Sports

The young East Hampton High School football team, the seventh seed in the county’s Division III tournament, was stampeded by the second-seeded Half Hollow Hills West Colts in a quarterfinal matchup on the Colts’ field Saturday, most of the damage in the 52-6 rout being done by a senior quartet led by the Syracuse-bound quarterback, Joseph Filardi.

A writer looks back at one of the most iconic pickup basketball games on the South Fork, a long-running Sunday morning affair that drew all sorts of players from all walks of life.

Two months after it was originally to have been played, the East End men’s 7-on-7 soccer final was finally contested at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Oct. 30, with Maidstone Market, the league’s perennial power, emerging as a 2-1 winner over Tortorella Pools.

I can most certainly relate to the phrase “old habits are hard to break,” especially as it pertains to bay scallops. No matter how much I read year after year about the dire predictions for the five-month scallop season, which opened at daybreak on Monday morning in state waters, I still make plans to be on my Rock Water with six iron dredges in tow on opening day.

East Hampton High School’s football team trounced Eastport-South Manor 42-7 in its regular-season finale Saturday, and will play at second-seeded Half Hollow Hills West this coming Saturday at 1 p.m.

A good number of East Hampton High's players were in tears following Saturday's 2-1 first-round county Class AA boys soccer playoff loss to Deer Park, the 10th seed among the bracket's 11 teams. East Hampton was the seventh.

Roberto de Guardiola, 29, of Southampton, won the East Hampton Village Foundation 5K on Saturday in a time of 19 minutes and 58.13 seconds.

I was recently joined on board by Al Daniels, he of the family that has resided here on the East End for 13 generations. Daniels has known all things fishing for nearly eight decades. My wife, Terie, was also ready to catch her dinner. After a ride of more than an hour to the north side of Gull Island, the outgoing tide was still running strong when we arrived. When the blackfish homed in on our baits, they were hungry. Very hungry. The bite was on.

End-of-season results and highlights from East Hampton High School teams.

At first, Davis Tobin was confused last Thursday when his father, Andrew Tobin, picked him up early from the Springs School. Davis, a third grader, East Hampton Little League player, and fervent Yankees fan, soon learned why. Surprise! His family had been gifted two tickets to Game 1 of the Yankees-Dodgers World Series showdown in Los Angeles, and he and his father were getting on a plane that night.

East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, seeded seventh among 11 schools in the county tournament’s Class AA bracket, is to play 10th-seeded Deer Park here on Saturday at 2 p.m. The winner is to play at second-seeded Half Hollow Hills West Monday at 2:30.

A trip in search of bay scallops with Harrison Tobi, an aquaculture specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension marine center in Southold, to examine the productivity, survivability, and density of the population both in the wild, and also those raised in plastic cages that were spawned at the center.

One couldn’t have wished for a better homecoming. The weather was wonderful, for one. The Hall of Fame inductees, one an international sensation for having recently become the first American female to sail solo nonstop around the world, and another an exemplar when it comes to resilience, were beguiling. And the football game went entirely Bonac’s way.

An estimated crowd of at least 1,500 under cloudless skies delighted in East Hampton High’s 34-8 homecoming football win Saturday over Amityville at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park, the scene of fall football games for half a century before their removal to the new high school on Long Lane in 1979. 

A stunning goal capped a rousing comeback 4-3 win and clinched a playoff berth for East Hampton's worthy soccer team.

In a single day, Bonac's field hockey team pulled off a win over Islip after two shootout rounds, boys soccer narrowly lost to Amityville, and girls swimming was edged by Sayville-Bayport in a riveting meet at home.

The season for blackfish opened Friday for those who fish in Long Island Sound. Like calamari? Then head to Montauk. The night bite has been pretty consistent of late.

The Shelter Island Fall 5K, a run and walk to raise awareness and money for the North and South Fork Breast Health Coalitions and Lucia’s Angels, happens on Saturday morning, starting from Crescent Beach.

East Hampton’s 7-6-0 field hockey team remained in the playoff hunt as of earlier this week. Its coaches, Danielle Schuster and her sister, Nicole Ficeto, said they thought their charges could make the postseason “provided we play with intensity.” 

East Hampton’s 1995 county small schools championship baseball team will be inducted into the high school Hall of Fame Saturday morning along with the sailor Cole Brauer and the runner Ashley West Harvey. Then, after the homecoming parade, a family festival and football game at Herrick Park will follow.

East Hampton’s girls tennis, seeded 14th among the 19 vying in the county’s large schools team tournament, is to play 19th-seeded East Islip at home Thursday afternoon. The Ross School is second-seeded in the county’s small schools tournament. East Hampton’s boys soccer teams still hoping for a playoff spot. And its boys volleyball team has its fingers crossed too.

A league championship will be up for grabs Thursday as the East Hampton High School girls swimming team takes on Sayville-Bayport, the defending League III champion, at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter. Both teams are taking 2-0 league records into the meet, which is to begin at 5:30. 

Had East Hampton's Alex Davis received the blocking he needed during last Thursday’s 27-21 loss here to Westhampton Beach, he, rather than the Hurricanes’ triple threat, Brody Schaffer, would probably have grabbed the Newsday headline the morning after. 

East Hampton’s football team, after sailing along at 20-7 going into the fourth quarter of Saturday night’s game at Islip, wound up losing as the home team’s quarterback, Brady Nash, ran for three touchdowns in the final period, thus sending the stunned Bonackers home on the short end of a 28-20 score. 

Of East Hampton High’s dozen fall sports teams only one, girls swimming, led its league as of Monday. Craig Brierley’s crew was 2-0 in League III competition and 3-3 over all as of that day. 

Jim Nicoletti, who is to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame the morning of Oct. 19, wants all who played baseball here from the 1950s to the present to attend a Bonac Baseball Through the Ages gathering at the Clubhouse in Wainscott the night before homecoming.

Looking at my log book, I’ve only fished three times on her this year. That’s pretty pathetic. I made about a dozen runs to check on the lobster traps, but I can’t recall fishing so little in my life. 

Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High School’s boys soccer team, said this week that the team, whose record stood at 5-3-1 as of Monday, was “in the hunt for a playoff spot.” 

A homecoming triumph on the gridiron, and the RECenter opens with a splash.

Whether the East Hampton High School varsity and junior varsity girls volleyball teams won or lost matches with Amityville here Tuesday mattered little in light of the news that the players coached by Abigail Downs and Jacqueline Bates had raised around $15,000 for the Side-Out Foundation, a national organization that provides breast cancer treatment for women who can’t afford it and also finances breast cancer research.