Softball Summary

    The East Hampton High School softball team lost a first-round playoff game at Kings Park last Thursday as Lindsay Taylor, who recently broke Jessie Stavola’s career strikeout record (though Stavola took four years to amass her total, while it took Taylor five), struck out 13 during the course of a 7-0 one-hitter.

    Casey Waleko, who gave up a two-run homer in a four-run fourth inning and a homer in a three-run fifth, was the losing pitcher. Sam Mathews finished up.

    Erin Abran, who’s been coaching the team since its head coach, Lou Reale, was suspended several weeks ago for having committed a scheduling error, said East Hampton finished at 11-8 over all. She added that Kathryn Hess, the hard-hitting junior catcher, had been named to the all-county team, that Meghan Hess — one of East Hampton’s six seniors — Deryn Hahn, and Waleko had been named to the all-division team, and that Sam Mathews had been named to the all-league team.

    Because of wrist problems, Waleko, who’s a ninth grader, was not as dominant a pitcher as she was expected to be this season. She’s been told by doctors to rest the wrist for a while, after which they’ll further examine the ligaments and tendons that have given her problems.

Boys Tennis

    The Ross School and Hither Hills East were to have vied for the county boys tennis championship Tuesday at Smithtown East High School. The same teams contested last year’s final with Hills East coming out on top by a score of 5-2.

    Earlier this season, in a nonleaguer played at Ross, the Thunderbirds prevailed by a like score, though Cole Katzter, one of the Cosmos’ best doubles players, was missing from the home team’s lineup.

    At the time, Vinicius Carmo, Ross’s coach, said that his charges played better in the nonleaguer than they had in the 2010 final, and ventured that with Katzter “the outcome could have been different.”

    Ross’s top doubles team, Henry Lee and Felipe Reis, the county and division champions, are to play in the state tournament, which begins today at the National Tennis Center. Richard Sipala, Ross’s number one, who lost 7-6, 6-1 to Hills East’s number one, Zain Ali, in the county individual tournament’s consolation match, which reversed a loss Ali sustained at Sipala’s hands in the April 2 nonleaguer, did not make the state tourney.

Best Ball Scramble

    A best ball scramble golf tournament to benefit the St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk will be held at Montauk Downs on June 14, beginning with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. Keeshan Real Estate and Don Bostrom are handling reservations.

Ross Tennis Champs

    Henry Lee and Felipe Reis of the Ross School won the Suffolk County boys doubles championship at Smithtown East High School Friday, upsetting the tourney’s top seeds, Chris Hunter and Eric Bertuglia of Half Hollow Hills East 1-6,7-6, 7-5. Ross now has three county champions — Lee and Reis, and Nadia Smergut, who won the county’s girls singles title last fall.

    Ross’s team, second behind Hills East, was to have begun play in the county team tournament in its bubble yesterday with the Longwood-Northport winner. Barring disaster, Ross is to play two more home matches — today and tomorrow — before Tuesday’s final at Smithtown East.

Bonac Teams

    East Hampton High’s baseball team, seeded eighth in the county’s Class A bracket, was to have played ninth-seeded Islip here on Tuesday. Originally, the game was to have been played here Monday, but rain caused a postponement.

    The winner was to have played at top-seeded Sayville yesterday. The double elimination tournament is to continue through next Thursday.

    East Hampton’s softball team, the eighth seed in that tournament’s Class A bracket, is to play a first-round game at top-seeded Kings Park today at 4 p.m. The winner is to play the Miller Place-Islip winner on Saturday at 2 p.m. A best-of-three final series is to begin Wednesday.

Pierson Teams

    Pierson’s softball team is to begin a best-of-three Class C final series at Port Jefferson tomorrow at 4 p.m. The second game is to be played Tuesday, and a third game, if necessary, is to be played Wednesday.

    The Whalers’ baseball team, seeded second among the Class C schools, was to have played a home game with third-seeded Port Jefferson yesterday. The winner is to play at top-seeded McGann-Mercy this afternoon. The two losing teams are to play each other tomorrow at the site of the higher seed. Class C’s final best-of-three series is to begin Tuesday.

