July 2, 1987

    Costa Rica became on June 24 the East End Men’s Night Soccer League spring season playoff champion by virtue of a shot by Carlos Vargas late in the second half that found the upper right corner of the Springs-Village Shoe Store goal.

    After an evenly-played first half, Costa Rica, the regular-season champion, which had a deeper bench than the Springs team, applied continuous pressure throughout the second period, during which Costa Rica forwards took numerous shots from point-blank range that either went astray or were stopped by Springs’s goalie, Bob Moss.

    Among the close calls was a direct kick in the penalty area by Carlos Solis that went wide to the right; a hard, low shot by Vargas toward the left corner that Moss batted away, and a missed header by Vargas on a cross in front of the goal by Solis.

    In Sunday’s Little League all-star game, played at Lions Field in East Hampton, the American Division, coached by John Drobecker of Montauk, defeated the National Division, coached by Van Quick, 11-7. Drobecker used four pitchers — Brandon Fazio of Montauk, Ross Gload of Marder’s, and Guy Ficeto and Justin Geehreng, both of the Masons. Quick used five hurlers — his son, Steven, Kevin Somers, and Ryan Heaney, all of the Town P.B.A., Shane Davis of the Springs Fire Department, and Pat Coyle of the Village P.B.A.

    Paul Annacone’s hopes of repeating or bettering his 1984 quarterfinal finish at Wimbledon were dashed Monday by France’s Guy Forget in a five-set third-round match that the East Hampton-reared tennis professinal would rather forget.

    . . . Meanwhile, Annacone and Christo Van Rensburg remained alive in the doubles on Tuesday as they defeated John Fitzgerald and Tomas Smid 6-7 (4-7), 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 in a third-round match.

July 9, 1987

    Tim Egan of Sag Harbor, a bayman who plays rugby and softball here, took third place recently in the metropolitan region professional arm wrestling tournament’s heavyweight division, enabling him to compete in the national championships on Aug. 8. Eagan repeated as the heavyweight winner of the New York State professional arm wrestling chammpionships on June 28.

July 16, 1987

    Troy Bowe is apparently set to become the first Bridgehampton High School graduate ever to play Division 1 basketball. Bowe, who starred as the Killer Bees’ point guard for the past three years, earning all-state and all-county honors, recently accepted a full four-year athletic scholarship to the University of Hawaii.

    . . . “I saw the Empire State team tryouts recently,” said Bowe’s coach at Bridgehampton, John Niles, “and there isn’t a guard on the Island of Troy’s caliber. Players like him don’t come around too often.”

   The first ocean lifeguard test of the season, held at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett on June 16, drew 29 hopefuls, a record number, said John Ryan Jr., the town’s chief lifeguard, who has been helping to oversee East Hampton’s beaches for 30 years.

    All but two of those who took the arduous two-and-a-half-hour test passed. “We don’t say ‘failed,’ ” John Ryan Sr. said. “They can always take the test again and we urge them to.”

    Will there be jobs for these newly certified guards? The Ryans are reasonably sure there will be — either on the ocean or on the bay or at pools — though, given that their chief concern has always been to broadly extend the knowledge of water safety here, they take all comers, eschewing quotas.

    “In early March, we go into the high school and propose that kids take the challenge,” the senior Ryan, who manages the Amagansett Beach Association, which abuts Indian Wells, said during a conversation Friday. “To begin with, they don’t have to be swimmers, they just have to be able to tread water. We’ll teach them how to swim.”

    And later, as was the case with June 16’s test-takers, beginning the Tuesday after Memorial Day, how to navigate the ocean.

    As for the test, the elder Ryan said, “It’s very much of a mental test — how well you can function under stress — and it’s a test of endurance too. The two who didn’t pass flagged a bit in the final event, the 300-yard endurance swim. One hundred fifty yards out and 150 back, but since Johnny measured the 150 yards from the break, and figuring in the sweep, it was more like 400 yards.”

    That so many passed on the 16th was owing largely to the fact that they had received ocean training in the weeks leading up to the test by John Ryan Jr., John McGeehan, the first assistant chief, Jeff Thompson, the second assistant chief, Brian Cunningham, the captain, and Vanessa Edwardes, the sergeant, not to mention a number of young certified volunteers, including Garner Minetree, Ian Zimmerman, Trevor Shea, Doris Quigley, and Jessie Stavola.

    “And the instructors got wet,” said Ryan Sr. “They didn’t hesitate to swim out to be ‘victims.’ So much of lifeguarding is about teamwork, and persistence. That’s why we don’t say somebody ‘fails’ the test. We want them to keep trying.”

