Exhibitioning in some events, which is to say forgoing points that had been won, the East Hampton High School girls swimming team dunked Hauppauge 102-63 at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Monday.

It was the third straight league win for Craig Brierley’s crew, which, as of Tuesday, led League III with a 3-0 record. In other meets this past week, the Bonackers defeated West Babylon 83-73 last Thursday, and on Sept. 26 lost 92-76 to Ward Melville, a nonleague opponent, a team that Brierley thinks may wind up being tops in the county.

Sophia Swanson, in the 200 freestyle, Isabelle Swanson, in the 200 individual medley, Catalina Badilla, in the 100 butterfly, Madison Jones, in the 100 freestyle, and Vanessa Betancur, in the 100 breaststroke, swam county-meet-qualifying times in the Ward Melville meet. 

Sophia Swanson, in the 200 free, and Julia Brierley, in the 100 breaststroke, were winners that day, and their teammates, the coach said, swam well as well, but Ward Melville, he said, simply had too much depth.

In other East Hampton High sports, Ryan Fowkes, the boys cross-country team’s top runner, won the small schools race in the FLrunners.com invitational in Lakeland, Fla., this past weekend, topping a field of 200. Geo Espinoza, the team’s number-two, who finished seventh, held the early lead, running the first mile in 5 minutes and 7 seconds. Seeded seventh, Kevin Barry’s team finished third.

Boys soccer had a four-game winning streak snapped at Shoreham-Wading River Monday. The Wildcats won it 2-1. Earlier in the week, on Sept. 27, East Hampton defeated Bayport-Blue Point 2-1 here.

The visitor’s goal, which came late in the game, went in off an East Hampton defender. Gustavo Gutama saved the day, however, when he banged in the rebound of a shot he’d taken with two and a half minutes left to play. Wilmur Guzman, who appears to have the team’s hardest shot — the rebound of his rocketed kick off the crossbar landed at Gutama’s feet — treated East Hampton to a 1-0 lead 15 minutes into the fray.

Don McGovern, East Hampton’s coach, said his team, which was 3-5 in League VI play as of Tuesday, would continue fighting for a playoff spot. Amityville as of that day led the league with a 7-0 record, followed by Shoreham-Wading River (6-2), Sayville (5-2), Bayport-Blue Point (3-4), East Hampton, Mount Sinai (2-5-1), and Miller Place (0-8).

Girls Volleyball continued its winning ways this past week, bageling Miller Place 3-0 last Thursday. Kathy McGeehan’s team was 6-2 in League V as of Tuesday, behind Sayville (8-0) and Westhampton Beach (7-1). The Miller Place win was the team’s fifth in a row, Mount Sinai, Islip, and Shoreham-Wading River being among the victims, all by 3-0 scores. The team’s last loss came at the hands of Westhampton on Sept. 8.

Field hockey, which had lost twice recently, to Pierson and Bayport-Blue Point, rebounded with a 2-0 win over Greenport-Southold Monday, improving its record to 5-3, the league’s fourth best, though because of the power point system, which takes the relative strengths of teams and their opponents into account, East Hampton was in ninth place on Tuesday among Division II’s 15 entries.

Golf, the league champion in 14 of the past 17 years, will be hard put to win the title again, though its coach, Claude Beudert, said during a telephone conversation Tuesday that it could if it runs the table in its final six matches, the last of which, at the end of the month, is to be played with Pierson on its home course, the Noyac Golf and Country Club.

Pierson defeated East Hampton 6-3 at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett last Thursday, winning the 3 points awarded to the team with the low aggregate score by two shots. East Hampton’s top three, Turner Foster, Nate Wright, and Jackson Murphy, all won, though Pierson’s number-four, Gary Baum, was the difference-maker, shooting a 41, five strokes better than he normally does, according to East Hampton’s coach.

East Hampton’s record was 2-2 as of Tuesday, trailing Pierson (5-0) and Westhampton Beach (3-2). The team was to have played at Southampton, which was also 2-2, on Tuesday.

