Friday, August 4

U.S.T.A. TENNIS, boys and girls singles tournaments, Ross School, 9 a.m.

BENEFIT SOFTBALL, Travis Field memorial tournament, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett, games from 5 p.m.

Saturday, August 5

LIFEGUARDING, junior lifeguard tournament, Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

BENEFIT SOFTBALL, Travis Field memorial tournament, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett, games from 9 a.m.

RUNNING, Run for Rotary 10K and 5K races, Fresh Pond Park, Amagansett, 9 a.m., packet pickup and late registration, 8-8:45.

Sunday, August 6

LIFEGUARDING, junior lifeguard tournament, Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

BENEFIT SOFTBALL, Travis Field memorial tournament, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett, games from 9 a.m.

Monday, August 7

LIFEGUARDING, ocean recertification test, Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett, 9 a.m.

MEN’S SOCCER, Simon Gavron memorial 7-on-7 tournament, semifinals and finals, Fiske Field, Shelter Island, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, August 8

WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH, playoffs, games at 6:45 and 8 p.m., Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.

Wednesday, August 9

HORSE SHOW, Topping Riding Club, Sagaponack, from 8 a.m. 

Hoops 4 Hope, the 22-year-old South African-based youth mentoring-basketball program founded by Mark Crandall of Amagansett, is again raising money to send a shipping container of “upcycled sneakers, basketballs, basketball uniforms, and essential parts to keep our Schaefer bus running” to Zimbabwe in the fall.

GoodCircle is helping with this project, expected to cost about $24,000. Donations can be made online through the GoodCircle.org website. One-third of the goal has been pledged thus far.

Twin Forks Moving and Storage of Bridgehampton, a major donor, will transport a container it has donated to Linden, N.J., whence it will travel by boat to Durban, South Africa, before being sent by train to Hoops 4 Hope’s center in Harare, Zimbabwe. 

East Hampton’s 11-and-under East End Tomahawks baseball team that plays in the very competitive Brookhaven summer league won at least a share of the Central Division’s pennant Sunday by defeating the Long Island Mudcats of Eastport-South Manor 10-2.

The win improved Kenny Dodge’s charges’ record to 12-3. A win over the Islip Owls in a game that was to have been played Tuesday night would guarantee the young Bonackers the title outright and the top seed in the playoffs.

“If we derail on Tuesday, we’ll be the co-champs and will be seeded anywhere from first to third,” Dodge said in an email Monday morning. “Either way, we will hold the title.”

It’s the first year, Dodge said during a recent conversation at The Star, that East Hampton has two youth entries (his 11-and-unders and Henry Meyer’s 10-and-unders) playing for much of the year. The 10-and-unders are to make their Brookhaven debut in the fall league. The 11-and-unders will play in the fall too.

Gradually, he said, a solid core of kids was being brought along from the 60-foot basepaths and 46-foot pitcher’s mound-home plate span of Little League to the 90-foot basepaths and 60-feet-6-inch pitching span that prevail from junior high on up. These distances in the league his team plays in, Dodge said, are 75 and 51 feet.

The 11-and-unders’ roster includes Dodge’s son, Zachary, Nico Horan-Puglia, Michael Locascio, the Dickinson brothers, Jack and Carter, Alex Lombardo, Cassius Hokanson, Milo Tompkins, Patrick Farrell, and Juan Palacios.

Five of them — Dodge, Horan-Puglia, Hokanson, Jack Dickinson, and Farrell — have been pitching, a strategic concern given that pitchers of this age must take a four-day rest after their pitch count has reached 85. “Dr. James Andrews, the Tommy John surgeon, came up with that limit,” Dodge said. “Sixty-five pitches requires three days’ rest.”

“There are five locations in Brookhaven I know of where there are at least three fields,” Dodge said. “They all have turf infields — there are no bad bounces — and the outfields are grass. It’s a top-notch organization. The 14-year-olds look like they’re 18-year-olds. There are hundreds of players, on teams spanning 8-and-under to 18-and-under. There are 27 teams in our league, three divisions of nine teams. Two of these divisions vie in the playoffs, which, for us,” he said, consulting his smartphone, “will be on Aug. 3, 6, 8, 10, and the 13th — the championship game. Assuming, of course, that we make it that far.”

“Vinny [Alversa, East Hampton High’s varsity baseball coach] has a varsity team in this league, and Andrew [Rodriguez, the jayvee coach] has a 14-and-under team.”