    In the test group were three grandchildren of John Sr.’s — Shannon Ryan, Anthony McGorisk, and Rian O’Dwyer — and a half-dozen members of East Hampton High School’s boys and girls swimming teams, including Thomas Brierley, Morgan German, Shannon Ryan, McGorisk, and Andrew Winthrop. McGeehan coaches Bonac’s girls team, Thompson the boys team. There were also eight who either are working for or who have worked for the elder Ryan at the A.B.A. — Cort Heneveld, Brierley, Winthrop, Shannon Ryan, McGorisk, O’Dwyer, Hope Nelson, and J.C. Barrientos.

    On June 3, Barrientos, an East Hampton High School junior who played on the county champion boys soccer team, had been credited by all involved with having saved the life of Nicola Devito, a 34-year-old Brooklynite who had almost drowned in rough surf about 200 yards off the beach in front of the Driftwood ocean resort on Napeague.

    Barrientos was one of the victims this time, in the morning’s first graded trial, the 125-yard cross-chest carry rescue. The water, the young soccer player said after he’d been pack-strapped up 40 yards of beach, was cold.

    A 125-yard flat tow torpedo rescue, a technically challenging four-man yoke rescue, and the 300-yard endurance swim followed, with everyone alternating at the various positions.

    The elder Ryan described the four-man yoke as extremely demanding. “You’ve got a victim, the beach man, and two swimmers — the landline rescue they have in competitions involves three people, the victim, one swimmer, who goes out with a torpedo and the line, and the beach man. In the yoke, you have two swimmers, one who goes out first to the victim with a torpedo, and one who goes out with the line that the beach person pays out over his shoulder from a bucket near the water’s edge.”

    Would-be yoke rescuers failing to take the “downsweep” into account when it came to the torpedoes and lines would come to grief, he said. “After they hook up — the victim’s holding the torpedo and has been turned, with his back to the beach — the swimmers, who are both holding the line, signal the beach man, who begins to tow them in.”

    “The beach man has the most complicated job. He’s got to feed the line out properly to begin with, which isn’t easy. You don’t want it to bow, you want to keep it as straight as possible. And, when the signal’s given, he has to drop the line, put it around his waist, back out until he’s high and dry, and then, using an up-and-under pull and squaring himself up, he’s got to slide down the beach and pull them in, using the sweep and the waves to help him. You can’t pull them ‘over the falls.’ It’s like playing a fish. If it’s not done right, it can be chaos!”

    “Then, when they’re in waist-high water, the torpedo is discarded, the beach man has to come out and grab the victim’s legs up high, and the three of them carry the victim, who’s facing downward, up the beach — there’s no running in the water — and in laying him down rotate him toward the water. There’s a lot of technical stuff involved, and you’ll be marked off if you don’t get everything right.”

    After each member of the yoke teams had played all four roles, they, presumably, took deep breaths and went out for the endurance swim.

    Alexis du Tielleul, a French exchange student staying with the Quigleys, was first in. Brierley was second, Nelson, an A.B.A. lifeguard who was a recertification candidate, placed third, and McGorisk was fourth.

    John Jr. said that he’d been impressed by McGorisk’s performances — “He was first in the cross-chest carry” — that day, and John Sr. said Nelson, who “blew her knee out in early August,” and who had to rescue a victim weighing at least 40 more pounds than she did, had impressed him.v

    Since the Cashins, Ed and his Irish-born wife, Caroline, seem to be on the move most of the time, you better be prepared for a mini cardiovascular workout of your own should you want to interview them.

    The Exceed Fitness studio that they have overseen since Memorial Day on Plank Road off Route 114 in East Hampton is a hive of activity every day of the week. Simply to observe is to get your blood flowing and your heart pumping more efficiently.

    “We’ve just got done biking and running,” Ed said on his arrival at the studio Sunday morning with a half-dozen others just prior to an hourlong class for 15 or so students that mixed boxing in with TRX suspension strap and Bosu ball training.

    Ed Cashin has been a personal trainer for the past 25 years, his first client being the president of his alma mater, Lock Haven (Pa.) University, where he played rugby and was a frat mate of Mike Bahel, a fellow trainer who owns the Body Tech studios in Amagansett and Montauk.

    Peter Rana, Body Tech’s former owner, who now “owns the two biggest gyms in New Zealand,” helped foster Cashin’s personal training career, placing him with an art dealer (the late Thomas Ammann) who lived in Switzerland. When, six months later, Cashin returned to the U.S., Bahel replaced him for a spell in Switzerland.

