Sports

The East Hampton High golf team’s record continued unblemished as Rich King’s crew handily defeated Pierson last Thursday at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, the Bonackers’ home course.

Sadly, I’ve not been fishing on my boat in well over a month, and my 30-foot Nova Scotia-built craft is high and dry on land while it receives a new stern deck.

The news last week was good for the field hockey and girls cross-country and tennis teams.

Led by Charlie Corwin, the Bonac football team rolled to its second straight victory Saturday at Wyandanch, while boys soccer experienced its first losses of the season.

Brynn Maguire, an East Hampton High School graduate who was twice named to All-America field hockey teams while at Mary Washington, will be inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame on Feb. 5.

“Oysters are incredibly hardy,” said Kim Tetrault, who oversees the Cornell Cooperative operations in Southold. “They can withstand a lot of what Mother Nature throws at them.”

The girls swim team took 10 of 12 events in a season-opener, the boys and girls cross-country teams won, the girls soccer team shut out Wyandanch, and the jayvee footballers beat Hampton Bays.

Down 2-1 at the break, Don McGovern’s charges took stock, regrouped, and came out to dominate play in the second half.

The last time last year’s slow-pitch playoff finalists met, in early July, the Clubhouse beat McMahon’s with relative ease. This time it was a battle royal from start to finish.

Jonathan Gore, whose mother’s family is from East Hampton, finished fourth in the 200-meter final for below-the-knee amputees and seventh in the 100 at the Tokyo Paralympics.

Owning a boat certainly has its ups and downs. Lately, it’s been more of the latter.

Yoga enthusiasts and equestrians alike may find appealing a pair of retreats being organized by a local woman whose professional training and teaching experiences are rooted in both worlds.