Youth Lacrosse

    East Hampton’s second and third-grade lacrosse team coached by Chris Stewart finished the season undefeated Sunday, besting Eastport-South Manor 8-2. Christian Johnson led the way with four goals. J.B. Stewart and Logan Gurney each had two.

    Michael Sabin tended the goal. “He’s been outstanding all season,” said Stewart, who added that “Jackson Baris anchored our defense, as he has all season.”

    Stewart, who received a Gatorade dunking, and his charges celebrated afterward at the La Superica restaurant in Sag Harbor.

P.A.L. Football

    A second registration session for East Hampton’s Police Athletic League football teams is to be held at East Hampton High School’s football field Saturday from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

    Five 7-through-13-year-old teams (including a new all-seventh-grade one) made up of youngsters living between Montauk and Bridgehampton are to play this fall. The Web site ehyfootball.com has more information.

E.H.I.T. Tennis

    The following were winners and runners-up in leagues at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club this past winter:

    Mariano Castillo and Rich Swanson, Monday men’s A singles; Barbarta Mueller and Kelly Canavan, Thursday women’s A singles; Glen Lawton and Jack Graves, Thursday men’s A doubles.

    Diana Cochran and Wendy Kalkstein, Monday women’s A doubles; Dave Olson and Chris LaGuardia, Tuesday men’s B-plus singles; Christine Kuhl and Wendy Flanagan, Thursday women’s B-plus singles; Dawn Harvey and Julie Stavola, Tuesday women’s B-plus singles.

    Chuck Kraus and Dom Magat, Monday men’s B singles; John Ali and Richard Louie, Thursday men’s B doubles; Teresa Pascual and Koral Gregor, Monday women’s B doubles; Heather McCormack and Fran Powell, Tuesday women’s B doubles, and Jim McMullen and Harvey Reid, Tuesday men’s retired doubles.

Thursday, May 26

SOFTBALL, county tournament, first round, East Hampton at Kings Park, 4 p.m.

BOYS TENNIS, county tournament, quarterfinal round matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, Pierson-Port Jefferson winner at McGann-Mercy, Riverhead, 4 p.m.

Friday, May 27

BOYS TENNIS, county tournament, semifinal round matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL, county tournament, Class C bracket, final best-of-three series begins, Pierson at Port Jefferson, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, county tournament, first round Class C losers to play at site of higher seed, 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 28

YOUTH FOOTBALL, registration for Police Athletic League 7-through-13-year-old teams, East Hampton High School football field, 9:30-11 a.m.

SOFTBALL, county tournament, Class A bracket, Kings Park-East Hampton winner vs. Miller Place-Islip winner, site of higher seed, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, May 31

BOYS TENNIS, county tournament, final, Smithtown East High School, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, county tournament, Class C best-of-three final begins, site of higher seed, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL, county Class C final, game two, Pierson at Port Jefferson, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, June 1

SOFTBALL, county tournament, Class A best-of-three final series begins at site of higher seed; game three of Class C final between Pierson and Port Jefferson, if necessary, 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 19

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Miller Place, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 20

BOYS TENNIS, first round, county team tournament, Northport-Longwood winner at Ross, 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 21

RUGBY, Montauk Rugby Club Family Day, with junior clinic, barbecue, and friendly game with Connecticut Yankees, East Hampton High School, from 10 a.m.

BASEBALL, county tournament, Class A playoffs, ninth seed at eighth seed, 11 a.m.

SWIMMING, Swim Across America gala, at which Olympians Craig Beardsley and Glenn Mills are to speak, Breakwater Yacht Club, Sag Harbor, 6-9 p.m.

Sunday, May 22

TEAM IN TRAINING, informational meeting, Amagansett Library, 1:30 p.m.

