Sports

It was a hopeful scene at a basketball camp full of wide-eyed youngsters from New York City and the East End, who had paid $350 for a full day of rubbing shoulders with three very tall men who are or were paid lots of money to play professional basketball.

Last weekend marked the end of the East Hampton Town Little League’s best-of-three “World Series” and the running of two road races, the Beacon of Hope 5K at the Montauk Lighthouse and the 43rd Shelter Island 10K.

Kathy Masterson, 53, said she realized that she had “huge shoes to fill,” but that she was “up to the challenge.”

Once again, the weather gods, despite sunny skies, spoiled our plans, as a gusty 30-knot breeze from the northwest would make fishing difficult and downright uncomfortable.

The Ross School in East Hampton will be the site of a basketball skills camp for youth ages 8 to 18 and featuring current and former National Basketball Association players and high-level coaches on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A hoped-for duel between Shelter Island’s Kal Lewis and East Hampton’s Ryan Fowkes didn’t come about in Sunday’s Montauk Mile, but Fowkes made the most of it. Dylan Cashin, a sophomore here, won the women’s race.

Two Peconic Hockey Foundation-sponsored youth ice hockey teams ended the spring season with fine showings in a regional tournament in Rhode Island recently.

On the local fishing scene, the action has generally been good in many locales, and anglers of all ages have taken part.

Since trimming his widespread tennis management business, Steve Annacone has been much less harried, and happier. Now with MyHamptons Pro, "a concierge tennis instruction and coaching service, I turned to what I like to do, my passion."

As long ago as 1936, when T. Gilbert Pearson published “Birds of America,” purple martins were almost exclusively dependent on man-made housing. Here on the East End, they arrive in early April to the houses waiting for them and by Labor Day they're gone.

Ryan Fowkes, who set school records in the outdoor 1,500-meter race in his very successful junior year at George Washington University, will be in the Montauk Mile field Sunday, as will Kal Lewis, a Shelter Islander and standout runner in the same distances at the University of Iowa.

Registration is still open for the Robert J. Aaron Memorial Triathlon that is to be held at the intersection of West Lake Drive and Star Island Causeway in Montauk on Saturday morning.