Sailing Classes

    The first of the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s summer series of two-week sailing sessions is to begin Monday at the south end of Lake Montauk. Preregistration at the Parks and Recreation Department, behind Town Hall, is required. The morning and afternoon sessions are limited to 15 students. The minimum age is 12. The fee is $200 per person.

Riding Scholarships

    The Stony Hill Foundation, which is to offer riding scholarships to South Fork children interested in taking up equestrian sports, will hold a benefit cocktail party, at which there will be a dressage exhibition and a pony drill team performance, from 6 to 8 p.m. on June 30 at Stony Hill Stables, Town Lane, Amagansett. Tickets, which are tax-deductible, cost $125 per person and $200 for a couple.

    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?”

    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.”

    “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

    He believes it could be the beginning of a big payback. “Nature’s vengeance. For all the tweety birds I shot with my BB gun, and all the fish, and all the ducks. I’m probably going to be stomped to death by webbed feet.”

    What’s prompted Harvey Bennett’s concerns was a run-in with a deer early in the morning last Thursday near Dev­on in Amagansett.

    “I just bought a really nice bike. It was the third time I rode it. I just caught the deer out of the corner of my eye. Next thing I knew I was laying in the road. He must have grazed the rear end. I’m bruised and my knee got skunned up [that’s Bonac for “skinned” as in “skunning an eel”], but I’m okay.”

    Striped bass, bluefish, porgies, and fluke are in good supply in Gardiner’s Bay, but he said he’s not sure if he dare go fishing.

    The big question coming out of the Montauk SurfMasters Tournament this week is this: Will Gary Krist regret not weighing in his 21.36-pound striped bass? Not a big bass, relatively speaking, but then again the surfcasting harvest since the spring shoot-out tournament began on May 1 has been lean, to say the least. Krist’s fish did place second in the Paulie’s Tackle shop tournament over the weekend.

    The point is, a 20-something-pound striped bass could very well take the prize, so better to look silly weighing in a 20-pounder than look silly when a smaller one wins it all. 

    The good news is there has been some pretty consistent casting action on the north side of the Montauk Lighthouse in recent days. Fred Kalkstein, an organizer of the Montauk SurfMasters tourney, said there was a 32-pounder taken over the weekend using a darter lure, “and some very reliable rumors of a few ‘lost girls,’ which would have tipped the scales north of 20 pounds for sure.”

    Speaking of lost girls, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has decided to reduce the number of tags that each of the state’s commercial striped bass permit holders get this year. By state law, each bass caught for the market must be tagged.

    The reason, according to Arnold Leo, secretary of the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association, stems from the fact that the state allocated more tags to each fisherman last year because for several years the overall state quota had not been met. “Lo and behold, last year instead of the usual 10 percent underage, they used up all the tags, plus the average weight of the fish was greater,” Mr. Leo said.

    The state quota for commercial fishermen will be 828,000 pounds this year, down from 854,731 pounds. The number of permit holders has remained pretty much the same. Each permit holder received 241 tags last year. They will get 210 for 2012.

    The extra tags and extra weight resulted in a harvest surplus, thus the reduction in tags this year. Mr. Leo said that unlike the commercial fishery, the recreational side has no harvest cap. Sports are permitted to catch as many bass as they can at a rate of one per day, or two per day on for-hire boats, that measure at least 28 inches long. The total catch is computed later via random survey.

    “The argument we would make is that this is a reallocation of the fishery, allowing the sportfishing quota to increase while capping the commercial harvest and then not acknowledging that the stock is in such good shape. There is a colossal stock of adult bass,” Mr. Leo said.

    A portion of that colossal stock was caught during the Ducks Unlimited fishing tournament held from the Star Island Yacht Club over the weekend. Scott Leonard, who runs the tackle section at the yacht club, said the winning bass weighed 41 pounds. Most of the bass weighed in the 20 to 30-pound range were caught trolling. During a fishing trip Sam Gershowitz, the yacht club owner, and friends caught two 35-pound bass on eels.  

    The yacht club is selling live bait eels and live bunker, which are usually in stock Thursdays and Fridays for weekend anglers.

