Sports

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.”

Recently here, the East Hampton Middle School baseball team enjoyed an undefeated season, the youth lacrosse program continued to have success, and, in Little League play, two no-hitters were pitched.

Tim Garvin, the South Fork Country Club’s popular director of golf and club administration, was recently honored by the Professional Golfers’ Association’s metropolitan section for having been an outstanding mentor to more than a dozen assistant professionals.

Over the objections of Ed Collum, Kate Collum Gibbons, and other members of their family, which has lived next to East Hampton High School since before it was built in 1970, the East Hampton School Board on Tuesday resolved that lights will be installed at the turf athletic field. According to the board’s resolution, Musco LED towers would be installed at the edges of the field, allowing athletes to play games into the evening hours.

Out in Montauk, anglers for striped bass and bluefish are returning to the docks with sore arms. Porgy fishing has also been consistent, with fish up to three pounds.

The Robert J. Aaron Memorial Mighty Montauk Triathlon and the Montauk Mile are to be contested this weekend, the triathlon Saturday morning at 7:30, the run on Sunday starting at 10:30.

From the softball diamond to the track, a trip down a sporting memory lane.

Seven Black South Fork basketball coaches, outstanding mentors from Bridgehampton, Southampton, and East Hampton, who, while growing up, were in turn mentored by outstanding coaches of a previous generation, were honored at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center on Saturday for their “many efforts which have changed lives on and off the court.”