“The kids,” he said, in answer to a question, “love to play. They’re serious and their parents are behind them — the parents have been great. All our games are at night, at fields in Manorville and Center Moriches, which aren’t too far away . . . about an hour.”

A recent win, he said, was by a score of 1-0. “Boy, was that stressful. I had people come up to me afterward saying that it was one of the best games they’d seen and that they wished they were all like that. Not me! Zachary went five innings and Nico closed it out, combining in a two-hit shutout.”

“Vinny’s been great — he’s involved, he’s excited,” said Dodge. “All the coaches are excited. By the time these kids get to junior high they will have the knowledge. Baseball’s not an easy game. It’s great what’s happening. These are exciting times.”

Peter Kazickas of Amagansett, who plans to teach computer coding to Zimbabwean youth for 12 weeks this fall, an effort that he hopes will serve as a pilot for similar tutorial work in the developing world, has been devoted to Mark Crandall’s Hoops 4 Hope basketball-life skills mentoring curriculum for the past half-dozen years.

“The first time I went to Zimbabwe [he has gone twice since] was after high school, in 2011,” he said during a conversation at The Star the other day. “I was 17 then, and I’m going back to my favorite place in Zimbabwe, to Dzivarasekwa, where I spent that first night at a basketball court talking and laughing with six Hoops 4 Hope leader-coaches — a scared foreigner who was excited to be there. . . . I felt as if I’d known them all my life.”

After graduating two years ago from Hamilton College, where he played basketball and majored in world politics, Kazickas said he went to San Francisco to gain some knowledge of computer science and robotics, after which he began to teach computer coding in a small after-school program in New York City. He’s doing similar work here this summer, at the Ross School, Rosehip Partners, and at the Children’s Museum of the East End.

“The kids love it,” he said in answer to a question. “Basically, you’re teaching them how to build computer games, which they love. . . . Is it difficult? I had a 6-year-old in one of my classes. There are a lot of free programs on the internet that anyone can use in order to begin programming. You start with image-based coding — you take a block that says, ‘Move 10 steps . . . move right . . . move left. . . .’ You learn how to organize those blocks so that the computer will do what you want it to. Then you graduate to text-based coding, to writing the code behind the blocks.”

“We can teach kids how to make a simple game in a day,” he said, in reply to another question, “but getting a comprehensive understanding takes months of practice, which is why the curriculum we’re going to use with the Hoops 4 Hope community I mentioned in Zimbabwe is 12 weeks long.”

Schools there were beginning to have computers now, he said, “but there are so many kids. My best friend from high school, Eli Lubick, and I are planning to bring 20 computers with us. We’ve found a company that gives them to nonprofits or sells them at a discounted rate. . . . Our goal is to teach 60 to 80 kids in the 12 weeks we’re there, and to train four Hoops 4 Hope leaders who will be able to carry on the work after we’ve left. . . . The beauty of Hoops 4 Hope is that its programs are run by the people who live in the communities. Our goal is the same — to train their staff to lead it so we can disappear.”

He continued, “Our goal is that every kid will graduate having made their own website in which they’d have their portfolio — their biography, list their interests, and list all the computer games they’ve built and what they’ve learned through making them. . . .”

Computer coding helped to hone “problem-solving skills, perseverance, and mental toughness. Because you’re stuck a lot, you have to think out of the box, and not give up. But it’s so rewarding when you fix a bug, when you figure out why it isn’t working and how to make it work. So much comes from this type of learning.”

He and Lubick would target 15 to 18-year-olds, “kids on the fringe of graduating and looking to what’s going to happen next in their lives. If we can give them these skills, it will open up scholarship opportunities for them; it will help them with job applications, with internships, mentorships, with opportunities inside and outside of the country. . . . Perhaps they’ll be employed as Hoops 4 Hope teachers. The opportunities opened up to them will be far-reaching. Hopefully, our course will give these kids the skills to improve their lives.”

Answering another question, Ka­zickas said he would “definitely play and coach basketball” when there, and would help fill in potholes on H4H’s courts, as he has done every other year since first signing on to Crandall’s program six years ago.

Asked to define the goal he had for himself, he said, “My goal is to create a nonprofit that would partner with grassroots nonprofits in the developing world to teach computer coding and robotics. This is the pilot program for that. My goal and Hoops 4 Hope’s goals are the same, to help people help themselves.”

His summer classes are part of a fund-raising effort to help underwrite his and Lubick’s trip to and stay in Zimbabwe. Donated computers too would be welcomed, he said. 

