Madison Hoops Tourney

The boys basketball teams of East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Southampton, and Mattituck High Schools will vie in the Kendall Madison Tip-Off tournament at East Hampton’s gym tomorrow and Saturday.

Bridgehampton (which defeated Babylon 74-47 in its debut Monday) and Southampton are to get it going at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, with Mattituck and East Hampton following at 7. On Saturday, Bridgehampton is to play Mattituck at 5:30 and Southampton and East Hampton are to play at 7. 

Junior varsity games are to be played as well, all but Saturday’s 1 p.m. game between East Hampton and Mattituck at the East Hampton Middle School. The Greenport and Southampton jayvees are to play there at 6 p.m. today. Tomorrow, Bridgehampton and Southampton’s jayvees are to play at 4:30, with Mattituck and Greenport to play at 6.

The daily admission fee will be $5. The Kendall Madison Foundation provides four-year mentoring scholarships to selected East Hampton High School seniors each year.

Volleyball Honors

Kathy McGeehan, East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball coach, has been named as League VI’s coach of the year by the Suffolk County Volleyball Coaches Association. 

In addition, Mikela Junemann was named as player of the year in League VI, was named to the all-county team, and was fifth team all-state; Nicole Cummings was named as the league’s junior varsity coach of the year; Junemann and Molly Mamay were named to the all-tournament team; Elle Johnson was named to the all-classification team and was fifth team all-state; Mamay, Ella Gurney, Nicole Realmuto, and Madyson Neff were named to the all-league team, and Connie Chan and Erin Decker were all-county academic.

Thursday, December 6

BOWLING, Rocky Point vs. East Hampton, All Star Lanes, Riverhead, 4 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Kendall Madison Tip-Off tournament, junior varsity, Greenport vs. Southampton, East Hampton Middle School, 6 p.m.

Friday, December 7

GIRLS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 4 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL, Kendall Madison Tip-Off tournament, varsity, Bridgehampton vs. Southampton, 5:30 p.m., and Mattituck vs. East Hampton, 7, East Hampton High School.

Saturday, December 8

BOYS BASKETBALL, Kendall Madison Tip-Off tournament, junior varsity, Mattituck vs. East Hampton, 1 p.m.; varsity, Bridgehampton vs. Mattituck, 5:30, and Southampton vs. East Hampton, 7, East Hampton High School.

Tuesday, December 11

BOWLING, East Hampton vs. Riverhead, All Star Lanes, Riverhead, 4:30 p.m. 

BOYS BASKETBALL, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL, Elwood-John Glenn at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

Wednesday, December 12

WRESTLING, West Babylon at East Hampton, 6:15 p.m.

A squad of masters swimmers from the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter registered a number of impressive finishes at the Dr. Bill Ross Memorial Masters (18-and-over) meet at the Nassau County Aquatic Center last month.

Among the local Y’s competitors, whose ages ranged from 30 to 77, were:

Angelika Cruz, who won her age group’s 50-meter butterfly and the 200-meter individual medley, placed second in the 100 I.M. and 100 freestyle, and was a member, along with Tim Treadwell, the squad’s coach, Mike Bottini, and Andrey Trigubovich, of the 160-199-year-old 200 free relay. (Treadwell said in an email that the ages of the quartet from here equaled 196.)

Ellen Clark, who won her age group’s 50, 100, and 200-meter butterfly races, and placed second in the 100 breaststroke.

Dick Monahan, the team’s senior member, who won the 100 backstroke, the 100 free, the 200 free, the 400 free, and the 800 free.

Bottini, who was first in the 200 I.M., second in the 200 breaststroke and in the 400 I.M., was third in the 100 free and the 50 breast, and, as mentioned above, was a member of the winning 200 free relay team.

Kelly McKee, who was second in the 100 free and third in the 50 fly.

Treadwell, who, aside from being a member of the winning 200 free relay team, was first in the 50 breast and third in the 100 free.

Mike Wootton, who won the 50 free and 50 back, placed second in the 100 free, and was third in the 100 I.M.

Trigubovich, who won the 50 fly, and, as aforesaid, was a member of the winning 200 free relay team.

Joe Viviani, who was second in the 50 breaststroke.

And Ed Mulderrig, who was third in the 50 breast. 

“Our showing provides proof that swimming is a lifelong sport,” said Treadwell, who oversees masters swim sessions at the Y here. 

