Sports

Well into the summer season, the East Hampton 7-on-7 men’s soccer and men’s slow-pitch softball leagues’ defending champions, the East Hampton Soccer Club and McMahon’s, find themselves with a lot of ground to make up.

The Hampton Youth Triathlon at Long Beach in Noyac on Saturday had 119 finishers. The Montauk Sprint Triathlon, the next day, had 313.

A run-swim-run event to benefit the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s junior and senior entries in August’s national lifeguard tournament in Hermosa Beach, Calif., is to be held tomorrow at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach, and, on Saturday, the first I-Tri youth triathlon in three years is to be contested at Long Beach in Noyac.

The North Shore Nationals became the Little League District 36 champions Sunday as they defeated East Hampton’s 9-and-10-year-old boys team 6-3 in Rocky Point.

At the culmination of the popular Montauk Mercury Grand Slam Fishing Tournament, Capt. Skip Rudolph, a third-generation fisherman who has made his living on the water for decades, will be celebrated as the Montauk Fishing Legend of the Year.

Least terns are properly named, they’re our smallest tern, and thin. They slice through the air, buoyant and bouncy, on clipped wingbeats, patrolling the waters below. They’re very vocal. Their call is high-pitched and squeaky, with a sharp grating quality. Learn it, and you will often hear them before you see them.

Facing a win-or-go-home situation at the Pantigo fields on July 6, East Hampton’s 9-and-10-year-old Little League softball all-stars outlasted their North Shore peers 22-15, setting up a third meeting for the District 36 championship.

If you think traffic here this time of year is a circus, you might think differently after you take a class with Hamptons Trapeze Co. That’s where the real circus action is — in a good way.

It may be five minutes for fighting in the N.H.L., but not so in East Hampton’s 7-on-7 men’s soccer league, whose overseer, Leslie Czeladko, recently expelled five players from league play.

Serena Vegessi Schick, who died last fall, touched many in Montauk who work on the water, having spent years in her youth and early adulthood, as well as the final few months of her life, working the deck of the Bones netting or filleting fish, untying tangles, or just patiently helping youngsters catch the first fish of their lives.

The paddleboard and kayak rental and lesson business has a new home at the Three Mile Marina. "I feel so lucky. This is the perfect place," said Gina Bradley.

Crystal Winter, a former Montauker and 2002 graduate of East Hampton High School, is to play this week for the powerful United States national women’s flag football team in the World Games.

Facing Southampton in a must-win game at the Pantigo fields here Sunday, East Hampton's 11-12-year-old Little League all-stars edged the young Mariners 1-0 to remain in contention for the District 36 championship.

An indoor regulation-size N.H.L. hockey rink will be up and running at Riverhead’s Stotzky Park by the fall, Troy Albert of the Peconic Hockey Foundation said last week.

It was a hopeful scene at a basketball camp full of wide-eyed youngsters from New York City and the East End, who had paid $350 for a full day of rubbing shoulders with three very tall men who are or were paid lots of money to play professional basketball.

Throughout July, Colette Dong and Aly Giampolo have set up shop — a rather bouncy shop — at the Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. The two friends met while performing in a dance company and formed the idea for the Ness, a type of trampoline workout that they describe as “an aerobic form of cross-training.”

So far this year, Mother Nature has served up a curveball, as bunker showed up on schedule but dispersed rather quickly to parts unknown.

The scientific name of the whip-poor-will, Antrostomus vociferus, is spot-on. According to “Birds of America,” edited by T. Gilbert Pearson, “the first word . . . means ‘cave mouth’ and the second . . . ‘strong voice.’ ”

The District 36 Little League playoffs got underway at the Pantigo fields here Saturday morning as East Hampton’s 9-and-10-year-old all-star team, coached by Chris Carney, Scott Abran, and Chris Diamond, overwhelmed Southampton 15-1.

Nine months ago, Jeremy Grosvenor of Sagaponack suffered a dislocated hip while surfing at Camp Hero’s Radars break. He had experienced mishaps while surfing before, but nothing like this.

Last weekend marked the end of the East Hampton Town Little League’s best-of-three “World Series” and the running of two road races, the Beacon of Hope 5K at the Montauk Lighthouse and the 43rd Shelter Island 10K.

Kathy Masterson, 53, said she realized that she had “huge shoes to fill,” but that she was “up to the challenge.”

Once again, the weather gods, despite sunny skies, spoiled our plans, as a gusty 30-knot breeze from the northwest would make fishing difficult and downright uncomfortable.

The Ross School in East Hampton will be the site of a basketball skills camp for youth ages 8 to 18 and featuring current and former National Basketball Association players and high-level coaches on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Two Peconic Hockey Foundation-sponsored youth ice hockey teams ended the spring season with fine showings in a regional tournament in Rhode Island recently.

A hoped-for duel between Shelter Island’s Kal Lewis and East Hampton’s Ryan Fowkes didn’t come about in Sunday’s Montauk Mile, but Fowkes made the most of it. Dylan Cashin, a sophomore here, won the women’s race.

On the local fishing scene, the action has generally been good in many locales, and anglers of all ages have taken part.

As long ago as 1936, when T. Gilbert Pearson published “Birds of America,” purple martins were almost exclusively dependent on man-made housing. Here on the East End, they arrive in early April to the houses waiting for them and by Labor Day they're gone.

Since trimming his widespread tennis management business, Steve Annacone has been much less harried, and happier. Now with MyHamptons Pro, "a concierge tennis instruction and coaching service, I turned to what I like to do, my passion."

Dylan Cashin, an East Hampton High School sophomore, has qualified for the 2,000-meter steeplechase at the Nike Outdoor Nationals in Oregon.