The East Hampton Coaches Association’s coffers benefited to the tune of $10,000 from a golf outing Saturday at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett.

    Rain had been forecast, but it was, wonderful to tell, a sunny day, and spirits were bright.

    “The last time here [two years ago], I hit a horse,” Lou Reale, East Hampton High’s softball coach, said before the golf cart brigade of foursomes set out.

    Matt Maloney, the girls lacrosse coach, looked confident inasmuch as he had brought with him the same two ringers who had helped his foursome win at South Fork in 2010.

    Maloney’s fourth was John Pizzo, whose daughter, Maggie, stars at midfield for the girls team. And while, according to his own account, Pizzo didn’t play his best golf that day, he wound up as the most envied person at the post-tourney buffet given the fact that he won the “Trip-of-a-Lifetime” raffle offering a trip for two to any one of this country’s 13 major sporting events, or to Hawaii, the Caribbean, or Alaska.

    “Your call got me to thinking,” Pizzo said Monday morning. “Mimi and I have been blessed — I’ve done well as a builder despite these very tough times. We’ve traveled to a lot of nice places, and I know Matt is getting married in December. So, I’m giving this trip to him. . . . He’s such a sports nut though that I think I’ll let his wife choose where to go. Otherwise, they may wind up in a basketball court at their honeymoon.”

    The Maloney quartet did not win this time; it finished third at one-under. The top prize, despite a Calloway handicapping system designed to even out ringers’ scores, went to the five-under foursome of Claude Beudert, coach of championship East Hampton golf teams, Barry Mackin, Arthur Goldman, and Gene Colleary, a retired teacher whose game revived after he got a new hip two years ago. “Before I had that operation,” he said, “I couldn’t walk from the first tee to the first green here.”

The runners-up were Bill McKee, who, with Rich King, helped organize the outing, Mike Petrie, Steve Waxman, and Peter Bistrian, who by himself had lined up 30 sponsors.

Reale, whose perennially strong softball teams attest to the efficacy of the six-step swing that he teaches, said, when told there was a book out now called “The Eight-Step Golf Swing,” that he had “a zero-step golf swing. . . . No, I didn’t hit a horse this time, but I put three balls into the pasture.”

Nobody won a new Buick, which would have gone to anyone with a hole-in-one on the par three ninth hole, a feat that this newspaper’s Irene Silverman, who described it as “kind of a miracle,” happened to accomplish on Sept. 6.

“We’re very appreciative,” said McKee, “that South Fork gave us their course to use on a Saturday. We had corporate sponsors, hole sponsors, golf cart sponsors, and there were individual donations. . . . The whole community got behind it. This is our seventh year holding this tournament. This one will be tough to top.”

The proceeds, McKee added, would go toward the two scholarships the coaches association gives out at the high school’s athletic awards dinner in June, “and to any kids — they don’t necessarily have to be athletes — we hear about who are in need.”

    The East Hampton High School boys and girls track teams lost to their Amityville peers this past week, though there were good things to say even though the margins of victory were considerable.

    “We were holding our own until the scores from the throwers and jumpers came in,” said the girls’ coach, Diane O’Donnell. “Their girl who won the shot-put just stood there and tossed it 34 feet.”

    In winning the 400, East Hampton’s Ashley West ran a personal-best, 59.4. She won the 800 too, in 2:39, and “almost caught their girl on the fourth leg of the 4-by-4 — she ran out of track.”

    Lena Vergnes won the 1,500-meter racewalk in 8:52; Julia DeSousa, her teammate, was the runner-up.

    Amanda Calabrese would have been second in the 100 hurdles had she not been disqualified for “hooking,” which is to say one of her legs passed around the outside of one of the hurdles. Calabrese was second and Kathryn Wood was third in the 200.

    East Hampton, which was unopposed, swept the 3,000. Cole Brauer won it in 13:10. East Hampton swept the 1,500 too, with Jennie DiSunno, Alyssa Bahel, and Jami Staubitser.

    Charlotte Wiltshire and Sedona Brosse were one-two in the high jump. Wiltshsire was third in the discus with a throw of 63-11.

    “Although we lost, the relays were great races,” said O’Donnell. “Our 4-by-1 team, anchored by Saoirse McKeon, turned in their best time so far. Amityville won it in 55.2; we did 55.4. The 4-by-4 was almost the same, though we were d.q.’d for passing the baton out of the zone. The 4-by-8 was uncontested.”