    “Since the early ’90s, I’ve been on my own, though this is my first studio,” he said, looking about the 1,800-square-foot space, with its 50 feet of monkey bars, ranks of TRX training straps, clusters of Bosu balls, kettlebells, and Dynamax medicine balls. “My partners and I also have an Exceed Fitness studio in New York, at 83rd and Third. I’m there Mondays and Thursdays.”

    Classes in boxing, biking, running, paddleboarding, TRX, kettlebells, and sledding are among the offerings. As for his clientele, “Many are local people who I’m taking to another level. It’s highly functional training, very movement based.”

    “There are no machines,” he added, “except for the fans. . . . We use our own body weight. We do a lot of calorie burning at a high heart rate. Mobility and flexibility come first, then we build up strength, primarily with kettlebells, those iron things over there. We do full range of motion work with lighter weights and then progress from there, adding plyometrics [explosive exercises designed to increase muscle power and speed].”

    When this writer, who attended two classes last week, wondered whether the workouts might be too strenuous for the average Joe, he was told by one of the students, Andy Cairns, that “it’s up to you how many reps you do.”

    “The classes are scaled to all abilities,” Cashin said.

    When Cairns’s wife, Meredith, was asked during last Thursday afternoon’s similarly well-attended TRX and Bosu ball class what she did sports-wise, she replied, with a laugh, “I don’t run marathons — I’m the mother of a 2-year-old.”

    “Ed’s fantastic,” she continued. “Everyone’s equally challenged, but at a different level. He’s wonderful at creating a sense of camaraderie.”

    “Meredith is an athlete now,” Cashin said, when questioned before Sunday’s boxing and TRX class began — an assessment with which Andy Cairns readily agreed.

    “I take every class he gives,” said Cairns, pointing out another in-shape convert, Tom O’Donoghue.

    “I was a smoker until I was 40,” said O’Donoghue, who directed the inaugural Katy’s Courage 5K race in Sag Harbor last year. Katy’s example, he said of Jim and Brigid Stewart’s late daughter, who died of a rare form of liver cancer, had inspired him. “I’ve been doing this since Thanksgiving — at least five days a week,” he said. “It’s brought about a big change in me, but a good change.”

    O’Donoghue said he recently brought over some of Pierson High School’s county championship baseball players, “but they couldn’t keep up with us old guys. . . . No matter what sport you play this will make you better.”

    While East Hampton’s 11-to-12-year-old traveling all-star team lost two games last week, resulting in its elimination from the District 36 Little League tournament, the 9-10s won both of their initial outings and were to have played a third game yesterday.

    Christian Johnson, an impressive fourth-grader, started for the young Bonackers in Monday’s game against Mastic at the Pantigo fields, and while the visitors touched him for two runs in the top of the first inning, it was pretty much all Bonac after that as Tim Garneau’s crew cruised to a 13-6 win.

    East Hampton quickly wrested the lead back in the bottom of the first inning, scoring six runs before it was over. Henry Garneau, a lefty, led off with a line single to center field. After Lou Britton, also a left-hander, was walked, Johnson drove in Garneau with a single, and Britton and Johnson alertly moved up to second and third on the play. Elian Abreu, the cleanup hitter, walked to load the bases with none out, and while the next batter, Chasen Dubs, struck out, Britton came home with East Hampton’s second run as the catcher let the ball get by him.

    And so it went, as more passed balls and more walks led to more Bonac runs. Batting for the second time in the inning, with runners at first and second, Garneau doubled home run number six before Britton grounded out second-to-first to end the inning.

    Johnson, who pretty much throws swift strikes, shut down the visitors in the top of the second. He led off East Hampton’s second with a high, deep fly to center field that Mastic’s center fielder one-handed over his head as he fell onto his back. Abreu followed suit, hitting the ball just about where Johnson had, but this time the center fielder dropped the ball, allowing Abreu to pull in at second. After Dubs struck out, an error by Mastic’s shortstop resulted in Abreu scoring, upping East Hampton’s lead to 7-2.

   Mastic got one back in the top of the third, a run scoring on a passed ball with the bases loaded and none out. But Johnson closed the visitors out with two strikeouts sandwiched around an out at home as a runner tried to score on a passed ball.

    A two-out line drive base hit by Britton that plated Zach Barzilay from third made it 8-3 in the bottom half of the inning. Johnson followed with a little nubber that remained inside the third baseline, putting runners at first and second for Abreu, who was walked after the count went full. Mastic brought in a reliever then to pitch to Dubs, who lined out to the pitcher, ending the inning.

    The little Little Leaguers won game one by a score of 8-6 over North Fork. Garneau reported that North Fork led 6-2 after four innings, after which East Hampton came back to win.

