Sports

The best-of-three county Class C series opener went the Pierson Whalers' way in a 6-5 nail-biter.

Three South Fork high school baseball teams, East Hampton, Pierson, and Bridgehampton, have made the county playoffs. Bonac’s girls lacrosse team narrowly missed out.

Seeded sixth in the county's Class A double-elimination bracket, East Hampton beat Comsewogue 13-5 here on May 17. It was possibly the first playoff win since the Ross Gload days of the 1990s. Bonac exited the playoffs the next day.

The Bonackers, with Will Darrell, their strong left-hander, pitching the whole way, prevailed 3-1 in the baseball game played with Eastport-South Manor here on Wedneday, earning Vinny Alversa and Henry Meyer's crew a berth in the county playoffs, which are to begin Tuesday.

Three senior East Hampton High School athletes — Jack Dickinson, Cami Hatch, and Claire McGovern — as well as two adults, Kim Covell and Tom McGlade, were honored by the Old Montauk Athletic Club at a dinner at the Springs Tavern Friday evening.

More than 800 participants turned out for Sunday’s May Day 5K here, a race founded last year by two East Hampton High School track teammates, Dylan Cashin and Ryleigh O’Donnell, to raise money for organizations addressing mental health problems.

Striped bass limits will be changing again this year, as the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and its Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board voted last week to approve an emergency measure to lower the upper end of the striped bass slot size to 31 inches.

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 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. 

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.

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.