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“I honestly don’t think I missed a fish, as they were taking the bait with such abandon,” Joel Fisher said of the waters off Big Gull Island. “All were in the 14-to-17-inch range. It was a great way to end the season.”

Four 7-on-7 men’s soccer teams, F.C. Tuxpan, Tortorella Pools, the Maidstone Market, and Sag Harbor United, battled it out at East Hampton’s Herrick Park last week in the league’s semifinal playoff round.

Eight East Hampton High School student-athletes aiming to play at the college level were feted last week at the school.

Leslie Czeladko, the men’s 7-on-7 soccer league overseer, said F.C. Tuxpan, Maidstone Market, and Sag Harbor United all had a chance to finish the season in first place as of Monday night.

The plan was to head out on a 90-minute ride to Block Island for blackfish, sea bass, and codfish. When boats were able to get out in recent days, the action was good, especially for blackfish.

In just a few weeks, since the end of October, a crew of 20 has transformed the Buckskill Tennis Club into the Buckskill Winter Club, which on Saturday is to begin its 21st year of operation in East Hampton.

At the 3.3-mile Dock Race in Montauk Sunday, it was a good thing that George Watson had the Elitefeats timers at the finish line in front of his dockside restaurant and bar, for this year’s turnout of more than 400 was double that of the last two years.

Judy Weaver works with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and would like to do similar work here next summer, under the aegis of the Connected Warriors and Bodymind Recalibration programs she founded.

East Hampton High’s 12 entrants did themselves proud at Saturday’s Suffolk County girls swimming meet, placing 10th among the 24 teams that vied at Stony Brook University. Plus news of Pierson field hockey and boys soccer.

An East Hampton High scoreboard is dedicated to Brandon Hayes, and a standout Southampton wrestler looks back.

Last November I landed one bushel of scallops on opening day in and around Shelter Island Sound. The next day, however, I struggled to land barely a quarter bushel. East Hampton Town waters will open to scalloping in two weeks.

Among the middle school teams here that did well this fall were East Hampton’s seventh-and-eighth-grade football team, which began its 5-1 season with 44 players and ended the season with 44 players, and the Springs School’s boys cross-country team, which went undefeated for the second year in a row.