    Following the boys meet here with Amityville, East Hampton’s coach, Chris Reich, said, “We got beat up pretty bad.” Amityville and Westhampton Beach, he added, would probably fight it out for the league championship.

    The Tiger Award went to Adam Cebulski, who led a Bonac sweep of the mile and two-mile races and was a member of the winning 4-by-800 relay team.

    Mike Hamilton and Evan Larsen, who came over from baseball, also drew praise from Reich. Larsen placed second in the mile, improving his time by 10 seconds, and second in the 400 hurdles. “He also led off the 4-by-4 with a 58.0.” Hamilton placed third in the mile, third in the 400, and ran a leg in the 4-by-4 relay.

    Amityville swept the shot-put and took the top two places in the discus. East Hampton’s Jacob Hands placed third in that event.

    Ed Bahns, whose baseball team was 5-6 as of Tuesday morning, having dropped all three games in a series with Mount Sinai, by scores of 9-1, 11-1, and 4-1, professed some concern Friday when asked about the team’s chances of making the playoffs.

    “An 11-9 record is still possible,” the coach said, “but I am a bit surprised. We’ve got possibly the best third baseman in the league and possibly the best shortstop, I know we’ve got the best catcher, and we’ve got a decent pitching staff, not lights-out, but decent. We’re a senior team, but so far we’ve been playing below our capabilities.”

    On the other hand, Matt Maloney, whose girls lacrosse team was on the verge of a tough, three-game week, was more sanguine. “If the playoffs were held today,” Maloney said during Friday’s practice session, “we’d be the fifth seed among the eight teams.”

    Should the girls make the postseason, it would be a first for the 12-year-old program.

    Meghan Dombkowski and Sarah Johnson, two of the team’s defenders, were confident, when questioned Saturday morning at the South Fork Country Club, where they were selling raffle tickets for the East Hampton Coaches Association, that the team would, indeed, make history.

    “We’re good now, but Coach Maloney knows and we know that we could be so much better,” said Johnson, who in the fall is to attend the University of Tampa, where she hopes to play volleyball. Dombkowski, a fellow senior, said she’ll play field hockey, and perhaps lacrosse, at Nichols College in Dudley, Mass.

    As of Tuesday morning, East Hampton (5-3 in divisional play) was in eighth place among the 21 teams in Division II, with 112.420 power points, just behind Harborfields, which is to play here tomorrow. The girls, who lost 16-11 to fourth-place Shoreham-Wading River here Monday, were to have played at 12th-place Huntington yesterday.

    Of Monday’s loss here to Shoreham, a game in which Maggie Pizzo scored seven goals, Maloney said via e-mail, “We put forth a great effort — I was very proud of our performance. We took care of the ball in the midfield, we limited our turnovers on offense, and we played tough, physical defense for most of the game.”

    “But we did lose. I told the girls afterward that while it was a great effort, we needed to perform that way in the rest of our games. I told them we no longer could be satisfied with a great effort — we have to have the W too.”

Friday, April 27

GIRLS LACROSSE, Harborfields at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, and Smithtown Christian vs. Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS TRACK, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 28

RUNNING, Katy’s Courage 5K, West Water Street, Sag Harbor, 8:30 a.m.

SOFTBALL, Deer Park at East Hampton, scrimmage, 10 a.m.

RUGBY, Long Island Rugby Club vs. Montauk, Herrick Park, East Hampton, 1 p.m.

Monday, April 30

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

BOYS TENNIS, Westhampton Beach at East Hampton, and Southampton at Ross, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, Babylon vs. Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, and East Hampton at Harborfields, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 1

BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, Pierson at Greenport, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, Pierson at Mattituck, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 2

SOFTBALL, Islip at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TRACK, Harborfields at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS TRACK, East Hampton at Harborfields, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TENNIS, East Hampton at Southampton, and Ross at William Floyd, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Eastport-South Manor, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, Greenport vs. Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

    When Zivile Ngo first came here from Lithuania eight summers ago to work at the Golden Pear, she was, the competitive bodybuilder said during a recent conversation at The Star, a shy, skinny kid.