The meet raised money for pancreatic cancer research. Both of its honorees, Dr. Ross and Terry Laughlin — for whom a relay was named — were lifelong top-flight swimmers in the metro area until they died of pancreatic cancer in their mid-60s. 

Treadwell, who oversees a masters meet at the home of Bill and Dominique Kahn in East Hampton each summer to raise money for the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, lost his mother to the disease, as, he said, did Wootton.

There were, said Treadwell, 151 competitors at the meet, ranging in age from 18 to 88.

In related news, Craig Brierley, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys swimming team, said this week that the team’s captains, chosen by their teammates, are Ryan Bahel, Ryan Duryea, Ethan McCormac, and Jordan Uribe. 

A Maroon and Gray intrasquad meet — won by the Maroon team 53-48 — was held at the Y Saturday morning, followed by a breakfast provided by the swimmers’ parents. 

Brierley said Nicky Badilla was named by Bahel and Duryea as the Gray team’s swimmer of the meet; Callum Menelaws was named by the Maroon team’s captains, McCormac and Uribe, as its swimmer of the meet.

East Hampton’s season was to have begun here yesterday with Ward Melville, a nonleague opponent. A new scoreboard, donated by the East Hampton Kiwanis Club, was to have been dedicated before the meet began.

Sas Peters of Amagansett, who has extended the competitive career of Ultimate Disc players many years by founding three divisions for men and women — grand masters (over-40), great grand masters (over-50), and legends (over-60) — won a silver medal recently, as a member of Surly, a great grand masters team, in the national Ultimate championships in Sarasota, Fla.

Surly, he said during a conversation the other day at The Star, was a Minneapolis-based team, “with a few ringers from out of state.”

Surly and the Boston-based Death or Glory, whose players, Peters said, were six-time national champs earlier in their careers, locked horns in Sarasota.

“We beat them 15-11 the first time out, but in the final on Sunday, unfortunately, they beat us 15-13. It could have gone either way, but we made some throwing errors and they converted.” (In Ultimate, a thrown disc that hits the ground results in a turnover.)

“There were several great teams there, but Death or Glory was really amazing.”

The gold medalists had several ringers too, New Yorkers who formerly played with Peters’s team. “What can I say?” he said, with a smile. “I’m a ringer too.”

All summer long he had played “against 20-year-olds,” the 62-year-old Peters said when asked how he was able to continue playing in the younger divisions. “I ride a stationary bike, lift weights, do plyometrics, the German sprint drills. That’s the reason, by the way, that East Germany, a tiny country, was able to dominate in the sprints for years. The drills involve skipping, hopping, jumping, and sprinting. They enable us old white guys to jump three feet in the air and to sprint like 20-year-olds.”

“It’s so important that we keep it up, not only for our bodies, but also for our brains. Aging athletes have an advantage over their peers who are sedentary. . . . Most of the games last an hour and a half to two hours, and in these tournaments you play three games a day, seven on a team, playing offense and defense.”

The multi-division national tournament in Sarasota — Peters’s team won the great grand masters division last year — was, he said, the season’s penultimate one, the Turkey Bowl in Bridgeport, Conn., over the Thanksgiving weekend being the last. 

When told that the silver medal he wore to the interview looked like gold in the office’s light, Peters said, “I wish it was.”

He would continue, he said, to “break barriers” insofar as extending the competitive lives of Ultimate Disc aficionados. “I’m working with U.S.A. Ultimate to include a demonstration legends [over-60] division in the national championships next year. Everybody wants to play this [non-refereed] sport [whose players acknowledge their fouls] — we need this. We don’t slam each other into the ground or cavort ridiculously after we score the way they do in football. . . .”

Every year, the week before Memorial Day, Peters, who has won numerous national and international titles, oversees an Ultimate Disc tournament for the three older divisions he founded on the John M. Marshall Elementary School fields. “This was its 19th year,” he said. Play in all of the aforementioned divisions “began here, in East Hampton,” he said. “East Hampton’s where it all began. . . . Ultimate is the fastest-growing team sport there is, and East Hampton is at the center of its growth. We held the first grand masters tournament here 15 years ago, and now there are world championship and  national championship tournaments for these teams.”

Ultimate has not been Peters’s only sport: Trained by Andre de Leyer, Joe Fargis, and Conrad Homfeld — the latter two Olympian medalists — he rode horses competitively for a decade when he was younger, he said, on the Northeast jumper circuit. 