Monday, May 23

BOYS TENNIS, quarterfinal round, county team tournament, at sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, eighth-ninth seed winner at Class A top seed, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24

BOYS TENNIS, semifinal round matches, county team tournament, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, playoffs continue, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 25

BOYS TENNIS, final round, county team tournament, Smithtown East High School, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, playoffs continue, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL, first round games, county tournament, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

Ross Tennis

    The Ross School, which has been seeded second, behind defending-champion Half Hollow Hills East, in Suffolk’s boys tennis team tournament, is to play a home match with the Northport-Longwood winner tomorrow at 4 p.m. The winner of tomorrow’s match is to play, again at the site of the higher seed, on Monday, also at 4. Tuesday’s semifinals are to be played at the sites of the higher seeds as well. The final is set for Wednesday at 4 at Smithtown East High School.

    Ross lost to Hills East in last year’s final by a score of 5-2. Earlier this season, the teams played a nonleaguer at Ross, with the Thunderbirds winning 5-2 again. Cole Katzter, one of the Cosmos’ top doubles players, was not in the Cosmos’ lineup that day, however.

    In the recent division individual tourney, Ross’s Henry Lee and Felipe Reis won the doubles, and Richard Sipala, the team’s number-one, lost to his Southampton rival, Jeremy Dubin, in the singles final.

    The county individual tournament’s semifinal, final, and consolation rounds were to have been played at Smithtown East yesterday.

Rugby Family Day

    A rugby clinic for youngsters overseen by Play Rugby USA will precede a barbecue and a friendly match between the Montauk and Connecticut Yankees Rugby Clubs at East Hampton High School Saturday. Registration for the youth clinic will be at 10 a.m.

    Montauk, which has recently added the services of some young pile-driving forwards and fleet backs, has done surprisingly well in friendly matches this spring. Saturday’s game will be the first the Sharks have played at home since last fall.

Swim Across America

    A kickoff party for Swim Across America’s July 2 Hamptons Swim in Gardiner’s Bay will be held Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Breakwater Yacht Club in Sag Harbor. Olympians Craig Beardsley and Glenn Mills are to speak.

    Laura Mott is handling reservations for the party. Her e-mail address is [email protected].

Team in Training

    An informational meeting on Team in Training, whose running and triathloning teams throughout the country raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, will be held at the Amagansett Library Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Participants will be availed of certified coaching in preparation for such events as the Hamptons Half-Marathon and Marathon and the Tobay Triathlon in Oyster Bay.

    Tennille Treadwell, who is one of Team in Training’s coaches, said 75 percent of the funds raised through Team in Training’s participation in various long-distance events throughout the country “go toward finding a cure for all blood cancers.”

Bocce Showdown

    Wreaking revenge for last year’s loss, a Southampton Bocce League team, the Founders, comprising Sal Ficara Sr., Rich VanHouten, Charles Mottern, and Saverio Naclerio, defeated a Southampton Town Board team 12-9 at the Southampton Recreation Center on May 10.

    Councilman Chris Nuzzi, Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, Councilwoman Bridget Fleming, and Teri Kiernan, the town’s tax receiver, made up the town board’s team.    

    Steve Marciw, the bocce league team’s captain, said that “the match was tied several times until the Founders picked up three points with one toss.”

    The 24-team league, whose matches are contested at S.Y.S. on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, is to begin play June 14.

    “When we started, in 2008, we only had eight teams,” said Marciw.

The East Hampton High School baseball team was to have finished up the regular season at Miller Place Thursday afternoon, but nothing was riding on that game inasmuch as the Bonackers had clinched the program's first playoff spot since 2007 by defeating the Panthers 2-1 at home the day before behind Maykell Guzman's pitching and hitting.

Guzman, a sophomore who mixes swift fastballs with tantalizing changeups, allowed only two hits over the course of seven innings here on May 18. And he came through at the plate as well, his shot down the left field line scoring his older brother, Deilyn, with the winning run from third base with two outs in the bottom of the seventh.

The Guzmans' teammates rushed from the dugout as Deilyn crossed home plate, and the brothers were soon besieged by whooping and cavorting celebrants.

A few moments later, when the team had reassembled in the dugout, Eddie Bahns, the team's coach, told them, "You guys played an incredible game today, the best this year. You've worked your butts off and you deserve it. I couldn't be happier for you. I'm thrilled. You did an excellent job. Everybody's happy for you, everybody's been pulling for you. . . ."

