July 3, 1986
As expected, Bruce Bickford, 27, of Wellesley, Mass., Track and Field News’s top-ranked 10-kilometer runner in the world last year, won Saturday’s well-attended 10K race on Shelter Island, but not in record time as the race director, Cliff Clark, had expected.
Bostwick’s Feasts on P.B.A., Schenck’s Delivers in NineWith the playoffs looming, Bostwick’s has clinched the top seed in East Hampton Town’s women’s slow-pitch softball league, and, in the men’s league, Schenck Fuels was poised to follow suit if it defeated The Independent Monday.
Ocean Swim Challenge
The Montauk Playhouse’s aquatics center fund will benefit from three ocean races to be held early Saturday morning at Montauk’s Kirk Park Beach. The one-half, one-mile, and two-mile races, to begin at 7:15 a.m., are to end at Ditch Plain Beach, to the east.
Thursday, July 21
WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH, makeup games, Grazina Orthodontics vs. Men at Work, 6:45 p.m., and P.B.A. vs. Groundworks, 8, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.
Friday, July 22
MEN’S SLOW-PITCH, Uihlein’s vs. Stephen Hand’s Equipment, 7:30 p.m., and Schenck Fuels vs. Bono Plumbing and Heating, 8:30, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.
Saturday, July 23
SWIMMING, Ocean Swim Challenge one-half mile, one-mile, and two-mile races, Kirk Park Beach, Montauk, 7:15 a.m.
Kathy McGeehan, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls volleyball team, said this week that Raya O’Neal has been picked by the Garden Empire Volleyball Association to play in a high performance tournament in Phoenix, Ariz., at the end of this month.
Thursday, July 14
WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH, Groundworks vs. Grazina Orthodontics, 6:45 p.m., and Bostwick’s vs. P.B.A., 8, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.
Friday, July 15
MEN’S SLOW-PITCH, Uihlein’s vs. Stephen Hand’s Equipment, 7:30 p.m., and The Independent vs. Round Swamp Farm, 8:30, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.
Sunday, July 17
TRIATHLONING, Montauk Lighthouse Sprint, half-mile swim, 14-mile bike, and 5K trail run, East Lake Drive, 7 a.m.
June 5, 1986
In an extremely eventful week for the East Hampton High School boys tennis team, the Bonackers clinched the first outright League Seven championship the school has ever enjoyed with a 6-1 victory over Mercy here on May 27; dominated the Conference Four tournament, which ended with all-East Hampton finals in singles and doubles, and on Tuesday defeated Commack South 5-2 in the first round of the Suffolk County team tournament.
Thursday, July 7
WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH, Men at Work vs. P.B.A., 6:45 p.m., and Bostwick’s vs. Groundworks, 8, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.
Friday, July 8
MEN’S SLOW-PITCH, Schenck Fuels vs. Round Swamp Farm, 7:30 p.m., and Stephen Hand’s Equipment vs. Uihlein’s, 8:30, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.
Sunday, July 10
TRIATHLONING, Mighty North Fork, 500-meter swim, 8-mile bike, and 3.5-mile run, Cedar Beach, Southold, 6:50 a.m.
Monday, July 11
The following were the spring teams’ most valuable players at East Hampton High School — Dylan Carroza, baseball; Brendan Damm, boys lacrosse; Allison Charde, girls lacrosse; Kathryn Hess, softball; Milton Farez, boys tennis; Ashley West, girls track, and Taylor Harned, boys track.
First, a correction: It was Avery Balnis who was the Force’s winning pitcher in a two-game sweep of the Sunbirds in the Little League softball “world series,” not Avery Fenelon, as was mistakenly reported last week.
As for the boys, East Hampton’s 11-and-12-year-old all-star team was to have begun the District 36 playoffs here with Westhampton Beach Tuesday. The young Bonackers are to play today as well, at 5:45 p.m., though as of press time the site was not known.
Thursday, June 30
LITTLE LEAGUE, East Hampton all-stars vs. team to be determined, site to be determined, 5:45 p.m.
WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH, Men at Work vs. Bostwick’s, 6:45 p.m., and Police Benevolent Association vs. Grazina Orthodontics, 8, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.
Saturday, July 2
SWIMMING, Swim Across America’s Hamptons Open-Water Swim, Fresh Pond Beach, Fresh Pond Road, Amagansett, 7 a.m.
LITTLE LEAGUE, District 36 double-elimination tournament continues, teams and sites yet to be determined, 10 a.m.
Shelter Island 10K
Joan Benoit Samuelson, Bill Rodgers, Kim Jones, and Jon Sinclair are expected to return to Shelter Island Saturday for the 32nd Shelter Island 10K, which is to start in front of the high school at 5:30 p.m.
Last year, the Ethiopian-born Alene Reta ran the 6.2-mile road course in a record-breaking 28 minutes and 40 seconds, besting the mark he set there in 2007 by one second, and winning $3,000 all told. Anzhelika Averkova’s 34:49 in the women’s masters division was also a record.
May 1, 1986
Greg Schiavoni, Pierson High School’s junior right-hander, set a school strikeout record in Pierson’s 9-1 victory over Shelter Island on Monday. Schiavoni, who gave up three hits, struck out 16, eclipsing the former record of 15 jointly held by Ricky Kraft and Bob DePetris.
May 15, 1986
Memorial Triathlon
The Robert J. Aaron Memorial Triathlon, which benefits the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, the Montauk Senior Nutrition Center, the East Hampton Police Benevolent Association, and the Montauk ambulance squad, will be contested in Montauk Saturday. The one-mile swim in Lake Montauk is to begin at 7:30 a.m. The bicycle leg is 22 miles, and the run is 6.2. The staging area is at the intersection of West Lake and Star Island Drives.
