Sports

The Robert J. Aaron Memorial Mighty Montauk Triathlon and the Montauk Mile are to be contested this weekend, the triathlon Saturday morning at 7:30, the run on Sunday starting at 10:30.

From the softball diamond to the track, a trip down a sporting memory lane.

Seven Black South Fork basketball coaches, outstanding mentors from Bridgehampton, Southampton, and East Hampton, who, while growing up, were in turn mentored by outstanding coaches of a previous generation, were honored at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center on Saturday for their “many efforts which have changed lives on and off the court.”

The Bridgehampton-Ross School baseball team, in only its second season as a varsity squad since its return from a 43-year hiatus, is set to play Chapel Field High School in upstate Saugerties on Saturday in a regional playoff game.

Meredith Spolarich, a Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School senior competing for East Hampton High School’s girls track-and-field team, won the Suffolk County Class B pentathlon championship last Thursday in Kings Park on the strength of first-place finishes in the high jump, long jump, and shot-put.

Jiu-jitsu is now a full-fledged elective class at the Ross School in East Hampton, taught in trimesters of 10 weeks at a time by Virva Hinnemo of Springs.

“Oh man, there are striped bass and bluefish everywhere,” Paul Apostolides said from behind his countertop. “The action has been truly fantastic. More people need to take advantage of it.”

It happened here, sports fans.

On a “Big Day,” birding is just about numbers. It is spent, dawn to dusk, in search of birds; the goal to see as many different species as possible. May 13 was Global Big Day. The goal is always to find 100 species: We’ve never gotten there.

As the Bonackers battle on in the tennis playoffs, the Ross School Ravens won the county’s small schools championship last week, defeating the top seed, Bayport-Blue Point.

The Bonackers’ Meredith Spolarich amassed 1,554 points, more than any of her competitors, in the pentathlon field events at Ward Melville High School on May 21.

The top-seeded Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School baseball team was ousted from the county playoffs 6-3 by the Port Jefferson Royals in the May 19 finale contested before a large crowd at Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park.