Indeed, East Hampton's baseball program has rarely made the playoffs in the past decade. Before 2007, the last time a Bonac baseball team made them was in 2002.

When Bahns was finished, Will Collins, his assistant, added, "Every guy today came up with big plays -- there was Maykell's pitching, Michael's catch out there [in the top of the seventh] in center field, and Ben's [in the top of the fourth] in right . . . It was a tremendous team win."

After giving up a triple to the visitors' leadoff hitter, Shane Paparelli, in the top of the first, Guzman retired the rest of the side on strikeouts.

The only other hit off him that grey afternoon was a single through the right side of the infield by Dan Smith, who bats second in Miller Place's lineup, leading off the third.

Guzman finished with eight strikeouts. He walked five. Two of those walks, issued in succession in the top of the second to the designated hitter, Matt Crimi, and to Bruce Tyler, resulted in the Panthers' sole run as Crimi, who had advanced to third on a bunt by Dan Becker, was plated by Kevin Cargoi's sacrifice fly. John Hirdt grounded out to A.J. Bennett, East Hampton's first baseman, to end the inning, leaving Tyler stranded at third.

East Hampton tied the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the third. With one out, Brandon Brophy, who bats second in the lineup, lined a single to right (one of nine hits the Bonackers had that day). Brophy took second on Deilyn Guzman's short-to-first groundout. Miller Place's pitcher, Cody McPartland, then issued back-to-back-to-back free passes to Cameron Yusko, Bennett, and Maykell Guzman, the latter allowing Brophy to stroll home with the game-tying run.

The visitors had a runner on second with one out in the top of the fifth, the result of a walk and a steal, but a foulout to Yusko off third and a strikeout ended the threat.

The top of the seventh began with a great running catch by Michael Abreu of a long fly ball hit to straightaway center field by Becker, Abreu's opposite number. Guzman then gave up back-to-back walks, to Cargoi, and to a pinch-hitter, Justin Ludwig, putting runners at first and second for Paparelli, whose triple began the game. Bahns came out to discuss the situation with Guzman.

When the action resumed, Paparelli bunted in front of the plate -- a move that left Miller Place fans near the first baseline dumbfounded, but which didn't surprise East Hampton's catcher, Ryan Joudeh, whose throw to second caught the hesitant Cargoi as he tried to get back to the bag.

That was the second out of the inning. There were still runners at first and second, but Guzman struck out Smith to retire the side.

The Bonackers lost no time when they came to bat in the bottom of the seventh. Brophy led it off with another base hit and Deilyn Guzman followed with a double to the center field fence.

Collins, the third base coach, then tried a safety squeeze with Yusko bunting and Brophy, who'd taken a secondary lead off third, racing plateward, but Brophy was dead on arrival. Later, Collins, who was spared any agonizing because of the happy outcome, said a suicide squeeze probably would have been better.

One out later, with runners at second and third and two gone, Maykell Guzman, who bats sixth in Bonac's lineup, smacked the aforementioned walk-off single that led to the joyful celebration at the plate.

"It's the first time our seniors [Dylan Carroza, Ben DePietro, Frank Grande, and Richard Dalene] have made the playoffs," said Bahns. "They were eighth graders the last time we did. The playoffs are a great thing. I'm glad they'll get the chance to experience them."

Thursday, May 12

BASEBALL, Amityville at East Hampton, preceded by field dedication, 4:30 p.m.

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

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

Friday, May 13

BOYS TRACK, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point invitational, 4 p.m.

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

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

Saturday, May 14

BOYS TRACK, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point invitational, 8 a.m.

Monday, May 16

SOFTBALL, Pierson-Bridgehampton at Port Jefferson, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Miller Place, and Pierson-Bridgehampton at Stony Brook, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Miller Place, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Center Moriches, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 17

BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Deer Park, 6 p.m.

