Sports

It was by most accounts one of the best football seasons in Bonac history — and by all accounts, the best in recent memory. The East Hampton football team saw its historic run come to an end on Friday in the Suffolk County Division III semifinals, losing to Sayville 28-14. 

The Dock Closing Race, from the Montauk Post Office to the Dock restaurant on Montauk Harbor, has become one of the premier 5Ks on Long Island and symbolizes the end of the season for the popular bar and restaurant. 

In Montauk this fall, the girls field hockey team put on quite a show, finishing the season 9-0-1 to go undefeated for the first time since 2018.

The opening of bay scallop season in state waters on Nov. 3 was a particularly sad day for me. 

East Hampton’s boys cross-country team had a fine finish in the Section XI championships at Sunken Meadow State Park, with its top runner, Jasper Samuelson, a sophomore, coming in sixth.

Five swimmers qualified to compete at the New York State championship meet in Rochester on Nov. 21 and 22.

East Hampton scored six touchdowns in a dominant 48-7 win over Islip in the Suffolk County Division III quarterfinals on Friday. It was the first playoff victory in Coach Joe McKee’s 29-year career, and the first for Bonac since 1994. 

The East Hampton boys golf team ended its season with an 11-2 record, its second loss coming at the hands of Westhampton Beach in the quarterfinals of the Suffolk County playoffs on Oct. 29.

Several standout South Fork runners were among the more than 59,000 athletes hitting the New York City streets under bright blue skies and temperatures in the mid to upper 50s on Sunday.

Can someone please turn off the fan? It's been wind, wind, and more wind this fall. And anglers looking to wet a line are beyond frustrated with the blustery conditions.

Once upon a time, birders might arm themselves with a simple pad and pencil before they tromped off into the woods. When birding, you could touch the sacred, experience wonder, get lost on a loop trail. Not knowing was stimulating. With Merlin, that stimulus is gone.

The East Hampton/Bridgehampton football team earned a trip to the Suffolk County Division III playoffs last Thursday with a 35-0 win over Rocky Point and will face Islip on Friday night.

By virtue of their five-man average in the Section XI Division championships at Sunken Meadow State Park Monday, the East Hampton’s boys cross-country team qualified for the Suffolk County championships.

The Rockwater is fueled up and ready for blackfish season.

Lillie Weiss and Lola Dangin are a powerhouse pair who had an undefeated season playing doubles together.

East Hampton High’s girls swimmers endured an intense week of competition last week, with a win over Sayville and a loss to Connetquot.

East Hampton High’s golf team owns a 9-1 regular-season record — good for a first-place tie with Westhampton Beach — and is riding a nine-game winning streak into the county team tournament, which is to begin Thursday at 3 p.m. at the Amagansett Golf Club. 

Joe McKee, East Hampton’s head football coach, had nothing but good things to say about his team in its 31-28 loss to West Islip High School on Saturday. 

Despite the name of this column that has run for so many decades in The Star, I have to admit that I’ve not been on the water much this year. Those who have report that blackfish, porgies, and seabass abound.

East Hampton’s football Bonackers beat Westhampton Beach last weekend for the first time since 2009. And things are starting to click for the young boys volleyball team.

Bonac’s freshmen rose to the top in the 2.5K at the Suffolk Officials Invitational Saturday, and a sophomore placed third in the varsity 5K.

Brewathlon, in which teams of four will face off in a run, row, and bike race for the Old Montauk Athletic Club, will take place on Saturday beginning at the Montauk Brewing Company on South Erie Avenue. Start time is noon. 

The Columbus Day weekend northeaster obviously put squidding, and all fishing for that matter, on a temporary hold. But the squid should still be around in solid quantities as the seas settle down this week.

The combined East Hampton and Pierson girls swim team met two tough opponents in the water over the last two weeks, but even in close losses to Ward Melville and Half Hollow Hills there were top-notch performances.

The sporting week ahead, including Saturday’s Shelter Island 5K and the Montauk Brewathlon.

An invitational at Lehigh University provided some personal bests and memorable moments for East Hampton's cross-country runners.

Next month, Maxim Bellenoue will become likely the first East Hampton High School student ever to run in the New York City Marathon, and will be among the youngest of the more than 55,000 runners expected to take part. 

A group of filmmakers, runners, walkers, and spectators will meet at Gubbins Perfect Fit in East Hampton Friday at 8 a.m. for a community 5K run and walk to Main Beach and back that is connected to the Hamptons International Film Festival screening of the documentary “Remaining Native.”

Increasingly stronger and more persistent winds, especially from the northeast or northwest, portend that there really are only a few weeks of fishable days remaining. Time is getting short, inshore and especially offshore.

All the high school sports competition for the week ahead.