Chris Daily, 58, of Farmingdale and Florida, won Mike Bahel’s Serpent’s Back Duathlon (2.3-mile run, 11.5-mile bike, and 2.3-mile run) in Montauk’s Hither Hills Sunday, in 1 hour and 34 minutes, bettering a longtime rival, Joe Amato, a Pierson High School cross-country coach, by a little less than six minutes.

Daily, who last won this race in 2005, said afterward that “the last time I was here, about three or four years ago, I broke my foot on a rock with about a mile and a half to go. I was so happy to finish second.”

So happy apparently that it took him 11 days to go to the hospital to have the foot looked at. There were myriad opinions. The foot has since healed, as has, Daily added, a badly hurt back and shoulder, which he injured in a mountain bike crash. Sunday’s was the first combined run and mountain bike race he’d done in the past three years.

“He’s a warrior,” said Amato. “We’ve raced against each other for 30 years. Sometimes I can catch him on the bike, but he’s an outstanding runner. . . . I didn’t catch him on the bike today. I’ve got to get in shape.”

The race, which never draws a large crowd, but always an enthusiastic one, is in its 14th year, and during that span the bike course has periodically been changed a bit, once so radically that Dan Farnham, who had laid it out the day before, made a wrong turn owing to the fact that Bahel had rethought it the morning of.

Farnham, who demurred when this writer told him people were always telling him he was the best mountain biker out here, and Paul Hamilton won the male relay division — and the race, for that matter — in 1:29:00. Peter Goldwasser of Glastonbury, Conn., was third, in 1:42:57.

Caroline Cashin, who recently did the three-day, 300-kilometer Epic Israel mountain bike race with her husband, Ed, in Tel Aviv, after which she raced up and down Vermont’s Mount Ascutney, winning her Category 1 age group, teamed with Beth Feit and the Cashins’ 11-year-old daughter, Dylan, to win the women’s relay division. 

Gabriella Vides-Barry, 16, of Queens was the sole female to do the entire run-bike-run, in 1:52:25. Omar Leon, 18, an East Hampton High School junior, was the fourth-place finisher over all, in 1:46:47. 

“You’ve got to raise your seat,” Sharon McCobb, the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s president (and a competitor that day in the relay), said to Leon. “That way you’ll get more power.”

“If East Hampton goes upstate in cross-country, he’ll be the reason,” she said to this writer. Cut from the boys soccer team earlier this fall, Leon went out for boys cross-country, much to his teammates’ and Kevin Barry’s delight. He’s been its number-three runner ever since.

Leon’s initial run time, of around 13 minutes, was Sunday’s fastest.

Two of the contestants, Tim Treadwell and Walter Cooke, eschewed running for swimming as their last leg, with Bahel’s approval. He thought that three-quarters of a mile in Fort Pond Bay would be the equivalent of a 2.3-mile trail run, and so they swam instead.

On emerging from the placid water — they’d swum down to Navy Beach and back to Ed Ecker County Park off Navy Road, where the duathlon’s transition area was — Treadwell said he would suggest to Bahel that next year an upside-down triathlon (run-bike-swim) be added to the duathlon. There were such races, he said, elsewhere in the country, and they were, assuming lifeguards were willing to stay out in the water for an hour or so longer than they ordinarily would to make sure everyone was safe, the better way to go, given the fact that health crises are more likely to occur in the swims owing largely to hyperthermia. 

The upside-down format made more sense, said Treadwell, “because you’ve got fresh legs for the run and can go all out on the bike before stretching out in the water, which felt very good today. That’s the way God intended it to be,” he said, with a smile. “Again assuming you can keep the swimmers, who will be greatly spread out rather than bunched in waves, safe.”

McCobb chose the event to announce that one of its competitors, 56-year-old John Broich (who had been at his daughter Olivia’s wedding on Shelter Island the night before), was the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s pick as male athlete of the year. He will be so acknowledged at OMAC’s holiday dinner in early December. 

She added, in answer to a question, that its female athlete of the year, community service award, and male high school athlete of the year recipients had been picked too, though they, she said, had not been notified yet.

