Three of the top seven finishers in the Shelter Island Fall 5K Saturday were Krauses — Janelle Kraus Nadeau, the first of Cliff Clark’s long-distance stars, and her first cousins, Alex and Alysa Kraus of Fairfield, Conn.

Nadeau is 40 now and is not running competitively at present, most of her energies being devoted to rearing the Nadeaus’ children, Josephine, 7, and Rhys, 5. She does coach cross-country, though, the Montrose School’s girls team in Franklin, Mass., where she, her husband, Bill, and their children live.

The field of more than 500, most of whom ran and some of whom walked on that bright, brisk day, also included Kal Lewis and his Shelter Island High School boys cross-country county-champion teammates, who are coached by Toby Green, a former outstanding Shelter Island cross-country runner himself.

But Lewis, who is the number-one Class D runner and 49th over all in the state at the moment, took his time, as did his teammates, who were told by Green to jog the 3.1-mile course in order to save themselves for the division meet, which was to have been held at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park Tuesday.

Chris Koegel, 35, of Wantagh, whose in-laws live in Sag Harbor, won the race, which benefited three breast cancer efforts on the East End, but he said, after having crossed the Crescent Beach finish line in 17 minutes and 42.90 seconds, that Lewis “would have beat me jogging if he wanted to.”

“This is the last time I can say I beat Kal in a race,” his stepmother, Robin Streck Lewis — who finished 100th in 28:40.09 — said, with a smile.

The aforementioned Alex Kraus, 20, was the runner-up to Koegel, in 19:07.03, and his sister, Alysa, 17, was third, in 19:41.03. Both are students at the University of Connecticut. Janelle Nadeau, who’s going to run soon in the New York City Marathon for the first time, was seventh, in 20:39.33. She was the sixth American at Boston in 2008. 

“Janelle and Bill got married at this race in 2011,” said her father, Chuck Kraus, one of the spectators that day, his right wrist having recently been operated on. “He carried her over the finish line, and then she left to get her hair done.”

Though under orders, Lewis and his cross-country peers — Junior Gil, Jonas Kinsey, Tyler Gulluscio, and Emma Gallagher among them — “took off like crazy,” according to Green, “but then they jogged.”

Most of the group crossed the finish line at the end of a flat almost mile-long stretch along the beach about a half-hour later. Kinsey, unable to restrain himself apparently, placed 11th, in 21:13.70. Lewis, who had won the Manhattan College invitational’s varsity F race in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx the weekend before, finished 130th, in 30:06.38.

Mary Ellen Adipietro, who oversaw the race, as she has done for almost two decades, said she expected the three beneficiaries, the Coalition for Women’s Breast Health at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, the North Fork Breast Health Coalition, and Lucia’s Angels, would realize more than $35,000 from it. Lucia’s Angels, which assists the families of those in the final stages of the disease, memorialized a friend of hers, Lucia Bagan, who died of breast cancer 12 years ago, she said.

Mike Rau, “the voice of Van Cortlandt,” was there, she added, sharing the announcing duties with her husband, Dr. Frank Adipietro. Paul McDowell led the way on a bike, and “a group of guys who’ve been doing this for years” cooked on fire department grills hamburgers and hot dogs, which in turn were served on tables the department had also provided.

She agreed that the 5K course was easier than the Shelter Island 10K, which is held in June, though agreed also that it would be considerably toughened if it began at the bottom of the Crescent Beach hill rather than on the top of it, near the Goat Hill golf course. The 10K’s last two miles are uphill all the way, while the 5K’s last stretch is flat, with a following wind.

East Hampton High’s cross-country runners, boys and girls, were a couple of hours to the west Saturday morning, competing in the New York City Cross-Country Carnival meet at Fordham Prep in the Bronx.

Evan Masi, the best of the dozen freshmen Kevin Barry is carrying on his boys team, won the jayvee race over a 2.5-mile course in 14:22. Ryan Fowkes, the team’s top runner, placed 11th in the varsity race, in 13:47.

As for East Hampton’s girls, Diane O’Donnell, their coach, said her team placed fifth among 10 in the varsity race, with Ava Engstrom placing seventh, in 16:27, and Bella Tarbet ninth, in 16:39, followed by Mimi Fowkes (21:33), Sydney Salamy (22:02), Stella McCormack (23:53), and Marlena Bellucci (24:15).