    A triple by Dubs that led off East Hampton’s fifth was followed by a double by Britton and four consecutive singles by Logan Gurney, Jackson Baris, Nate Wright, and Owen Ruddy. Johnson closed the door in the sixth, striking out the side in 12 pitches.

    The 11-12s were shut out 10-0 at Southampton, and lost 6-3 to Riverhead.

    East Hampton’s roster included Zachary Minskoff, Rudy DeSanti, Jack Healey, Luke Vaziri, Jack Murphy, Noah Lappin, Ryan Brewer, August Schultz, Hunter Fromm, Kurt Mathews, Jack Suter, Sean Tyler Tronsen, Chris Stoecker, and Hunter Medler. Steve Minskoff was the head coach.

    Rich Swanson is to lead East Hampton’s 10-to-11-year-old Little League girls softball entry into the district tournament in two weeks.

    Its roster comprises Lina Bistrian, Elizabeth Bistrian, and Grace Myers of the playoff-champion Sand Gnats, Isabella Swanson, Nina Gonzalez, and Alexis Vargas of the playoff-runner-up Express, Sophia Ledda, Ella Gurney, and Julia Kearney of the Owls, Olivia Brauer and Julia Short of the Bandits, Jaylean Schiappacasse of the Thunder, and Danielle Lackner and Maddison Neff of the Shamrocks.

Thursday, June 28

LACROSSE, open play at East Hampton High School begins, 6-8 p.m.

Friday, June 29

LITTLE LEAGUE, District 36 tournament for 9-10-year-olds, site to be determined, 5:45 p.m.

Saturday, June 30

RIDING, cocktail party to benefit Stony Hill Stables Foundation with dressage exhibition and pony drill team performance, Stony Hill Stables, Town Lane, Amagansett, 6-8 p.m.

Monday, July 2

GIRLS SOCCER, summer workout, East Hampton High School, 6-7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, July 4

MEN’S SOCCER, 75 Main vs. Espo’s, 6:30 p.m., Bateman Painting vs. Tuxpan, 7:25, and Tortorella Pools vs. Maidstone Market, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

June 11, 1987

    Duane Bock, a senior who has played five years on East Hampton High School’s varsity golf team, finished fifth in the New York State high school golf championships held Sunday and Monday at Cornell University.

    It was the first time that an East Hampton student had placed in the state tournament, which this year was won by the Suffolk team. One of Duane’s older brothers, Darrell, played in the state tournament in 1983, as a junior, finishing 25th, and E.J. Pospisil went as an alternate in 1977 and ’78.

    East Hampton High School celebrated a very good athletic year with an awards dinner attended by about 500 at the high school’s gymnasium on June 9. Of the 17 teams the school fielded, three — wrestling, boys track, and boys tennis — won league and conference championships.

    There were, as well, outstanding individual performances by, among others, Eric Kaufman, who, as a 112-pound senior wrestler, became the first East Hampton student ever to win a Suffolk County championship, after which he went on to become a state finalist; Kenny Wood, the 6-foot-4-inch sophomore boys basketball team’s center, who now stands third on the school’s all-time scoring list, with 1,130 points, only 103 shy of breaking the record held by his older brother, Howard, and Duane Bock, a five-year letterman on the golf team, who recently placed fifth in the New York State tournament.

    The Paul Yuska award, given to the school’s most valuable senior athlete, was shared by three students — Kirsten Barrett, who last fall set a school record for shutouts (10) by a field hockey goalkeeper, Kaufman, and Michael Scott, who played number-one singles for the boys tennis team, and who won the Conference Four singles championship.

    Wrestling, coached by Jim Stewart, won the League Seven and Conference Four championships for the third year in a row; boys tennis, coached by John Goodman, repeated as the league champion, at 14-0, and, also for the second straight year, won the conference singles (Scott) and doubles (Luke Wornstaff and Clark Silva) doubles titles. Boys track, coached by Mike Burns, won championships in League Seven and, for the first time ever, in Conference Four.

    With the weather cooperating as well as could be expected, a 24-year-old Kenyan, Yobes Ondeiki, a 25-year-old New Zealander, Christine McMiken, and a 42-year-old former Miller Place resident, Bobbi Rothman, broke course and Long Island records in Saturday’s Shelter Island 10K race. Ondeiki’s time was 28 minutes and 53 seconds, the result of a blistering 4:39-per-mile pace.

    “I couldn’t have asked for anything more, it was a total success,” Cliff Clark, the race director, said afterward. “We’ve now got all four Long Island 10K records — in the open and masters divisions.”

    There was agony and ecstasy to spare this past week as East Hampton’s Little League finalists — boys and girls — duked it out in best-of-three “world series.”