Groundworks, which has some young blood in players like Thea Grenci, Casey Brooks, and the Daunt cousins, Zoe and Lacey, planted a 6-2 loss on P.B.A., and Schenck Fuels, the last seed, upset the defending champion, Bono Plumbing, 7-2 in women’s slow-pitch league playoff openers last Thursday at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

Insofar as the Schenck-Bono game went, it should be said that Bono barely fielded the minimum eight, Bethany Trowbridge’s arrival in the parking lot just before game time preventing a forfeit.

Ryan Troudt, Bono’s manager, did the best he could to close up the gaping hole in right field, repositioning his second baseman, Kara Struble, frequently, depending on who was hitting.

Dawn Green pitched admirably, but the outcome was pretty much of a foregone conclusion. Schenck’s scored four times in the top of the first inning — a lead it was not to relinquish — three of the runs coming home when Jess Bono, the third baseman, who otherwise fielded her position well that night, threw wide of second base in going for a forceout there, the ball coming to rest in an unpatrolled shallow right field as runners — the bases had been loaded, with one out — motored their way home.

Schenck’s loaded the bases again in the third, again with one out. Nicole Yeager, the first baseman, who bats sixth in the lineup, plated two with a hard base hit for a 6-0 lead.

Bono got one back in the bottom half. After Gabby Green struck out, Mylan Le, who once played in two national collegiate World Series, alertly moved up to second after singling into shallow left field, advanced to third on a 6-to-3 groundout, and scored when Robin Helgerson, the second baseman for Schenck’s, lost Dawn Green’s popup in the lights.

A double by Mireille Sturman put Schenck runners on second and third in the top of the fourth. A subsequent walk issued by Green loaded them, with two outs, but Kathryn Mirras popped out to Struble at second to end the threat.

“That’s what we needed right there,” Troudt said as his players headed for the dugout.

Having come in as a pinch-runner, Le scored again in the fifth, dashing from first to third on a fielder’s choice, just beating Mirras’s tag, and coming home when Bono’s seventh hitter, Shauna Stonemetz, singled.

Schenck’s was to tack on one more run in the sixth, on a bases-loaded single. That inning ended when Struble hauled in a fly hit her way by Kathy Amicucci, a lefty. “Make that an F4,” Troudt said.

A 4-6-3 double play took Bono out of its sixth, and, with the bases loaded and one out in the team’s last at-bat, Struble popped out to Mirras and Gabby Green dribbled out to Mirras, who stepped on the base for the game-ending forceout.

Asked afterward if he would have all his players for Tuesday’s game, the second in a best-of-three series, Troudt said he hoped so.

In the night’s first game, Groundworks, the second seed, as aforesaid, defeated third-seeded P.B.A. 6-2.

A double by Erica Silich scored T. Schirrippa with a run for P.B.A. in the top of the first. Groundworks came right back in its half, however, as Kim Hren, the number-four hitter, drove in two with a bases-loaded single, and Brooks, the left fielder, drove in another for a 3-1 lead.

Groundworks made it 6-1 in the fourth. Zoe Daunt reached first base safely on an error by the third baseman, Tara Fordham, in leading off. Randi Cherill’s subsequent hard-hit grounder caromed off of Fordham’s ankle, and Michelle Grant was walked, loading the bases for Lacey Daunt, with one out. Daunt made it to first as a run came home on a fielder’s choice play, after which Emma Beudert, Groundworks’ pitcher, hit a wobbly liner toward second that Schirrippa, P.B.A.’s shortstop, could not convert into a force at second.

Despite three Groundworks errors, P.B.A. could only come up with one run in the top of the sixth and stranded runners at first and second in the seventh as Julie Terry was retired on a game-ending pitcher-to-first groundout. 

Volleyball Camp

Kathy McGeehan, who coaches East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball team, will oversee, with Alex Choi, Kim Valverde, Donna Fischer, Cindy Belt, Laura Romeika, Catherine Vonschoenermarck, and Raya O’Neal, a Bonac Booster Club-sponsored skills camp for fifth through 12th graders at the high school from Tuesday through Friday, Aug. 18.

Romeika and Vonschoenermarck are pros, O’Neal plays at St. John’s, Belt is Shelter Island’s head coach, Fischer is Pierson’s coach, Valverde, a former high school all-American, is East Hampton’s jayvee coach, and Choi is McGeehan’s varsity assistant. He also coaches the Long Island Blaze’s 16-year-old traveling team.

