Sports

There is one tradition of Thanksgiving that I miss even a decade later. My good friend Wayne Clinch of Montauk used to organize consecutive fishing charters on the Friday and Saturday after Turkey Day.

Kathy Masterson, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, gives a rundown of the fast approaching winter sports season, which looks promising given the turnouts for the high school’s half-dozen teams.

Looking back on sports news in November of 1999: the Dock race, Southampton College soccer, and the early days of Hoops 4 Hope.

Cristian Candemir, a 2012 East Hampton High School graduate who's been angling for the unofficial title of “World’s Strongest Barista,” was back in action recently to take a shot at lifting a replica of Iceland’s 410-pound Husafell stone. It's an ancient tradition dating to the time of the Vikings.

Dave Conlon, who will take over as East Hampton High’s varsity boys basketball coach, saw D-1 collegiate and professional competition in Europe and had a stint as an assistant coach at the former University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

For a vast majority of anglers, the fishing season has come to an end, as persistent cold winds out of the north have taken a firm hold. But the bass fishing has been great off the ocean beaches and the blackfish action has been excellent.

Our man on the court wraps up his reverie about the mother of all pickup games, and the togetherness it brought about. With a cameo by the great N.B.A. guard Steve Nash.

The Star's fishing columnist has taken his boat out of the water for the season, but on the fishing scene, the action remains solid, especially for striped bass and blackfish.

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team placed sixth among the 21 schools that vied in the county meet at Stony Brook University Sunday, bettering last year’s 10th-place finish.

The young East Hampton High School football team, the seventh seed in the county’s Division III tournament, was stampeded by the second-seeded Half Hollow Hills West Colts in a quarterfinal matchup on the Colts’ field Saturday, most of the damage in the 52-6 rout being done by a senior quartet led by the Syracuse-bound quarterback, Joseph Filardi.

A writer looks back at one of the most iconic pickup basketball games on the South Fork, a long-running Sunday morning affair that drew all sorts of players from all walks of life.

Two months after it was originally to have been played, the East End men’s 7-on-7 soccer final was finally contested at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Oct. 30, with Maidstone Market, the league’s perennial power, emerging as a 2-1 winner over Tortorella Pools.

I can most certainly relate to the phrase “old habits are hard to break,” especially as it pertains to bay scallops. No matter how much I read year after year about the dire predictions for the five-month scallop season, which opened at daybreak on Monday morning in state waters, I still make plans to be on my Rock Water with six iron dredges in tow on opening day.

East Hampton High School’s football team trounced Eastport-South Manor 42-7 in its regular-season finale Saturday, and will play at second-seeded Half Hollow Hills West this coming Saturday at 1 p.m.

A good number of East Hampton High's players were in tears following Saturday's 2-1 first-round county Class AA boys soccer playoff loss to Deer Park, the 10th seed among the bracket's 11 teams. East Hampton was the seventh.

Roberto de Guardiola, 29, of Southampton, won the East Hampton Village Foundation 5K on Saturday in a time of 19 minutes and 58.13 seconds.

I was recently joined on board by Al Daniels, he of the family that has resided here on the East End for 13 generations. Daniels has known all things fishing for nearly eight decades. My wife, Terie, was also ready to catch her dinner. After a ride of more than an hour to the north side of Gull Island, the outgoing tide was still running strong when we arrived. When the blackfish homed in on our baits, they were hungry. Very hungry. The bite was on.

End-of-season results and highlights from East Hampton High School teams.

At first, Davis Tobin was confused last Thursday when his father, Andrew Tobin, picked him up early from the Springs School. Davis, a third grader, East Hampton Little League player, and fervent Yankees fan, soon learned why. Surprise! His family had been gifted two tickets to Game 1 of the Yankees-Dodgers World Series showdown in Los Angeles, and he and his father were getting on a plane that night.

East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, seeded seventh among 11 schools in the county tournament’s Class AA bracket, is to play 10th-seeded Deer Park here on Saturday at 2 p.m. The winner is to play at second-seeded Half Hollow Hills West Monday at 2:30.

A trip in search of bay scallops with Harrison Tobi, an aquaculture specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension marine center in Southold, to examine the productivity, survivability, and density of the population both in the wild, and also those raised in plastic cages that were spawned at the center.

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.