    Tim Garneau’s Indians came from behind to win the 9-10 boys series at the Pantigo Fields on June 11, thanks to a two-out, two-strike walk-off double hit to deep center field by Jackson Baris that treated the Indians to a 6-5 win over Greg Brown’s Orioles.

    The Orioles had defeated the Indians 7-5 in game one, but the eventual winners took game two by a score of 4-1. Scott Healey got the save in the finale, pitching two scoreless innings during which he struck out five of the Orioles’ batters. “He was key,” Garneau said as his charges were dashing around the bases, celebrating their victory.

    Later, Brown said, “We were up 5-0 at one point, but that’s the game. The kids played fantastic. Our team was built on respect, on respecting the game, our opponents, the umpires, the coaches. And they did that. It was a great group of kids — they played their hearts out.”

    His players had taken the defeat in stride, Brown said in reply to a question. “The main thing we’ve taught them this year is sportsmanship. You don’t see that much anymore.”

    Tom Talmage, the head coach of the 11-to-12-year-old Diamondbacks, said after his team had been swept in two by Steve Minskoff’s Reds, “I recruited him a few years ago and he’s been torturing me ever since.”

    “The last two games we made some uncharacteristic errors that came out of nowhere,” said Talmage, “but my kids are very resilient. We had a few losses earlier in the season and then won five in a row to come out ahead in a three-way tie for second.”

    Minskoff, whose team’s consecutive 7-5 and 13-4 wins polished off the Diamondbacks, said Hunter Fromm, who had pitched three no-nos during the season, one of which had been a perfect game, was his M.V.P. The Reds, he said, also boasted an exceptional 10-year-old fourth grader, Christian Johnson, the team’s starting shortstop, who was his rookie of the year.

    As for the girls, Pat Bistrian’s Sand Gnats prevailed 19-14 over The Express, coached by Rich Swanson, in the third game of the 10-to-11 Little League girls softball series Saturday morning at East Hampton High School’s field, where all three games were played.

    The Sand Gnats, who had been crushed 20-5 by The Express in game two, after having won the first game 15-13, jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the pivotal clash, but The Express came back to tie the score in the second inning before the Sand Gnats put the game, and the series, away with four runs in the top of the sixth inning.

    “We’ve gotten to the final two years in a row,” Swanson said afterward. “We lost last year too, but this year was a bigger disappointment. We were undefeated in the regular season — we’d played the Sand Gnats once and beat them 6-5 — but sloppy play did us in. We don’t normally play like that.”

    The game was delayed for 15 or so minutes in the fifth when the sprinklers came on, chasing The Express’s outfielders toward the dugout. “I thought that might have cooled the Sand Gnats down, but it didn’t,” said Swanson. Dave Fioriello eventually turned the sprinklers off so the game could resume.

    Lina Bistrian, a 12-year-old pitcher with a windmill delivery, got the all-important win. She was smothered afterward by her teammates, who included her cousin, Elizabeth, the first baseman, who caught everything thrown her way.

    Three traveling all-star teams — two boys squads, coached by Garneau and Minskoff, and one girls entry, coached by Swanson — are to play in District 36 tournaments in the coming weeks.

    “We’re going to have to make the course harder,” Mary Ellen Adipietro, the Shelter Island 10K director, said with a laugh on Monday, two days after Simon Ndirangu topped a field of 1,066 finishers in 28 minutes and 37 seconds, setting a new course record. The 26-year-old Kenyan’s time this year was three seconds faster than Alene Reta’s winning time in 2010, when Reta, an Ethiopian, bested by one second his own 2007 record of 28:41.

    For winning Ndirangu received $1,000; for breaking the course record he received a $1,500 bonus, and for leading at the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 mile marks, $300.

    The women’s winner was Malika Mejdoub, 32, of Morocco, in 34:28, 12 seconds quicker than she ran last year, when she was the runner-up. Maria Luisa Servin’s 33:12, a record set in 1997, thus held up. Mejdoub was 14th over all.

    This was an Olympics year on Shelter Island. Former Olympians Joan Benoit Samuelson, 55, Frank Shorter, 64, Bill Rodgers, 64, Keith Brantley, 50, and Ludmilla Petrova, 43 — who was to win among the masters women — were among the runners, not to mention Shelter Island’s own Amanda Clark, 30, who sailed in the 2008 Olympics, and hopes, along with her new crew, Sarah Lihan, to bring home a medal from Weymouth, England (the sailing venue for the London Olympics), later this summer.

    Clark and Lihan have good reason to hope inasmuch as they were the silver medalists in the World Cup sailing championships in Hyeres, France, in April, and enjoyed a high finish in a weeklong international regatta in Weymouth recently.