It will cost $90 for the four-day camp, or $25 per session. There will be two each night, from 5 to 7 for the fifth through eighth graders, and from 7 to 9 for the high school-age players. Participants can register with McGeehan (P.O. Box 1732, Montauk 11954) or at the site from 4:30 p.m.

Annacone’s Tennis Book

A book by Paul Annacone, an East Hamptoner who, following a successful career on the professional tennis circuit (especially in doubles), coached Pete Sampras and Roger Federer, among other touring pros, was released on Monday. It is called “Coaching for Life.”

“The secrets to success Annacone weaves through ‘Coaching for Life’ are not about tennis, but rather about the process-oriented journey he has experienced firsthand with some of the most successful players in the game’s storied history,” Peter Holtermann, the book’s publicist, said in an email. “Annacone explains the ability of masters like Federer and Sampras to keep perspective and clarity of purpose in spite of the worst kinds of adversity on the court. . . . The anecdotes are presented in a step-by-step way that can help anyone in any walk of life, regardless of the challenges.”

Annacone will be at BookHampton in East Hampton to sign his book on Tuesday, Aug. 22, at 5 p.m.

Thursday, August 10

WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH, game three of first-round Bono-Schenck Fuels and Groundworks-P.B.A. series, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett, 6:45 and 8:15 p.m.

MEN’S SLOW-PITCH, playoff semifinal-round games, 7 and 8:15 p.m., Hank Zebrowski field, Edgemere Road, Montauk.

Friday, August 11

MEN’S SLOW-PITCH, playoff semifinal-round games, 7 and 8:15 p.m., Hank Zebrowski field, Edgemere Road, Montauk.

Saturday, August 12

SURFING, Rell Sunn contest, Ditch Plain, Montauk, 9 a.m., registration from 7:30.

Sunday, August 13

RUNNING, Strides for Life 3-mile run-walk, benefiting Lung Cancer Research Foundation, Southampton Cultural Center, Pond Lane, 8:45 a.m., registration, 7:30-8:30.

Monday, August 14

LIFEGUARDING, last recertification test, Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett, 9 a.m.

MEN’S SLOW-PITCH, playoffs, Hank Zebrowski field, Edgemere Road, Montauk, from 7 p.m.

Tuesday, August 15

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, skills camp begins, fifth through eighth graders, 5-7 p.m., and ninth through 12th graders, 7-9, East Hampton High School gymnasium.

MEN’S SLOW-PITCH, playoffs, Hank Zebrowski field, Edgemere Road, Montauk, from 7 p.m.

Update: The event has been postponed until Sunday due to rain in the forecast. 

Surfers, philanthropists, and spectators alike are hoping for waves on Saturday — the date of the East End Foundation’s 19th annual Rell Sunn Surf Contest at Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk. 

“Rell Sunn was a beloved Hawaiian surfer who fought breast cancer for 14 years, and she died in the beginning of 1998,” said Alice Houseknecht, the assistant to Roger Feit, a co-founder of the East End Foundation. “Before she died, she was an advocate for women’s health, and she worked with other women to get the word out as far as knowing if you have the signs, and what to do about it.” 

The contest, which welcomes all levels of surfing, includes Menehune (the Hawaiian word for little people), Body Board, Menehune Surf Board, Long Board, Stand-Up Paddleboard, Short Board, and Wet, Wild, and Whatever You Want to Ride or Wear categories.

Selena Moberly, 20, a Montauk surfer who grew up competing across the country, last took part in the Rell Sunn contest when she was 13 but is considering signing up again this year. 

“It’s a really cool contest, and it’s different than other ones,” said Moberly, who is a brand ambassador for Jetty, a surf and skate apparel brand. “You don’t have to be super good because it’s just fun. There’s no pressure, and a lot of people usually show up for it.” 

In continuing Rell Sunn’s legacy of community outreach, every year the East End Foundation’s main fund-raising event is the surf contest in her honor. All of the proceeds go to the charity, and this year at least 100 participants are expected.

Since its founding in 1997, the foundation has helped an estimated 44 families in need of financial assistance as a result of either debilitating illness or hardship. Currently, it is supporting a recent high school graduate who lost both parents but is determined to go to college, a young mother struggling to meet the insurance co-pays associated with her toddler’s surgery, an artist who is out of work while recovering from eye surgery, two women who have cancer, and two orphaned kids who are being raised by their neighbor. 

In addition to the day of surfing, there will be a raffle after the contest, with prizes including surfboards, restaurant gift certificates, hotel stays, and retail items. 