The East Hampton High School girls swimming team bid farewell to its home pool at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter last Thursday by swamping Harborfields, usually a formidable foe, 104-66, though the reported score, because of customary largess, was somewhat closer.

The young Bonackers — and they are young, with only two seniors, Oona Foulser and Emma Wiltshire, on the team — got it going with a solid win in the 200-yard medley relay.

After Julia Brierley, a junior, had been out-touched by the visitors’ Julienne Saliou in the backstroke leg, Jane Brierley, who’s only an eighth grader, grabbed the lead in the breaststroke, after which Sophia Swanson, a junior, extended the margin to two lengths in the butterfly, and Foulser, the team’s anchor, churned the water in her two freestyle laps.

East Hampton almost finished one-three, but Bonac’s B team of Darcy McFarland (a junior), Tiana Treadwell (a junior), Nicole Guitierrez (a sophomore), and Margaret Breen (an eighth grader) was out-touched by the Harborfields A team by .40, according to the coach Craig Brierley’s emailed account.

Harborfields took first and third in the 200 freestyle, but the Bonackers, with Jane Brierley and Kiara Bailey-Williams, a Pierson sophomore, copped the top two places in the 200 individual medley, after which Foulser, in 26.09, and Julia Brierley, in 27.49, did the same in the 50 free as Breen (28.08) came within .06 of taking third.

Saliou and her Harborfields teammate Amanda Service placed one-two in the 100 butterfly, with McFarland taking third, Emily Dyner, a ninth grader, and Guitierrez, all East Hamptoners, rounding out the scoring.

At that point, the home team led 45-33, and soon it was to be 57-37 owing to Swanson’s win and a runner-up finish by Camryn Hatch, an eighth grader, in the 100 free.

While the visitors, with Katie Poschmann, were to win the 500 freestyle, a 20-lap event, East Hampton, with Olivia Brabant, a junior, and Breen, an eighth grader, as aforesaid, took second and third.

And so it went. East Hampton, with Jane Brierley, Julia Brierley, Foulser, and Swanson, and with Wiltshire, Alyssa Brabant, who’s an eighth grader, McFarland, and Caroline Brown, a sophomore, placed one-two in the 200 free relay, extending the team’s margin to 28 points with three events remaining, the 100 back, the 100 breast, and the 400 free relay.

Harborfields took the top two places in the 100 back, with Hatch third, Bailey-Williams fourth, and Dyner fifth. But Jane Brierley, who’s of a seemingly slight build, powered her way to a win in the 100 breast, followed by Julia Brierley.

And East Hampton likewise placed first and second in the 400 free relay, with Olivia Brabant, Hatch, Swanson, and Foulser, and with Brown, Guitierrez, Bailey-Williams, and Wiltshire, though those teams were “exhibitioned,” i.e., East Hampton forwent the 12 points — eight for winning and four for finishing second.

Thus East Hampton capped its second undefeated league championship season in a row, at 5-0. 

“It was a wonderful accomplishment,” said Brierley. “A testament to the hard work the athletes put in all season.”

Before the meet began, Foulser, who’s to attend Northeastern next fall, and Wiltshire, who’s to go to Trinity College in Dublin, were cited “in our traditional ‘senior swim’ ceremony. It was a bittersweet moment,” the coach said. “We wish them the best of luck in the next chapter of their lives and appreciate all they’ve given to our program.”

The team, he continued, “will begin now to focus on the end-of-season championship meets. . . . The goal is to peak for the season’s most important competitions, both mentally and physically.”

The League III championship meet was to have been held at Hauppauge High School yesterday. The county meet is to be on Saturday, Nov. 3, at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood.

Bailey-Williams was named by the captains, Foulser and Wiltshire, as the swimmer of the meet for having qualified for the county meet in the 200 individual medley.

East Hampton’s county meet qualifiers as of Monday included Bailey-Williams, Jane Brierley, and Swanson in the 200 IM; Swanson in the 200 free; Breen, Jane Brierley, Julia Brierley, Foulser, and Swanson in the 50 free; Swanson in the 100 fly; Jane Brierley, Foulser, Hatch, and Swanson in the 500 free; Julia Brierley, Brown, Hatch, and McFarland in the 100 back, and Jane Brierley and Julia Brierley in the 100 breast.