    All of the above ran in the 10K, with Samuelson (40:00), Brantley (45:00), Rodgers (50:00), and Shorter (60:00) leading pace groups in the record-friendly conditions.

    Race day on Shelter Island often is hot and humid, though this time, said Cliff Clark, its founder, “the weather was perfect — in the high 60s to low 70s, dry, and not a cloud in the sky.”

    Clark, who competed in the 1972 Olympic trials in the steeplechase and in the 5,000-meter race, can trace his friendship with Frank Shorter, the ’72 Olympics marathon champion, to that time. He said Shorter, who was last here in 1990, and Rodgers had laid the foundation for the running world, making the sport a noted and worthy one.

    Saturday’s runner-up was Tesfaye Girma, 29, of Ethiopia in 29:10. Samuel Ndereba, 35, of Kenya was third, in 29:45, and Mengistu Nebsi, 34, of Ethiopia was fourth. Ketema Nigusse, 31, of Ethiopia, who won Shelter Island in 2009 and was third last year, placed fifth, in 31:00.

    One of the Ethiopians, Abiyot Endale, who would have been fourth, was disqualified following the finish for having cut the course near the end, a shortcut that allowed him to catch up with Ndereba.

    “It was a mistake,” Janelle Kraus-Nadeau, who was in charge of the elite runners, said afterward. “Cliff and I saw him do it — he took it well when we told him, he didn’t protest.”

    Hirut Mandefro, 28, of Ethiopia was the women’s runner-up in 34:42. McKenzie Melander, 22, was the third woman, in 34:51. A recent University of Iowa graduate, she has been coached by Layne Anderson, the husband of the former Alexis Hamblet, a cross-country and track protégée of Clark’s. It was the first professional race and the first road 10K for Melander, the Big 10 Conference’s 5,000-meter champion, whose 15:57 at an invitational meet at Stanford this past season left her just 7 seconds shy of qualifying for the Olympic 5,000-meter trials.

    Melander stayed with the Kraus family over the weekend. “She loved it here, and she ran a great race,” said Kraus-Nadeau. “She began as a 1,500-meter runner, which showed at the end when she passed [the 19-year-old fourth-place finisher from Kenya] Dorcus Chesang.”

    Barbara Gubbins, whose Running Ahead shops on the South Fork help sponsor the race, found herself finishing between two Olympians — Petrova and Samuelson — in 40:15, good for third among the masters women. Her time, she said later, “was the best I’ve run in a while.”

    “I never saw the Russian,” said Gubbins, who ran the first mile with 14-year-old Erik Engstrom of Amagansett, and ended up with Samuelson, who, “all of a sudden, after we’d hit the first mile mark at 6:20, took off. It was funny. I doubt she was worried about me — she’s a much higher quality runner than me. I could see her throughout the course, but I had no chance of catching her.”

    Petrova crossed the line in 35:57, in 20th place; Samuelson was 40th, in 39:29, and Gubbins was 50th, in 40:15.

    The wheelchair winner was 17-year-old Adam Cruz of Brentwood, in 28:46. Peter Hawkins, 48, of Malverne was second, in 31:38, and William Lehr, 54, of Shelter Island was third, in 37:56.

    Joseph Ekuom, 42, of Kenya, who placed 10th, was the men’s masters winner, in 33:02. Ken Rideout, 41, of Shelter Island, was second masters runner, in 36:26.

    Tara Wilson, 25, of Shelter Island Heights, topped the 25-to-29-year-old women’s category; Jim MacWhinnie, 40, of Southampton, who was 43rd over all, won the men’s 40-to-44 division; Mike Bahel, 45, of East Hampton, 33rd over all, was second in the men’s 45-49 group; John Kenney, 56, of Shelter Island Heights was the first men’s 55-59 finisher; Jeff Yennie, 63, of Sag Harbor was the 60-64 runner-up; Arthur Nealon, 65, of East Hampton led the men’s 65-69 group, and Blaire Stauffer, 79, of Sag Harbor, Larry Liddle, 76, of Southampton, and Americo Fiore, 82, of Southampton were the top three men in the 75-99 division.

    Back to Kraus-Nadeau, the nine-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion was inducted into Wake Forest’s Hall of Fame last fall. She has also been named as one of the A.C.C.’s top 50 cross-country and track athletes over the past 50 years.

    While she’s spending this year taking care of her and her husband Bill’s 1-year-old daughter, Josephine, Kraus-Nadeau, who lives in Madison, Conn., said she was happy to have been offered a coaching job at the Hopkins School in New Haven last fall. Two of her runners placed one-two in the Foot Locker regional’s cross-country freshman race.

