an elite field with the everyday runner.” So far, more than 1,000 have signed up.