Monday was an eventful day insofar as East Hampton High’s girls volleyball and boys soccer teams went.

The girls, by virtue of a 3-0 sweep of Miller Place here that night, clinched at least a share of the league title, and remained undefeated, at 12-0. Westhampton Beach, its chief rival for the crown, is to play here today at 4 p.m.

Boys soccer, which finished the regular season at 7-7, pulled off an upset of sorts in defeating sixth-seeded Kings Park 1-0 Monday in a first-round Class A playoff game, thanks to a goal 15 minutes into the contest by Sebastian Fuquen, who, in salvaging a broken corner kick play, beat the home team’s goalie from the edge of the penalty box, booting home the bouncing ball that he’d headed to the ground.

The win set up a quarterfinal match at undefeated Elwood-John Glenn, the third seed, today, also at 4. East Hampton, which was seeded 11th among the bracket’s 12 teams, has improved greatly of late.

Amityville, the top seed, took the Bonackers to school in a regular-season finale here on Oct. 17, by a score of 4-0, though the good news was that it was a 1-0 game with 12 and a half minutes left to play. And that goal, scored in the 30th minute by the Warriors’ Kymani Hines, had come as the result of a pass by a defender across the goal mouth, a no-no in soccer, a mistake that Hines, always a threat to score, quickly capitalized on.

The visitors’ final flurry featured goals by Juan Ponce, who put a shot by Kurt Matthews from the left post, Henry Martinez, on a breakaway, and Hines again, with an assist from Martinez, the latter two being Amityville’s chief threats.

“We weren’t creating, not anticipating,” Don McGovern, East Hampton’s coach, said afterward. “They [the Warriors] were a good team.”

Amityville won a state championship in 2015, was the Long Island and Suffolk County champion in 2016, losing in the state semifinals, and lost to Hauppauge in a county semifinal last year.

Getting back to girls volleyball, East Hampton’s coach, Kathy McGeehan, wished Miller Place, Monday’s opponent, had put up a stronger fight than it did. Nevertheless, a win is a win.

The high-flying Bonackers won the first set 25-13, a game during which Madyson Neff served five consecutive aces. The visitors made East Hampton work more in the second set, which the home team wound up winning 25-13 as well. A kill by Julia Kearney from the left side of the net ended it.

The Bonackers, with a number of subs in the lineup, capped the sweep with a 25-15 win. Of those who came off the bench, Hannah Hartsough, a sophomore, was the most prominent, serving seven straight winners that extended the lead to 16-7. 

East Hampton faced plenty of stiff competition, however, in an upstate tournament in Horseheads over the past weekend.

McGeehan said the team, having won four sets and lost two in pool play, made it to the quarterfinals of the gold bracket, the top one, losing 25-21 to Section V’s Our Lady of Mercy. “It was a tough battle,” she said, adding that “we played great defense. Molly Mamay, in particular, was outstanding, but we shot ourselves in the foot with four service errors. That, in the end, was the difference.”

In pool play, East Hampton defeated Section II’s Galway, the sixth-ranked Class D team in the state, 25-18, 26-24; defeated Section VI’s City Honors, the state’s sixth-ranked Class C team, 27-25, 25-16, and lost to Section IV’s Owego, the state’s fourth-ranked Class B team, 25-18, 25-19. 

In another league match played last week, at Islip, East Hampton won 26-24, 25-22, 25-9, having overcome an 8-16 deficit in the first set. “It was great to see us remain calm and continue to battle on every point in that first set,” said McGeehan, “but you never want to be a slow-starting team.”

The East Hampton High School girls tennis team, which wound up as the runner-up to undefeated Westhampton Beach in league play, won a first-round county team tournament match Friday, defeating William Floyd 6-1 here, the sole loss coming at first doubles. All of East Hampton’s singles players, Rebecca Kuperschmid, Juliana Barahona, Caroline Micallif, and Katie Annicelli, won, in straight sets. 

Eva Wojtusiak and Kaylee Mendelman won 6-3, 5-7, (10-6) at second doubles, and Annelise Mendelman and Sammi Schurr won 6-2, 2-6, (10-2) at third doubles.