    No longer shy — she would not have become certified as a personal trainer by Les Mills International if she continued to be so — and no longer skinny — the fact that she’s begun competing in bodybuilding competitions’ figures category against other women with athletic physiques attests to that — the tall, blue-eyed 29-year-old has found her life’s work.

    “I first came here [from the Baltic port city of Klaipeda, Lithuania’s third biggest] in 2004 — a couple from Hampton Bays I met on the plane drove me all the way out. I was delivered here! No train, no bus, no nothing. They were very nice.”

    “I did like this place,” she said in answer to a question, “but I was lost. . . . Yes, I spoke English — I had gone to an American college in Lithuania [graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business administration], which gave me the opportunity to work and travel in America.”

    Her initial stay, however, lasted only a couple of months, during which she “met a guy [Khanh Ngo, the lively Vietnamese-born East Hampton sports store owner] who lived here, but because of the post-9/11 travel restrictions I didn’t know where the relationship would lead . . . I had to go back. . . . It was heartbreaking.”

    Two years later, she returned with a student visa in hand to pursue a master’s degree in corporate finance at Dowling College. And Khanh Ngo (pronounced No) continued to pursue her.

    They married in 2008; the next year came her master’s degree, whose cost she underwrote by working at a law office and behind the desk at the East Hampton Gym. And that’s where, sports-wise, our story begins.

    “When I was a receptionist at the gym I began to work out, every other day for an hour or so. Nothing crazy. I was a dancer for 14 years — my love is modern dance — so I had a good foundation. Then I started taking classes at Sag Harbor, in martial arts, and in body combat and body pump — I’m now certified to teach body pump and body combat all over the world.”

    “I wanted something more, though. So, I got more into personal training. I’m certified in that. My youngest client is maybe 27 and my oldest 50 maybe. Men and women. I train them on the beach, in the park, anywhere. I want people to be healthy, I want to help them. This is my passion.”

    “I got really involved with the gym. I competed in what they call the bikini category last year, in New York City, but I wasn’t ready, I didn’t know what was going on. I’m not a bikini girl — I’m more athletic looking. It’s easier for me to get lean and muscular than to be soft and light.”

    At the suggestion of Chris Cosich, a well-known championship bodybuilder here to whom she accords much credit, she “stepped it up a bit” and began training for figures competitions, one of which was held recently in New York City.

    “It’s 90 percent diet,” she said in reply to a question. “No cheeseburgers, no pizza. No fries or soda, but I never did like them anyway. No ice cream — I used to eat ice cream for lunch! — no bagels, no chips, no butter. . . . Fish is good, lean meat, all the vegetables . . . starches a little bit in moderation. Avocados are good. Olive oil. Almond butter, but not too much. No salad dressing. . . . No bananas in the six to eight weeks leading up to a show. . . .”

    She ate frequently, she said, “every two or three hours. I always travel with my own food, and I drink a lot of water.”

    In the weight room she “lifts really heavy.” She squats 175 pounds, benchpresses 95, and leg-presses 400.

   “I’ve been working out harder lately, and my diet has been much stricter. My coach is proud of me, and the certification I have from Les Mills has opened me up to people. I didn’t know I really liked people! I do like them. It was made clear that if I didn’t communicate well, people wouldn’t come to my classes. . . . So, I’ve come far in these three years. I’m a lot stronger, I’m trying to improve every day. I want people to see that everything is possible. I was a skinny, closed, shy person, and I did it.”

    She added that “there’s a program a company has created, Beach Body Coach, for people who want to work out at home. You can bring them together in a group on Facebook. A coach can discuss workouts and nutrition with you there. I’ve had 10 people doing this for two months. They’ve been losing pounds, inches. I’m there to monitor them in a private setting.”

    “I just want to help people . . . it’s just the beginning for me.”

    The East Hampton High School baseball team swept a three-game series with Amityville last week, improving its record to 5-3 before losing 9-1 at Mount Sinai on Monday.

    As of Tuesday, the Bonackers were tied with Mount Sinai for third place in League VII, behind 9-0 Bayport-Blue Point and 6-3 Shoreham-Wading River.

    Will Collins, who assists Ed Bahns in coaching the team, said in recounting the Amityville series that “the scores of the first two games [played here April 9] were a lot more lopsided than we reported: We won the first game 21-1 and the second 23-0. Our guys really hit the ball well.”

