Sports

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.

According to Long Island high school football hype, Saturday’s game against Smithtown West was not a contest East Hampton was supposed to win. East Hampton defied the hype.

More than 2,800 athletes descended on Southampton Village on a clear and virtually windless Saturday morning for the Hamptons Marathon, Half-Marathon, and 5K.

While the season to harvest bay scallops opens in state waters at sunrise on Nov. 3, unfortunately the once-plentiful bivalve again experienced a die-off toward the end of summer. 

At a hot Berlin Marathon, members of the Hamptons Run Club turned in strong performances, including a personal best, and raised money for the American Cancer Society.

The defense is leading East Hampton High School’s girls varsity soccer team to its best start in nearly a decade, with Gabby Montes, Melanie Vizcaino, Samantha Leon, and Meera Kelley playing “lights-out defense” in Bonac’s 1-0 home-field win over Riverhead on Friday. 

Alex Davis returned from an early-season hamstring injury just in time to lift East Hampton High School’s football team to a 50-10 homecoming win over Wyandanch on Friday night at the Fred W. Thiele Jr. Recreational Facility. 

For the East Hampton and Bridgehampton footballers, Saturday’s 35-10 win over Half Hollow Hills West was everything a coach could want from his players. 

The 2025 season hasn’t quite gone the way that Don McGovern, East Hampton’s boys soccer coach, had hoped it would. The team, which is usually a playoff contender, was still looking for its first win after playing seven games through Saturday. 

The Hamptons Marathon and Half-Marathon will bring scores of people to Southampton Village on Saturday for races that begin near Agawam Park.

The current hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our advanced technologies, much in nature remains unpredictable.

The week ahead in high school sports here.

With Friday’s East Hampton High School homecoming football game against Wyandanch taking place at 6 p.m. under the lights at the town’s new turf field on Stephen Hand’s Path, on-site parking will be limited.