Rowing, Anyone?
There will be two events on the East End this weekend for rowers, a snowflake regatta on the Peconic River in Riverhead Sunday, and a Brewathlon, with ergometer-rowing, biking, and running legs, in Montauk Saturday.
The Riverhead-based East End Rowing Institute is playing host to Sunday’s regatta, which, according to William Hale, is expecting 100 or so entries from 10 rowing clubs, including Lee Oldak’s Sag Harbor Community Rowing.
The regatta, with its launching area at Riverhead’s downtown parking lot, is to have 3,000-meter (1.8-mile) races for eights, fours, quads, doubles/pairs, and singles. It’s to begin at 8 a.m. and end “at around 2 p.m.,” Hale said.
Caroline Cashin, the Brewathlon’s director, said 12 teams had entered as of Monday, including Neil Falkenhan’s defending-champion Cobra Command team. Last year, the Brewathlon drew 33 teams initially, a number pared to 23 on race day because of two rain-caused postponements.
Soccer Playoff Loss
East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, which finished the regular season at 7-6-3 as the result of a 1-1 tie with Hauppauge here on Oct. 22, lost a first-round playoff game at Elwood-John Glenn Monday owing to a goal by the home team with three minutes left in the second sudden-death overtime period.
Glenn, which took an 11-5 record into the playoffs, and East Hampton played evenly throughout on a soggy field, said East Hampton’s coach, Don McGovern. “We had some bounces that did not go our way, they had one that did,” he said.