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Ricardo Salmeron was one of those who rated praise later from Rich Brierley, Montauk’s coach, and Gordon Trotter, the side’s captain. Sharks Feed on Princeton

    The Montauk Rugby Club, playing before a large crowd at East Hampton’s Herrick Park on Saturday afternoon, defeated the Princeton Athletic Club 42-27 to improve its Met Union record to 2-0.

    The Sharks got off to a quick start and led 22-10 at the half, but let up a bit in the second half before finishing strong.

Sep 28, 2011
The Lineup 09.29.11

Saturday, October 1

TRIATHLON, MightyMan Sprint (750-meter swim, 17K bike, and 5K run), Fresh Pond, Montauk, 6:40 a.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Hauppauge tournament, 9 a.m.

RUGBY, Danbury Rugby Club vs. Montauk R.F.C., Herrick Park, East Hampton, 1 p.m.

FOOTBALL, Comsewogue at East Hampton, 2 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 2 p.m.

BENEFIT RIDE, for Lisa Craine and family, B-East fitness studio, Amagansett, 4-5:30 p.m., followed by party at Stephen Talkhouse, 6-7:30.

Sep 28, 2011
Meghan Dombkowski (with head bowed) was feted following her successful penalty stroke in the first half of Friday’s field hockey game here with Greenport-Southold. At Last, Says Harrier Coach

    At last, Diane O’Donnell thinks she’s got a girls cross-country team able to make some noise, a team headed by a hard-working senior, Ashley West, and a fleet freshman, Dana Cebulski.

    But it takes more than two to score in cross-country. You need a pack of goers as well, and O’Donnell thinks she has that in Jen DiSunno, Kerry Kaestner, Emma Newburger, and Brittany Rivkind, who all ran 25-something in the Peconic Invitational meet at Southampton’s Red Creek Park last Thursday.

Sep 21, 2011
Mario Olaya accounted for three of the four goals East Hampton scored in last Thursday’s shutout of Center Moriches. Bonac Boys Capture The East End Cup

    When they entered the locker room at East Hampton High School prior to Sunday morning’s practice session, the boys soccer team’s players saw waiting for them the Bridgehampton National Bank East End Cup, attesting to the fact that they’d bested nine other teams in a tournament that dates to 2002.

    The Bonackers shut out all three of their tournament opponents — Mattituck by 4-0, Hampton Bays by 3-0, and Center Moriches by 4-0.

Sep 21, 2011
Pete Vaziri’s 95-yard kickoff runback in the second quarter gave East Hampton’s fans something to cheer about. Kings Park Packed Punch in Bonackers’ Home Opener

    Outnumbered, outweighed, and outplayed, the East Hampton High School football team took a drubbing in its home opener Saturday, losing 42-7 to Kings Park, which in turn had been routed the week before by Islip.

    And “drubbing” is not overstating the case: Three Bonackers went down that day, Ryan Joudeh, a running back, by way of a sprained ankle, and two — Dan Barros, arguably the team’s best defender, and Cortland Heneveld, its sophomore quarterback — by way of concussions.

Sep 21, 2011
The homecoming football game, played under the lights, will cap a sports-crammed saturday. Saturday Sports-Crammed

Saturday will be crammed sports-wise what with the fifth running of the Hamptons Marathon, a home rugby game, and a full schedule of East Hampton High School homecoming contests.

Sep 21, 2011
The Lineup 09.22.11

Thursday, September 22

GOLF, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 4 p.m.

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

Saturday, September 24

HAMPTONS MARATHON, with half-marathon and 5K, Springs School, 8 a.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, Elwood-John Glenn at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Eastport-South Manor at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Hampton Bays at East Hampton, 10:30 a.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Bayport-Blue Point at East Hampton, nonleague, 1 p.m.

Sep 21, 2011
Katla Thorsen (12) couldn’t miss in last Thursday’s rout of Rocky Point here. East Hampton won by scores of 25-6, 25-9, and 25-16. Young but Exciting

    Used to fielding perennial powerhouses, Kathy McGeehan, East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball coach, may have one again, though this fall, because the team is young — there are four ninth graders who are making significant contributions and three sophomores — she will in all likelihood be able to savor the satisfaction that comes from watching her players grow over the course of the campaign.

Sep 21, 2011
A ‘Kind Of Miracle’ At South Fork

    “It was Tuesday late,” Irene Silverman began in recounting her hole in one, the sole one of the summer at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett.

    The scene: the par 3, 143-yard ninth hole on Sept. 6.

    The pairing: Irene and her husband, Sidney.

    The gallery: no one.

    “I would tell you what club I used, but it’s very embarrassing,” said the Star copy editor. “I’m not a good golfer. I’m very bad, in fact. . . . It was a kind of miracle.”

Sep 15, 2011
The players appeared as if they meant business, but their fitness level could be improved, according to their coach. Boys Off on Right Foot

    East Hampton High’s boys soccer team got its season off on the right foot, besting Mattituck, the defending Long Island Class B champion, 4-0 in a nonleaguer played at the North Fork school’s field Saturday.