Broich, a retired biology teacher who lives in Sag Harbor and is in his 30th year coaching cross-country and track at Westhampton Beach High School, has been triathloning, he said, since 1984, a span that has included “seven or eight Lake Placid Ironmans.”

“I’m better at the short distances, but I always pick the longer ones because of the challenge.” 

“I’m trying to qualify for Hawaii,” he said in answer to a question.” That’s on my bucket list.”

Next up for endurance athletes is the Brewathlon at the Montauk Brewery on Saturday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m.

Four-person relay teams are to row (on machines), bike, run, and row. Chugging had been one of the legs (and a reportedly crucial one) in the past, but had since been chucked, said McCobb, “because of insurance concerns.”

Thursday, October 12

GOLF, Westhampton Beach vs. East Hampton, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 4 p.m.

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

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Sayville at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

Friday, October 13

HOMECOMING PEP RALLY, East Hampton High School gym, 1:55-2:20 p.m.

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

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

Saturday, October 14

HALL OF FAME, breakfast and induction, East Hampton High School, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Hampton Bays at East Hampton, 11 a.m.

FRESHMAN CLASS 2K, color run, East Hampton High School, 11:30 a.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, alumnae game, East Hampton High School, 1:30 p.m.

FLAG FOOTBALL, game, East Hampton High School, 3 p.m.

DANCE TEAM, and band performance with Homecoming King and Queen ceremony, East Hampton High School turf field, 5 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Islip at East Hampton, 6 p.m.

CASINO NIGHT, to benefit East Hampton baseball team’s spring training trip to Florida, American Legion Hall, Amagansett, 6:30-10 p.m.

Sunday, October 15

YOUTH FOOTBALL, fifth-and-sixth-grade team home game, East Hampton High School, 10:30 a.m.

Monday, October 16

FIELD HOCKEY, Pierson at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

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

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Amityville, 5 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Smithtown West, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, October 17

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at Kings Park, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, October 18

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

GIRLS SWIMMING, Harborfields vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Islip, 5 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Sachem East, 6:30 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER, 7-on-7 league, Tortorella Pools vs. F.C. Tuxpan, 6:30 p.m.; Sag Harbor United vs. Bateman Painting, 7:25, and Hampton F.C.-Bill Miller vs. Maidstone Market, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

A brigade of 20 or so golf carts shuttled behind U.S.G.A. officials at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club one bright, breezy day last week to view some of the changes made since the U.S. Open was last played there in 2004.

A brisk wind was blowing out of the southwest — the prevailing wind direction here — and gusting up to 25 to 30 miles per hour. The wind can often be a defender of par at Shinnecock, as it was in 1986, when only Raymond Floyd wound up under par, by one stroke.

In 2004, the greens were the bogey, especially on the final day when, water-starved, they became exceedingly quick. The only one who wasn’t complaining was the winner, Retief Goosen, who finished at 4-under. For the rest, including Phil Mickelson, the runner-up, they were hellish. Mickelson said they were so hard that cleats would not have penetrated them. 

The low-scoring amateur, Spencer Levin, likened them to the asphalt on Tuckahoe Road, and Jim Furyk and Joe Ogilvie bowed on being given a standing ovation by the five-deep gallery after they’d parred the Redan, the notorious par-3 seventh hole, one of a half-dozen stops on the U.S.G.A.’s media tour, one of which was just about where, in 1995, Corey Pavin fell to his knees after hitting a 200-yard approach shot with a 4 wood up and onto the 18th green that won him his first-ever major championship. 

Could what happened in 2004 happen again, Mark Herrmann, Newsday’s golf writer, asked the chief tour guide, Jeff Hall, the U.S.G.A.’s managing director for rules and Open championships.

While the U.S.G.A. would want the greens to be firm and fast, he was “very confident,” said Hall, that what happened in ’04 would not be repeated. In fact, he added, there had been no such problem at any of the Opens played since that year. 

Firmness, speed, and the health of the grass can all be regularly monitored now, by three different tools, it was said, whereas only one — the Stimpmeter — was available in 2004. They would do their best, Hall said, to leave nothing to chance.

