BASEBALL
Whalers Sweep To the Final
By Jack Graves
The Hampton Whalers, who made their Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League debut this summer, starting off at 0-6, reached the league’s championship game by sweeping the Kaiser Division’s pennant winner, the Metro New York Cadets, in a best-of-three semifinal series on Aug. 4 and Aug. 5.

BASEBALL
Kutztown Wins Championship
By Timothy Small
It would have been the ultimate finish: winning the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League championship in their debut season on the home field of a Pennsylvania powerhouse trying to three-peat. That after spending most of the summer in last place and needing every one of their 19 wins to steal a spot in the playoffs.

The Field Memorial Tourney Was a Hit
‘Everybody felt Travis was there,’ his mother said
By Jack Graves
This past weekend’s coed softball tournament here in memory of Travis Field, in terms of participation and money raised for scholarships in his name, “exceeded our wildest expectations,” said Alison Anderson, whose son, Brian, was one of five of Field’s friends who put the tournament on.

Artists and Writers Softball Game’s 60th Anniversary
By Jack Graves
Leif Hope was found at his accustomed table at the Fairway restaurant in Sagaponack Friday, and, when asked for his Artists and Writers Softball Game prediction, said, “My prediction is that the Writers will agonize and maybe win, and that the Artists will have fun: If we win, that would be fine, but if we lose, we’re used to losing. . . . In the last 10 years, the Writers have won seven times.”

This Time Byrnes Led Wire to Wire
By Jack Graves
Laura Byrnes, 22, of East Hampton, a junior college all-American when she went to the New York State College at Morrisville, won Sunday’s two-miler put on by the Old Montauk Athletic Club and the Amagansett Historical Society in a nice time of 11 minutes and 58 seconds, a 5:59-per-mile pace.

Yachtsmen Finish Respectably In J/109 N.A. Championships
By Timothy Small
Six South Fork residents competed in the New York Yacht Club’s J/109 North American championship in Newport, R.I., two weeks ago. Steve Kenny and Greg Ames of Wainscott teamed up to place second over all, and Donald Filippelli of Amagansett captained a family crew to take third.