    Mr. Leonard reported excellent fluke fishing over the weekend with “a lot of eights” being caught. That is, eight-pound summer flounder. And Mr. Bennett reported the same productive fluke fishing around Buoy 2 in Gardiner’s Bay. Dinner-plate-size porgies are schooling in the bay as well.

Friday, June 15

LITTLE LEAGUE, game three of Reds-Diamondbacks final series, if necessary, Pantigo fields, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 16

LIFEGUARDING, ocean certification test, Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett, 9:30 a.m.-noon.

SHELTER ISLAND 10K, in front of Shelter Island High School, 5:30 p.m.

TURBO-TRI, 300-yard swim, 7-mile bike, and 1.5-mile run, fund-raiser for I-Tri program, Maidstone Park, Springs, 6 p.m.

Brenneman Cited

    Tyler Brenneman, a son of Tim and Debbie Brenneman of East Hampton, and a midfielder on Notre Dame’s Final Four men’s lacrosse team, has been named as the recipient of a National Collegiate Athletic Association Elite 89 award given to sophomore-or-above athletes whose cumulative grade-point average tops their Final Four peers. Brenneman, an economics major who is to study in that field in England this summer, has a 3.782 g.p.a. He is the first Notre Dame men’s lacrosse player to be so honored.

10K, Turbo Tri Races

    A Turbo Tri triathlon, a fund-raiser for the I-Tri triathletic program for teenage girls, is to be held at Maidstone Park Saturday at 6 p.m. The contestants are to cover the same course — 300-yard swim, 7-mile bike, and 1.5-mile run — that Sharon McCobb’s Youth Triathlon contestants will on July 22.

    Saturday’s race, also overseen by McCobb, is open to “all ability levels ages 17 and up.”

    A half-hour before the Turbo Tri is to begin, about 1,700 entrants are to set forth in the Shelter Island 10K, among them the former Olympians Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Keith Brantly, as well as Shelter Island’s Olympic sailor, Amanda Clark, who is to compete in the London Games this summer.        The elite runners are to be on hand for a meet-and-greet tomorrow outside Shelter Island’s American Legion Hall before the pre-race pasta dinner.

    Jitters played a hand in the Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School softball team’s 12-1 loss to Greenwich in a state Final Four semifinal in upstate Queensbury Saturday, though the facts remained that for the first time ever, the Whalers, whose coach is Melissa Edwards, had won Long Island and regional championships.

    The team defeated East Rockaway 9-1 to win the Long Island championship — the first time Pierson had ever defeated East Rockaway. And, in the regional game, the Whalers defeated Tuxedo 4-1. Edwards and her players were greeted on their 11 p.m. return from the regional game by a victory parade.

    After Saturday’s game, according to an account in Newsday, Kasey Gilbride, League VIII’s player of the year, who accounted for the Whalers’ sole run by homering over the center-field fence in the seventh inning, and Pierson’s senior pitcher, Melanie Stafford, said they had been playing extra hard of late for their coach, whose father, Charles Edwards, died May 3 after the delivery truck he was driving struck a tree on North Haven.

    “We went into each game playing for Coach Edwards and her father,” Gilbride was quoted as saying. “We wanted to make her proud, each game, each pitch. It was definitely a motivator for us.”

    Edwards told Newsday’s Evan Korn, “These girls kept me going this season through everything, and I can’t be any more proud than I am.”   

    Ryan Siebert, a 20-year-old from Patchogue, who was third last year, won Saturday’s Robert Aaron memorial triathlon in Montauk in one hour, 52 minutes, and 46.5 seconds.

    The young winner, who competed in his first triathlon when he was 10, topped a field of 525 finishers, bettering last year’s time by about three minutes.

    Because it was the race’s 30th anniversary, Siebert, whose splits were 23:53 in the mile swim, 47:20 in the 22-mile bike, and 38:47 in the 10K run, said he had persuaded his mother, Denise Hannon Siebert, 56, who was the women’s winner at Montauk in 1984, to do it too. She placed 247th over all in 2:39.15.3, and won the 55-to-59 women’s category.