    “I could probably write a book on how our first game went,” Collins said in an e-mail, “but here are some of the outstanding stats: Michael Abreu, who pitched, went 3-for-3 with six runs batted in, including two home runs and three runs scored, and had a no-hitter going into the fifth when their leadoff batter singled.”

    “Deilyn Guzman went 2-for-4 with five r.b.i. and two runs scored. He hit a grand slam home run in the fourth.”

    “Cameron Yusko had a solo homer in leading off the second; Ryan Joudeh went 3-for-4 with two r.b.i. and two runs scored; Brandon Brophy went 2-for-3 with two r.b.i. and one run scored, and Brendan Hughes went 1-for-2 with two r.b.i.”

    “There was no letdown in the second game. Ryan led it off with a single and promptly stole second. Brophy then drove him in with a double, and Guzman singled to put runners at the corners for Cameron, who struck out, but A.J. Bennett, who pitched that game, drove Brophy in with a single and after Abreu walked to load the bases, Hughes­ drove in Guzman with a sac fly for a 3-0 lead. Jimmy McMullan was walked to load the bases again. Pete Vaziri drove in A.J. with a single, and Joudeh’s single drove in Abreu and McMullan to put us up 6-0. A comebacker to the mound by Brophy ended the inning. And so it went. We added seven more runs in the second, six in the third, and five in the fourth.”

    “A.J. pitched three innings, allowing one hit and striking out seven and walked three. Guzman and Peter Shilowich finished up. Amityville’s coach agreed to end each of the games after four and a half innings, the minimum needed to be official.”

    Bennett also went 3-for-3 at the plate with three r.b.i. and two runs scored. Brophy went 3-for-5 with two r.b.i. and four runs scored; Guzman went 4-for-4 with two r.b.i. and four runs scored; Joudeh went 2-for-3 with two r.b.i. and two runs scored; Yusko went 2-for-3 with two r.b.i. and three runs scored, and McMullan went 3-for-4 with three r.b.i. and two runs scored.

    The series’ third game was played last Thursday at Amityville. Collins said, “We did not play nearly as well up there as we had in the doubleheader at home. Our starting pitcher, Deilyn, frankly never seemed to get fully comfortable. He said he had issues with the mound, but Coach Bahns and I told him he would have to adjust. He pitched five innings, struck out three, walked three, and gave up four hits and three runs, one of which was unearned.”

    “It was a 5-3 game in the sixth inning, and Coach Bahns and I were more than a little concerned. Abreu led off our sixth with a bunt single, then stole second. He went to third on a fielder’s choice and scored on a balk call with Brady Yusko up. . . . By the end of the inning, thanks to hits by Brady, Brendan Hughes, Brophy, Cameron Yusko, Bennett, and Andrew Rodriguez and four errors, we were up 13-3 and had some breathing room. A.J. pitched the sixth and seventh innings and was very effective, giving up one hit and no runs. He struck out three and didn’t walk anyone.”

    Joudeh, Bennett, Brophy, and Brady and Cameron Yusko finished with two hits each.

   Lou Reale, who coaches East Hampton High School’s softball team, said Tuesday morning that the past week’s spring training trip to Orlando, Fla., had indeed been memorable.

    During the 10-day span, the Bonackers, before a sizable entourage of relatives, a number of them Floridians who would not ordinarily see the girls play, swept through eight scrimmages without a loss — only the second time that’s happened in the nine years Reale has taken teams down there — and on the day before their departure achieved a “super grand slam,” an 18-hour Disney World hegira during which they careened about in all of the six parks’ biggest rides.

    “We began at Universal Studios at 6:30 a.m., when they drop the rope,” said Reale, “and we finished at 12:45 a.m. with Splash Mountain and Space Mountain. Thunder Mountain was closed.”

    To view the Magic Kingdom’s fireworks “from a different angle, we must have run a mile,” said the coach, who has two knee replacements. “We’d seen them from a boat on the lake the night before.”

    When asked if he’d brought up the rear, he said, “No, I was up front. . . . I think I need a hip replacement now.”

    It had been “a super, super trip. . . . Usually, by the end of these things, I’m sick of it, but this group was just great. I told them how well they’d represented East Hampton. And it was great to see all the grandparents and other relatives who live down there. There must have been 10 McGuirks. It gave them a chance to see the girls play. For some of them it was the first time.”

