Sports

Earl Hopson, a wide receiver in football, shooting guard in basketball, and all-county long-jumper, Erin Bock Abran, an all-county field hockey and softball player, and Kim Valverde-Solis, a four-time all-county girls volleyballer, are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame in the fall.

Things were looking up on the local diamonds last week, from Little Leaguers up to the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League’s Sag Harbor Whalers, who are hosting a number of day camps and clinics this summer.

James Bradley, 16, has qualified for the U.S.G.A.’s national junior amateur in South Carolina in late July, and Michael Clifford-Levy, 15, won the Long Island Golf Association’s boys championship in Smithtown on June 21.

East Hampton’s 11-and-12-year-old baseball and softball all-star teams are on quests to win District 36 tournaments, and good things are expected.

Two natives of Ethiopia now living in the Bronx were the male and female winners of Saturday’s 44th Shelter Island 10K. Earlier that day, a native of Belarus who lives in Southampton topped the men’s field in the Beacon of Hope 5K at the Montauk Lighthouse.

Junior lifeguard training for children 9 to 14 begins this weekend in East Hampton, Amagansett, and Montauk. The programs not only give kids the training they need to become lifeguards in the future, but they also teach them “the skills to be safe in the ocean,” according to the East Hampton Town website.

On the night of June 14 almost 100 East Hampton High School athletes, which is to say about half the class of 2023, were honored at a senior awards dinner in the school’s cafeteria.

This is the best time of year to observe chimney swifts locally as they burst through the skies over our villages. You’ll never see a chimney swift land, or even come close to street level. In their daily circuits, they can fly 500 miles a day in pursuit of something like 12,000 flying insects.

Given all of the supersize stripers now in Montauk, it’s still not too late to enter the popular Montauk Surf Masters Spring Shootout, which concludes on July 9. Bigger fish are clearly on the feed here.

There were repeats in last weekend’s Montauk races, with William Huffman of New York City’s powerful Full Throttle triathlon team winning Saturday’s Robert J. Aaron memorial triathlon, and with Ryan Fowkes, coming off a great cross-country and track season at George Washington University, winning Sunday’s Montauk Mile.

The Shelter Island 10K, in its 44th year, and the Beacon of Hope 5K in Montauk, in its second, are to be contested on Saturday. Runners could double-dip if they wanted to.

“A lot of big bass to over 50 pounds are around,” observed Capt. Savio Mizzi of Fishhooker Charters. “Fishing is literally off the hook.”