On Saturday, as expected, second-seeded Westhampton Beach defeated the seventh-seeded Bonackers, by a score of 6-1.

East Hampton’s coach, Kevin McConville, said recently that he thought Commack, the tournament’s top seed, was, indeed, the county’s best team.

Thursday, October 25

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A tournament, quarterfinal round, East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn, 4 p.m.

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

Friday, October 26

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Half Hollow Hills at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton junior varsity at Southampton, 4 p.m. 

Saturday, October 27

BREWATHLON, for four-person teams, 5,000-meter row, 15K bike, 5K run, and 2,500-meter row, Montauk Brewery, Edgemere Road, Montauk, 2 p.m.

Sunday, October 28

MEN’S SOCCER, over-30 league, Smithtown vs. Hampton United, Hampton Bays High School, 4 p.m.

Monday, October 29

GOLF, county championship, Rocky Hill Golf Club, Manorville, 8 a.m., through Wednesday.

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A tournament, semifinal round, Glenn-East Hampton winner at second-seeded Hauppauge, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, October 30

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class A tournament, first-round matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, October 31

MEN’S SOCCER, 7-on-7 league, Tortorella Pools vs. Hampton Construction, 6:30 p.m.; Maidstone Market vs. Tuxpan, 7:25, and Sag Harbor United vs. Hampton F.C.-Pool Shark, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton High’s standout senior cross-country runner, , the country’s largest high school cross-country race, Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

Kevin Barry, who left some of his competitors at home “because they’ve been racing a lot and needed a rest,” said in an email Monday that Fowkes had covered “the famous 2.5-mile course” in 13 minutes and 29 seconds, reportedly a personal best for him at that distance. Three of the dozen freshmen Berry has, Aidan Klarman, Luke Brunn, and Hector Maldonado, medaled in the 1.25-mile freshman race — Klarman in 6:39, Brunn in 7:21, and Maldonado in 7:22.

Diane O’Donnell, East Hampton’s girls coach, said Ava Engstrom and Bella Tarbet, who are sophomores, also medaled, Engstrom for having finished 19th and Tarbet 49th in a 198-runner field. Engstrom’s time over the 2.5-mile course was 15:55, Tarbet’s 16:47. Emma Hren (18:00), Stella McCormack (21:33), Megan Fowkes (21:45), and Sydney Salamy (22:34) also ran. Hren and McCormack are ninth graders, Fowkes is a junior, and Salamy is a senior.

While Van Cortlandt’s course was “not easy by any means,” it was “not as hard as Sunken Meadow,” O’Donnell said.

The girls, said O’Donnell, have won two league meets thus far, over Amityville and Miller Place. The boys, who also have a couple of wins, lost twice in a tri meet at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park last week, to Sayville and Miller Place, by 25-30 margins.

Fowkes, hampered by a stomach bug, placed third, behind two Miller Place runners. Evan Masi, Joshua Vazquez, and Klarman, all freshmen, were the next East Hamptoners to score, Masi placing eighth, Vazquez 11th, and Klarman 12th. Mikko Negroponte, a sophomore, “who is improving with every race,” was 13th, the final Bonacker to be scored.

“Next up for us is the New York City Cross-Country Carnival at Fordham Prep this Saturday,” said Barry, who added that “the Division III championships are to be at Sunken Meadow on Tuesday.”

Turning to soccer, Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton’s boys team, was happy to say Monday that the team, whose record was 7-6 as of that day, had clinched a playoff spot. The Class A seedings won’t be known until tomorrow, he said.

The boys, who are playing in a much more organized fashion than they were earlier this fall, took a four-game winning streak into yesterday’s game here with league-leading Amityville, which was 11-0-1 as of Monday.

“They’re a good team, but we are too,” said McGovern. “We’ll challenge them.”

The Bonackers made the playoffs by virtue of a 1-0 win at Wyandanch Friday, avenging an earlier-season loss. Zane Musnicki, a wide-ranging senior defender, scored the all-important goal. 

In a game played here on Oct. 9, East Hampton easily handled Westhampton Beach 3-0 as Brian Gonzalez, Anthony Quito, and Alex Vanegas score the goals. Musnicki and Vanegas were credited with assists. 

