Sports

One couldn’t have wished for a better homecoming. The weather was wonderful, for one. The Hall of Fame inductees, one an international sensation for having recently become the first American female to sail solo nonstop around the world, and another an exemplar when it comes to resilience, were beguiling. And the football game went entirely Bonac’s way.

An estimated crowd of at least 1,500 under cloudless skies delighted in East Hampton High’s 34-8 homecoming football win Saturday over Amityville at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park, the scene of fall football games for half a century before their removal to the new high school on Long Lane in 1979. 

A stunning goal capped a rousing comeback 4-3 win and clinched a playoff berth for East Hampton's worthy soccer team.

In a single day, Bonac's field hockey team pulled off a win over Islip after two shootout rounds, boys soccer narrowly lost to Amityville, and girls swimming was edged by Sayville-Bayport in a riveting meet at home.

The season for blackfish opened Friday for those who fish in Long Island Sound. Like calamari? Then head to Montauk. The night bite has been pretty consistent of late.

The Shelter Island Fall 5K, a run and walk to raise awareness and money for the North and South Fork Breast Health Coalitions and Lucia’s Angels, happens on Saturday morning, starting from Crescent Beach.

East Hampton’s 7-6-0 field hockey team remained in the playoff hunt as of earlier this week. Its coaches, Danielle Schuster and her sister, Nicole Ficeto, said they thought their charges could make the postseason “provided we play with intensity.” 

East Hampton’s 1995 county small schools championship baseball team will be inducted into the high school Hall of Fame Saturday morning along with the sailor Cole Brauer and the runner Ashley West Harvey. Then, after the homecoming parade, a family festival and football game at Herrick Park will follow.

East Hampton’s girls tennis, seeded 14th among the 19 vying in the county’s large schools team tournament, is to play 19th-seeded East Islip at home Thursday afternoon. The Ross School is second-seeded in the county’s small schools tournament. East Hampton’s boys soccer teams still hoping for a playoff spot. And its boys volleyball team has its fingers crossed too.

A league championship will be up for grabs Thursday as the East Hampton High School girls swimming team takes on Sayville-Bayport, the defending League III champion, at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter. Both teams are taking 2-0 league records into the meet, which is to begin at 5:30. 

Had East Hampton's Alex Davis received the blocking he needed during last Thursday’s 27-21 loss here to Westhampton Beach, he, rather than the Hurricanes’ triple threat, Brody Schaffer, would probably have grabbed the Newsday headline the morning after. 

East Hampton’s football team, after sailing along at 20-7 going into the fourth quarter of Saturday night’s game at Islip, wound up losing as the home team’s quarterback, Brady Nash, ran for three touchdowns in the final period, thus sending the stunned Bonackers home on the short end of a 28-20 score. 

Of East Hampton High’s dozen fall sports teams only one, girls swimming, led its league as of Monday. Craig Brierley’s crew was 2-0 in League III competition and 3-3 over all as of that day. 

Jim Nicoletti, who is to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame the morning of Oct. 19, wants all who played baseball here from the 1950s to the present to attend a Bonac Baseball Through the Ages gathering at the Clubhouse in Wainscott the night before homecoming.

Looking at my log book, I’ve only fished three times on her this year. That’s pretty pathetic. I made about a dozen runs to check on the lobster traps, but I can’t recall fishing so little in my life. 

Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High School’s boys soccer team, said this week that the team, whose record stood at 5-3-1 as of Monday, was “in the hunt for a playoff spot.” 

A homecoming triumph on the gridiron, and the RECenter opens with a splash.

Whether the East Hampton High School varsity and junior varsity girls volleyball teams won or lost matches with Amityville here Tuesday mattered little in light of the news that the players coached by Abigail Downs and Jacqueline Bates had raised around $15,000 for the Side-Out Foundation, a national organization that provides breast cancer treatment for women who can’t afford it and also finances breast cancer research.

I’ve probably seen “Jaws” a hundred times, including when it made its debut on the big screen at the East Hampton Cinema on June 20, 1975. I know the entire script word for word.

From boys and girls soccer to field hockey to golf and tennis, read all about it.

Joe McKee, East Hampton High’s varsity football coach, said following his team’s 47-7 rout of Kings Park here Saturday that he hadn’t expected Bonac would have such an easy time of it, adding that he couldn’t remember a win over the Kingsmen “in the past 20 or 25 years.”

From the complexities and curiosities of cricket in Southampton to surfers in giant swells off Montauk, it happened here.

The Fred Golofaro Memorial Montauk Surf Fishing Classic returns to Montauk Point State Park this weekend.

Rocky Point picked East Hampton as its homecoming opponent. Big mistake. The Bonackers on Saturday wreaked havoc at the North Shore school on their way to a 40-7 rout of the Eagles.

I-Tri, the South Fork-based girls’ empowerment program, will host its annual Ride and Wine fund-raising cycling event on Oct. 5, with a new route and a new spot for its afterparty.

Runners will take to the streets of Southampton Village on Saturday for the 18th annual Hamptons Marathon, which will both start and end at Southampton Intermediate School on Leland Lane.

As we have now formally settled into fall, the changes on the fishing scene have commenced, as have the changes in weather.

Catching up with East Hampton girls tennis, girls swimming, and boys and girls cross-country.

“It was a great game,” Don McGovern, the Bonac boys soccer coach, said of an East Hampton and Amityville tilt through 80 minutes of regulation and two 10-minute overtimes.

A report on East Hampton's fall sports seasons, all now in full swing in football, girls swimming, girls tennis, boys cross-country, field hockey, and boys volleyball.