Sports

Thursday, August 18

SWIMMING, showing of “Raiders Of The Lost Ark,” benefit East Hampton Y.M.C.A. RECenter Hurricanes swim team, Havens Beach, Sag Harbor, 6 p.m.

SLOW-PITCH, playoffs, game three of women’s final, if necessary, 7 p.m., and game five of men’s final, if necessary, time to be announced, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.

Saturday, August 20

BENEFIT SOFTBALL, Travis Field tournament, quarterfinal round games from 8:30 a.m., home run derby final, 11, tournament final, 7:45 p.m.

    It may be summer here, but it’s winter in New Zealand, a country to which Joe Mensch, whose father, Mark, is a former East Hampton High School assistant football coach and trainer, headed this week for a month of professional snowboarding competition.

    The 19-year-old Mensch, who has his eye on the 2014 Olympics, said during a conversation at The Star the other day that American snowboarders were dominant in the sport, to which his father, now the athletic director at William Floyd High School, added, “but the Japanese are starting to catch up a little.”

Thursday, August 11

BENEFIT SOFTBALL, Travis Field memorial tournament begins, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett, from 5 p.m.

Friday, August 12

BENEFIT SOFTBALL, Travis Field memorial tournament, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett, from 5 p.m.

Saturday, August 13

SWIMMING, East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue Squad swims, Fresh Pond Park, Amagansett, 7 a.m.

BENEFIT SOFTBALL, Travis Field memorial tournament, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett, from 9 a.m.

Giant Steps 5K in Amaganset

Slow-Pitch Playoffs

    Bostwick’s, the pre-eminent team in the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball league, remained undefeated, at 10-0, as it notched two first-round playoff wins over the Police Benevolent Association this past week. The heavy hitters were Katie Osiecki, who had a home run and a triple in Bostwick’s 16-4 rout of the P.B.A. on July 26, Jeannie Bunce, Jeanie Berkoski, and Cathy Amicucci. Bunce tripled with the bases loaded in last Thursday’s victory.

Thursday, August 4

SLOW-PITCH, playoffs continue, either game three of Groundworks-Men At Work series, or game one of best-of-five final with Bostwick’s, 7 p.m., to be followed, at 8:30, by game three of Uihlein’s-Round Swamp Farm series or game one of semifinal series with Schenck Fuels, Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.

Friday, August 5

POLO, Certified vs. White Birch, Two Trees Stables, Hayground Road, Bridgehampton, 5 p.m.

Lifeguard Tourney

    Smith Point, as is often the case, won East Hampton’s invitational lifeguard tournament at Main Beach last Thursday, followed by Fire Island, Quantuck Beach Club, the East Hampton Town “A” team, the Southampton Town A’s, Cupsogue, the East Hampton Village A’s, the East Hampton Town B’s, the Southampton Town B’s, and the East Hampton Village B’s.

Thursday, July 28

WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH, playoffs, games at 6:45 and 8 p.m., Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.

Friday, July 29

MEN’S SLOW-PITCH, regular-season-ending games, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., Terry King ball field, Abraham’s Path, Amagansett.

Saturday, July 30

LIFEGUARDING, junior lifeguard tournament, Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett, from 8:30 a.m., also Sunday.

LACROSSE, Long Island Shoot-Out, Greenport High School, also Sunday, from 9 a.m.

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.

    With 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.

Maykell 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.