“I still ride, on a sweet old guy, a paint named Merlin, at Rita’s Stables in Montauk. He has one blue and one yellow eye. We gallop on the beach at Ditch Plains late in the late afternoon light, which is spectacular.”

Anthony Piscitello’s wrestlers, several of them new to the sport, were thrown into the fire at East Hampton’s Frank (Sprig) Gardner invitational tournament Saturday, and while the team finished last, the third-year coach said his charges (he’s got 16 on the squad) “did pretty well.”

The tourney was held a week earlier than in the past, which effectively prevented some of the Bonackers from wrestling at the lighter weights they would settle into in the near future, he said.

Three, for instance — Marco Rabanal, Brian Barrera, and Carson Tompkins — were bunched in the 160-pound division; two — Danny Suculanda and Alejandro Pantosian — were at 152; two — Brahian Usma and David Alvarez — were at 145; two — Ben Barris and Caleb Peralta — were at 132, while East Hampton had no entries in the 99, 113, 120, 126, 138, 195, or 220-pound divisions.

During the season, Piscitello, who is subbing at the high school now and is free therefore to promote wrestling in the halls, expects to have three holes — at 99, 113, and 195. 

The main thing, he said, was to give his charges as many chances to wrestle this winter as he can, which meant giving preference to dual-meet tournaments over individual ones, “where you might go one-and-out and have to sit in the stands for the rest of the day.”

East Hampton had three fourth-place finishers in Saturday’s tourney, named after “the father of New York State wrestling,” who coached briefly at East Hampton High School in the early 1930s before leading Mepham to storied heights, after which he retired here.

The fourth-place finishers were Santi Maya, at 106, David Peralta, at 182, and Aniello Facendola, at 285. 

Maya lost 11-5 to the defending Division II county champion, Bayport-Blue Point’s Joe Sparacio, in a quarterfinal-round match, just missing a pin in the third period — a result that left him shaking his head afterward. “There was no shame in the loss,” Piscitello said. “He had the kid on his back and the kid rolled through. Santi went 2-2 in the wrestlebacks. He’s only a freshman — he’s got a very, very bright future.”

Peralta, a first-year senior, one of several such on the team, “is raw, but strong, like Danny Villa, who wrestled for me last year. He’ll be good. I wish he’d come out two years ago. . . . He’s very coachable — he’ll get better.”

Caleb Peralta, a freshman, placed fifth at 132, avenging himself in the wrestlebacks on a Hampton Bays wrestler, River Orlando, who had defeated him in the first round of the main draw. “There were only 11 kids in Caleb’s bracket, but he got to wrestle five matches — that’s what I’m looking for,” said Piscitello.

Ben Barris, a sophomore, also wrestled at 132. “He’s a tough kid — he’ll do better at 126,” East Hampton’s coach said.

Usma, who was “one match shy of all-league last year,” went 0-2 at 145. “He was in the same boat as Santi — he had the other kid on his back, but the kid rolled through.” Bonac’s other 145 entry, David Alvarez, was “a first-year wrestler, but he’s learning quickly.”

Suculanda, a first-year senior, had the misfortune, said the coach, of wrestling the 152-pound division’s top seed, Danny Horton of Bayport-Blue Point, in the first round.

At 160, Rabanal, a senior who’s been helping Piscitello with recruiting this year, and Barrera wrestled each other for fifth place, with Rabanal prevailing 4-3. Tompkins, a freshman, the other East Hampton entry in that division, went 0-2, but “has a bright future if he sticks with it.”

Sebastian Cruceta, a first-year senior who wrestled at 170 Saturday, “will 

become more confident when he wrestles at 160.”

Ward Melville won the tournament, followed by Westhampton Beach, Longwood, Bayport-Blue Point, Hampton Bays, and East Hampton.

East Hampton’s first league meet will be here on Wednesday with West Babylon, a team it defeated last season.

After the first five and a half innings of the East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch fall league final at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett on Nov. 13, Uihlein’s led Marcello’s Masonry 7-6, having overcome a 6-4 deficit with three runs in the top of the sixth.

But then, as so often happens with teams playing Marcello’s, the roof fell in, consigning Uihlein’s, which had lost in four to Marcello’s in the summer league’s best-of-five final, to what is becoming its customary bridesmaid role.

