Sports

The season for blackfish opened Friday for those who fish in Long Island Sound. Like calamari? Then head to Montauk. The night bite has been pretty consistent of late.

The Shelter Island Fall 5K, a run and walk to raise awareness and money for the North and South Fork Breast Health Coalitions and Lucia’s Angels, happens on Saturday morning, starting from Crescent Beach.

East Hampton’s 7-6-0 field hockey team remained in the playoff hunt as of earlier this week. Its coaches, Danielle Schuster and her sister, Nicole Ficeto, said they thought their charges could make the postseason “provided we play with intensity.” 

Had East Hampton's Alex Davis received the blocking he needed during last Thursday’s 27-21 loss here to Westhampton Beach, he, rather than the Hurricanes’ triple threat, Brody Schaffer, would probably have grabbed the Newsday headline the morning after. 

East Hampton’s girls tennis, seeded 14th among the 19 vying in the county’s large schools team tournament, is to play 19th-seeded East Islip at home Thursday afternoon. The Ross School is second-seeded in the county’s small schools tournament. East Hampton’s boys soccer teams still hoping for a playoff spot. And its boys volleyball team has its fingers crossed too.

A league championship will be up for grabs Thursday as the East Hampton High School girls swimming team takes on Sayville-Bayport, the defending League III champion, at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter. Both teams are taking 2-0 league records into the meet, which is to begin at 5:30. 

East Hampton’s 1995 county small schools championship baseball team will be inducted into the high school Hall of Fame Saturday morning along with the sailor Cole Brauer and the runner Ashley West Harvey. Then, after the homecoming parade, a family festival and football game at Herrick Park will follow.

Jim Nicoletti, who is to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame the morning of Oct. 19, wants all who played baseball here from the 1950s to the present to attend a Bonac Baseball Through the Ages gathering at the Clubhouse in Wainscott the night before homecoming.

Looking at my log book, I’ve only fished three times on her this year. That’s pretty pathetic. I made about a dozen runs to check on the lobster traps, but I can’t recall fishing so little in my life. 

Of East Hampton High’s dozen fall sports teams only one, girls swimming, led its league as of Monday. Craig Brierley’s crew was 2-0 in League III competition and 3-3 over all as of that day. 

East Hampton’s football team, after sailing along at 20-7 going into the fourth quarter of Saturday night’s game at Islip, wound up losing as the home team’s quarterback, Brady Nash, ran for three touchdowns in the final period, thus sending the stunned Bonackers home on the short end of a 28-20 score. 

Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High School’s boys soccer team, said this week that the team, whose record stood at 5-3-1 as of Monday, was “in the hunt for a playoff spot.”