Liam Knight, who recently competed with the U.S. team in the world lifesaving championships in Australia, said in an email this week that “it was amazing to see lifesaving as a sport in which people from all over the world engage.”

Last winter Bryan Wish, the coach of the Peconic Hockey Foundation’s U-12 hockey team, said he intended to enter a freshman team in Suffolk County’s high school hockey league come the fall, and, indeed, that has come to pass.

“It wasn’t a beautiful game,” Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, said on leaving the field after last Thursday’s 2-0 loss — the first of the league season for the Bonackers — to Half Hollow Hills West.