The Star's fishing columnist has taken his boat out of the water for the season, but on the fishing scene, the action remains solid, especially for striped bass and blackfish.

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team placed sixth among the 21 schools that vied in the county meet at Stony Brook University Sunday, bettering last year’s 10th-place finish.

On Saturday at LTV Studios in Wainscott, the 22 students from South Fork Performing Arts who acted and sang their hearts out in “The Prom” got a special treat after the show: The musical’s lyricist and book co-author, Chad Beguelin, was in the audience for that night’s production.

The young East Hampton High School football team, the seventh seed in the county’s Division III tournament, was stampeded by the second-seeded Half Hollow Hills West Colts in a quarterfinal matchup on the Colts’ field Saturday, most of the damage in the 52-6 rout being done by a senior quartet led by the Syracuse-bound quarterback, Joseph Filardi.

Our man on the court wraps up his reverie about the mother of all pickup games, and the togetherness it brought about. With a cameo by the great N.B.A. guard Steve Nash.