East Hampton shut out Rocky Point 3-0 on Oct.4, and defeated Miller Place 5-2 on Oct. 2. As of Monday, it was in third place in League V, behind Amityville and Sayville (9-2-2).

“We may play a county tournament game on Monday or on Wednesday, depending on where we’re seeded,” said McGovern, who, when questioned, said the team had improved its possession-style game, and that the players were “determined” now, “tougher in the box.”

While Gonzalez, Musnicki, and Vanegas were leading the way, others have contributed offensively too, he said. “We’ve grown. We’re coming together. Hopefully, we’ll peak in the playoffs.”

The junior varsity football team on Monday routed Greenport-Southold’s jayvee 50-12. Christian Johnson scored four of the touchdowns. John Berti and Danny Ortiz each scored one. Topher Cullen, the quarterback, threw three touchdown passes, two of them to Johnson, spanning 30 and 45 yards, and one to Berti, a 35-yarder. He made good on nine of his 12 passing attempts. 

“We led 26-12 at the half, and then took advantage of some turnovers in the second,” Joe McKee, the coach, said. “The kids are coming along — we’ve seen a lot of improvement.”

The jayvee is to play the Center Moriches jayvee here Monday. The game is scheduled for 4:30, but McKee said he’d like to move it up to 4. 

The girls soccer team has been doing creditably. It went into Monday’s game here with Sayville, Division II’s fifth-place team, at 5-5-1. Alden Powers, who plays center midfielder, wasn’t in East Hampton’s lineup that day, and it hurt. The ball was in East Hampton’s end for pretty much the entire first half, during which the visitors’ striker scored twice, after beating defenders in the 10th and 29th minutes. Sayville had seven corner kicks in that half, and Lucy Short, East Hampton’s goalie, had five saves. She wound up with nine saves in the 3-1 loss. Nidia Bravo, a ninth grader, scored East Hampton’s goal in the second half.

Whether the field hockey team will make the playoffs was problematic as of earlier this week. A 2-1 loss to Shoreham-Wading River here on Oct. 9 hurt. The visitors scored off a corner play and on a breakaway in the first half, defensive lapses leading to both goals. East Hampton converted a corner play in the second, but could not put in another. 

The team was in seventh place among the 14 Division II teams as of Tuesday morning, with games left with Harborfields, Greenport-Southold, and Hampton Bays. A win at Harborfields Tuesday would undoubtedly have boosted the Bonackers’ chances inasmuch as Harborfields was in third place as of that day in the power-rated division, while Greenport-Southold was last and Hampton Bays was 12th.

The Y.M.C.A. East Ham­pton RECenter has, under Rosie Orlando, the Y’s health and wellness director, been working with those who have Parkinson’s disease for the past two years, at the instance of Steve Sicilian, a Y member who has Parkinson’s and also participates in Epic Martial Arts’ boxing sessions.

The Thursday afternoon Power Over Parkinson’s sessions have included weight training, balance exercises, and support-group discussions concerning “wellness, stress-reduction techniques, and how to continue a healthy lifestyle.” 

One of the participants, Alice Siegel, who’s 70, began playing tennis again following a 15-year hiatus as a result of the program, according to a release.

Orlando was delighted to learn recently that the Applied Energy Group’s South Fork Peak Savers energy-efficiency project plans to support her work, not only with those who have Parkinson’s, but also with those who have chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

“Funding has always been a concern each year,” Orlando said, when Jessica Torsiello, South Fork Peak Savers’ marketing director, vouchsafed the news. “It’s great to know we [she and her fellow coaches, Jackie Perrine and Claudia Gonzalez] can keep on.”

When Kathy McGeehan was asked Monday if the East Hampton High School girls volleyball team she coaches should be considered league champs, she said, “Oh my God, don’t say that . . . this league may not be decided until the last ball hits the floor.”

McGeehan’s crew, 9-0 as of that day in league play, and 10-0 over all, was to have played a tough opponent, Islip, yesterday, has Miller Place at home Monday, and finishes up the regular season with Westhampton Beach, its perennial rival, at home next Thursday.