Things might have gone better for Uihlein’s had Jim Hansen, its regular pitcher, not been sidelined midway through the fall season because of toe surgery. Todd Smith, an outfielder, stepped in for Hansen, and did admirably, but Smith said when questioned following the finale that “I would have loved to have had Jim here tonight.”

Marcello’s, with Chris Pfund, Dustin Lightcap, and Tom Thorsen in the lineup, packs a lot of punch, but there were no home runs on the 13th, owing perhaps to a brisk wind that was slanting toward right field, and the restricted flight ball that is used in slow-pitch games here nowadays.

Ray Wojtusiak, Marcello’s player-manager, pitched, as he usually does, for the winners, and kept Uihlein’s in check more or less through its first four at-bats.

A double play got Wojtusiak out of the top of the first after Austin Bahns, Uihlein’s leadoff hitter, had drawn a walk and his brother, Steve, following a force play at second, had singled.

Marcello’s also went down without a run in its half, but, in the second, the Masons went up 1-0, Wojtusiak driving in Tyler Aposian, the catcher, from second base after Aposian, with one out, had singled and moved up on a flyout by Diego Palomo.

An opposite-field two-run triple to the base of the fence in right by Lightcap upped Marcello’s lead to 3-0 going into the top of the fourth. Uihlein’s got one back in its half thanks to a bases-loaded hit by Smith, who batted 10th in the lineup, and would have had more had not two runners been thrown out at the plate.

The Masons, with Joe Ferraro, the leadoff hitter, and Hayden Ward getting the r.b.i.s — Ward driving in two with a double — made it 6-1 in the bottom of the fourth, after which Uihlein’s came back with three runs of its own in the bottom half, Patrick Silich and Jim McMullan driving in two of them.

Smith set the Masons down in the bottom of the fifth, inducing Pfund to fly out, Lightcap to ground out, and, after Aposian had singled, Palomo to fly out.

Erica Silich, the ninth hitter, led off Uihlein’s sixth with a single, a slow roller that Wojtusiak could not make a play on. Smith then hit a grounder to Hayden Ward at third, but Sonny Sireci, Marcello’s second baseman, dropped Ward’s throw at second base, allowing Silich to alight safely. Austin Bahns drew a walk, loading the bases with no outs. 

A subsequent sacrifice fly by Anthony Daunt plated his wife, after which a hit by Steve Bahns tied it up. Trying also to score on the play, Austin Bahns was cut down at the plate, but Patrick Silich, with two outs and Steve Bahns on second, drove the latter in with the go-ahead run. Andy Silich, Pat and Erica’s father, and the Bahns brothers’ uncle (not to mention Anthony Daunt’s father-in-law), popped out to Hayden Ward, ending the inning, but Uihlein’s, as aforesaid, had grabbed the lead, at 7-6.

Then, as also aforesaid, the roof fell in. With the bases loaded and one out, Ward tied it up with a hard base hit. Thorsen returned the lead to Marcello’s with a sac fly, after which Pfund drove in another with a long double to left-center that hit off the fence. An error by Daunt at shortstop allowed Marcello’s 10th run to score. Acosian, with his third hit of the night, Palomo, as the result of another error by Daunt, and Wojtusiak, as the result of a dribbler that went unclaimed, upped the margin even further, to 13-7. 

Marcello’s wasn’t done yet, however. John Ward, the first baseman (and Hayden’s father), drove in two runs, for 15-7, and Ferraro knocked in one more, effectively putting the game out of reach at 16-7. 

The bases were loaded and two were out when Austin Bahns came to the plate in Uihlein’s last at-bat, but Thorsen, who was playing in shallow right, easily gathered in Bahns’s line drive that was hit right to him.

“We match up pretty well,” the elder Silich said afterward. “We’ll get them next year.”

Marcello’s got to the final by soundly defeating the Corner Bar (Rob Nicoletti’s team) in one of the semifinals, benefiting from “four or five home runs,” according to Silich. Uihlein’s bested McGuire’s Landscaping 10-6 in the other semifinal.

Last Thursday, with its mix of rain and snow, seemed a good time to talk with the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, Joe Vas, about winter sports.

To begin with, bowling, after an absence of four or so years, is back, thanks in large part, Vas said, to Scott Rubenstein, who is letting the team practice at the Clubhouse at East Hampton Indoor Tennis. Mike Vitulli is coaching the coed team, along with Anthony Roza.