    And play they did. “We won all eight of our scrimmages, something that I thought we’d never done before until Erin [Abran, Reale’s assistant] told me we didn’t lose a scrimmage when she was there as a sophomore, in 2001 I think it was.”

    The super grand slam, however, had indeed been “a ‘first’. . . . Half of Erin’s team did it, but the other half was so exhausted that they took a bus back to the hotel.”

    In the top matchup of the scrimmage skein — “I don’t think we were ever behind in any of them” — East Hampton defeated a state champion, Bullitt High School of Louisville, Ky., 7-5, thanks to a four-run fifth inning during which Sam Mathews and Ali Harned had two-run doubles.

    “We hit the ball well,” Reale said, adding that “the pitcher that gave us the most trouble was one from Connecticut whose speeds were slow, slower, slowest.”

    Ilsa Brzezinski, the sophomore first baseman, “hurt her knee sliding into a base in our third or fourth scrimmage. Casey [Waleko, the team’s number-one pitcher] and Sam played there when they weren’t pitching.”

    Reale had thought he’d find East Hampton’s name in the cement walk leading to Disney World’s sports complex, an acknowledgement accorded to schools that have trained there for 10 years. But, after having made a fuss and apologizing to his charges, he learned, after having talked by phone with one of his former players, Meghan Hess, that this was the ninth such trip East Hampton has made.

    “We did get a customized bat that said ‘East Hampton Softball Bonackers’ and that everyone signed,” Reale said. “We’ll mount that on our dugout wall.”

    “Westhampton was there too. We didn’t scrimmage them, but if I’d known they were coming down we could have played a league game with them.”

    It was nice to see on his and the team’s return that Shoreham-Wading River had beaten Sayville. That meant that East Hampton and Sayville were tied for the League VI lead at the beginning of this week, each with one loss, Sayville at 5-1 and East Hampton at 4-1.

    The Bonackers were to have played here yesterday with Eastport-South Manor, which led League V at 6-0 as of Tuesday. Reale’s team is to play at Kings Park today; Elwood-John Glenn is to play here tomorrow; Huntington is to play here Monday, and Bellport is to play here Tuesday. 

   The East Hampton High School girls lacrosse team, which was in 10th place among Division II’s 21 power-rated teams as of Tuesday, lost 15-13 at Kings Park Friday after having earlier in the month defeated Bayport-Blue Point 10-9 and, in a nonleaguer, Lindenhurst 11-8.

    “We let the Kings Park game slip away,” Matt Maloney, East Hampton’s coach, said in an e-mail. “We started off great, at the half we led 10-6, but in the second half we didn’t play to our potential. We lost most of the draws, we didn’t continue to play tough defense, and, offensively, we only scored three goals. It was hard to take — we beat Kings Park 15-10 last season.”

    As of Tuesday, Kings Park was in fourth place in divisional play, with 123.060 power points, behind undefeated Hauppauge and Shoreham-Wading River and once-defeated Eastport-South Manor. East Hampton was, as aforesaid, in 10th, with 106.400 power points.

    Of the win over Bayport-Blue Point, Maloney said, “We lost to them 16-5 last year, one of the worst losses of our season. It took a total team effort to overcome our mistakes and to wind up on top this time.”

    The nonleaguer with Lindenhurst “was a pretty even match-up. Again, we played a tough game and came out on top. It was great to get those back-to-back wins” on April 3 and 4.

    Maloney said that he hoped his team, which was 5-2 over all, would get back on track Tuesday here with 17th-place Deer Park. This afternoon, the Bonackers are to play at 14th-place Islip.

Thursday, April 19

BOYS TRACK, Amityville at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, Mount Sinai at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Islip, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS TRACK, East Hampton at Amityville, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Kings Park, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 20

SOFTBALL, Elwood-John Glenn at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Mount Sinai, and Pierson at Southold, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TENNIS, East Hampton at Eastport-South Manor, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Huntington, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 21

GOLF, East Hampton Coaches Association outing, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 9 a.m.

TRACK, Ross-Pierson boys and girls at tri-meets, Southampton High School, noon.

BOYS TENNIS, Knox School at Ross, nonleague, 1 p.m.

