Sports

East Hampton’s 11-and-12-year-old all-stars were to have played Longwood Wednesday night in the District 36 final, having edged Moriches Bay 2-1 here at the Pantigo fields in a very tense semifinal Monday evening.

The last time, in February, that Frank Ackley played in a United States Tennis Association national tournament, he couldn’t walk the day after losing a round-of-16 match in three sets to the 70s division’s top-ranked player, Ken Dahl of Montreal.

Vanessa Edwardes and Haley Ryan run the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s increasingly popular Nippers program for kids too young to be junior lifeguards. 

The lineup for the playoff semifinals of the Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer league that are to be contested at East Hampton’s Herrick Park Wednesday was to have been arrived at in games played on July 10.

Men's and women's slow-pitch softball dominates the calendar, but on Saturday there's a youth triathlon at Long Beach and a horsey fund-raiser with Georgina Bloomberg in Water Mill.

A bittersweet look back at East Hampton's high school baseball playoffs run of 1994, and the day Irish soccer fans went nuts in Montauk.

Maxine de Havenon, who sailed with the East Hampton High-Ross School team beginning as a seventh grader, graduated recently from Brown University as a national champion, an honorable mention all-American, and as New England’s sportswoman of the year.

Molly Cuevas, a former all-American field hockey player at Adelphi, finished the last leg of her 3,000-plus-mile cross-country fund-raising run at around 10 a.m. Saturday morning at the Circle in Montauk, where she was greeted by a crowd of about 50.

A grass-court pro-am at Buckskill on Saturday, while Sunday morning brings the Firecracker 8K in Southampton.

Both of East Hampton’s traveling all-star baseball teams were on a good footing as of Sunday, with the 11-12s heading out of pool play looking especially strong and the 9-10s pretty good.

A look back at the baseball exploits of East Hampton's Ross Gload, plus the Potatohampton 10K follies.

Richie Daunt, the wiry, hard-punching fighter from Montauk, two for two in recent bouts, is looking forward to a regional tournament early next month. The winners are to advance to the nationals, whose winners, in turn, are to go on to the Olympic trials.

“It’s a rite of summer,” said Scott Barter as about 150 youngsters ages 9 through 15 gathered on “the mound” at Amagansett’s Indian Wells Beach Saturday morning, where they were welcomed by John Ryan Sr. and John Ryan Jr. to the 2019 junior lifeguard season.

Molly Cuevas, 24, a former All-American field hockey player at Adelphi, can also say come Saturday that she is a cross-country runner, inasmuch as she will have run in the course of three months 3,000-plus miles from Santa Monica, Calif., to Montauk.

The Little League tournament is here, plus plenty of slow-pitch in the coming week.

The postseason slate of District 36 Little League playoff games began last weekend, with good results insofar as East Hampton’s traveling all-star boys teams were concerned.

The weather was about as good as it’s ever been at the Shelter Island 10K Saturday, bright with a fortifying wind out of the southwest, a good day for the 1,000-plus finishers.

Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton High School's best indoor and outdoor runner, and Rebecca Kuperschmid, number-one on the girls tennis team and a softball stalwart, were cited during a senior awards ceremony on June 12 at the Clubhouse. 

Bonac high school games will be live-streamed come the fall, and the Pierson (Sag Harbor) baseball team's postseason run ends in the semifinals of the state tourney.

Lots of slow-pitch softball and men's 7-on-7 soccer in the week ahead.

Two coaches, Bill Herzog and Kathy McGeehan, two individual athletes, Emily Hren and Nicole Fierro, and the 1965-66 boys basketball and 1993 field hockey teams are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame at homecoming on Oct. 5.

Ryan Fowkes and Ava Engstrom, East Hampton High School’s top long-distance runners, are to have their names engraved on the John F. Conner Cup for having won, by handy margins, the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s Montauk Mile Sunday. 

The Robert J. Aaron Memorial Triathlon in Montauk Saturday was won by Matthew Connelly of New York City, who made sure this time to go out first on the 10K run, the final leg of the event, content to let the pace car lead the way.

Of the running legends coming to Shelter Island this weekend, a list headed by Joan Benoit-Samuelson and Bill Rodgers, two of them, Benji Durden and Kyle Heffner, who made the Olympic marathon team to nowhere in 1980, will be on The Rock for the first time.

East Hampton High's spring sports awards, plus a local competitor in Pitch, Hit & Run at Citi Field.

There’s a whole lotta slow-pitch in the week ahead, plus some men’s 7-on-7 soccer, too.

Ally Friedman, in her fifth year as a Ross Tennis Academy student, with one more to go, has overseen during the past six months a free tennis-based mentoring program for about a dozen girls here between the ages of 7 and 10.

Theresa Roden of I-Tri awarded, two races in Montauk this weekend, and a Project Most tennis benefit Saturday at Hampton Racquet.

East Hampton High’s track season wound up Saturday at Comsewogue High School, south of Port Jefferson, the scene of the county’s state qualifier meet over two days.

From the Montauk Triathlon and Montauk Mile to the East Hampton High School athletic awards