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Miller Place, and Stony Brook vs. Pierson-Bridgehampton, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 18

BOYS TENNIS, Suffolk County team tournament, second round matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL, Miller Place at East Hampton, and Pierson-Bridgehampton at Stony Brook, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, Pierson-Bridgehampton at McGann-Mercy, Riverhead, 4:30 p.m.

Graham’s 800

    Mike Graham now tops the 800-series list at East Hampton Bowl. The former all-state bowler recently put together 300, 259, and 257 games for L.W. Winslow Painting in the Tuesday night businessmen’s league to achieve the feat. Graham is the only one at the Bowl who has rolled two 800-plus series. It was his fifth 300, though he’s got a ways to go to catch his father, Steve, who has 11 perfect games to his credit.

T-Ball to Start

    Mark McKee will begin overseeing East Hampton Kiwanis’s T-ball sessions at the John M. Marshal Elementary School field on Saturday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. The program, for boys and girls ages 5 through 8, will last six weeks. Registration will be held Saturday.

Rowing Results

    Gavin Nelson (stroke) and Ryan Lewis (bow), representing the Sag Harbor Municipal Rowing Club, won the men’s novice doubles race at the Long Island junior rowing championships in Oyster Bay last weekend, finishing five lengths ahead of the runner-up, McGann-Mercy High School of Riverhead, on the 1,500-meter course.

    In men’s novice quads, Sag Harbor’s Nelson, Elias Van Eckle, Steven Hatgistavrou, and Ryan Lewis finished second, by less than half a second, to St. Joseph’s High School of New Jersey, despite catching a crab at the start.

Rugby Champs

    The Montauk Rugby Club won the Long Island Rugby Club’s Mother’s Day tournament at Lido Beach with wins over Lansdowne (12-7), the New York Police Department (51-0), and the Brooklyn Rugby Club (31-0).

    Montauk’s forwards comprised John Glennon, Danny Fagan, Jim Abran, Scott Abran, James Lock, Nick Lawler, Jarrel Walker, Charlie Collins, Conner Miller, Randy Steyart (making his debut), and Steve Daige.

    The backs were Gordon Trotter, Rich Brierley, Brian Anderson, Brian Powell, Matt Brierley, Liam DeFronzo, Jon Quinn, and Matt Reilly (on loan from the Suffolk Bullmoose).

    The side practices Tuesday and Thursday evenings at East Hampton’s Herrick Park. Montauk is to play a home game with the Connecticut Yankees, a Division II rival, at the park on May 21.

Boys Lacrosse

    The East Hampton High School boys lacrosse team improved its record to 3-8 (4-9) with a 15-2 win under the lights at Southampton Friday. Earlier in the week, the boys lost 20-9 here to Bayport-Blue Point, the fourth team in Division II.

    It was 10-4 at the half, but the Bonackers, “playing more aggressively and a little smarter,” according to their coach, Mike Vitulli, came back to cut the margin to 12-8 in the third quarter “before we were hit in the last minute with two bad penalties. It was 14-8 after three.” Tyler Mathews scored three goals in the Bayport game and Brendan Damm had four.

    Having lost four Division 1 players to graduation last year, namely Ryan Shaw, Providence’s face-off man, Tyler Brenneman, who’s a midfielder at Notre Dame, Austin Heneveld, who plays attack for the U.S. Naval Academy, and Jake Beyer, who’s a defenseman at Mercer in Georgia, the playoffs are not in the cards for the Bonackers this spring.

Gload Drives in 2

    Ross Gload started in right field for the Philadelphia Phillies in Monday night’s game with the Florida Marlins and drove in two runs. The Phillies won the game 6-4. Gload, who’s used as a pinch-hitter primarily, was batting .364 by game’s end.

    Chris Reich, who coaches East Hampton High School’s boys track team, repeated as the winner of the Paddlers 4 Humanity off-road half-marathon in Montauk Sunday, and Laura Brown, a top masters runner on the roads, topped the women.

    Mike Hamilton, one of Reich’s high school competitors, on Monday reported his young coach as having said that “the race [through Hither Woods] was longer this year, but that his time was faster.”

