Sports

Soccer is one of those games in which the better team often doesn’t win, as East Hampton’s girls and boys both saw in the past week at home.

For the first time in a long time East Hampton High’s boys and girls cross-country teams were front and center here on Sept. 10, running two loops around the high school against their Mount Sinai peers.

The first Amagansett Mile is Saturday, while Bonac J.V. football returns to action Monday, and there’s soccer, field hockey, and volleyball at home Tuesday.

A century of sports car racing in Bridgehampton, on the roads and at the track, now the site of The Bridge golf club, was celebrated last weekend in a well-attended concours d’elegance show of vintage, antique, and classic autos at the Bridgehampton Museum.

Pickleball’s back at E.H. Indoor-Outdoor, with clinics, and the weekend of Sept. 28 offers long-distance races in Montauk and Southampton.

East Hampton High’s boys and girls volleyball teams enjoyed back-to-back wins here last Thursday and Friday, besting Center Moriches in the boys’ case and Miller Place in the girls’.

An update on Kevin Babington, the rider severely injured at the Hampton Classic, badminton continues in Amagansett Monday nights, and the Amagansett Mile is set for Sept. 21.

The water was choppy, the bike ride was hilly and at times windy, but the cloudy and cool weather was much to everyone’s liking at the Steve Tarpinian Memorial Mighty Hamptons Triathlon in Noyac Sunday.

Just about all of the high school’s 11 teams ought to be competitive, though the football program remains on shaky ground.

High school sports ramp up, with the Bonac boys and girls volleyball teams at home Thursday and Friday, and the cross-country squads heading to Sunken Meadow State Park on Saturday for the first time this fall.

East Hampton High School’s junior varsity football team debuted here Monday with a 28-8 win over Babylon, a school that has perennially fielded strong varsity teams.

Frank Ackley of Springs continued to climb the ladder in his United States Tennis Association age group by reaching the semifinal round of the U.S.T.A.’s national Level 1 grass court championships at the Philadelphia Cricket Club recently.