    The women’s winner was once again Laurel Wassner, a 36-year-old pro from New York City, who has dominated here since 2007, and who in 2011 became the first female ever to win Montauk outright, in 1:53:25.3. Her time this year was 1:58:54.3, good for 10th place over all, two spots behind the 51-year-old Eben Jones, who has won this event nine times in his career.

    After his last win at Montauk in 2002, in 1:51:55, the former world’s top amateur, who lives in New Canaan, Conn., and is the father of four, said he forwent triathletic competition for a decade — though he continued to ride road and mountain bikes and to ski — “until my wife bought me a bike last year for my 50th birthday.”

    “I came back today because Merle [McDonald Aaron, the race director and widow of its late founder] asked me,” said Jones after crossing the line in eighth place, in 1:57:37.5.

    While his swim and bike splits Saturday were right there with the times he posted 10 years ago, his run was five-and-a-half minutes slower. Eying a fellow triathlete, Jones said, “I’m doing well in my age group — I won the nationals last year and was fourth at Hawaii — but, as he knows, once you hit 45 you slow down.”

    Siebert, whose mother has qualified for the sprint competition in the world triathlon championships, which are, he said, to be contested in London next year, hopes he’ll be able to go too, as an Olympic-distance competitor. He had recently “won Great South Bay and placed fifth in the Elite Amateurs in Texas.”

    Eighteenth out of the water, Siebert said he “made up time on the bike . . . I’m not sure what I did on the run.”

    Wassner, who said she’d been “very happy” with a fifth-place finish the week before in a half-Ironman in Connecticut that had drawn nationally-ranked competitors — a race in which she’d not done well the year before owing to the deleterious effects of a frigid lake swim — knew she wouldn’t be able to go all out here. “I only decided to come two days before the race,” she said. “My coach hadn’t wanted me to come.”

    But it was Montauk’s 30th anniversary, and so she did.

    David Powers, 44, of New York City and Wainscott, the winner here in 2008, the runner-up in 2010 — and the apparent winner last year until the corrected time of Wassner, who had started the swim five minutes behind the elite men, was posted — seemed well on his way to winning again Saturday, but a muffed “flying dismount” coming into the transition area at the end of his 47:16 bike leg resulted in multiple contusions and cuts that rendered him hors de combat. When the accident occurred, Powers, who was sixth out of the water, in 21:44, had a lead of at least several minutes.

    John Broich, 51, of Sag Harbor, placed 38th, in 2:10.24.6, and was fourth in the 50-54 group that Jones topped. Erin Tintle, 40, of East Hampton, who placed 99th, in 2:24:08.1, won among the 40-44 women. David Pitches, 66, who placed 354th, in 2:48:52.5, won among the 65-69 men, and Fran McConnell, 61, of East Hampton, who placed 524th, in 3:50:49.1, was fourth among the 60-64 women.

    Ashley West, who led the girls cross-country team for four years and the spring track team for five, and Cameron Yusko, a three-sport athlete who played on six straight league-champion golf teams and on one Long Island-championship team, were honored at East Hampton High School’s athletic awards dinner June 6 as recipients of the Paul Yuska award given to the senior class’s top athletes.

    Moreover, Yusko, who played basketball and baseball as well as golf (finishing with an overall record of 51-5-1), and who won a Channel 12 scholar-athlete award in March and was president of the National Honor Society, is the class’s valedictorian. He will attend Duke University in the fall.

    West, who, according to her coaches, Diane O’Donnell and Shani Cuesta, “chased down and reset many of the school’s running records and ran in the state qualifier meet every spring since she was a freshman,” will attend Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa., in the fall.

    During the course of the school year, the boys soccer team won its first county championship since the program was begun here in 1976; the softball team played for a county championship for the first time since 2008; the golf team won its eighth straight league title; the girls soccer and girls lacrosse teams made the playoffs for the first time in those programs’ 10-year histories; the boys swimming team enjoyed its first winning season; Dana Cebulski became the first girls cross-country runner from East Hampton to compete in a state meet, and Marina Preiss competed in a state swimming meet yet again, in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle races.