    A former East Hampton High School and college star, Reich covered the tortuous but beautiful course in 1 hour and 32.48 seconds. In his debut last year (which prompted the race director Ed Cashin to say the new generation had arrived), Reich ran a 1:37.

    Anthony Snoble, a triathlete from East Islip who pushed Reich for most of the race, wasn’t far behind, finishing in 1:34.22. The two were virtually neck-and-neck at the halfway point water station near Hither Hills’ West Overlook.

    When Diane O’Donnell, the high school’s girls track coach, was asked who Snoble was, she said, looking over at her niece, Christina Melli of Bohemia, “He’s Christina’s boyfriend’s brother-in-law.”

    Brown, who, likewise, was neck-and-neck at the halfway point with Caroline Cashin, who often wins the off-road races based at Ed Ecker County Park, wound up winning (and finishing ninth over all) in 1:52.16. Cashin, who was 11th, finished a little more than a minute behind, in 1:53.36.

    Last year’s women’s winner, Sinead FitzGibbon, did not compete this time. She is reportedly pursuing a doctorate in physical therapy in Provo, Utah.

    Besides Reich, there were two other members of “the new generation” there — namely Reich’s brother Bob, who finished sixth in 1:47.20, and Joe Sullivan, who was 16th in 1:56.16. Among those East Hampton High School students who volunteered that day were Hamilton, Erica Silich, a member of the girls lacrosse team, Taylor Harned, who, according to Reich, “is carrying the boys track team on his shoulders,” and Deilyn Guzman, who pitches and plays shortstop for Bonac’s baseball team.

    The event drew about the same number as last year, 60 or so. Scott Bradley said that all the proceeds, which totaled $3,800, would go to LICoP, an organization founded by Helene Fallon that provides free recreational activities for East End youngsters with disabilities.

    “We host 30 events a

year, including surfing, music, art, and bowling camps,” said Fallon. “We’re making sure that the kids on the East End are served.”

    Sunday’s half-marathon was the first of several Paddlers’ fund-raisers, including a Wahine (women and girls) three-mile paddle on July 17, a three-person stand-up paddle relay on July 31, and an 18-mile Montauk-to-Block Island open ocean paddle on Aug. 27.

    “This year,” said Bradley, “we’ve tightened up our mission to support programs that deal with children . . . LICop, the Retreat, and the East Hampton Day Care Center.”

    Jim Kinnier, who coaches the combined Ross-Pierson boys and girls track teams, a program now in its fourth year, said during a recent conversation that “we’re headed in the right direction. I’ve got 25 boys and girls, the most I’ve ever had.”

    The boys and girls teams each have a win thus far, lopsided ones over their Babylon counterparts, though, at the time of the conversation, Ross-Pierson’s teams had suffered losses by similar margins to Port Jefferson and Center Moriches.

    As for the boys, Kinnier said Khalid Al-Mahmoud, a Ross student from Qatar, had turned in “fine times in the 100 and 200 — a 12.2 in the 100, which isn’t bad, not far off the school record, 11.6.”

    Another Ross student, Kayla Jerido, also a sprinter, who played Amateur Athletic Union basketball last spring, has run a 13.5 in the 100, said Kinnier, “a very good time for a girl.”

    Moreover, a Pierson sophomore, Oliver Lauro, a sprinter, had run a 12.4 in the 100, and Marco Lanuto’s 57.9 in the 400, he said, was “very good for a sophomore — he has a very nice future.”

    Elena Skerys, who ran cross-country for Pierson in the fall, has run a 5:54 in the 1,500, which, said Kinnier, “isn’t bad.” Among his male distance runners, “the best miler I have is also a shot-putter — Ross Kadri, a 220-pound Ross senior. He placed second in the Katy’s Courage 5K, and he’s run the 1,600 in 5:15 . . . he’s an incredible athlete.”

    “Over all,” Kinnier said in conclusion, “I’m really very happy. . . . We’ve been practicing at Ross and at East Hampton, where we use the long jump and triple jump pit and the high-jumping pit. We’re at East Hampton once or twice a week.”

    Kinnier said he hoped to have “three or four or five kids compete in individual events in the division meet and a couple of relay teams.”