    Asked if Samuelson had served as an inspiration for her when she was growing up, she said “Absolutely. . . . I read a book of hers — it’s still in print and is equally applicable to elite runners and joggers — when I was in high school, and at a camp I went to when I was in college, I loved to hear the cool stories one of her former coaches told about her. When I heard she was coming here for the first time, three years ago, I was in awe.”

    As for Samuelson, one of her goals this past weekend was to go sailing with Amanda Clark, which apparently she did, along with Brantley, who, before he got into running at the age of 13, was a sailor.    

    The last mile of the 6.2-mile race was dedicated before the race as “Joey’s Mile,” in honor of the late 1st Lt. Joseph Theinert, who was killed June 4, 2010, by an explosive device while on patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

    Shelter Island school children lined that final mile with American flags. During pre-race remarks, Lieutenant Theinert’s mother, Chrys Kestler, thanked them and the community that had supported her family “since day one of Joe’s death.”

    She asked the runners to remember all the servicemen and women, past and present, with a prayer as they ran that mile. “There’s so much more we need to do for them,” she said.

    Shorter, in a separate conversation, seconded that. “I think it’s wonderful­ . . . any way that we can show appreciation for what our military does to preserve our way of life should be done. That’s why we’re free.”

    The camaraderie of Shelter Island, which Adipietro said was palpable that day, will continue at the Olympic track and field trials in Eugene, Ore., in the coming two weeks. Cliff Clark, John Kenney, Shorter, Gubbins, and Samuelson will be among the spectators. In addition, Samuelson will be part of a Title IX celebration, leading fellow female Olympians in a 9K run in Eugene and at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the site of her 1984 victory in the first women’s marathon ever held.

With Reporting by Carrie Ann Salvi

    Leslie Andrews, a former ESPN marketer who at the age of 30 forsook corporate boardrooms for the greener pastures of golf, and who later became a teaching pro and a corporate golf consultant, has, with Adrienne Wax, written a book, “Even Par: How Golf Helps Women Gain the Upper Hand in Business,” which says that working women are handicapping themselves by not taking up the sport.

    During a recent conversation at Montauk Downs, where she gives lessons most of the year, Andrews, who may well be the first to offer such a primer, said, in reply to a question, “For beginners, men and women, the physical skills are the same, but the psychological experience is far different for women. Women have far more difficulty making the transition from lessons to playing. They think they’re not good enough, whereas the guys just go out and let ’er rip.”

    The spirits of those who might not feel good enough, the blond, blue-eyed teaching pro said, with a smile, would undoubtedly lighten considerably should they check out the foursomes on the first tees. Timid souls would see then that the vast majority of golfers, men and women, are not playing the same game as it is played on television — far from it.

    All Andrews wants to do is to get women in the game so that they, too, can be part of the conversation, as it were, and have fun at the same time.

    “According to a study by Catalyst,” she writes, “46 percent of female executives cited ‘exclusion from informal networks’ as a main impediment to their ability to reach the top of an organization. And the biggest informal network is golf. Why would you let an inability to play golf stand in your way when it is relatively easy to learn?”

    “In the work GolfingWomen does with businesswomen we debunk the myths of golf and underline its realities,” the former three-sport athlete at Wellesley and Dartmouth M.B.A. said. “If Annika Sorenstam, who might be the greatest woman golfer ever, and who’s my size, is your standard, you better ratchet it down.”

    “At ESPN you had to play golf,” she said in recounting her own experience, which, amplified by a decade of teaching, had led her to write the book, which has, she said in reply to a question, been doing quite well.

    While the golf industry, Andrews said, had tried to get more women to play the game, “the percentage of female players has remained pretty much steady, at between 23 and 25 percent, over the years. But the industry has treated women like men. Women don’t need more lessons, they need help with the psychological things. The bar is not as high as you think!”

    Myth #1: “To play in a business outing, you need to be a good golfer.”

    Reality #1: “To play in a business outing, you need to show up.”

    Myth #2: “All men who play in business golf outings are good golfers.”    Reality #2: “Wrong. Most people, regardless of gender, are not good golfers. Yet they are golfers, regardless of ability level.”

    Myth #3: “Men don’t like to play golf with women.”

    Reality #3: “Generally speaking, my experience has been that men like to play golf with women. First, most men like being with women, period, and, second, as more women move into influential roles in business — hence become key clients, bosses, and so forth — men need to build relationships with women just as much as vice versa. Remember: this isn’t personal; it’s business.”

    Myth #4: “You need to make a major commitment — both in time and money — to learn to play golf and participate in golf outings for business.”

