Sports

Some 1,600 riders and horses, Olympians among them, are to begin strutting their stuff at the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton on Sunday.

A trip to the North Fork to pick up 1,000 oyster spat from the Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Center means it was time to replenish my North Haven stock.

In what possibly was the longest Artists and Writers Softball Game ever played, the Artists wound up prevailing 11-10 in the bottom of the 12th inning at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park Saturday before a sizable crowd.

Coming this weekend are Paddlers for Humanity’s Montauk Point to Block Island paddle and the Southampton Village Ocean Rescue squad’s long-distance swims at Cooper’s Beach Saturday morning, the Artists and Writers Softball Game at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park that afternoon, and Ellen’s Run at the Southampton Intermediate School on Sunday morning.

This year, Stony Hill Stables in Amagansett is celebrating 60 years in business, most of them under the ownership of the Hotchkiss family.

The Hampton Lifeguard Association’s team in the national lifesaving tournament held last week on South Padre Island in Texas finished fifth among the 25 contending entries from around the country, a significant improvement from a year ago.

Tortorella Pools and Maidstone Market continue to contend for the lead and the playoffs’ top seed in 7-on-7 men’s soccer action Tuesday evenings at Herrick Park in East Hampton Village.

The Raptors, a Montauk team made up largely of Daunts and Davises, won the 16th Travis Field Memorial softball tournament Sunday night, besting Taste Our Sauce 4-3 thanks to a walk-off hit by Anthony Daunt. Plus a 3-on-3 Hoops 4 Hope basketball tourney at Sportime.

At daybreak, I went to check my lobster traps off to the east, but before we ventured forth, I wanted to do a bit of fishing on the east side of Gardiner's Island. Fluke and sea bass were the intended quarry. My expectations were very low. Let me explain.

More than a race, Ellen's Run, which is in its 29th year, is about support and camaraderie. The race sets off from the Southampton Intermediate School on Aug. 18.

Kevin Bunce Sr., who has been keeping the ball rolling for the Montauk Rugby Club, said that his 7s squad been a winner or a runner-up in a half-dozen U-23 tournaments. The goal now "is to get enough guys involved so that Montauk can field a 15s side again."

At the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro on June 21, Summer Romeo told her fellow hikers that she could never do the climb again. “We were literally crying from sleep deprivation, agony, headaches, and nausea.” But by journey's end, she was already thinking ahead to her next adventure.