A coed double-elimination softball tournament played each year in memory of Travis Field, who died at the age of 20 in a motor vehicle accident on May 15, 2008, is to begin at 5 p.m. Thursday with opening ceremonies at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.
Ever popular, the tournament, which benefits the Travis Field Foundation, helps underwrite scholarships given out in his name to East Hampton High School seniors who share the posthumous honoree’s qualities, two of them being a love of sports and a desire to serve this community.
The tournament, whose games are contested pretty much nonstop from Thursday through Sunday evening, usually attracts 16 to 17 teams that vie in A and B brackets. The A bracket was won last year by the Raptors, a madcap group from Montauk whose roster includes a number of Davis and Daunt family members. The Jetty Grinders topped the B bracket.
An East Hampton High School entry reportedly will include on its roster two of Travis Field’s first cousins, Ella Field and Aidan Stone, who weren’t alive when he died.