Meanwhile, the team is to play in a high-powered tournament in Horseheads, N.Y., near Elmira, this weekend. East Hampton and Elwood-John Glenn, an undefeated Class B team (East Hampton’s an A) are to be Suffolk’s representatives.

In its sole match this past week, East Hampton defeated Amityville 3-0. Madyson Neff led the way offensively with 10 kills, Elle Johnson had 30 assists, the team recorded 15 aces, and Molly Mamay had 12 digs.

Likewise, Craig Brierley, East Hampton’s girls swimming coach, demurred when on Monday this writer asked if his team, 4-0 that day in League III meets, hadn’t wrapped up its second league title in a row — last year’s being its first ever.

Today’s meet with once-defeated Harborfields at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter is the last of the regular season. Brierley said he thought his team, which has only two seniors on it, had a good chance to win.

In the past week, Bonac’s swimmers had wins over Stony Brook, a nonleague opponent, and West Islip.

“We had five first-place finishes in the 11 events at Stony Brook, including two of the three relays,” Brierley said in an emailed account. “There were only four lanes, which helped keep the meet exciting, though Bonac poured it on in the final three events [the 100 backstroke, the 100 breaststroke, and the 400 freestyle relay] to win the meet 53-40.”

At West Islip — another school with a four-lane pool — last Thursday, East Hampton nevertheless won easily. “Again, we were limited to only two entries per event,” said the coach, “instead of the usual three, which again made for an exciting meet.”

“Oona Foulser won the 200 freestyle by 1.14 of a second; Jane Brierley posted a blistering 24.90 in winning the 50 free, missing the state cut by .06, but qualifying for the county meet in that event; Emma Wiltshire swam a lifetime best 1:02.00 in winning the 100 free, and Sophia Swanson dropped 10 seconds from her time in the 500, which she won in a county-qualifying time of 5:38.67.”

Emily Dyner, for recording a personal best in the 100 backstroke and a near-best in the 100 butterfly, was named as swimmer of the Stony Brook meet by the captains, who, according to Brierley, “appreciate the freshman’s hard work and consistency in taking on challenging events like the 100 fly and 100 back throughout the season.”

Jane Brierley, an eighth grader, was dubbed swimmer of the West Islip meet. “The captains,” said the coach, “were in awe of Jane’s determination in her races [the 50 free and 100 breast, each of which she won] and how she consistently has given a maximum effort in any race she has been in all season. . . . She’s been showing great promise.”

While the girls volleyball and girls swimming coaches weren’t quite ready to claim a league title on Monday, 

Rich King, in his first year as the golf coach, was. 

By virtue of his team’s recent 6-3 win here at the South Fork Country Club over Westhampton Beach, the Bonackers finished at 8-2 in league play, a mark that tied them with Westhampton for the league championship. Southampton, which was to have played Pierson Monday, may have made it a three-way tie at the top.

“We played our best golf of the season here against Westhampton,” said King, whose lineup comprised Turner Foster, a senior, at one, Nate Wright, a senior, at two, J.P. Amaden, an eighth grader, at three, Trevor Stachecki, an eighth grader, at four, Ryan Bahel, a senior, at five, and Aiden Cooper, a sophomore, at six.

The league qualifiers are to be played at the Rock Hill Country Club in Manorville next Thursday. The county championships (Foster won two years ago and was the runner-up last year) are to be played on Oct. 30, also at Rock Hill. The state golf tournament is to be played next June.

“Turner and Nate have great shots at making the county tournament,” King said.

October 7, 1993

I am one of the few sportswriters, it seems, who thinks that soccer can indeed become a popular sport in this country. The evidence is all around us locally, as more and more children realize what a kick it is to boot a ball around.

. . . It used to be — about 10 or 15 years ago — that there was one men’s team here, an excellent team, but only one. Now, there must be at least a half-dozen in East Hampton and its environs of comparable strength. The level of play makes for good spectating, certainly on a par with a good South Fork high school basketball game, probably more exciting than most high school football or baseball games, and undoubtedly more riveting than men’s slow-pitch softball games.

