August 3, 2000
East Hampton Town’s lifeguards, men and women, did themselves proud in the invitational tournament at East Hampton’s Main Beach last Thursday.
It was the tournament’s 13th year, and, as is usually the case, Smith Point’s lifeguards won it, but by a scant two and a half points over the East Hampton Town men’s team, whose roster comprised Bob Lambert (captain), Sean Knight, Rory Knight, Brian Cunningham, Mike Karmiol, Alec Overby, James Keogh, Bjorn Iooss, Charlie Weimar, David Starr-Tambor, Ben Turnbull, and Ryan Borowsky.
“The highest we’ve ever finished before has been third,” said John Ryan Sr., who oversaw the eight-event test with his son, John Jr., who is the head of the town’s lifeguards.
East Hampton’s women won, defeating three other teams. In the case of the men and the women, consistency was the key. The town’s men won two events, the two-mile beach run and the 4-by-400-yard paddleboard rescue relay, but placed in the top three in all the others.
Ditto the local women (Sara Faraone, Rachael Faraone, Jill Kampf, Erin Ingraham, Caitlin McKee, Tina Filippelli, Brynn Maguire, and Vanessa Edwardes), who won the 4-by-100-yard relay and beach flags.
. . . Rachael Faraone won the national beach flags competition last year in Cape May, N.J., and was a member, with her sister, Kampf, and Stephanie Talmage, of the silver medalist 4-by-100 relay team.
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Ross Gload, the Springs slugger, who has had a hot bat lately for the Portland (Me.) Sea Dogs, the Florida Marlins’ AA team in the Eastern League, was traded to the Chicago Cubs organization Monday — a trade that sent the Cubs’ starting left fielder, Henry Rodriguez, to the Marlins in return for Gload and another minor league prospect, David Noyce, a left-handed pitcher with the Brevard (Fla.) County Manatees.
. . . “This is a big move for Ross,” said Len Bernard, whose son, Steve, has been following Gload’s progress online. “You don’t trade a starting major league player for a prospect like Ross unless you think he has a chance of making it. You might even see him in the major leagues in September when they do their call-ups.”
Bernard added that the trade augured doubly well for Gload. “Number one, the Cubs’ starting left fielder is gone, and, two, their first baseman, Mark Grace, is in his late 30s. It’s good for Ross both ways.”
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The ranks of those who oppose what they call a “sportsplex” on 42 acres of prime farmland on East Hampton’s Long Lane are growing by leaps and bounds.
Organized under the name Save Our Farmland, a reincarnation of the East Hampton group that formed here in the late 1970s, the group’s members are mounting a vigorous public campaign to stop the town from turning the Schwenk family’s land into football, hockey, baseball, and soccer fields.
. . . If the property does not become a playing field, the Schwenks think that one day it will be developed. “I don’t care if they put a rec field there,” Henry R. Schwenk, the former farmer, said. “It might be the best thing. . . .”
