Sports

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.

In East Hampton High School’s upset 1-0 field hockey win on Sept. 10 against the perennial powerhouse Miller Place, the important factors were the goalie, Izzy Briand, the defense in general, and the new artificial turf field.

Half a dozen members of Hamptons Run Club, which meets in East Hampton Village, are traveling to Germany this week, joining more than 50,000 international runners for the 51st BMW Berlin Marathon on Sunday.

Though I've done little with rod and reel this season, I’m beginning to focus on the opening for blackfish on Oct. 11 in Long Island Sound and on Oct. 15 elsewhere in New York waters.

Ryan Fowkes, an elite runner from East Hampton who had been chasing the 4-minute mile for years, finally broke through on Aug. 28 with a time of 3:55:49 at the Monmouth Mile in New Jersey.

“The false albacore showed up big time,” Capt. Savio Mizzi of Fishooker Charters out of Montauk reported this week. “It’s a great start to the season.”

Meet a die-hard practitioner of an extreme form of fishing — wetsuiting.

Catching up with Sergey Avramenko, the 40-year-old native of Belarus who has dominated 5K road racing hereabouts, as he prepares to start a new life in Florida as a soccer and running coach.

The Great Bonac road races drew 122 participants to the Springs Firehouse on Labor Day morning. Erik Engstrom, 27, a county cross-country champion when he was at East Hampton High, won the 10K, and Neil Falkenhan, 41, won the 5K.

In the 38 horse-and-rider field Sunday at the Hampton Classic Horse Show, 10 entries hit the water jump in Nick Granat’s challenging course. Jessica Mendoza, an English rider on In the Air, went on to win the jump-off.

As fall approaches, fishing, too, is beginning to change. False albacore should be showing up shortly in and around Montauk, and fluke are pushing out of the bays and have begun their migration to their winter home.

Her Royal Highness Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme of the Netherlands was at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on Friday to learn all she could about American forward-style riding in an effort to popularize the hunter-jumper technique in Europe.

Cristian Candemir, a 30-year-old Montauker, will compete in the Strongman Corporation’s under-200-pound national amateur championships in Las Vegas on Sept. 12 and 13.

The Hampton Classic Horse Show leaped into action at the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton Sunday with leadline classes for 2 through 7-year-olds judged by Joe Fargis, an Olympic gold medalist.

Liga de Gulag, riding high in the 7-on-7 men’s soccer league Tuesday evenings in Herrick Park, experienced its first loss of the season on Aug. 19. Plus a wood bat league update.

We are nearing the peak of hurricane season, which usually arrives in the middle of September, and any that come close to our area in the next few weeks will no doubt affect those who wet a line.

This year’s Ellen’s Run on Sunday in Southampton was up for grabs, and Karl von Sanden, a 23-year-old Uruguayan, took full advantage, leading wire to wire, while Penelope Greene of Noyac, a recent Geneseo grad, was tops among females.

For the fifth year in a row, Northbar Properties (formerly East End Land Planning) won the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball playoff trophy last Thursday, this time defeating Montauk Dental 15-3 to complete a two-game sweep at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

The weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is to open Sunday at the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton with leadline classes from 8 a.m. for 2 through 7-year-olds in the Grand Prix ring.

“We’re not about to lose to those guys three years in a row,” a delighted Mike Lupica said in the joyous — for the Writers — aftermath of Saturday’s Artists and Writers Softball Game at East Hampton’s Herrick Park.