. . . Speaking of the Latino League, rather than be shunted to a remote field out by Montauk Point, it should remain right where it is, and the powers-that-be should see to it that the grass is cut regularly, as is the case at Herrick Park and at the town’s Terry King baseball field on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett. — Point of View

Bob Nugent of Southampton and John Kenney of Shelter Island sublimated their competitive instincts as they neared the end of the 5K Georgica Jog Sunday. They crossed the finish line at East Hampton’s Main Beach together, at 15 minutes and 41 seconds, their hands raised.

When the question of who would accept first prize came up, Kenney replied, “Bob wins the tiebreaker — he’s got four kids, I’ve got three.”

October 14, 1993

East Hampton’s golf coach, Claude Beudert, thought Southampton, the defending New York State champion, which reportedly had not lost a league match in the past 10 years, was ready to be taken, and yesterday, at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, he was proved right.

The Bonackers, who had dropped an 8-1 decision at Southampton recently, prevailed on their home course by a score of 7-2 as Kevin Somers, at one, Carl Libert, at three, Tony Berkhofer, at four, and Mike Brady, at six, won their matches. 

October 21, 1993

Having seen the worst of it, according to its coach, Mike Gunther, the East Hampton High School boys volleyball team can look forward to a winning second half of the season, barring disaster.

The young Bonackers finished the first half at 4-4, having reeled off four straight wins before succumbing to Hauppauge in five here on Friday.

. . . Tim Ross, Bonac’s talented sophomore setter, was sidelined Friday because of a neck injury that he had suffered off the court. His substitute, Josh Brussell, “did a good job,” said Gunther. “Our problem that day was we couldn’t serve the ball into their court.”

In general, Gunther said, “We’re passing well, hitting well . . . I only had one hitter last year, Scott Smith. This year, I’ve got four — Chris Bernier, Mike Bennett, Jesse Libath, and Josh. But you haven’t seen our best hitter yet, and that’s because he’s been setting the whole time — Tim Ross.”

October 28, 1993

The best soccer team East Hampton High School has ever fielded was waiting yesterday to learn which team it will face in a county out-bracket playoff game this afternoon. It is the first time a Bonac soccer squad has made the playoffs.

A scale model and drawings of a $2 million youth center for East Hampton, designed by the acclaimed architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, have been in Town Hall for the last two weeks, as the Town Board considers whether to underwrite the center’s operating expenses.

Under a cooperative agreement not yet formalized, East Hampton Village would donate the property behind the G&T Dairy (also known as the Chicken House) for the building. The Youth Alliance, an ad hoc group organized by an East Hampton resident, David Silver, of West End Road, would be responsible for raising funds for its construction, and the town would cover operating expenses.

The proposal nearly created a partisan shouting match at a Town Board meeting Tuesday, however.

. . . As Supervisor Bullock and Mr. Cooper defended the project, the discussion took on an angry tone. . . . “We have an operating budget of $4.5 million for the Police Department alone,” Mr. Bullock said. “Are you saying you can’t find a half million for a youth center this town has wanted for 30 years?”

Thursday, October 18

GIRLS SWIMMING, Harborfields vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at Hampton Bays, 5:45 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Walt Whitman, Huntington Station, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, October 19

GIRLS TENNIS, county team tournament, second-round match, William Floyd-Mattituck winner at East Hampton, 3 p.m.

Saturday, October 20

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Horseheads, N.Y., invitational tournament, 9 a.m.

CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton boys and girls at New York City Cross-Country Carnival, Fordham Preparatory School, the Bronx, 9 a.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, county team tournament, third-round match at Westhampton Beach, 10 a.m.

RUNNING, Shelter Island 5K, benefit East End breast health organizations, Crescent Beach, Shelter Island Heights, 11 a.m.

Monday, October 22

GOLF, league qualifying tournament, Rock Hill Country Club, Manorville, 8 a.m.

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A tournament, outbracket game, site of higher seed, 2 p.m.

FOOTBALL, junior varsity, Center Moriches at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Miller Place at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, October 23

CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton boys and girls at division championships, Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park, 1 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at League III meet, Hauppauge High School, 4:15 p.m.

Wednesday, October 24

MEN’S SOCCER, 7-on-7 league, Maidstone Market vs. Hampton Construction, 6:30 p.m.; Tortorella Pools vs. Sag Harbor United, 7:25, and F.C. Tuxpan vs. Hampton F.C.-Pool Shark, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.