I had done some fishing a few days earlier at Jessup’s Neck, and the bluefish were hungry, taking full advantage of my four-ounce diamond jig. I had my fill of fish, so I got on my motorcycle.

The Bad News Bubs, for the third straight year, and the Jetty Grinders, coming out of the losers brackets, won the A and B championships in the four-day Travis Field memorial coed slow-pitch softball tournament held from last Thursday through Sunday at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

Paddlers for Humanity and Hoops 4 Hope, two stalwart nonprofit organizations that work to better the lives of children here and abroad, are to have fund-raising events this weekend.

Two East Hampton High School coaches, Dan White and Kevin McConville, whose teams handily won league titles in the past school year — boys basketball in White’s case and boys tennis in McConville’s — are bowing out.