Sports

Revisiting William Hartwell’s advice to the young about togetherness through sports, and the day Steve Graham rolled a perfect game at the late lamented East Hampton Bowl.

Bonac’s homecoming week saw wins by the girls volleyball, swim, and tennis teams, and good showings by boys soccer and both cross-country squads.

The latest win, a 29-0 shutout, came Saturday on East Hampton High’s turf field before homecoming spectators, including parents of the visiting William Floyd players, a team as good as any jayvee around.

A rundown of the high school action from Monday, from girls tennis and volleyball to field hockey, plus the results of the inaugural Run Down the Runway 5K, and OMAC names who will be honored at its holiday dinner.

Bonac's Field hockey team welcomes Greenport-Southold Friday, boys soccer hosts West Babylon Saturday, and both cross-country teams hit the tough Sunken Meadow course Tuesday.

It took Mae Mougin 10 years to give birth to “Waterproof,” a 40-minute lifeguard-centered documentary film that celebrates the core of East Hampton, a community that she and the film’s Academy Award-winning director, Ross Kauffman, find to be exemplary in the way it pulls together.

A fond look back at the Maidstoners ball club's Zen master, a reminder of the big push for the Lumber Lane youth center, and William Hartwell on the challenges facing the young — then as now.

All 11 of East Hampton High School’s teams will be on display here this week — beginning today with boys and girls cross-country, girls swimming, and boys volleyball — as it’s homecoming, for which Bonac’s 1965-66 boys basketball team will be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame Saturday.

East Hampton High School’s boys volleyball team has been sailing along in divisional play, and could well find itself as the county small schools tournament’s top seed in November provided it continues firing on all cylinders.

After having begun the fall season at 0-3, East Hampton High’s girls tennis team, whose 14-player roster is evenly divided between students from Sag Harbor and East Hampton, has been coming on of late.

The Hamptons Marathon in Southampton and the MightyMan triathlons in Montauk drew a thousand competitors over the weekend, while Saturday brings the Run Down the Runway 5K at East Hampton Airport.

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.