Because the string pinsetting system the Clubhouse uses has yet to be officially sanctioned nationwide, the team’s home matches will be played at the All Star bowling lanes in Riverhead.

Vitulli, who’s overseeing a squad of about 15 boys and girls, said of Scott and Holly Rubenstein, “They’ve been fantastic . . . great.”

“Scott is amazing,” Vas said, “and not only for what he’s done for us, by letting our tennis teams, and now our bowling team, practice at his club, but he’s a true Bonacker who really loves this place. . . . We’re thrilled that bowling is back. It’s one of those lifetime activities, like tennis and golf, that we’re happy to promote.”

Speaking of golf, the A.D. said that Turner Foster, East Hampton’s number-one player, who won the county championship as a sophomore and was the runner-up last year and this, was to sign on Tuesday a letter of intent to attend Loyola University in Maryland. The golf team shared the league championship this fall.

That feat was noted, Vas said, at a fall athletic awards ceremony on Nov. 13, as were the facts that the girls swimming and girls volleyball teams had gone through league seasons undefeated.

The following won M.V.P., most improved, and coach’s awards that night: Ryan Fowkes, Luke Tyrell, and Avery Martinsen, boys cross-country; Ava 

Engstrom, Bella Tarbet, and Sydney Salamy, girls cross-country; Catherine Wicker, Tia Weiss, and Rorey Murphy, field hockey; Turner Foster, Trevor Stachecki, and Nate Wright, golf.

Kurt Matthews, Matthew McGovern, and Anthony Quito Huanga, boys soccer; Lucy Short, Lillian Minskoff, and Valeria Marin Suarez, girls soccer; Sophia Swanson, Oona Foulser, and Emma Wiltshire, girls swimming; Rebecca Kuperschmid, Kaylee Mendelman, and Annelise Mendelman, girls tennis; Logan Gurney, Luc Campbell, and Henry Garneau, boys volleyball, and Elle Johnson, Erin Decker, and Ella Gurney, girls volleyball.

Dan White will be in his third year as the varsity boys basketball coach, and, as was the case year, he’s being assisted by Marcus Edwards. Joe McKee and Howard Wood, an S.E.C. “Legend” who played at the University of Tennessee before turning pro, are again coaching the junior varsity. 

Krista Brooks, who coached the girls basketball team some years ago, has returned as that team’s coach, replacing Kelly McKee. Nicole Fierro is her assistant.

“Thirty-two are trying out,” Vas said when asked how the girls team’s numbers were. He had heard, he added, that there were some good young players in the pipeline. 

Kaelyn Ward, inarguably one of the best female players ever to come out of East Hampton, is coaching now at St. John the Baptist.

The boys finished at 8-8 in league play and 10-10 over all last winter, and made the playoffs, losing 92-89 in triple overtime to John Glenn in a Class A outbracket game, a game in which Jack Reese, East Hampton’s senior point guard, who’s now playing at Baruch, scored a team-leading 24 points.

That team, which had on it a half-dozen juniors and sophomores, was “one step away from being a legitimate playoff contender,” White said following the riveting outbracket loss, adding that he expected Malachi Miller, Max Proctor, Turner Foster, Jeremy Vizcaino, and Bladimir Rodriguez Garces all to return for the 2018-19 season.

As for boys swimming, Craig Brierley, the coach, told Vas on the first day of practice (Nov. 13) that “the pool is full.”

“I think he’s pushing 40 kids,” the athletic director said.

Meanwhile, Brierley left here last Thursday for the Nov. 16 and 17 state girls swimming meet in Ithaca with four qualifiers — Swanson, Foulser, Julia Brierley, and Jane Brierley — as well as an alternate, Darcy McFarland.

The numbers in boys and girls winter track were good too, Vas added — “about 20 in each.” Ben Turnbull and Yani Cuesta have returned as the coaches.

Wrestling, whose numbers have been rather low lately, is to have 16 to 17 on the varsity, “about the same as last year.” Anthony Piscitello, the head coach, will have Bryan Mott and Jim Stewart, the varsity’s former longtime coach, as his assistants.

