Sports

As we have now formally settled into fall, the changes on the fishing scene have commenced, as have the changes in weather.

Catching up with East Hampton girls tennis, girls swimming, and boys and girls cross-country.

“It was a great game,” Don McGovern, the Bonac boys soccer coach, said of an East Hampton and Amityville tilt through 80 minutes of regulation and two 10-minute overtimes.

A report on East Hampton's fall sports seasons, all now in full swing in football, girls swimming, girls tennis, boys cross-country, field hockey, and boys volleyball.

“It wasn’t a beautiful game,” Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, said on leaving the field after last Thursday’s 2-0 loss — the first of the league season for the Bonackers — to Half Hollow Hills West.

Last winter Bryan Wish, the coach of the Peconic Hockey Foundation’s U-12 hockey team, said he intended to enter a freshman team in Suffolk County’s high school hockey league come the fall, and, indeed, that has come to pass.

There's been plenty of whale action visible from the beaches, and it's been a stellar week for inshore and offshore fishing, with fluke, striped bass, porgy galore, and tuna farther out.

Liam Knight, who recently competed with the U.S. team in the world lifesaving championships in Australia, said in an email this week that “it was amazing to see lifesaving as a sport in which people from all over the world engage.”

A team of four long-distance swimmers recently accomplished a relay-style open-water swim from Montauk Point to Block Island. Drew Harvey, Michal Petrzela, Jeremy Grosvenor, and Spencer Schneider combined for 15.8 miles by taking a wide, S-shaped route.

East Hampton High’s boys soccer team defeated Eastport-South Manor 5-1 in its season-opener here on Sept. 4, as Don McGovern, Bonac’s coach, subbed in earnest.

I had a nice chuckle watching an episode of “Gilligan’s Island” in which Gilligan, in his inevitable white bucket hat, hauled in a lobster trap from the overly warm, tropical lagoon (a stage studio out in Los Angeles).

After a season-opener loss to Shoreham-Wading River last week, the Bonac field hockey team reworked its lineup and beat Greenport-Southold 6-0.

Tryouts for the Hurricanes, a competitive youth swimming program at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, are set for Monday and Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m.

East Hampton High School varsity sports competition was to have begun in earnest this week, with the football, girls tennis, girls soccer, boys soccer, field hockey, boys volleyball, and golf teams all scheduled to have seen action as of Thursday evening.

The summer 7-on-7 men’s soccer league’s championship seems to be a tossup given the fact that the top four teams went into the playoffs this week on virtually an even keel.

The Lars Simenson Skatepark in Montauk is a gathering place for skaters young and old(er), tall and small, as exemplified on Saturday, when people of all ages and genders from across Long Island, even up to Brooklyn, gathered there for the fourth annual Montauk Skate Contest.

This was a weird summer. We witnessed it all, from epic rainfall to sustained heat waves to jungle-like humidity. On the fishing scene, anglers are looking forward to the change of seasons.

The sky on Grand Prix Sunday, which caps the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton, was uncustomarily gray, and, for the first time anyone could remember, a light rain fell as 40 horse-and-rider entries vying for the $132,000 winner’s share of the $400,000 Longines purse traversed a tough, sinuous 17-effort course that posed problems just about everywhere.

“For me, it was one of the most challenging — grueling at parts — but challenging things I’ve ever done. And yet, it was one of the most exhilarating and euphoric when it was over,” Bennett Schmidt of East Hampton said of his participation in the 434-mile Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI.

Over the past three decades, Paul Annacone, a native of East Hampton, has become one of the most sought-after tennis coaches on the professional circuit, now with Taylor Fritz, who may be on the verge of a title.

Katie Osiecki, North Bar’s pitcher, returned for the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball league’s playoffs, and immediately made her presence known, leading her team to a trophy at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

The trails are mapped today, but when two former college classmates began their horseback rides on them decades ago, without maps or smartphones to guide them, the goal was to find a path that stretched through the woods and reached the edge of the ocean. With an expanded group of women, they are still exploring the trails today.

The Hampton Classic began early Sunday with leadline classes for 2-through-7-year-olds aboard ponies as a three-time Olympian, Joe Fargis, watched them pass back and forth, posing questions having to do with horsemanship.

I was surprised to see in my logbook that my lobster catch was better than expected this year, although lobsters in our local waters have been on a downswing for decades.

Sunday’s main event at the Hampton Classic, the $30,000 Open Jumper Challenge, was won by Sydney Shulman Desiderio and Villamoura, topping a field of 41.

In what possibly was the longest Artists and Writers Softball Game ever played, the Artists wound up prevailing 11-10 in the bottom of the 12th inning at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park Saturday before a sizable crowd.

Some 1,600 riders and horses, Olympians among them, are to begin strutting their stuff at the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton on Sunday.

Sergey Avramenko, a native of Belarus who lives in Hampton Bays, topped a field of 716 at Ellen’s Run in Southampton Sunday in support of the Ellen Hermanson Foundation’s work here to diagnose and treat breast cancer.

A trip to the North Fork to pick up 1,000 oyster spat from the Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Center means it was time to replenish my North Haven stock.

Coming this weekend are Paddlers for Humanity’s Montauk Point to Block Island paddle and the Southampton Village Ocean Rescue squad’s long-distance swims at Cooper’s Beach Saturday morning, the Artists and Writers Softball Game at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park that afternoon, and Ellen’s Run at the Southampton Intermediate School on Sunday morning.