Sports

While the song is the sparkling characteristic of the hermit thrush, I also appreciate its muted appearance. We can’t all be cardinals.

All three high school varsity baseball teams in this area — East Hampton, Pierson, and Bridgehampton — were doing well going into this week.

Members of the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday voiced a willingness to consider natural grass and dirt at the Little League fields to be constructed at 110 Stephen Hand’s Path in Wainscott.

The April 12 win over Half Hollow Hills West was Bonac’s third in a row, the first time apparently since 2016 that a girls track team here has begun a season at 3-0.

I had a bit of trepidation as I started the 370-horsepower diesel engine. After writing numerous checks this winter that amounted to nearly $30,000 for a multitude of repairs to my 20-year-old craft, would it hold up?

The fastest-growing sport in America — pickleball — is also the noisiest, according to a survey conducted by sound engineers hired by the Village of Sagaponack. As a result, the village board will recommend requiring new pickleball courts to be built with larger setback from adjacent properties.

East Hampton’s athletic director was to have appealed Monday to Section XI’s athletic council urging it to let the school’s varsity football team stay one more year in Division IV, a lower-enrollment division.

Shortly before the school board voted to hire Kathy Masterson as its new athletic director, Joe Vas, East Hampton’s current athletic director, handed her a maroon-and-gray Bonac baseball cap — a symbolic passing of the torch.

My 30-foot Novia Scotia-built boat has been in the water for nearly three weeks, but, sadly, I’ve yet to untie its dock lines.

East Hampton High’s girls lacrosse team won one and then went out and ran the Katy’s Courage 5K, while the boys lacrosse Islanders went 3-3 and Bonac tennis remained undefeated.

Eleven days ago, on April 3, the northern gannets invaded Sag Harbor. A friend sent a video of several hundred crowding the waters surrounding Long Wharf. Above them, the sky teemed with more. In 20 years of birding around Sag Harbor, I had never seen more than a handful from the wharf.

A historic marker honoring Carl Yastrzemski was unveiled at Bridgehampton High’s new baseball field on April 5 before an appreciative crowd numbering around 100, many of whom stayed to watch the first varsity baseball team the school has fielded since 1979.