East Hampton’s Frank (Sprig) Gardner wrestling tournament is to be held here on Saturday, Dec. 1. The Kendall Madison Foundation boys basketball tournament, with varsity teams from East Hampton, Southampton, Bridgehampton, and Mattituck, is to be contested here on Dec. 7 and 8.

Bridgehampton and Southampton are to play at 5:30 on the 7th, followed by East Hampton and Mattituck. Bridgehampton is to play Mattituck at 5:30 the next night, with East Hampton and Southampton to follow.

Because Bridgehampton doesn’t have a junior varsity, that tournament, to be played on Dec. 6, 7, and 8 at the East Hampton Middle School, will include Greenport with the above-mentioned schools.

Chris Pfund, when he began Friday morning to talk about the looming end of the Montauk Bike Shop, which he is liquidating after 31 years, choked up a bit.

“But,” he said, “I have been very fortunate. I’ve been able to make a living while following my passions. I first began working on rental bikes and mopeds when I was 8 and my father had a hardware store here. So it will be one less sandbox to play in: I’ll still have my sound company and EventPower,” a triathlon promotion company that he heads, along with his wife, Christina Fatsis, and Vicki and Pete Ventura. “And I’ll continue to give corporate bike tours. But it’s the end of an era. . . . It’s sad.”

“The store’s been here since 1963, and we began renting out bikes from the very beginning,” Pfund continued. “Kevin Koltz, who was putting himself through college, had the idea. He supplied hardware stores from Westhampton to Montauk with bikes that summer people would ride, three-speed English racers, and split the profits. It was a good idea. People were a lot more active then. He’d come around and maintain them once a month.” 

“We were the first out here to have bikes and surfboards for rent, and custom T-shirts, and umbrellas and chairs and mopeds. . . . We had 30 or 40 bikes to begin with, and when the hardware store was liquidated in 1999, we spun into bikes.”

When this writer said he remembered fondly riding an American Flyer through the streets of Pittsburgh as a preteen in the early 1950s, Pfund motioned him down to the basement storeroom where, in the back, were, among many other bikes hanging from ceiling racks, two of them.

He, himself, used to ride a bike all the time as a youngster, he said, with a guitar on his back that every now and then he’d play while riding along. There were photos of him doing that, he said in answer to a question, but not immediately at hand.

Kids weren’t riding bikes anymore, he said, and that was to a great degree why he’d made the decision finally to close the Montauk Bike Shop down.

“I used to teach classes on cycling at the high school, for about seven years, and there were kids, at least one or two per class, who had no idea how to ride one! The people you see riding along the shoulders are all older — the younger generation isn’t doing it. It’s not just Montauk, it’s countrywide. The cycling industry is taking big hits. It’s the same in triathlons and golf. Ask Tom Dess at the [Montauk Downs] golf course. He says you can easily get a tee time there in July.”

He had been trying for a couple of years to turn his business around, trying to make it work, “but all the hotels have fleets of 20 of their own bikes now and give them out to their guests for free. Rentals had been our cornerstone. How do you compete? Their insurance must be expensive, I know it is for me, and they’re not even giving them helmets! I’ve tried to make up for it with sales, but it’s not been enough.”

Pfund said he had missed just one day of riding, mostly off-road, on his mountain bike, in the past nine years. He’s been a triathlete since 1984, “and,” he said with a smile, “I always finish fourth.”

“Just out of the money.”

“Just out of the money . . . usually by seconds. My wife will say, ‘Did you do your job?’ ‘Yes,’ I’ll say, ‘I got fourth place.’ I did get second once, at the Schiff [boy scout] reservation in Wading River, in an off-the-road duathlon — run, bike, run. I’d been hit by a car on my bike three days before and broke three ribs. My brother Kurt and I decided to do it anyway. I did the runs, Kurt, who was out of shape, did the bike. I was third in on the first run, and Kurt didn’t lose any time on the bike, so I had to go for it. I swallowed some aspirin and went crazy on the last leg and came in second.”

Yes, he agreed, there were still bike shops in East Hampton and Sag Harbor and Southampton, “but Montauk is different. It closes down about now. You do the summer thing, you make money and you’re feeling fat at around Thanksgiving time before you start sweating buckets again. . . . If I could figure out how to keep this place going I would, but I can’t do one more winter with this place open.”

There were, he thought, about 100 bikes, all brand-new, in the store. He had sold a bunch the day before, including one to Kai Costanzo, whom he sponsored when Costanzo, then 19, set a record in the Montauk Lighthouse triathlon that still stands. Pfund said he expected this past weekend to be busy. A liquidator is overseeing the sell-off.