“The major changes,” this writer’s golf expert, John Kernell, said, “are that they’ve lengthened the course since 2004 [from 6,996 to 7,445 yards], and it’s treeless, presumably the way it was when it was built in 1891.” That, said the club and U.S.G.A. officials, was their intent — to return the course to the way it was when it was first laid out.

“With the deforestation — some, as you heard them say, by nature, some by design — they’ve made it more links-style. I think the players will like it. It’s one of the iconic courses in the country. There will be no buffers anymore. I think the U.S.G.A. is hoping the deforestation will really challenge them.”

“The landing areas are still wide, though the changed angles — 10 new tees attest to that — on some holes will effectively narrow them, and, of course, the rough will be rough.”

“As with any Open,” Kernell said, “it will come down to who’s hitting the fairways and who’s putting. It looks like they’ve done a wonderful job.”

Tickets for the 118th U.S. Open, to be played at Shinnecock from Thursday, June 14, through Sunday, June 17, can be had online through usga.org.

The East Hampton High School boys cross-country team, which has been something of a pleasant surprise for its coach, Kevin Barry, has finished the regular season as the league champion, at 6-0, defeating previously unbeaten Shoreham-Wading River at Sunken Meadow on Oct. 3.

“It was a very exciting meet given that both teams ran their best times over the 2.8-mile course,” said Barry in an emailed report. Ryan Fowkes, East Hampton’s number-one runner, won, in 14 minutes and 52 seconds, followed close behind by Shoreham’s Joey Krause, in 14:58. Geo Espinoza, Bonac’s number-two, placed fourth, in 15:19, followed by a Shoreham runner, after which came Omar Leon, Ethan McCormac, and Frank Bellucci, all Bonackers. 

Moreover, Robert Weiss, Avery Martinsen, and Nicolas Villante, who placed 12th, 13th, and 14th over all, “ran personal best times,” said Barry. The team is to compete in the Brown University invitational this Saturday, and will run in the county’s divisional meet at Sunken Meadow on Oct. 24. The state qualifier is to be contested on Nov. 3.

“Four of us will probably be contending to go upstate,” said Barry, “us, Shoreham-Wading River, Southampton, and Westhampton Beach.”

Leon, who had come over from boys soccer, Weiss, who had come over from football, and Martinsen, who had come over from boys volleyball, helped to strengthen Barry’s squad this fall.

East Hampton’s girls cross-country team, coached by Diane O’Donnell, did well too, finishing the regular season at 3-2 thanks to “a dramatic double win over Westhampton Beach and Islip” on Oct. 4. The Bonackers swept the top three spots, with Isabella Tarbet, a ninth grader, in 18:07, Liana Paradiso, a senior, in 18:12, and Ava Engstrom, a ninth grader, in 18:15. “The next nearest finisher was a Westhampton runner, at 18:34,” O’Donnell said in an emailed report. Danielle Lackner and Sydney Salamy were East Hampton’s fourth and fifth scorers.

Recently, in the Suffolk coaches’ freshman race at Sunken Meadow, Engstrom placed third, in 9:21, and Tarbet eighth, in 9:29. Paradiso was eighth in the varsity race, a 5K, in 23:18. On Sept. 26, the Bonac girls, racing against Harborfields and Rocky Point, lost to the former, 25-36, and defeated the latter, 22-33. Paradiso was the overall winner on the 2.8-mile course, in 18:23, Tarbet was fourth, in 19:15, and Engstrom was sixth, in 19:22. Lackner, at 21:48, and Aveen Hallissey, at 23:31, were East Hampton’s other scorers.

In related news, Erik Engstrom, Ava’s older brother, who runs for the University of Massachusetts, was named the Atlantic 10 Conference’s performer of the week of Sept. 18-24. The sophomore was the Minutemen’s top finisher for the second time in his career, with the 25:32 (a 5:08-per-mile pace) he ran over an 8K course in the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Boston, a meet contested by 18 teams. UMass placed 13th.