The foundation will also host an art auction featuring works donated by East End artists. It takes place at the Atlantic Terrace Gallery on Aug. 19 from 5 to 8 p.m., with refreshments and music by Jetty Koon.

Registration for the contest opens at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, with the surfing beginning between 9 and 10 and ending around 4 p.m. The fee for online entry, which closes today, is $25. The cost on the day of the event is $55. Each individual contest entry is an additional $30. 

The East End Foundation has encouraged online registration, which can be done at rellsunn2017.ezregister.com.

The Pink Panthers won the 10th Travis Field memorial softball tournament in Amagansett this past weekend, a double-elimination one contested by 17 teams — the most ever — over the course of three days, one of them rainy, at the Terry King ball field.

“But the neatest thing,” Brian Anderson, one of the tournament’s organizers (and the Panthers’ pitcher), said, “was Erica Silich and Anthony Daunt getting engaged at the opening ceremonies on Friday.”

As he knelt at the pitcher’s mound, Daunt presented his fiancée with a ring enfolded in the stuffing of a hollowed-out baseball. Soon after, Silich and Zoe Daunt, Anthony’s cousin, and a teammate of Silich’s on the Groundworks women’s slow-pitch softball team, sang the national anthem.

The tournament, which has become a popular fund-raiser here, helps underwrite scholarships in Travis Field’s memory. He died at the age of 20 in an auto accident on May 15, 2008. Those who win his scholarships “must display great leadership in sports, love the school and community, and must show kindness to others.” 

The Pink Panthers, a team made up of Travis’s friends (Anderson, Andy Tuthill, Brenden Mott, Matt Brierley, Mikey Graham, Jimmy Miller, and Austin and Steven Bahns among them), now have back-to-back championships to their credit, though before last year’s win over the Raptors they had been out of the money since 2010.

Nicko’s Pools, a strong team assembled by the 61-year-old veteran pitcher, Rob Nicoletti, came out of the losers bracket to challenge the Panthers in Sunday evening’s final, having come back earlier that day (thanks to Ray Wojtusiak’s, two-out, two-run triple in the bottom of the sixth) to defeat the Greene Machine 10-8. 

Nicko’s had already lost once to the Panthers and would have had to defeat the winners twice to capture the 2017 crown. In what was to be the finale, Nicko’s went up 8-3, but Andy Tuthill and Derrick Field unleashed big hits in the sixth inning that wrested the lead back for the Panthers, at 10-8. Anderson set Nicko’s down in order in the top of the seventh.

Asked if they’d set a date, Anthony Daunt demurred. “We’re buying a house first.” The couple readily agreed that it was “getting to be expensive out here.” Silich works the year round at Sportime, for Claude Okin, the owner (and owner as well of numerous other tennis clubs in the metropolitan area), and for Mark Crandall and Eric Scoppetta, who run a popular summer sports camp for boys and girls there.

Speaking of Groundworks, it was to have played the P.B.A. in the pivotal game of their first-round women’s slow-pitch softball league playoff series Tuesday. Bono Plumbing, the top seed, and Schenck Fuels, the fourth, were to have squared off in their game three that night as well. The best-of-three final is to begin tonight at the Terry King ball field.

As for the men’s league in Montauk, Wojtusiak said following Nicko’s win over the Greene Machine that the Gig Shack, the defending champion, and the Montauk Brewery, for which he plays, had already advanced to the semifinal round, awaiting the winners of the Surf Sharks-Liars Saloon and Montauk Rugby Club-Uihlein’s first-round series. As of Monday, the Surf Sharks and Montauk R.C. were each up 1-0.

The subject of baseball also arose at the tournament when Vinny Alversa, who coaches East Hampton High’s varsity, and Andrew Rodriguez, who coaches the junior varsity, were spotted nursing their wounds inasmuch as it was the first time their Bubs team, they said, hadn’t made it to the second day. 

Turning to baseball, Alversa said his 18-and-under team that plays in the Town of Brookhaven’s summer league had finished the regular season at 11-7-1, earning it the fourth seed in the playoffs, which were to have begun Tuesday in Center Moriches. “Our pitching’s been good — Hunter Fromm went 4-1 with an e.r.a. of 0.70, Curt Matthews had an e.r.a. of 2.46, and Elian Abreu’s e.r.a. was 0.77.”