    Reality #4: “Golf is an investment, yes, but an investment in you . . . a tool to propel you up the ladder of your career. . . . You need an understanding of three things to play golf: 1) Basic golf skills; 2) How to maintain the pace of play throughout a round, and 3) Golf etiquette.”

    So, she would say, take a few lessons from a teaching pro (not from a friend, relative, or significant other), get a golf calendar, put up on your office bulletin board a photo of yourself in golf attire on a golf course, and say yes when someone asks if you’d like to play in the next company golf outing.

    Anyone can learn to play golf, she said, during the course of three months, with a little persistence.

    Andrews would advise that beginners here — male or female — start out playing at the nine-holers, the Sag Harbor Golf Club or Poxabogue, rather than at Montauk Downs, even though its head pro, Kevin Smith, she said, was “very woman-friendly.”

    The Downs was, she added, “a long course that plays much longer when the wind’s blowing. It is difficult, but it’s playable. And beautiful, and open to the public. We’re very lucky to have this course here in our backyard.”

    On the subject of tees, “they really are ability-related rather than gender-related. Men tend to hit longer than women, but the women pros at Sebonack next year will be playing from the back tees. . . . You should play the tees that fit your game.”

    As for beer and betting, women oughtn’t to fret. “There is pressure to drink and pressure to gamble, but you can decline in various ways.”

    When this writer said a golfer of his acquaintance maintained he did better after having had one or two beers, she smiled and said, “Drinking doesn’t improve your game — that’s a known fact. The betting thing is tricky. Men tend to like to bet on golf, they need the ‘action,’ it piques their interest. Women tend not to be into that. But there are ways to excuse yourself. Betting, however, shouldn’t discourage women.”

    There are 10 chapters in the breezily written “Even Par,” each beginning with a quote, perhaps the most helpful of which is Lao Tzu’s “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

    Thus, in signing off, on page 121, Andrews says, “Grab a 5-iron and carpe diem.”

    The I-Tri program for sixth-through-eighth-grade girls in the Springs and Montauk Schools benefited to the tune of about $9,000 from a Turbo-Tri, a triathlon for adults new or relatively new to the sport that was contested Saturday over the same Maidstone Park course the I-Tri girls and others of their peers are to traverse on July 22.

    The overall winner, Annette MacNiven, who recently placed second in her age group in the International Triathlon Union’s world championships — and thus was decidedly not a triathletic neophyte — told the race director and fellow I-Tri coach, Sharon McCobb, before the 300-yard swim, 7-mile bike, and 1.5-mile run event began, that she’d defer if she won.

    As a result, the official winner that day among the 30 entrants was Elizabeth Parry, 32, of Water Mill, who finished in 44 minutes and 17.6 seconds, about two and a half minutes behind MacNiven. Bill Costello, 51, of Wainscott, fourth over all, was the men’s winner in 48:05.9. Stephanie Brabant, 36, of Springs, was fifth, in 48:13.5, and Diane O’Donnell, 61, the East Hampton High School girls cross-country and track coach, was sixth, in 48:19.

    There were relay teams as well. Eric Casale, the Springs School principal, was on one of them, along with Kim Notel, the school’s DARE officer, who did the bay swim, and Ana Jacobs, a teacher’s assistant, who did the bike leg.

    “It’s a wonderful program,” Casale said of I-Tri before the race began. “Theresa [Roden] has done an unbelievable job with them. In two years these girls have blossomed. They’re engaged in a lifelong commitment to personal fitness and to increased self-confidence. They would have been couch potatoes; they’re leaders now.”

    As of the moment, I-Tri has 40 members, including 14 alumnae. Its motto is “Transformation Through Triathlon.”

    Topping the eight relay teams, in 53:03.2, was Big Blue, with John Foster (swim), Whitney Reidlinger (bike), and Abbey Roden (run).

    The Women’s Sports Foundation, from which I-Tri has received grant money, sent out from Hicksville a professional ultra-distance competitor, Amy Winters, a 39-year-old below-the-knee amputee who continued to compete after losing a leg to a motorcycle accident when she was 21.

    Winters, who was mentoring her sister, Stacy Hatzo, a first-timer, that day, said, in reply to a question, that she would do the 135-mile Bad Water race in Death Valley next. She added that as a member of the United States’ able-bodied team, she competed in a 24-hour race in France in April, running 125 miles in that span.

    While for her Saturday’s event was a walk in the park, Winters, who brought along her two children, Carson, 8, and Madilynn, 7, said it was fitting she was there, inasmuch as I-Tri “is about mentoring and helping others.”

    The children, she said, “do sprint triathlons with me, distances like this.”

    As for the amputation, she said in answer to a question, “Everybody faces something in life, a crisis that presents you with a choice. Do you give up or do you move on?”