The family, he said, owns the building. He would be seeking a tenant, “somebody who wants to move in on January 1.”

He wouldn’t move to Charlottesville, Va., as his mother and brother had, he said in answer to a question. “I love Montauk, especially in the winter. If it’s snowing I’ll go cross-country skiing or mountain biking . . . and you don’t have to talk to anybody. It’s the spring I hate,” he said with a smile. “March and April are nasty.”

November 18, 1993

Ellamae Gurney, the right wing, whose goal enabled East Hampton High’s field hockey team to upset the high-riding Miller Place Panthers in the county small schools final, came through again in Saturday’s Long Island championship game with Carle Place, netting a corner-play shot five minutes before halftime. And that proved to be all Bonac needed to keep the Frogs from turning into a Final Four team.

Tom McGlade, a 29-year-old triathlete who lives part time in Amagansett, made a notable marathon debut in New York on Sunday.

Despite an inevitably slow start amid the crush of 27,000-plus bodies coming off the Verrazano Bridge into Brooklyn, McGlade wound up finishing 347th (330th male) in 2 hours, 51 minutes, and 54 seconds.

. . . It was not the fastest New York marathon run by a South Forker — Ray Charron, who now lives in Hawaii, holds the unofficial record at 2:37:33. But McGlade’s time drew plaudits from two veterans: John Conner, a Springs developer who holds the world 55-to-59-year-old indoor mile record (4:53.02), and Cliff Clark of Shelter Island, who trains just about every serious runner out here, of whatever age.

“Spectacular,” said Conner, “considering it probably took him five minutes to get to the line, and considering the heat. When Ray did it, there were about half the people they have now. When I ran, in ’78 and ’79, there were 11,000 and that was a zoo.”

. . . Asked to compare marathoning with triathloning, McGlade said, “A marathon breaks your body down. In a triathlon run, even in the half-Ironman I did, you’re not pounding away at a six-minute pace. It’s a totally different feeling.”

It took McGlade “about 10 minutes to get through the first mile,” and after that, he knew he wouldn’t be able to meet his 2:45 goal. It wasn’t until the second mile that he got into a 6:00-to-6:15 pace.

November 25, 1993

With 29 seconds to go in the first overtime period in a New York State Class C field hockey semifinal played Friday under the lights on Hartwick College’s AstroTurf field, Akron’s Andrea Zurio’s corner-play shot caromed sharply off a defender’s stick, beating Erika Vargas to the right side of the cage, leaving Bonac’s players and faithful (over 200 East Hampton students and parents had made the trip upstate) stunned. 

Sudden victory, sudden death . . . call it what you will, East Hampton’s season was suddenly over.

Bridget Behan’s goal, which tied the score at 1-1 with little more than a minute left in regulation, was her 15th of the season, one shy of Jennifer Vish’s school record. That goal and her “terrific all-around play” that night earned her a berth on the all-state tournament team.

“We played with a lot of heart,” Ellen Cooper, East Hampton’s coach, said. “One thing we have is guts — you can’t take that away from a team. They showed me they had it when they came back. If we’d lost 1-0 in regulation, it would have been devastating, but that goal made everything okay. We dominated the [10-minute] overtime, and lost on a stupid penalty corner. What are you gonna do? In my book, we won.”

Friday, November 30

HALL OF FAME, induction dinner, Bridgehampton High School, 6 p.m.

Saturday, December 1

WRESTLING, Sprig Gardner invitational tournament, East Hampton High School, from 9 a.m.

Sunday, December 2

MEN’S SOCCER, over-30 league, Charruas 1950 vs. Hampton United, Hampton Bays High School, 2 p.m.

Monday, December 3

BOYS BASKETBALL, Pierson at East Hampton, scrimmage, 4:30 p.m.

OMAC PARTY, honorees Dan Farnham, Angelika Cruz, Ryan Fowkes, Rebecca Kuperschmid, and Ethan McCormac, the Palm restaurant, East Hampton, 6-9 p.m.

Tuesday, December 4

BOWLING, East Hampton vs. Sachem, Coram Country Bowl, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 5

BOYS SWIMMING, Ward Melville vs. East Hampton, mandatory nonleague, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5:30 p.m.