Fromm, who will be a senior this fall, gave up four earned runs in 40 innings, a span during which he gave up 15 hits and struck out 74; Matthews, who will be a junior, pitched 25 innings during which he recorded 41 strikeouts, and Abreu, who will be a sophomore, pitched 18 innings, during which he gave up two earned runs and struck out 21.

Rodriguez’s 14-and-under team didn’t fare as well in the regular season but is in the playoffs nevertheless. Both these teams will play in Brookhaven’s fall league, as will Kenny Dodge’s 11-and-unders, a division winner at 13-3 that reportedly received two playoff byes as a result. Henry Meyer’s 10-and-under team is also expected to play in the fall, as is a 9-and-under team, which would give East Hampton five entries in all. 

A young Frenchman from Alsace, Simon Mayeur, won the Run for Rotary 5K, and a young Bonacker, Ryan Fowkes, won the 10K in Amagansett Saturday morning. 

Though the runners might have done without the rain, which drizzled initially and poured ultimately, the coolness of the day was to their liking. There were 58 participants in all, pretty much evenly divided between the 3.1 and 6.2-mile counterclockwise loops, which began and ended at Fresh Pond Park.

Fowkes, the top runner on East Hampton High School’s boys cross-country team, and one of his training partners, Eric Perez, a sophomore now at the State University at Oswego, where he runs, treated the 10K as a tempo run. Fowkes’s winning time was 38:03. Perez was the runner-up, in 38:22.

“I did the 5K last year . . . I’m getting in shape for the fall,” Fowkes said. “We’re looking to go to the states.”

Mayeur, a 23-year-old college student majoring in English, won the 5K in 19:24. Sinead FitzGibbon, 47, the women’s winner, was second, in 21:15. Nancy Labiner was the women’s winner — and seventh over all — in the 10K, in 45:09.

Erik Engstrom, who undoubtedly would have been in the van with Fowkes and Perez, was reportedly upstate this past weekend. Kevin Barry (eighth in the 10K, in 45:32), East Hampton’s cross-country coach, said after crossing the line that these three, Jimmy Makrianes, and a couple of others have been running together once a week this summer. 

“Potentially, we should be one of the top three Class B teams in the county,” said Barry, who is taking the team to a big cross-country meet in Lakeland, Fla., at the end of September.

Barry and several others from here, including Mike Bahel, Brian Monahan, and Walter Cook, competed in the Lake Placid Ironman triathlon recently. “I packed it in on mile 60 in the bike — I either drank too much lake water . . . there were 2,500 in the swim . . . or didn’t drink enough bottled water and got dehydrated. At any rate, I’d pretty much had it by then.”

Barry said he’d done Lake Placid four times before, so there was nothing to prove. “Mike had a great day. He did it in 11:47 — that’s 11 hours and 47 minutes. Brian did it in 14 hours, and Walter Cook — it was his first one — did it in 15:30.”

“I guess I need a couple of tuneups,” said Joe Brida, 66, after finishing the 5K in 25:51, in 10th place. The U.S.A. Track & Field-Long Island recordholder in the 60-to-64-year-old men’s 1,000-meter indoor race (3:38) and in the 3,000-meter outdoor race (13:37), Brida, who lives in Miller Place, said he’s been coming back from a torn meniscus. 

“I’m feeling all right . . . I’m trying to avoid surgery . . . I think I’m going to be okay. What is it they say? ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?’ It’s a pretty course, nice people, and it’s downhill on the way back. It’s my first time here, but it won’t be the last.”

Brida wasn’t the oldest competitor that day — Harriet Oster, who sported a Barnes Landing Association hat, was. “I’ll be 75 on Aug. 18,” she said. “I’ve been working out at the Y, running there and running back. I’m getting back into it. I’m training myself to run slower.”

Lara DeSanti Siska, one of the Rotarians on hand, said that the races’ proceeds, and those of several other Rotary-sponsored events during the course of the year, feed into the now-50-year-old club’s scholarship fund, as well as into other community efforts such as the East Hampton Food Pantry and the Retreat. Rotary’s high school offshoot, the Interact Club, overseen by Marilyn Marsilio, a guidance counselor, has, she said, about 40 members.

There were three Team Jordan members competing Saturday — Joi Jackson Perle, Arlene Mason, and Vickie Lawrence, who have seen the field at that 5K in Sag Harbor, in memory of the late Marine hero Jordan C. Haerter, grow from 20 in 2016 to more than 400 this year. 

“We want it to be even bigger next year,” said Lawrence. “Next year will be the 10th anniversary of his death. Ed Deyermond has told us to prepare for 1,000.”