Sports

From a teachers-students soccer game Thursday to benefit Kick Out Cancer, to the Bonac golfers taking on Westhampton Beach in Gansett Friday, to a Hall of Fame breakfast and jayvee football at the high school on Saturday.

The score was 36-8, but Joe McKee, East Hampton High’s football coach, told his junior varsity charges that they would meet much tougher teams than Center Moriches down the road, and that there was much work to do.

Attendance was robust at Matej Zlatkovic’s pickleball clinics at the East Hampton Indoor-Outdoor Tennis Club last weekend. The game is easy to pick up and less taxing than tennis.

For the first time ever, East Hampton’s girls cross-country team defeated Shoreham-Wading River, by a score of 26-30.

Bonac field hockey wins three straight, while girls volleyball tops rival Westhampton Beach in five sets.

Bonac girls tennis, swimming, and volleyball are at home Friday, while the boys and girls cross-country teams head to Rhode Island Saturday, a day that also brings the Hamptons Marathon and Half-Marathon to Southampton.

While East Hampton Soccer Fever’s entry in the Wednesday evening men’s 7-on-7 soccer league is no more, its successor, the East Hampton Soccer Club, given some strong additions, looks promising indeed.

A century of sports car racing in Bridgehampton, on the roads and at the track, now the site of The Bridge golf club, was celebrated last weekend in a well-attended concours d’elegance show of vintage, antique, and classic autos at the Bridgehampton Museum.

For the first time in a long time East Hampton High’s boys and girls cross-country teams were front and center here on Sept. 10, running two loops around the high school against their Mount Sinai peers.

Soccer is one of those games in which the better team often doesn’t win, as East Hampton’s girls and boys both saw in the past week at home.

Pickleball’s back at E.H. Indoor-Outdoor, with clinics, and the weekend of Sept. 28 offers long-distance races in Montauk and Southampton.

The first Amagansett Mile is Saturday, while Bonac J.V. football returns to action Monday, and there’s soccer, field hockey, and volleyball at home Tuesday.

East Hampton High’s boys and girls volleyball teams enjoyed back-to-back wins here last Thursday and Friday, besting Center Moriches in the boys’ case and Miller Place in the girls’.

Just about all of the high school’s 11 teams ought to be competitive, though the football program remains on shaky ground.

The water was choppy, the bike ride was hilly and at times windy, but the cloudy and cool weather was much to everyone’s liking at the Steve Tarpinian Memorial Mighty Hamptons Triathlon in Noyac Sunday.

East Hampton High School’s junior varsity football team debuted here Monday with a 28-8 win over Babylon, a school that has perennially fielded strong varsity teams.

An update on Kevin Babington, the rider severely injured at the Hampton Classic, badminton continues in Amagansett Monday nights, and the Amagansett Mile is set for Sept. 21.

High school sports ramp up, with the Bonac boys and girls volleyball teams at home Thursday and Friday, and the cross-country squads heading to Sunken Meadow State Park on Saturday for the first time this fall.

Bobby Riggs on his epic “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match with Billy Jean King, plus a fond look back at lifeguarding contests and women's slow-pitch.

Frank Ackley of Springs continued to climb the ladder in his United States Tennis Association age group by reaching the semifinal round of the U.S.T.A.’s national Level 1 grass court championships at the Philadelphia Cricket Club recently.

Groundworks Landscaping and the Clubhouse won East Hampton Town women’s and men’s slow-pitch softball playoff trophies, thanks largely, in the women’s case, to Emma Beudert’s high-arc backspun lobs, and, in the Clubhouse’s case, to some solid slugging last Thursday night.

For people who perform and rely on a single item for success in their chosen profession, especially when they’re on a big stage, you can be assured that not just any run-of-the-mill knockoff will suffice. And that's particularly true of tennis rackets.

Mario Deslauriers and his 20-year-old daughter, Lucy, wound up going head to head in Sunday’s $300,000 Doha Inc. Grand Prix jump-off, joined by Devin Ryan. They were the only ones to enjoy fault-free trips among the 39 horse-and-rider combinations who vied in the Grand Prix’s first round.

The East Hampton and Shelter Island High School boys and girls cross-country teams turned out for the 42nd running of the Great Bonac 5 and 10Ks at the Springs Firehouse Monday, and, predictably, the 5K’s top 20 largely comprised those teams’ members, who have been running all summer.

High school sports go full bore, while the Steve Tarpinian triathlon is Sunday in Noyac.

Early in the morning of Aug. 7, four swimmers — two with considerable open water experience and two with much less — met at the Ship Ashore Marina in Sag Harbor, shook hands, and, in the company of two support boats, set off at 5 a.m. from Cedar Point toward Gardiner’s Island, eight and a half miles away.

Brianne Goutal-Marteau, a three-time Grand Prix runner-up at the Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton, said, as she was preparing to take her 2-year-old daughter, Clea, into the Grand Prix ring to be judged by Joe Fargis Sunday morning, that the leadline division, in whose sections 2-to-4-year-olds and 5-to-7-year-olds compete, was “the most important class.”

An East Hamptoner is longboard champ, Red Devil ocean swims are Saturday at Atlantic Avenue Beach, and two youngsters rake in karate trophies.

It was a result that shook the tennis world. In the late summer of 1986, in the U.S. Open’s first round, Paul Annacone of East Hampton defeated John McEnroe, handing the champion of seven Grand Slam singles tournaments a shocking loss.

The horse action at the Hampton Classic continues through Sunday, while Monday brings the Great Bonac 10K and 5K benefit road races and high school sports start on Tuesday.