Sports

Bonac boys soccer may be the team to beat in Suffolk League V this year.

For those who doubted a seventh grader could compete at the varsity level, Zoey Falkenhan continues to provide proof that she belongs. On the boys’ side, Jasper Samuelson continues to dominate.

East Hampton’s girls tennis team started the postseason with a bang, beating Bay Shore 5-2 in its first team match at home on Oct. 8.

East Hampton High School’s homecoming festivities Saturday include a festival on Saturday will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the grass by the football field. Kickoff for the Bonackers’ football game against West Babylon is at 1 p.m. This year’s theme is U.S.A. The football team is asking fans to wear red, white, and blue. 

Both the Bonackers girls swim team and the Y.M.C.A. Hurricanes made a splash in the pool last week, breaking longstanding records and swimming state-qualifying times.

Squid-heads rejoice! The tasty cephalopods are providing nonstop action on many nights, only a scant mile or two from Montauk.

East Hampton High School pulled out all the stops in a thrilling five-set varsity boys match against Westhampton Beach on Oct. 6 — all in honor of Tom Schultz, the junior varsity coach who is facing down colon cancer.

Cole Brauer, East Hampton High School grad and the first American woman to sail solo nonstop around the world, has just released her first book, “First Light: Sailing Solo but Not Alone.”

Jackson Ronick and Jackson Carney combined for all four touchdowns in East Hampton’s 31-0 rout of Comsewogue on Oct. 3, and the defense was dominant.

The East Hampton tennis courts looked like the site of a party as the girls varsity tennis players celebrated the seniors after beating Longwood 6-1 in their final home match.

Blackfish season is here, and anglers are anxious to hit the water to catch a few of the popular and pugnacious fish. 

East Hampton is now 1-2 after winning big at home Monday over Half Hollow Hills West.

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.