Sports

If you’ve been to a high school basketball game, a tennis match, or a 5K on the South Fork any time in the last 45 years, you’ve probably seen The East Hampton Star’s sports editor, Jack Graves, on the sidelines, faithfully scribbling notes. But before Graves took over the sports desk back in 1979, he was The Star’s sole full-time reporter for about a decade and had begun his long-running column,“Point of View.”

The race season here, from 5Ks to triathlons to and bay and ocean swimming competitions, will begin Saturday with the Robert J. Aaron memorial Olympic-distance triathlon in Montauk, to be followed on Sunday by the Montauk Mile.

Suffolk County’s boys tennis singles champion, Eduardo Menezes of the Ross School, made it to the quarterfinal round of the state tourney over the weekend on the U.S. Open courts in Flushing, Queens.

In local waters there has been a decrease of kelp, much of which was typically found from the east side of Gardiner’s Island all the way to Montauk. A new project looks to change this.

The East Hampton Indoor/Outdoor Club has the racket sports covered now that it offers padel, a fast-moving four-wall doubles game combining the serving and volleying of tennis with squash’s off-the-wall shots.

Dylan Cashin, an East Hampton High School senior who is to attend the United States Naval Academy in the fall, set a school record Friday as she finished third in the 1,500-meter racewalk in 6 minutes and 57.65 seconds. The old record, of 7:14.82, was held by Nina Piacentine, a 2016 graduate.

The Ross School boys tennis team won the county’s small schools tournament at Smithtown East High School Friday, besting Bayport-Blue Point, last year’s finalist, by a score of 4-3.

A rundown of sporting action in the week ahead, from tennis and baseball playoffs to an awards dinner.

The East Hampton High School girls track team scored 56 points, its highest total ever, at the Suffolk County meet on May 20. The boys, a small team that is rebuilding, fared well too.

From the Montauk Rugby Club toughing it out in the top 10, to a first season of Bonac lacrosse, it happened here.

Fishing-wise, things are much better than my 62-year-old body or my Jeep Wrangler’s transmission.

Eduardo Menezes, a Ross School senior from Brazil, was the odds-on favorite to win the Suffolk County boys tennis singles championship Monday in a match with second-seeded Bryan Volk of Half Hollow Hills West.