In other fall sports news, the girls swimming team continued to lead its league at 3-0 as of Monday, and the girls volleyball team, coached by Kathy McGeehan, defeated Harborfields 3-1 in a match played Friday, boosting its record to 6-4. One more win, McGeehan said Monday, and the team will be in the playoffs. Mikela Junemann had 20 kills versus Harborfields, Elle Johnson had 30 assists (and four service aces), and Molly Mamay had 27 digs. The match marked the return to the lineup of Zoe Rae Leach, a defensive standout, who finished with 10 digs. Madyson Neff had four blocks.

In other recent matches, East Hampton lost 3-1 to Sayville, and 3-0 to Westhampton Beach, the league’s top teams. The Bonackers dropped the third set with Westhampton 26-24 after having taken a 24-23 lead on a kill through a double block by Neff.

The visitors sided out when an outside hitter rather than swing through the ball dinked it over the net, and took the lead with a well-timed block. A hard kill that zipped by Neff at midcourt finished East Hampton off.

Leach, because of a nagging back problem, did not play that day — nor did she play much in the Sayville match. “Their ball control was better than ours,” McGeehan said by way of explanation afterward. Her team had led 23-20 in the fourth set at Sayville, she added, “but couldn’t finish — it’s a sign of immaturity.”

Friday marked the first time in her 37-year coaching career, McGeehan said, that she’d been red-carded, for having protested “very late double-hit calls” on her setter, Johnson.

Several other East Hampton teams, namely boys soccer, field hockey, and golf, sported winning records as of Monday. Boys soccer defeated Sayville 1-0 on Oct. 4, its goal having been scored by Jean Paul Palacios. It was the boys’ fifth win in the six games played since the team lost 3-2 here to undefeated Amityville.

The field hockey team, coached by Robyn Mott, as of Monday had won three in a row, over Greenport-Southold, Hampton Bays, and Sayville, after losing 1-0 to Bayport-Blue Point on Sept. 27. And golf was 4-2 as of Monday, behind Pierson (6-0) and Westhampton Beach (5-2). Westhampton is to play here today, at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett.

As for the rest, boys volleyball, coached by Josh Brussell, was 3-4 as of Monday, girls tennis, coached by Katie Helfand, was 2-8, and girls soccer, coached by Cara Nelson, was 0-11.

October 22, 1992

Wedge blocking has been around since football began in America. Pudge Heffelfinger, Yale’s fabled left guard, solved the Flying V in the 1888 Princeton-Yale game by leaping and planting both feet in the point man’s chest after taking a running start, paving a path to the ball-carrier.

Heffelfinger’s zealous response is no longer allowed, though the wedge — a massed formation of linemen behind which the fullback plows forward — can come tumbling down if the defensive linemen stay low and cut the legs out from under the point man.

Sad to say, East Hampton’s defensive line did not do enough of that on Saturday. Coupled with Babylon’s success at running the option play — faked handoffs to the fullback followed by quarterback sweeps of the flanks — the wedge did the Bonackers in 40-25.

. . . The season is now really on the line for East Hampton. The team, it appears, must win all of its remaining games — with Hampton Bays, Stony Brook, Port Jefferson, and Mount Sinai — to make the playoffs.

The Springs Youth Association hopes to attract fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade boys and girls from all over town to play flag football behind the Springs School from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Kelly McKee, Jeff Brown, and Steve Scott will be in charge.

Lara DeSanti scored both goals as the Smith College field hockey team defeated Babson 2-0 Saturday, while her high school coach, Ellen Cooper, watched. Cooper’s daughter, Becky, an East Hampton senior, also came to the game.

Carolina Vargas, another Cooper protégée, played an inside forward position for Babson. “I think the Babson coach will find that Carolina will play better at left wing,” said Cooper. “She’s like an eagle with her wings clipped.”

October 29, 1992

Kathleen McManus and Hannah Smith, East Hampton High School’s doubles entry in the Suffolk County girls tennis tournament, won the school’s first county title in doubles on Tuesday by defeating Patchogue-Medford’s Meredith Dragonette and Eileen Thompson 6-3, 6-0.

“Kathleen and Hannah played terrifically,” said John Goodman, a veteran boys and girls coach, who helps Jeff Yusko with the girls team. “Any coach would have been proud of the way they played — they kept the ball low, made the others hit up, played sequences of shots that led to putaways, and didn’t make too many errors. They were confident and had fun, which is what playing sports is all about.”

