Sports

The recent heat wave zapped my energy for getting on the Rock Water and wetting a fishing line. But I sucked it up and checked on my lobster traps anyway.

As the school year comes to a close, accolades and achievements continue to roll in for student-athletes here, including college signings and Dellecave Award announcements.

With the arrival of summer comes the return of junior lifeguard programs for kids 9 to 15 run by East Hampton Town and East Hampton Village, both happening on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 to 11 a.m.

Hours before the start of the Shelter Island 10K on Saturday, the Beacon of Hope 5K run/walk in Montauk kicked off as another successful fund-raiser for the Coalition for Women’s Cancers, drawing runners from all over Long Island, New York, and New Jersey to a race boasting some of the best views around.

Benefiting from an over-the-pitch-limit ruling that had resulted in Smile Navy Beach having to forfeit a seeming semifinal playoff win, the Amagansett Fire Department’s 11-and-12-year-old Little League team nevertheless acquitted itself well in a 7-5 loss to Race Lane in the Major League championship game played at Stephen Hand’s Path on June 10.

After a good catch of bluefish, I steered back to port in Sag Harbor, but my engine stalled out a few minutes later. Not good.

Ryan Fowkes, who is racing royalty when it comes to the East End running community, capped his 2024 competitive season with a third-place overall finish in the Shelter Island 10K on Saturday. The top women's division finisher was Angie Rafter of Vernon, Conn., whose photo finish was called "really exciting" by the race director.

The D.E.C. has announced changes to recreational fishing regulations to improve management of protected shark species. Plus, a record blue-claw crab hits the counter at Tight Lines Tackle.

East Hampton High’s Hall of Fame committee has named this year’s inductees: Cole Brauer, who recently sailed solo around the world, Ashley West Harvey, an all-state and all-county cross-country and track star when a student here, and the 1995 county-championship baseball team.

William Huffman, a professional triathlete, won the 43rd Mighty Montauk Triathlon on Saturday for the third year in a row. The next day, the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s Montauk Mile was won by Jason Green of Shelter Island.

Kathy Masterson, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, and a cafeteria-full of parents and friends commended the student-athletes of the class of 2024 at a senior awards dinner on June 4.   

The Pierson and Bridgehampton High School baseball teams lost in close games to upstate opponents in Southeast Regional state playoff games Saturday, the Whalers, a Class C school, by a score of 3-1 to Burke Catholic of Goshen, and the Killer Bees, who are combined in baseball with the Ross School, by a score of 7-5 to the defending state Class D champion, Chapel Field Christian.