Sports

From an epic, 134-mile row to a Tiska teeing off to celebrate a new Gansett back nine, it happened here.

Will Darrell, a former East Hampton High School pitcher who was Vassar’s number-one starter during the college season, is now in his second year playing summer ball with the Sag Harbor Whalers.

Venetia Satow, 18, took up sailing only three years ago, when her family moved full time from England to Sag Harbor. Now competitions are going well both locally and regionally.

On the local fishing scene, things are heading into summer mode, but the fishing has been productive on many fronts.

When the back nine holes at the South Fork Country Club were new, and so was kite surfing.

There are scholar-athletes and then there are scholar-athletes. Benson Edman, an East Hampton High School senior who effectively swept the athletic and academic awards given out here recently to the class of 2025, is probably as good an example of the term as you can find.

For the first time in its 46-year history, Saturday’s Shelter Island 10K was won by a local runner, Ryan Fowkes, a 24-year-old East Hamptoner and Virginia Tech grad student who is making a name for himself nationally in long-distance running. The race’s female competitors were topped by Penelope Greene of Noyac, a SUNY Geneseo all-American, who finished seventh over all in the field of 800-plus.

The iconic movie that premiered in the summer of 1975 and scared swimmers away from the water will once again come to life when Capt. Pat Mundus, daughter of the famed shark hunter Capt. Frank Mundus, will speak at the Cutchogue Library on the 50th anniversary of the film.

A look back at some glory days of Bonac track and field.

East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard program, for ages 9 to 15, will begin this weekend at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett and Kirk Park in Montauk.

It hadn’t been docked since late November after she conked out just southwest of Big Gull Island. Now my Rock Water is back in the water at her berth in Sag Harbor Cove.

“This is where my heart is, this is where my passion is," Erica Velasquez, an Amagansett native and student of yoga, said. “This is what I want to do.”

East End Lacrosse, having started small with Project Most at the Neighborhood House, has grown to include 144 boys and girls from Montauk to Southampton.

A track performance draws a comparison to Roy Hobbs, and a remembrance of a great softball coach — Lou Reale.

I-Tri, a nonprofit that runs free fitness and empowerment programs for adolescent girls, will celebrate its 16th year with a Sweet 16 Gala on Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the LongHouse Reserve.

It’s best to buy fish and shellfish that are locally captured and in season here. Consumers need to be smart if they truly desire freshness.

An Ultimate disc tournament for about 40 veteran players, men and women, ages 50 to 71, was held recently at the John M. Marshall Elementary School field over the course of two days.

Bonac’s girls track team finished its spring season at the state qualifier meet at Comsewogue High School last week with much to be proud of, including two school records and a number of P.R.s

East Hampton High’s unified program in bowling and basketball has been a success for the athletes, their fans, and their peer partners.

Coach Yani Cuesta said the East Hampton High girls team’s third-place finish at the 140-team county AAA track meet Friday, with 90 points, was the best that she could remember.

I relocated the cages of my juvenile oysters to my next-door neighbor’s dock here on the east side of North Haven, where the current runs swift. Oysters grow fast and plump in strong tidal flow.

About 200 well-wishers turned out at the Clubhouse in Wainscott Friday to celebrate Howard and Kenny Wood’s induction into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame the night before.

East Hampton may have lost 4-0 to East Islip in Saturday’s final-round game, but the 18-6 baseball team had an excellent season — its first appearance in a county title game in 30 years being tops among the highlights. 

For the first time in 30 years, an East Hampton High School baseball team will play for a county championship, at 3 p.m. on Saturday at the Middle Country Athletic Complex in Selden versus undefeated East Islip.

As he took photos and gave high-fives at the CardVault by Brady opening at Herrick Park, the legendary QB won me over. He was genuine.

The basketball careers of Howard and Kenny Wood, who are to be inducted into the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame tonight, will be celebrated Friday as well at a party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott from 5 to 7 p.m.

The fifth-and-sixth-grade girls on the East End Lacrosse team went undefeated this spring, finishing 9-0 after wrapping up the season at the Suffolk County Girls Lacrosse Jamboree at Bellport High School over the May 17 and 18 weekend.

It felt like getting whacked in the forehead by a two-by-four. The dramatic increase in the population over Memorial Day weekend was staggering.

Justin Prince, a senior who hasn’t started a game since the second week of the season and who is fourth in East Hampton High’s pitching rotation, answered the call Monday, grinding his way to a 2-1 win over Half Hollow Hills West in a tense contest here that afternoon, a win that set up another showdown at top-seeded Eastport-South Manor Tuesday. 

East Hampton High’s baseball team remained in the county’s AA tournament by virtue of a 15-4 shellacking of Rocky Point here Saturday after having lost 7-6 at Eastport-South Manor, the undefeated top seed, the day before.