Sports

Sharks in First

    The Montauk Rugby Club improved its Met Union record to 4-0 Saturday with a 26-14 win over the Lansdowne R.F.C. in Yonkers. Thus the Sharks are now in sole possession of first place in Division II, though to clinch a playoff spot they’ll probably have to defeat Bayonne, N.J., in an away game on Oct. 22. Meanwhile, Union, N.J., is to play here Saturday at 1 p.m.

Thursday, October 13

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

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Center Moriches, 6:15 p.m.

Friday, October 14

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at William Floyd, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 4 p.m.

YOUTH FOOTBALL, fund-raiser at Beachhouse restaurant, Route 27, East Hampton, 6-9 p.m.

VARSITY FOOTBALL, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 7 p.m.

    A beautiful day, some of the best trails out here, and the recent untimely death of Andrew Walsh, a 45-year-old Irish-born outdoorsman and gifted landscape designer known to many of them, brought some 70 mountain-bikers and runners to the Edward V. Ecker Preserve in Montauk Sunday to contest, following silent moments of remembrance, the Serpent’s Back Duathlon overseen by Mike Bahel, the 12-mile mountain-bike leg bracketed by two-and-a-half-mile trail runs.

    Though the East Hampton High School football team lost 53-13 to fourth-place Comsewogue here Saturday, there were several things to write home about in the second quarter, to wit an 80-yard touchdown pass in which the quarterback, Cort Heneveld, and Pete Vaziri combined, an onsides kick fumble recovery by Juan Varon, and an interception by Sergio Betancur.

Continuing to roll Saturday, the Montauk Rugby Club upended the Met Union’s Division II leader, Danbury, by a convincing score of 25-7.

A fleet of 24 boats contending in the North American JY-15 championships sailed 10 races mostly over windward-leeward courses in Sag Harbor last weekend.

Thursday, October 6

GOLF, East Hampton vs. Ross, East Hampton Country Club, 3:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton at Islip, 3:30 p.m.

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

FIELD HOCKEY, Southampton at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

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

Sunday, October 9

SERPENT’S BACK DUATHLON, Ed Ecker County Park, Navy Road, Montauk, 9 a.m.

Monday, October 10

GIRLS SOCCER, Amityville at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

Harry de Leyer, “the Galloping Grandfather” who is now a great-grandfather as well, spent four hours here at East End Stables Saturday afternoon.

    One thousand seven hundred and thirty-six runners crossed the finish line behind the Springs School Saturday — 336 marathoners, 1,279 half-marathoners, and 121 contenders in the 5K.

    A 25-year-old California mathematician by way of Washington, D.C., Shaun Maguire, won the marathon in 2 hours, 44 minutes, and 46 seconds. Chris Koegel, the defending champion, who experienced Achilles problems about 10 miles into the 26.2-mile race, was the runner-up, in 2:52:19.

    Although the football team was blanked 39-0 by Eastport-South Manor under the lights here Saturday night, there were enough good sporting results inside and outside that day to fuel East Hampton High’s homecoming spirits.

September 4, 1986

    In the limelight on Aug. 26, after he had upset John McEnroe 1-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of the United States Open, Paul Annacone, the 23-year-old East Hampton-reared tennis professional, found himself cast out of it two days later as he lost 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 to Aaron Krickstein in the second round.

    In the world of sports, youth has its cachet; however, when it comes to boccie, seniority, and all its wisdom, has its perks. The Founders, a boccie ball team of 59 to 88-year-old men, took the Southampton Boccie League championship Sept. 18 on the court at North Sea Park. Their opponents, Southampton United, a much younger team, 37 to 61 years old, were defeated 12-6 in the first game, and again, 12-6 in the final deciding match.

    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.

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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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.

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.

    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.

    “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.”

    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).

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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.

    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.

    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.

    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.