    The game was East Hampton’s first in the Bridgehampton National Bank East End Cup tournament, a tourney contested by 10 teams that Mattituck won last year (as it had the previous two years as well).

Sep 15, 2011
Tom Eickelberg, 22, of Babylon was the winner. Celebrates Its 30th

    The 30th anniversary of the Mighty Hamptons Triathlon, which debuted in 1982 with a number of the then-new sport’s elite competitors, including three Hawaiian Ironman champions, was celebrated at Long Beach in Noyac Sunday by a field almost five times as large as the first one, bearing out John Howard’s prediction that first year that participatory sports were the future.

Sep 15, 2011
Mostly Good News Sports-Wise

    It wasn’t just the boys soccer team that began its season on the right foot: East Hampton High’s girls team on Friday, behind the scoring of Raffi Franey (two goals) and Amanda Seekamp, and the goaltending of Kathryn Hess, shut out McGann-Mercy 3-0 in a nonleague game played at the Riverhead school.

Sep 15, 2011
Harry de Leyer, last seen at the Hampton Classic five years ago, thinks a movie may be made of “The Eighty-Dollar Champion.” Tale of Snowman Hasn’t Lost Its Legs

    The story of how Harry de Leyer came to ride Snowman, a plow horse he rescued from the glue factory at the cost of $80 in 1956, to national show jumping championships is one of this country’s most compelling sports stories.

Sep 15, 2011
Paul Jones, with the ball above, has been described by Rich Brierley as “the key to our rotation.” The Bulked-Up Montauk Rugby Sharks Can Taste It

    With 29 players on its roster, among them a number of athletes who’ve made their marks in other sports such as football, lacrosse, and wrestling — even baseball — the Montauk Rugby Club has great expectations for the Met Union’s Division II fall season.

    The side tied for fourth in the eight-team league last year, missing out on the playoffs by one point. The team that went to the playoffs, North Jersey, fell to the Sharks in a division opener Saturday by a score of 42-36.

Sep 15, 2011
The Lineup 09.15.11

Thursday, September 15

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Huntington, 4 p.m.

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

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

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, William Floyd at Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, September 16

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Sayville, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Greenport-Southold at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

Sep 15, 2011
No matter the horse, McLain Ward was a winner of the Classic’s major money classes, including, on Pjotter van de Zonnehoeve, at right, the $30,000 Nicolock Open Jumper Challenge on Saturday, and, at the left, on Antares F, the $250,000 FTI Grand Prix on Sunday. A Sweep by Ward

    McLain Ward, who had to be feeling a bit effervescent after sweeping with characteristic aplomb through the Hampton Classic’s major prize money classes last week, a streak capped Sunday afternoon by a record sixth Hampton Classic Grand Prix win (and third in a row), cradled in his lap the magnum of Louis Roederer Champagne he’d been given, popped the sizable cork, and invited those who’d attended the show-ending press conference to share in a round.

Sep 8, 2011
Angel Rojas and Jason Hancock, passing in front of the Springs firehouse above, were to finish second and third in Labor Day’s 10K. Ensign and Kulchinsky Won Great Bonac’s Road Races

    Tim Ensign, a 48-year-old visitor from Chattanooga, Tenn., and Justin Kulchinsky, 38, the owner of Mayfair Rocks, a jewelry store in East Hampton Village, were the winners of the Great Bonac 10 and 5K races in Springs Monday.

Sep 8, 2011
Mighty Hamptons’ 30th Mighty Hamptons’ 30th Year

    The Mighty Hamptons Triathlon will celebrate its 30th anniversary when 1,000-plus competitors in the swim-bike-run event plunge into Noyac Bay at Sag Harbor’s Long Beach at 6:40 a.m. Sunday.

    John Howard, the 1981 Ironman champion and a renowned ultra cycler who holds the 24-hour drafting record of 539 miles and cycling’s world absolute speed record of 152.2 miles per hour, as well as the American Canoe Association’s world 24-hour record, is expected to be there as a member of a relay team.

Sep 8, 2011
East Hampton’s athletic director, Joe Vas, told Bonac’s athletes last Thursday morning that if they were all-in things generally would go their way. Outlook Is Good For Fall Sports

When questioned on Aug. 31 about the coming fall sports season at East Hampton High School, Joe Vas, athletic director, was sanguine.

Sep 8, 2011
Another of Katie Dinan’s favorite animals is Delilah, a Chihuahua mix rescue. Teen Trained by the Best

    There were four teenaged riders in Sunday’s Grand Prix, three of them from California, though the one from the East, Katie Dinan, 18, has this country’s — and some would say the world’s — best rider, McLain Ward, as her mentor.

Sep 8, 2011
The Lineup 09.08.11

Friday, September 9

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Amityville, 4 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at McGann-Mercy, Riverhead, nonleague, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 10

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Eastport-South Manor tournament, 8 a.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Smithtown East tournament, 9 a.m.

