Sports

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

On second thought, East Hampton High School is going to go with a junior varsity football team only in the fall, Joe McKee, the varsity’s head coach, announced Monday.

A look back at the Ross Gload-era Bonac baseball team and the heyday of boys track.

The Bonac on Board to Wellness 5K, a rite of spring, attracts 600-plus middle schoolers, while East Hampton’s Ryan Fowkes and Kal Lewis of Shelter Island go down to the wire in the 1,600.

The race, coming up on June 15, has always “combined the excitement of an elite field with the everyday runner.” So far, more than 1,000 have signed up.

Men’s slow-pitch and soccer ramp up, while Bonac tracksters head to the state qualifier meets Friday and Saturday.

While the Maidstone Market still appears to be the team to beat in the 7-on-7 soccer league, it is being challenged by two younger squads.

West of here sits a wonderful golf layout meriting worldwide admiration, Bethpage Black, where Brooks Koepka won the P.G.A. Championship by two strokes over Dustin Johnson on Sunday.

A 5-2 loss last Thursday at Harborfields put East Hampton High School’s boys tennis team out of the county tournament in the quarterfinal round.

Bonac’s baseball and softball programs are in the midst of rebuilding their teams from Little League on up.

Matt Maya, an East Hampton High School senior, broke the school’s 400 intermediate hurdles record at Hewlett High School’s Bulldog Invitational Saturday.

It’s that men’s slow-pitch softball time of year again. Get your rundown of that and other locals sports action right here.

East Hampton High’s top three singles players, and its top doubles team, are headed for this weekend’s county individual tournament at Half Hollow Hills West in Dix Hills.

A first-timer wins the Hither Hills trails half-marathon at Montauk’s Ed Ecker County Park, while Ryan Fowkes leads Bonac’s tracksters at St. Anthony’s invitational.

The South Fork Islanders, a combined team coached by Matt Babb of Southampton High, beat Brentwood 9-6 here last Thursday and now have a record of 2-10.

Ryan Fowkes, Bonac’s top distance runner, who’s headed to George Washington University on a partial running scholarship in the fall, won the 2,000-meter race at Port Jefferson’s Steeple Fest Plus late last month.

Despite being bageled by the St. Anthony’s Friars, an undefeated senior-loaded rugby side, the Section XI Warriors “were scrappy as hell,” Kevin Bunce, a co-coach of the team, said. “I think we played really good. We didn’t quit.”

Bonac boys host Amityville at the track on Friday, the Hither Hills Trails Half-Marathon is Saturday in Montauk, and the baseball team faces Rocky Point here on Tuesday.

A look back at the exploits of the future major leaguer Ross Gload.

A look back at the exploits of the future major leaguer Ross Gload.

Vinny Alversa, Bonac’s coach, used four pitchers against Shoreham-Wading River, a perennial baseball power from which a couple of major leaguers have come, and all four pitched well.