Sports

The best boys tennis team Kevin McConville’s overseen since he began coaching at East Hampton High School five years ago is about to enter the postseason this weekend in the conference individual tournament, with the county team tournament to follow next week.

The May Day 5K, a charitable run and walk initiated by Dylan Cashin and Ryleigh O'Donnell, two East Hampton High School students, will return for its second year on Sunday. Participants will set out from Main Beach at 9 a.m. rain or shine. Registration is $30 in advance at bit.ly/44dOmH4 or $35 on race day.

Noah Avallone, who will turn 16 on May 16, returned briefly to Montauk recently to tally up his snowboarding successes and plan for what lies ahead.

“The striped bass have arrived in Montauk,” said Capt. Rob Aaronson of the Montauk charter boat Oh Brother! Both diamond and bucktail jigs have been the lures of choice for the linesiders. 

Family members, schoolmates, and administrators looked on as Leslie Samuel, a Bridgehampton senior who has had an outstanding track career under East Hampton High’s aegis, signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Hartford, where she will run and study nursing.

East Hampton's girls lacrosse team took two last week, while the South Fork boys squad honored five seniors before a game with league-leading Ward Melville.

The East Hampton High School softball team extended its winning streak to four by mercying Southold-Greenport-Mattituck 18-0 on the North Fork Friday. The Bonackers are now 5-8.

The East Hampton High School boys tennis team continued undefeated in league play last Thursday, easily turning back the Ross School here 6-1.

With East Hampton having stranded nine runners during the first four innings of Friday’s high school baseball game here with Comsewogue, it looked as if the visitors might steal a win, and thus the three-game series that the teams played last week, but, wonderful to tell, the Bonackers came back with a vengeance in the fifth, plating eight runs on the way to a satisfying 9-1 victory that kept them in playoff contention.

Sergey Avramenko, a native of Belarus and a frequent winner of road races here, won the Katy’s Courage 5K in Sag Harbor Saturday. The new season will continue with the May Day 5K at East Hampton Village’s Main Beach on May 7.

Kieran Hildreth, a 13-year-old Montauker who spends about five months of the year in northeastern Vermont, where he is a member of the Burke Mountain Academy Junior Program, continues to clean up in alpine skiing.

Striped bass have shown up en masse in local waters, and many casters are very pleased with their early, bountiful showing. “It’s wonderful to see,” said Ken Morse at Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor.

It’s hard to mistake the great egret: lengthy yellow bill, long black legs, large white body in between. They have sinewy necks, sometimes stretched straight, other times tucked into a squat S, as when they’re flying.

Annemarie Brown started five ninth graders in East Hampton's softball win over Hampton Bays Saturday, while the girls track team blew out Eastport-South Manor to improve to 2-1-1. And more in Bonac sports.

Fueled by Jack Cooper and Tinley Edwards’s face-off wins, the South Fork Islanders boys lacrosse team took a seemingly insurmountable 16-6 lead into the fourth quarter on Saturday, but the next 12 minutes were to be agonizing if you were a South Fork fan.

Friday’s exciting 4-3 win was the third in a row in East Hampton’s league-opening series, and improved the team’s overall record to 6-3.

The Katy’s Courage 5K, the first road race of the season, is to be held Saturday morning in Sag Harbor. Then, at 2 p.m. that day, the two newly built turf Little League fields off Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton are to be dedicated.

The warming rays of the sun have begun to perk up the local fishing scene, with holdover striped bass making the biggest noise in recent days.

Coco Lohmiller, an eighth grader who lit it up for the Pierson High School girls varsity basketball team in the winter, could have played girls lacrosse or softball this spring, but chose instead to stick to her first love, basketball, as a member of a Huntington-based Empire Amateur Athletic Union team.

Flounder is scarce, striped bass are not yet here in sizable numbers, so our columnist set about repairing his lobster traps.

The weather was, for the first time in a while, pleasant on Monday, as was East Hampton High’s 7-1 baseball win here over the Westhampton Beach Hurricanes that day.

The RECenter Hurricanes’ 200-meter medley relay team broke two team records last week in qualifying for the national final in that event in Greensboro, N.C., while the Bonac girls track team was defeated here by Westhampton Beach, a perennial power.

From a Bridgehampton Killer Bees championship run to a 2-mile run at a vineyard, it happened here, sports fans.

Killer Bees take to the diamond, boys lacrosse wins while the girls fight on, and a young softball team stays positive.

The Bonac boys track team opened the season with Comsewogue on March 29 and won 60-58 thanks to the 4-by-400-meter relay team of Isaac Rodriguez, Robert Stewart, Diego Rojas, and Brayan Rivera. The girls' meet with Comsewogue that same day ended in a tie.

The Bonackers pull off a thrilling victory over Sayville in the bottom of the seventh inning.

As of earlier this week, East Hampton High’s boys tennis team, arguably one of the top three in Suffolk County, was 2-2. But with two 7-0 wins against league opponents, things were looking up.

Carl Johnson, who played on three state-championship teams and won four as a coach under Bridgehampton High School’s banner, a feat that remains unique in state basketball history, was inducted into New York’s Basketball Hall of Fame at Glens Falls during the championship weekend two weeks ago.

Despite a “quick, tight turnaround,” in the coach Yani Cuesta’s words, East Hampton High’s girls track team began the season here last Thursday with a 76-64 win over Hauppauge.

The South Fork Islanders, the combined boys lacrosse team based at Southampton High School that has nine East Hamptoners on it, debuted here Friday in a nonleaguer against the Stony Brook School, and found the going easy.