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Mattituck, nonleague, 2 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton at Harborfields, 2 p.m.

Sunday, September 11

Sep 8, 2011
Albert Woods, OMAC’s athlete of the year in 2010, recently won six gold medals at the long course nationals at Auburn University. An All-American Swimmer at 82

    Albert Woods, an 82-year-old swimmer who was named the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s athlete-of-the-year at its December awards dinner, feting the fact that he had as an 81-year-old won six national championships, has done it again.

Sep 1, 2011
Sixteen hundred stalls were reinstalled on Monday. Despite Ill Winds The Show Goes On

     Marty Bauman, the Hampton Classic’s press officer, was on the Bridgehampton showgrounds at 5:30 a.m. Monday, as were scores of workers and volunteers, who by midmorning had most of the some 100 tents that had been taken down in advance of Hurricane Irene’s arrival back up.

    “It’s been unbelievable, incredible,” Bauman said of the effort. “It shows you what happens when everyone pitches in. We told the competitors that there were to be no horses here until Tuesday.”

Sep 1, 2011
Clockwise from top left are Derrick Kielt, Ryan Pilla, Rod Davidson, and Henry Boston with the four-cylinder Mazda MX5 Spec Miata at the Bonneville Flats. Nirvana Achieved

    Ryan Pilla’s Car Doctor World garage is on Scuttlehole Road, not far from the late lamented Bridgehampton Race Circuit (now a golf course) where in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, the top sports car drivers in the world used to gather.

Sep 1, 2011
Jean Lindgren and her husband, Tony Hitchcock, retired as the Classic’s executive directors in 2005. Recalling Disasters Past At the Hampton Classic

    Forewarned regarding Hurricane Irene, Shanette Barth Cohen, the Hampton Classic’s executive director, on Friday announced the cancellation of Opening Day, which was to have been Sunday, and resolved to restart the ordinarily weeklong hunter-jumper show on Wednesday, Aug. 31.

Sep 1, 2011
Mike Bahel, who put the event on, was relieved to have been the runner-up, figuring that it wouldn’t have looked good for him to have won. Bunce And Cashin Win Pump ’n’ Run

    Mike Bunce, who plays on Boston’s Super League rugby side, won the Pump and Run contest Mike Bahel put on at the Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Aug. 17, pressing 125 pounds (60 percent of his body weight) 55 times, an effort that resulted in almost three minutes being deducted from  his subsequent two-mile run time.

    Bunce’s net time of 8 minutes and 45 seconds bested Bahel’s net time by 3 seconds, an outcome that Bahel greeted with some relief inasmuch as “it wouldn’t look too good to win my own contest.”

Aug 25, 2011
Jessie van Binsbergen, now a veterinary doctor in Hoboken, N.J., caught up with her former coach, Diane O’Donnell, after topping the women in Ellen’s Run. Ellenoff Was On At Ellen’s Run

    Topping a field of about 800 runners and walkers, Nick Ellenoff, the 17-year-old Trinity School senior who the week before had won the Strides For Life 3-miler, glided to the shaded Ellen’s [5K] Run finish line near the old entrance to Southampton Hospital Sunday morning in 17 minutes and 27 seconds.

    The personable winner, who is an all-state competitor in cross-country and track with a personal-best 4:20 in the mile, said he had run faster at this race last year, but last year he had John Honerkamp — the winner in 15:45 — and Angel Rojas to contend with.

Aug 25, 2011
Sports Briefs 08.25.11

Classic’s Coming

    The weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show opens at the 60-acre Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, showgrounds on Sunday with a day of competition for local riders, beginning with leadline and short stirrup classes in the Grand Prix ring from 8 a.m.

    The Opening Day ceremonies are to take place in the Grand Prix ring at noon, after which the $20,000 Nicolock Time Challenge, the Classic’s first high-level class, is to be held.

Aug 25, 2011
Adam Kelinson and Jessica Bellofatto were among those who paddled 18 miles from Montauk to Block Island last year. Standing Up for Humanity

    When the first roughly 20 people first worked their way across the open ocean as part of Paddlers for Humanity back in 2005, most were in kayaks or prone paddling on boards, and only one woman, Marilyn Suder, made the trip.

    “In 2008, we started seeing paddleboarding springing up, literally,” said Fred Doss, co-president of the organization with Ed Cashin of Weekend Warrior Tours in Sag Harbor.

Aug 25, 2011
The Lineup 08.25.11

Saturday, August 27

PADDLING, Paddlers 4 Humanity’s 18-mile open water paddle from Montauk to Block Island, Montauk Lighthouse, 6:30 a.m.

Sunday, August 28

HAMPTON CLASSIC, opening day, beginning with leadline classes in the Grand Prix ring at 8 a.m.; opening ceremonies, noon, with $20,000 Nicolock Time Challenge to follow in the Grand Prix ring, Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, showgrounds.

XTERRA TRIATHLON, half-mile lake swim, 11-mile mountain bike leg, and 5K trail run, Schiff Scout Reservation, Wading River, 8 a.m.

Aug 25, 2011