Sports

Besides the good right arm that recently won him a full athletic scholarship to play baseball at George Washington University, Colin Ruddy, a personable 17-year-old East Hampton High School senior, has a good head on his shoulders, which very well may be the most important thing when it comes to success in athletics.

East Hampton High School’s winter sports teams, namely boys and girls basketball, boys and girls indoor track, boys swimming, bowling, and wrestling — which was scratched last season because of the coronavirus pandemic — began practicing here Monday.

With my boat prematurely out of the water for the season with various and costly engine issues, I have to find other vessels to fish on. Many friends have already hauled out their crafts, so I’m resigned to fishing on open boats, and that’s just fine with me. Two weeks ago, I took passage on the Peconic Star 3 out of Greenport for blackfish. It is skippered by the ever-youthful Capt. Speedy Hubert, he of the age of 84. Spry and energetic as ever, he anchored us up on a wreck off Horton’s Point in Long Island Sound. I had not fished that area in probably over 35 years. It was nice to be back.

Two teams, Maidstone Market and the East Hampton Soccer Club, which had twice played to draws in the regular season, met for the men’s soccer 7-on-7 fall championship at East Hampton’s Herrick Park on Nov. 15, with the Soccer Club winding up a 4-1 victor.

It was the first time that the Soccer Club, the league’s youngest, had won a playoff title, said Leslie Czeladko, the league’s manager.

As a response to the growing concern about the lasting impact of the pandemic on children's well-being, I-Tri, the East Hampton organization whose goal is to empower middle school girls through fitness, and the Center for Healing and Justice Through Sport, a national organization, offered a free trauma-informed coaching session.

Rick Pickering, the owner of Ship Ashore Marina in Sag Harbor, broke the bad news: “The turbocharger on the engine of your boat needs to be rebuilt, or we can get you a new one.”

Sienna Salamy, a freshman at East Hampton High School, has inherited a nonprofit organization called Play It Forward, which her older sister started when she was a three-sport athlete here.

The idea that East Hampton High School’s teams ought not to have to travel so far afield to play games has been around for a while. Now Section XI finally may have come around to that way of thinking.

A home field advantage wasn't enough to help the Pierson Whalers overcome the onslaught that was the Whitney Point Eagles in the state Class C field hockey semifinals Saturday. The Eagles advanced to the finals on Sunday.

The East Hampton High School boys volleyball team may have lost last Thursday to Eastport-South Manor, but the Bonackers’ first-round win over East Islip here on Nov. 2 is well worth reporting.

Cami Hatch, a junior who anchors East Hampton High’s girls swimming team, qualified for the state meet in two events, the 100-yard backstroke and the 100 freestyle, at last weekend’s Suffolk County meet at Stony Brook University.

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.