As they have all season, the senior team breezed through the tournament without losing a set, extending their match skein to 18-0. Dragonette and Thompson were also undefeated going into the final.

East Hampton’s field hockey team was not to be denied Friday, as it shut out Southold-Greenport 5-0 to close out the season as the undefeated League Five champion.

Bridget Behan, a junior, smacked in two goals, and Ellamae Gurney, a junior, Heather McCormack, a sophomore, and Kelly McMahon, a freshman, each had one. Gurney also had two assists. “We played the whole second half with our second-stringers,” Ellen Cooper, the coach, added.

Homecoming Schedule

East Hampton High’s homecoming athletic schedule is as follows:

Thursday — golf versus Westhampton Beach at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett, 4 p.m.; boys soccer versus Mount Sinai, 4:30, and boys volleyball versus Sayville, 5.

Friday — pep rally, 1:55 to 2:20 p.m.; girls soccer versus Harborfields, and girls volleyball versus Shoreham-Wading River, 4:30.

Saturday — Hall of Fame breakfast, 8:30 a.m., followed by induction ceremonies; field hockey versus Hampton Bays, 11; color run, 11:30; field hockey alumnae game, 1:30 p.m.; flag football game, 3, and boys volleyball versus East Islip, 6.

Baseball Fund-Raiser

The East Hampton High School baseball team will benefit from a casino night at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett on Saturday from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

Vinnie Alversa, the varsity coach, said the money raised will go to the team’s spring training trip to Florida. “We will be practicing at the Rays’ former spring training complex, the Walter Fuller Complex in St. Petersburg, we could be playing at Eckerd College there as well, and also we might possibly play a game at the Phillies’ former spring training stadium” in Clearwater.

Youth Football

East Hampton’s fifth-and-sixth-grade football team will play a home game on the high school’s turf field on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

Young Rider Wins Gold

Phoebe Topping, the daughter of Jagger and Amanda Topping of Swan Creek Farms in Bridgehampton, recently won the individual gold medal and was a member, as well, of the gold-medal-winning team in the United States Hunter Jumper Association’s finals in Princeton, N.J.

“Phoebe and her horse, Epic, competed in four classes from Friday through Sunday, all of which were clear rounds,” her mother said in an email. “She not only helped her team win the gold medal in the Nations Cup format, but also won the individual gold. Needless to say, we are tremendously proud of her. She’s worked very hard and loves her sport — especially her horses.”

EventPower’s staff had to step lively this past week inasmuch as it had, because of a slightly high blue-green algae reading in Fort Pond, to cancel the swim legs of Sunday’s three-part triathlon festival in Montauk. 

“We’ve been tracking the readings in Fort Pond since June,” Chris Pfund, the race director, said, “but, with a slightly high reading at the end of last week, we decided discretion was called for and therefore we announced on Facebook on Friday that we were canceling the swims.”

Thus what were to have been three triathlons, of Sprint, Olympic, and Half-Ironman distances, became three (run-bike-run) duathlons. “It’s the first time we’ve had to do this in our 14-year history,” Pfund said.

Despite the last-minute change, “we were prepared — we’ve had course maps taking this eventuality into account for some years now.”

So, rather than waves of swimmers, waves of runners were released one after the other in downtown Montauk, beginning at 6:50 a.m. (When this writer arrived, at around 7, he wondered at first if he hadn’t arrived very late inasmuch as triathlons usually end with runs of varying lengths — 5Ks, 10Ks, and, in the case of a Half-Ironman, a half-marathon.)

There were 769 finishers in all (there were 900 registrants) — 299 in the Olympic (1.9-mile run, 24.8-mile bike, and 6.2-mile run), 284 in the Sprint (1.2-mile run, 10.6-mile bike, and 3.1-mile run), and 196 in the Half (1.9-mile run, 56-mile bike, and half-marathon).

Kenny Moore, a 42-year-old builder from Sayville, won the Sprint, in 56 minutes and 4 seconds. Caitlin Dowd, a 27-year-old pro cyclist from Smithtown, was the women’s winner (and eighth over all). Moore and she are trained, Dowd said, by Mike Monastero.

