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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.

Cardinals, among our earliest singer each spring, are so familiar you might forget to appreciate them, but a century ago they were rare in New York.

East Hampton High’s boys tennis team lost 6-1 at top-ranked Ward Melville in a nonleaguer on March 21, while the girls flag football team debuted at William Floyd on Friday, losing 31-13.

At the world amateur Strongman championships held recently in Columbus, Ohio, Montauk’s Cristian Candemir acquitted himself well in the lightweight division.

“We’re definitely aiming for the playoffs this year,” Annemarie Brown, the varsity softball coach, said of her team, which will play 19 games starting at Sayville on Wednesday.

As balls rocketed back and forth at East Hampton High School’s tennis courts during Friday’s practice, the coach, Kevin McConville, said this year’s team is the best he’s had since Johnny De Groot’s group in 2019. Perhaps even better.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, the Hurricanes, repeated as New York State Y.M.C.A. champions at Erie Community College in Buffalo last weekend.

A girls flag football team is debuting this spring at East Hampton High School, which is particularly fitting because two East Hampton graduates, Teresa Schirrippa and Crystal Winter, have represented the United States in international flag football competition.

Turnout for East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard and lifeguard training programs, which kicked off on March 5, was on the low side. About a hundred kids and teens had signed up, and 75 came for the youth evaluation and training, while only eight came for the first session of lifeguard training.