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After a few weeks of incessant gusty winds, the weather gods who rule from the clouds high above finally provided anglers with a much-welcomed reprieve for several extended days of very fishable conditions, a rare occurrence by November marine weather standards.

East Hampton High’s golf and boys cross-country teams may have been runners-up last week in county competition, but each will send at least one athlete to state meets.

The Islanders clinched the title in four sets, earning the right to play today for a regional championship at Longwood High School in Middle Island.

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) Whalers defeated their nemesis, the Carle Place Frogs of Nassau County, on Sunday evening to claim their first Long Island field hockey championship since 2015.

Though not quite as dominant as the golf team, East Hampton’s girls swimming and boys volleyball teams have done very well this fall.

East Hampton High’s boys cross-country team placed second to Westhampton Beach in the recent divisional meet at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, and the girls team placed third, behind Sayville and Westhampton.

After a closely contested regular season, the fall final is to be played Wednesday night at 7:30.

I was determined to find out for myself if the dire prediction of another terrible scallop season was in fact true.

The Pierson Whalers field hockey team defeated the Greenport Porters 4-0 at Centereach High School on Monday night to become the Suffolk County Class C champions for the seventh consecutive year.

Following a county title, Peter Solow's soccer squad added a Long Island championship to its laurels by defeating Carle Place 1-0 on Tuesday, meriting a Sag Harbor Fire Department parade later in the day.

Saturday’s marine forecast looked promising for a change. The bushel of green crabs that I bought two weeks ago would finally be put to good use for a few hours of blackfishing in and around the Plum Island area.

Six of East Hampton High’s 11 fall teams were to have vied in postseason competition this week.

McMahon’s won the first and second games of the best-of-five East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch softball series, lost the third, and took possession of the 2021 playoff trophy with last Thursday’s 13-6 victory.

Russell Huber, who has refereed scholastic athletic contests in New York State since 1969, has always preferred that the players, not he, get the attention. But at the Springs School on Sept. 27, it was the other way around.

Two East Hampton High School teams, field hockey and boys soccer, capped their regular seasons with wins this week, and as a result the boys will play in the county playoffs.

Playing as well as it has all season, the East Hampton High School boys soccer team took it to Harborfields Saturday.

The 2020 East Hampton High School Hall of Fame class that the coronavirus pandemic prevented from being inducted last fall was duly installed as part of Saturday’s homecoming activities.

The agony of defeat when it came to East Hampton High’s homecoming football game under the lights Saturday night was assuaged in great measure by the thrill of a community coming together for the first time in a long while.

As the gusty east winds finally abated last week after a four-day blow, the opening of blackfish season was eagerly welcomed by a multitude of anglers.

The golf team, the undefeated boys cross-country team, the once-beaten girls cross-country team, and several other Bonac teams were eyeing the postseason as of Monday.

East Hampton High’s girls tennis team, a number of whose players were new to the team when the season began, has improved greatly, in singles and in doubles.

The Bonac boys and girls cross-country teams continued undefeated last week, the girls swimmers improved to 3-2, and soccer and field hockey see action this weekend.

Bayport-Blue Point’s football team was a strong one, and while East Hampton could take heart in some big plays, they were too few and far between to avert a 55-13 loss.

A three-day blow over the holiday weekend put a severe damper on things for those intent to wet a line.

When it came to grit, to intransigence, the Bonackers were outmatched, at least on this day, and the final score, 41-7, reflected it.

The East Hampton High School boys and girls cross-country teams were undefeated and in contention for league championships earlier this week, though the boys perhaps had the clearer path.

The East Hampton High golf team’s record continued unblemished as Rich King’s crew handily defeated Pierson last Thursday at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, the Bonackers’ home course.

Sadly, I’ve not been fishing on my boat in well over a month, and my 30-foot Nova Scotia-built craft is high and dry on land while it receives a new stern deck.

“Oysters are incredibly hardy,” said Kim Tetrault, who oversees the Cornell Cooperative operations in Southold. “They can withstand a lot of what Mother Nature throws at them.”

Led by Charlie Corwin, the Bonac football team rolled to its second straight victory Saturday at Wyandanch, while boys soccer experienced its first losses of the season.