“I’ve never won here before — I’ve been in the top 5 in the Olympic and in the top 10 in the Half,” said Moore, who rates himself as a better swimmer than runner. His 8-week-old daughter, Evelyn, was at the finish line with his wife, Suzanne, to greet him. 

When Moore mentioned during the course of the conversation that he was a mountain-biker, this writer said he should race in Mike Bahel’s mountain-bike duathlon at Ed Ecker County Park on Sunday, Oct. 8. “No,” he said, glancing at his wife and infant daughter, “I’m done.”

Dowd, a nurse in Stony Brook University Hospital’s medical intensive care unit, also said she was a better swimmer than runner, though she came in first among the women on the initial run before speeding off from the Fort Pond transition area on her bike.

Pfund said that following Friday’s no-swim announcement, he had been urged to hold the swims elsewhere . . . in the ocean, in Fort Pond Bay, in Lake Montauk . . . but each proposal, he said, posed significant problems having to do with logistics and safety. 

The length of the initial runs, he said, was keyed to turnaround points — at the Second House Museum in the case of the shorter one, and South Elroy Drive in the case of the longer one.

Jonathan Joyce, a Drexel University senior from Chicago, posted the fastest Olympic distance time, 1:49:08, though he and his fellow collegians — there were teams from West Point, Northeastern, Cornell, Bentley, Coast Guard, the University of Massachusetts, Hamilton, Columbia, and Penn State — were apparently considered a separate Olympic distance category.

Three Tims — Timothy Clarke, at 4:05, Timothy Smith, at 4:08:28, and Timothy Walton, at 4:11:47 — topped the Half-Ironman field. Bahel, Body Tech’s owner, was in that race too, finishing 25th, in 4:58:40. John Broich of Sag Harbor was 31st, in 5:01:30. Krystal Shearer of New York City, 24th over all, in 4:58:24, was the Half’s women’s winner. Elizabeth Pratt of Bronxville was the women’s Olympic winner, in 2:05:21.

The Garrys, Kira and her father, William, carried Montauk’s banner, he finishing 13th in the Sprint, in 1:02:16, and she finishing second among the women in the Olympic distance, in 2:07:21. Kira, 24, who will compete with the Central Park Track Club’s indoor track team in the 5,000, ran the last three miles barefoot, her feet having become numb as the result of the 25-mile bike leg.

The races also drew 40 members of TriAchilles International, based in New York City, whose young French-born director, Charles Catherine, said triathlons were great therapy and confidence-boosters for Achilles club athletes who have lost their sight, or limbs, or who might be brain-injured or autistic. Besides building self-confidence, arduous triathlon competitions, said Catherine, helped to build trust among athletes and their guides, and provided a springboard for friendships as well. 

Catherine, who is blind, said he hopes to make France’s Paralympic triathlon team. He and another Achilles athlete, Abbey Lanier — who competed in the Sprint that day, as did Catherine — have competed in a national triathlon, in Santa Cruz, Calif. He’s to compete next week in a nationwide event in Sarasota, Fla. Lanier, 26, a three-year triathlete whose guide was Michael Alcamo of Huntington, ran with him her fastest 5K that day, a 26:05.

Swimming was the toughest event for visually impaired athletes, Catherine said, when asked, “because you have no point of reference — you can’t hear, you can become disoriented. . . . Most of us didn’t learn how to swim when we were young. It’s an acquired skill.” 

Still, said Alcamo, “we were a little disappointed that the swims were canceled, but better safe than sorry. Most of us liked the duathlon format.” 

On their tandem bike, he said, in answer to a question, “I’m the ‘pilot,’ and Abbey’s the ‘stoker,’ the engine. I tell her when we’re coasting and when we’re pedaling, and I alert her to turns. There was a 180-degree turn on the bike course today — we practiced that turn at 6 o’clock this morning!”

The Section XI Warriors, a young rugby 7s side with players spanning East Hampton and East Islip, continue to impress, according to one of their coaches, Kevin Bunce, who said that the junior varsity side won two games and tied one at a tournament in Pelham, N.Y., this past weekend.

