Sports

Sienna Salamy, a freshman at East Hampton High School, has inherited a nonprofit organization called Play It Forward, which her older sister started when she was a three-sport athlete here.

The idea that East Hampton High School’s teams ought not to have to travel so far afield to play games has been around for a while. Now Section XI finally may have come around to that way of thinking.

A home field advantage wasn't enough to help the Pierson Whalers overcome the onslaught that was the Whitney Point Eagles in the state Class C field hockey semifinals Saturday. The Eagles advanced to the finals on Sunday.

Cami Hatch, a junior who anchors East Hampton High’s girls swimming team, qualified for the state meet in two events, the 100-yard backstroke and the 100 freestyle, at last weekend’s Suffolk County meet at Stony Brook University.

The East Hampton High School boys volleyball team may have lost last Thursday to Eastport-South Manor, but the Bonackers’ first-round win over East Islip here on Nov. 2 is well worth reporting.

After a few weeks of incessant gusty winds, the weather gods who rule from the clouds high above finally provided anglers with a much-welcomed reprieve for several extended days of very fishable conditions, a rare occurrence by November marine weather standards.

East Hampton High’s golf and boys cross-country teams may have been runners-up last week in county competition, but each will send at least one athlete to state meets.

The Islanders clinched the title in four sets, earning the right to play today for a regional championship at Longwood High School in Middle Island.

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) Whalers defeated their nemesis, the Carle Place Frogs of Nassau County, on Sunday evening to claim their first Long Island field hockey championship since 2015.

I was determined to find out for myself if the dire prediction of another terrible scallop season was in fact true.

East Hampton High’s boys cross-country team placed second to Westhampton Beach in the recent divisional meet at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, and the girls team placed third, behind Sayville and Westhampton.

After a closely contested regular season, the fall final is to be played Wednesday night at 7:30.