Annette MacNiven of Wainscott recently placed third in her 50-to-54-year-old age group, and thus was one of seven Americans to ...
Softball Summary
The East Hampton High School softball team lost a first-round playoff game at Kings Park last Thursday as Lindsay Taylor, who recently broke Jessie Stavola’s career strikeout record (though Stavola took four years to amass her total, while it took Taylor five), struck out 13 during the course of a 7-0 one-hitter.
Casey Waleko, who gave up a two-run homer in a four-run fourth inning and a homer in a three-run fifth, was the losing pitcher. Sam Mathews finished up.
Diane O’Donnell, who coaches East Hampton High School’s girls track team, expects to take Ashley West, a versatile junior runner, and Lena Vergnes, a sophomore racewalker who is closing in on Kathy Piacentine’s record in that event, to the state qualifier meet that’s to be held tomorrow and Saturday at Port Jefferson High School.
“Lena was our sole scorer in the division meet,” O’Donnell reported Friday, “placing fourth over all in 7:45.09.”
Ross Tennis Champs
Henry Lee and Felipe Reis of the Ross School won the Suffolk County boys doubles championship at Smithtown East High School Friday, upsetting the tourney’s top seeds, Chris Hunter and Eric Bertuglia of Half Hollow Hills East 1-6,7-6, 7-5. Ross now has three county champions — Lee and Reis, and Nadia Smergut, who won the county’s girls singles title last fall.
Thursday, May 26
SOFTBALL, county tournament, first round, East Hampton at Kings Park, 4 p.m.
BOYS TENNIS, county tournament, quarterfinal round matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.
BASEBALL, Pierson-Port Jefferson winner at McGann-Mercy, Riverhead, 4 p.m.
Friday, May 27
BOYS TENNIS, county tournament, semifinal round matches, sites of higher seeds, 4 p.m.
SOFTBALL, county tournament, Class C bracket, final best-of-three series begins, Pierson at Port Jefferson, 4 p.m.
Ross Tennis
The Ross School, which has been seeded second, behind defending-champion Half Hollow Hills East, in Suffolk’s boys tennis team tournament, is to play a home match with the Northport-Longwood winner tomorrow at 4 p.m. The winner of tomorrow’s match is to play, again at the site of the higher seed, on Monday, also at 4. Tuesday’s semifinals are to be played at the sites of the higher seeds as well. The final is set for Wednesday at 4 at Smithtown East High School.
Walk-Off Hit Leads Team Into PlayoffsMaykell Guzman was the winning pitcher and drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to help the Bonackers clinch their first baseball playoff berth in four seasons.
Thursday, May 19
BASEBALL, East Hampton at Miller Place, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, May 20
BOYS TENNIS, first round, county team tournament, Northport-Longwood winner at Ross, 4 p.m.
Saturday, May 21
RUGBY, Montauk Rugby Club Family Day, with junior clinic, barbecue, and friendly game with Connecticut Yankees, East Hampton High School, from 10 a.m.
BASEBALL, county tournament, Class A playoffs, ninth seed at eighth seed, 11 a.m.
Graham’s 800
Mike Graham now tops the 800-series list at East Hampton Bowl. The former all-state bowler recently put together 300, 259, and 257 games for L.W. Winslow Painting in the Tuesday night businessmen’s league to achieve the feat. Graham is the only one at the Bowl who has rolled two 800-plus series. It was his fifth 300, though he’s got a ways to go to catch his father, Steve, who has 11 perfect games to his credit.
T-Ball to Start
Thursday, May 12
BASEBALL, Amityville at East Hampton, preceded by field dedication, 4:30 p.m.
GIRLS LACROSSE, Kings Park at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL, Elwood-John Glenn at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, May 13
BOYS TRACK, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point invitational, 4 p.m.
BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Center Moriches, 4:30 p.m.
BASEBALL, Smithtown Christian vs. Pierson-Bridgehampton, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 14
Jim Kinnier, who coaches the combined Ross-Pierson boys and girls track teams, a program now in its fourth year, said during a recent conversation that...
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Thursday, May 5
SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Shoreham-Wading River, 4:30 p.m.
BASEBALL, East Hampton at Rocky Point, 4:30 p.m.
TRACK, Ross-Pierson boys and girls at McGann-Mercy, Riverhead, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, May 6
GIRLS LACROSSE, Westhampton Beach at East Hampton, nonleague, 4:15 p.m.
BOYS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Southampton, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 7
GIRLS TRACK, East Hampton at Hampton Bays invitational, 9 a.m.
Sunday, May 8
Thursday, April 28
BASEBALL, Sayville at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.
GIRLS TRACK, Sayville at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, April 29
BOYS TENNIS, Southampton at Ross, 4:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL, Pierson-Bridgehampton at Mattituck, 4:30 p.m.
BASEBALL, Pierson-Bridgehampton at McGann-Mercy, Riverhead, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 30
BOYS TRACK, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach invitational, 8:30 a.m.
TENNIS, Junior clinic with Patrick McEnroe, Ross School, 9 a.m.
The Deer Park Falcons came into East Hampton riding high last Thursday, boasting an undefeated record in League V and undoubtedly buoyed by the fact that Newsday...
Ruggers Win Again
The Montauk Rugby Club, with the addition of Conner Miller, who, according to Charlie Collins, “looked like he’d been playing for years,” defeated Hudson Valley 24-15 on Saturday.
The game also featured the first tries to be scored by Brian Anderson and Scott Abran. Jarrel Walker, a former professional arena football player, was the man of the match because of his “tenacious defense and overpowering physical play.”