“This was the second of a five-tournament series, and our kids played really, really well,” Bunce said Monday morning. “They’re spreading the ball out, moving it from side to side and finding the gaps, and they’re also tackling well, hitting low with their heads out and wrapping up the arms, taking the ball carriers down quickly and playing the ball out. You don’t have to be big in rugby; if you’re doing things correctly technique-wise, it’s anybody’s game.”

“Since we’re not the biggest team, we’re staying away from scrums and lineouts and not kicking much. We’re keeping the ball in our hands, which translates into points.”

The Warriors, who play fellow high school junior varsity teams, from Westchester County by and large, defeated Thornton-Donovan 19-0 to begin with, after which they played to a 20-20 tie with Pelham High School, and edged a combined Keio Academy and French American Academy team 25-23. “We took it to them — that was a terrific win,” said Bunce. “They beat us 36-0 the week before. Their coach was kind of surprised, not too happy. I gather they hadn’t lost in a while.”

“Our kids tackled hard, they passed the ball, they’d learned their lessons. The key was the tackling. We were scoring every time we touched the ball.”

Among the Warriors’ scorers, Bunce said, were Christian Soloviev, Jake Jablonski (Bunce’s fellow coach Mike Jablonski’s son), Kevin Bunce Jr., Chris Vedder (who wrestles at 126 pounds for Shoreham-Wading River), and Jacob Ehrens, a St. Anthony’s student from East Islip.

“We’ve been getting about 20 at our practices” at East Hampton’s Herrick Park on Tuesday and Thursday nights, and at Shoreham-Wading River on Wednesdays and Fridays. “Fourteen made the trip. We’ve been renting a 15-person van from A-Car Auto Rental in Blue Point, which gave us a good deal.”

The winner of the series will be determined at the end of it, using win-loss records and points for and against. “At the moment, we’re a solid second,” said Bunce.

He added that Jablonski and he plan to pick Long Island select 15s and 7s sides in the spring, teams that will enter regional tournaments, “where college coaches see you. . . . We’ll send out letters to the some seven high schools on Long Island that play rugby and have tryouts in the spring, probably at either Calverton or Stony Brook. We’ll see what happens.”

Hockey Loss

The Pierson-Bridgehampton field hockey team bested East Hampton here Monday, winning in a shootout that followed a 1-1 tie in regulation and a scoreless 7-on-7 overtime period during which E. Bistrian had several breakaways that, unfortunately, came to naught.

Charlotte Johnson and Maddie Schenck, the teams’ goalies, faced off in the shootout, with Johnson, the Whalers’ goalie, getting the better of the one-on-one confrontations. 

As a result, the Whalers vaulted over the Bonackers into ninth place among Division II’s 15 teams, and dropped East Hampton into 11th place.

Fight Night

Richie Daunt of Montauk and Luis Mancilla of Springs, both of whom box at Finest Fitness in Patchogue, are to fight Saturday night in the Long Island-Metro vs. Upstate championships at the State University at New Paltz — Daunt at 154 pounds, Mancilla at 140.

Tennis, Cross-Country

Becca Kuperschmid, who played first singles this fall for the East Hampton High School girls tennis team, finished fourth in the recent conference tournament, the best she’s done in that tourney thus far, her mother, Jackie Lowey, said in an email.

Diane O’Donnell, the girls cross-country team’s coach, said that Bella Tarbet and Ava Engstrom, ninth graders, finished 12th and 14th in the Division 1 varsity race at Brown University’s invitational meet this past weekend. Tarbet ran the 5K course in 19 minutes and 40 seconds, Engstrom in 19:49, both personal bests.

S.I. 5K Saturday

The Shelter Island 5K run-walk is to be held at Crescent Beach Saturday at 11 a.m. The race, in its 18th year, benefits the North and South Fork Breast Health Coalitions and Lucia’s Angels.

One can register online through shelterislandfall5k.com. The entry fee is $30 for adults and $10 for children 14 and under. Those fees will be $40 and $20 on the day of the race.