    Besides boys soccer, girls soccer, golf, girls swimming, boys swimming, and softball, other teams to play in the postseason were girls volleyball and boys volleyball. Girls and boys cross-country were said to have experienced “breakthrough” seasons, and boys basketball, while it did not make the playoffs, staged a remarkable comeback, overcoming a 15-point deficit in the final five and a half minutes to defeat Shoreham-Wading River 57-56 on a coast-to-coast buzzer-beating layup by Thomas King.

    Other athletic awards dinner honorees were Katla Thorsen, James Budd, and Milton Farez, who won Kendall Madison Foundation four-year college scholarships; Linsey Kromer, who won the Molly Cangiolosi outstanding female student-athlete scholarship; Kathryn Hess and Meghan Dombkowski, who won Mae Ann Buchman outstanding athlete scholarships; West and Ryan Joudeh, who received the athletic director Joe Vas’s awards, and Farez and Nicole Miksinski, who won East Hampton High School Coaches Association scholarships “given to athletes who plan to follow a career in physical education, health, or a related field.”

    Moreover, Saoirse McKeon and Trevor Shea received United States Army scholar-athlete awards; Thorsen and Yusko received scholar-athlete plaques; Melanie Mackin and Brock Lownes received the V.F.W. sports and sportsmanship awards given to the junior class’s top athletes, and Budd and Thorsen won scholar-athlete awards from the Suffolk Zone of the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.

    In addition, Budd and Hess won the Dellacave award for having represented the community in exemplary fashion in athletic competition, and the following received Gold Key awards given by the state public high school athletic association for having lettered in eight varsity and/or junior varsity sports in their sophomore through senior years — Dombkowski, Farez, Deilyn Guzman, Michael Hamilton, Patrick McGuirk, Miksinski, West, and Yusko.

    Recipients of the 27 teams’ most-valuable, most-improved, and coach’s awards were:

    Adam Cebulski, Michael Peralta, and Mario Zeledon — boys cross-country; Dana Cebulski, Jennifer DiSunno, and Ashley West, girls cross-country; Domb­kowski, Kathryn Wood, and Miksinski, field hockey; Budd, Jhovani Hernandez, and Sergio Betancur, football; Ian Lynch, Matthew Griffiths, and Yusko, golf; Mario Olaya, Alexis Serna, and Jerjes Alban, boys soccer; Raphaelle Franey, Rebecca Friedes, and Jessica Gutierrez, girls soccer.

    Preiss, Shannon Ryan, and Haley Ryan, girls swimming; Jessica Bono, Phoebe Gianis, and Carrie Sullivan, girls tennis; King, Shea, and McGuirk, boys volleyball; Raya O’Neal, Lydia Budd, and Thorsen, girls volleyball; Dayna Dunlop, Skylar Conklin, and Cole Brauer, fall cheerleading; Andrew Payne, Daniel Ruggiero, and Rick Nardo, bowling; Kim O’Sullivan, Sadie Ward, and Julia Boehm, winter cheerleading; King, Juan Cuevas, and Yusko, boys basketball; Kaelyn Ward, Sarah Johnson, and Miksinski, girls basketball.

    Lucas Escobar, Jacob Hands, and Sawyer Bushman, wrestling; Guzman, Cebulski, and Shea, winter boys track; West, Thorsen, and Cebulski, winter girls track; Thomas Brierley, Kyle Sturmann, and Peter Skerys, boys swimming; Ryan Joudeh, James McMullan, and Michael Abreu and Brandon Brophy, baseball; Michael Jara, Alexis Serna, and Ryan Fitzgerald, boys lacrosse; Maggie Pizzo, Katie Brierley and Amanda Seekamp, and Allison Charde, girls lacrosse; Casey Waleko and Hess, and Ali Harned, softball; Andrew Davis, Keith Schad, and Collin Kavanaugh, boys tennis; Cebulski, and Jacob Hands and Hamilton, spring boys track, and West, Hannah Jacobs, and Brauer, spring girls track.