Sports

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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.