BASEBALL, Pierson at Southold, 1 p.m.

Monday, April 23

GIRLS LACROSSE, Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, Huntington at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TENNIS, Ross at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 24

BASEBALL, Smithtown Christian vs. Pierson-Bridgehampton, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, Bellport at East Hampton, and Bayport-Blue Point vs. Pierson-Bridgehampton, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS LACROSSE, Deer Park at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 25

GIRLS TRACK, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TRACK, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Shoreham-Wading River, and Pierson-Bridgehampton at Smithtown Christian, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Comsewogue, and Pierson-Bridgehampton at Mount Sinai, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Huntington, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TENNIS, Shoreham-Wading River at Ross, 4:30 p.m.

April 2, 1987

    The Bridgehampton High School boys basketball team, the League VII and Suffolk Class D champion, was treated Tuesday night by MADRE, a women’s Central American aid organization, to an evening at Madison Square Garden, where the players saw the Knicks defeat the Celtics, the defending N.B.A. champions, 128-120.

    . . . In other Killer Bee news, the team’s senior point guard, Troy Bowe, as expected, received the Suffolk Coaches Association’s player of the year award at a banquet on March 25.

    . . . Concerning another matter, the 3-point shot from the 19-foot-9-inch radius, John Niles, the Bees’ coach, said, “Definitely we’ll be seeing it next season in high school boys basketball. . . . I didn’t like it at first, but now I think it will open the game up. It puts the little man back in the game.”

    Asked if he had any players who could hit from the 19-9 range, Niles replied, “Bobby Hopson can hit that shot, and my son [Joe], and Kyle Jones. In time we’ll have three guards who can fire away from that range, and they’ll have to be marked, so that will open up the middle.”

April 9, 1987

    It appears the men’s slow-pitch softball league will lose two teams this year, which will probably enable the six teams in each division to play each other three times, as used to be the case, in addition to playing one crossover game.

    I have to say that I, a well-brought-up female, enjoyed the Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvin Hagler fight greatly.

    “Why don’t more women go to the fights?” I asked at work the next day.

    “Because most women are not that stupid,” came one immediate reply, which threatened to crush any newfound enthusiasm I might have had.

    But later in the day, as numerous devoted sports lovers asked me for details of the fight, and even looked at me enviously, my good humor and sense of self-worth were restored. — Lisa Bialkin.

April 16, 1987

    Katie Browngardt, the Pierson High School girls basketball team’s standout senior forward, has been named to Newsday’s all-Long Island team for the second year in a row. Browngardt will attend Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., next fall, on a full athletic scholarship.

April 23, 1987

    Eric Kaufman, who became this year the first East Hampton High School wrestler ever to win a county championship, was named at a recent dinner in Smithtown as the recipient of the County Wrestling Coaches Association’s scholar-athlete award. In addition, East Hampton’s coach, Jim Stewart, was named by the Association as sportsman of the year.

    Kaufman, who will attend Cornell University in the fall, finished his high school wrestling career with a 102-12-1 record, and has a 92.3 average.

April 30, 1987

    Spring in the local running world got off to a bracing start Sunday as 60 enthusiasts turned out for the semi-annual 3.4-mile Dock race in Montauk, though for some competitors it was disconcerting that the race director, George Watson, showed up on time.

    “Every time before, George is never on time, so we get used to that,” said one of the top two veterans, Tony Venesina. “We arrive a little late, but we don’t worry — George, he’s never on time. But this time, bang, at 12 o’clock, he says, ‘Ready, get set, go.’ ”

    Howard Wood, the former East Hampton High School basketball star who now plays professionally in Valencia, Spain, and Clarence (Foots) Walker, a Southampton High School graduate who played 10 years in the N.B.A. with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New Jersey Nets, were among 25 players named recently to Newsday’s Silver Anniversary all-Long Island team.

    Wood’s bio noted that the 1977 E.H.H.S. graduate was a two-time member of Newsday’s all-Long Island team, and had led East Hampton to a 22-1 record and the A division championship of the Capitol Conference in the 1977 state regional. “He combined quickness, size, accurate shooting, and remarkable passing ability for a big man.” At the University of Tennessee, Wood scored 1,20l points in four seasons, after which he played one season with the Utah Jazz in the N.B.A. He is in his third year as a professional in Spain.”