Joe McKee, East Hampton High’s head football coach, said following Monday’s practice that, given the sport’s numbers at the moment, he plans to field varsity and junior varsity teams here next fall.

On the eve of the playoffs, East Hampton High’s girls and boys volleyball coaches, Alex Choi and Josh Brussell, like their chances.

A quarterfinal finish in the recent United States Tennis Association’s national Level 1 clay court tournament at Pinehurst, N.C., assured Frank Ackley of the top-10 ranking he’d sought since turning 70 last February.

While the Bonac girls tennis fell in the county tourney, the girls swimming team finished the regular season at 4-1 with a win at Hauppauge last week.

Rowers hit Riverhead’s Peconic River for a regatta Sunday. The East Hampton boys soccer team loses in the first round to Elwood-John Glenn. And don’t forget OMAC’s Brewathlon Saturday.

A former town board member’s reminiscences on the joy of sports fandom.

The week ahead in local sports action.

Don McGovern’s charges, with visions of playoffs dancing in their heads, were the aggressor throughout 80 minutes against Kings Park, winding up a 3-0 victor last Thursday.

East Hampton High’s girls swimming team defeated Harborfields 93-77 in its senior meet here last Thursday, but junior varsity football floundered at Bayport-Blue Point.

East Hampton High School’s girls cross-country team, thanks to a 26-29 win over Miller Place at Sunken Meadow on Oct. 15, finished the season at 3-3, “the best we’ve done in quite a while,” according to the team’s coach, Diane O’Donnell.

Given the green light by his coach, Shelter Island High School’s four-time county Class D cross-country champ clocked in at 15 minutes and 40.43 seconds.

Flag football wraps it up at Herrick, while Bonac girls tennis storms the playoffs and the cross-country teams hit Sunken Meadow for the divisional meet Tuesday.