Sports

After clinching a playoff spot, Bonac’s boys volleyball team fell to West Islip last week in a matchup their coach predicted would be challenging despite the team’s 7-0 winning streak.

Given the lack of fish news, perhaps it’s a good time to check on the status of our bay scallops. The season, which opens in state waters on Nov. 2, is coming up quickly, but early reports are dour.

While East Hampton’s girls swim team waged two hard-fought battles last week, it lost in both a home opener and away at Half Hollow Hills. 

The Bonac field hockey team returns for a home game on Monday, plus all the rest in high school sports action and the Mashashimuet Park 5K.

East Hampton boys soccer won the inaugural Hampton Coffee Cup Sept. 25, defeating Southampton 2-1 at Westhampton Beach High School.

The East Hampton High Schooll gym on Long Lane is the place to be when the varsity boys volleyball team is in town. They were the first team in the district to clinch a playoff spot, and the atmosphere when they’re killing the ball is simply electric. 

East Hampton’s girls volleyball team is looking for its first win of the season after losing its home opener to Islip, 3-0, on Sept. 14 and two road matches to Westhampton and Rocky Point, 3-0 and 3-1, respectively. But the players haven’t lost their enthusiasm. 

A northeaster that threatens to bring rain, high winds, and coastal flooding this weekend has forced the cancellatiion of two big weekend athletic events that set out from Southampton: the Hamptons Marathon and Half Marathon on Saturday and Tour of the Hamptons, a cycling outing, on Sunday. 

Fishing is quickly changing with the diminishing daylight hours.

In Bonac's 29-28 win over Kings Park at home on Sept. 15, 11-year-old Zoey Falkenhan became the first seventh grader ever to participate in a varsity sport at East Hampton High School. She finished the 2.5-mile reace third overall.

The girls varsity swim team won its first meet of the season, 82-75, in a dominant nonleague victory over Brentwood last week.

The Bonackers opened their football season on the road at Eastport-South Manor on Sept. 9, hanging tough through halftime before falling 28-9.

Bunker. Let’s discuss. And the Fred Golofaro bass and blues surfcasting tourney is in the offing.

The girls varsity tennis team faced a tough opponent in its home opener, playing up a division against Kings Park in a mandatory nonleague match at East Hampton High School on Sept. 8. 

The Bonackers have been so dominant that they have lost only one set so far this season.

The Bonac boys volleyball team swept their first two matches of the season, beating Bayport-Blue Point, 3-0, on the road on Sept. 1 and Center Moriches, 3-0, at home on Sept. 3. 

Early on the morning of Sept. 2, a group of recreational players from East Hampton Indoor Tennis hopped aboard a Hampton Jitney to take in the action at the U.S. Tennis Open in Flushing Meadows to see the current crop of the world’s finest players.

I probably shouldn’t mention it, but the hurricane season has been extremely quiet. And that’s great news for everyone, including fishermen.

Bonac boys and girls varsity soccer burst out of the gate with strong performances in their opening games. The boys beat Babylon 6-1 in their road opener on Sept. 1, and the girls won their home opener 3-1 against Stony Brook on Sept. 2.

Field hockey was East Hampton’s first varsity squad to host a home game during the 2026-27 school year, welcoming Southampton to the turf field at Stephen Hand’s Path on Sept. 2.

With one rider left in the initial round of the $400,000 Longines Hampton Classic 5-Star Grand Prix — the grand finale of the horse show — it looked like Kent Farrington had the title locked down and there would be no jump-off. But McLain Ward, the number 12 in the world, and his horse, Lestro VD Valckenborg, had other ideas.

With the coming of Labor Day and the unofficial start of fall, fishing, too, is beginning to turn the page.

Classes haven’t started yet, but fall sports are in full swing at East Hampton High School.

Drift Wellness, a mobile cold-plunge and sauna business, has been making its way around the Hamptons this summer, setting up everywhere from Barry’s Bootcamp in Wainscott to Hero Volley in Montauk, Jordan’s Run in Sag Harbor, and Hamptons Sweat in Southampton.

Three nights a week, the lights shine brightly over the turf field at Stephen Hand’s Path as soccer players trickle in from their day jobs, eager to blow off some steam and show off their skills.

East Hampton’s new athletic director, Todd Gulluscio, is spending time with Bonac's coaches and players as fall sports practices begin. “For me, it’s embracing the culture that’s here, getting to know everybody, and getting to know what their needs are,” he said.

Playing lacrosse at East Hampton High School, Melina Sarlo never dreamed that the sport she loved would take her around the world, but this summer, she had the opportunity of a lifetime, playing for Argentina in the World Lacrosse Women’s Championship in Tokyo.

A trip to the city to address a bunch of odds and ends provides an opportunity to return to the lower tip of Manhattan to see some familiar sights and find some new surprises.

The Hampton Classic brings its pomp and circumstance to the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton starting Sunday. Joey Wölffer, a lifelong equestrian, offers some pro tips for understanding the competition.

For many in my age group, best known as old, snapper fishing was a summer rite growing up. Not so much today.