Thursday, June 27

GOLF, U.S. Women’s Open, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, from 6:45 a.m.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL, opening night with informal play, Gurney’s Inn, Montauk, 6 p.m.

Friday, June 28

GOLF, U.S. Women’s Open, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, from 6:45 a.m.

Saturday, June 29

GOLF, U.S. Women’s Open, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, from 6:45 a.m.

RUNNING, Miracle Mile, Neighborhood Road, Mastic Beach, 9 a.m.

RIDING, Stony Hill Stables Foundation benefit cocktail party, with dressage exhibition and pony drill team performance, 268 Town Lane, Amagansett, 6-8 p.m.

Sunday, June 30

GOLF, U.S. Women’s Open, final round, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, from 6:45 a.m.

Wednesday, July 3

MEN’S SOCCER,  7-on-7 league, Maidstone Market vs. the Hideaway, 6:30 p.m.; F.C. Tuxpan vs. Hampton F.C.-Bill Miller, 7:25, and Tortorella Pools vs. Bateman Painting, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

Friday, June 14

SOCCER, East Hampton High School alumni game, high school’s turf field, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 15

SHELTER ISLAND 10K, with Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Dick Beardsley, Shelter Island High School, 5:30 p.m.

TURBO-TRI, 300-yard bay swim, 7-mile bike, and 1.5-mile run for competitors 17-and-up, benefit I-Tri program to empower adolescent girls, Maidstone Park, 6 p.m., with party to follow at the Maidstone Park pavilion.

Sunday, June 16

PADDLEBOARDING, Main Beach Surf & Sport’s 6-mile race from Beach Lane, Wainscott,  to Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett, benefit Paddlers 4 Humanity, 9 a.m. start, registration at Main Beach Surf & Sport from 7:30.

Wednesday, June 19

MEN’S SOCCER, The Hideaway vs. Bateman Painting, 6:30 p.m.; Bill Miller vs. Tortorella Pools, 7:25, and Maidstone Market vs. F.C. Tuxpan, 8:30, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

   Melissa Edwards, who coaches Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School’s softball team, thought when the season began that this would be a rebuilding year, but, lo, her overachievers proved her wrong, to her delight.

    The Whalers, whose anchors are Kasey Gilbride, the line-drive hitting shortstop, and Samma Duchemin, the pitcher, clinched the county Class C championship at home last Thursday by defeating their perennial rival, Port Jefferson, 6-3.

    Port Jeff had won game one of the best-of-three championship series, but that proved to be a blip inasmuch as the Whalers, who had defeated the Royals 7-0 and 8-4 during the regular season, won the last two contests decisively, and this despite the fact the team’s starting catcher — and second-best player — Emma Romeo had been sidelined by an illness.

    In the finale, the visitors tested Romeo’s backup, Julia Schiavoni, but she proved up to the task, as did Edwards’s all-eighth-grade outfield of Isabel Peters, Cali Cafiero, and Alyssa Kneeland. Lottie Evans, the first baseman, is also an eighth grader.

    Offensively, Gilbride, who went 3-for-3, was the star, driving in two runs with scorching doubles in the first and fourth innings. She also laced a hard single in the second.

    Asked later if she knew what her batting average was, Gilbride, whose mechanics are picture perfect — or at least they were that day — demurred. “I’d guess .875,” said her questioner.

    Duchemin retired the visitors in order to get the game, which drew a large crowd — including Pierson’s baseball team, which had won a county championship the day before — going.

    A one-out error by Port Jeff’s second baseman enabled Sabrina Baum to reach first base safely in the bottom half, after which Gilbride, who hits third in the lineup, lined a run-scoring double into the gap in left-center. Duchemin promptly drove in Gilbride with a base hit, and, after Julia Schiavoni grounded out second-to-first, Meg Schiavoni drove in Duchemin, who had been on second, with a single. Peters grounded out pitcher-to-first to end the inning, but the Whalers were up 3-0.

    Morgan Sakovich doubled to lead off Port Jeff’s second at-bat, but a subsequent popout and two groundouts stranded her at second.

    Pierson made it 4-0 in the bottom half of the inning. Kneeland led it off with a double and went to third on an overthrow. After Cafiero struck out, Evans drove in Kneeland with a single. Baum forced her at second, the inning’s second out, but Gilbride kept the inning alive by singling over third, after which she drew an errant pickoff throw that enabled Baum to go to third and Gilbride to move up to second. They were stranded there, however, as Duchemin fanned.

    With things going smoothly, it seemed the right time to ask when and where the Whalers would play next should they win. Wednesday was the reply, though where the regional final would be played and against whom was not known yet.

    The Royals may have been listening, for they rallied for three runs in their third, effectively erasing any forgone conclusions.

    Two bunt singles and a sacrifice bunt put Port Jeff runners at second and third with one out, and a subsequent hit drove them in. One out later, a pop single to shallow right plated the Royals’ third run, after which Duchemin gave up a walk. With runners at the corners, a soft lineout to Gilbride stopped the bleeding.

    Pierson plated two insurance runs in its fourth. Peters led off with a single, and went to second on a 5-3 groundout. Cafiero popped out to second for out number two, but Evans reached safely by way of an infield single that scored Peters, after which Gilbride came through again, roping a double into the outfield that scored Peters with Pierson’s sixth — and what proved to be final — run. Duchemin’s popout to second ended the frame.

    The visitors had a runner at second base with one out in the top of the fifth, but didn’t score. Duchemin and her teammates set the Royals down in order in the sixth and seventh to seal the victory, one that, apparently because of their earlier success with Port Jeff, didn’t end with a pile-on at the mound.

    Because there are no Class C softball teams in Nassau, a Long Island championship game was rendered moot.

    Edwards’s charges were to have played yesterday — either in West­chester or in upper Westchester, according to Section XI’s softball chairman, Jim Wright — in a state regional final. A win in that game would have advanced them — for the second year in a row — to the Final Four, in Queensbury, outside of Glens Falls.

   “We’ve given out seven or eight scholarships now,” Maureen Bluedorn said, with a smile, the other day at the well-appointed Stony Hill Stables in Amagansett, as the most recent recipient, Georgia Bunce, 8, with her mother, Megan, looking on, prepared to saddle up for a lesson in the pony ring.

    Bluedorn was referring to the year-old Stony Hill Stables Foundation’s laudable effort to extend the joy and challenging demands of equestrian sport to more and more youngsters here.

    Asked if her husband, Kevin, approved of Georgia’s path, Meg Bunce said, “He’s over the moon. He’s glad she’ll be riding rather than playing rugby.”

    Stony Hill’s young riders — not to mention its owner, Wick Hotchkiss, who was awarded a gold medal by the United States Dressage Federation this past winter in Wellington, Fla., attesting to her mastery of equestrian sport’s most demanding discipline — continue to impress.

    Aisha Ali, the stables’ chief trainer, said that in March, for the first time, Stony Hill was represented by five young riders — Oliver Ritter, 13, Lara Lowlicht, 11, Lily Ezrow, 11, Johanna Zwirner, 15, and Laura Conner, 14 — at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington.

    Katarina Ammann, an 8-year-old who became the barn’s first double Long Island Winner’s Circle champion last fall — and about whom The Star wrote last January — didn’t make the trip, “though she’s going to go next year,” said Ali.

    “Everyone won ribbons,” she reported. “Three won first places and one [Ritter] won a grand championship. . . . The Hampton Classic is nothing compared to Wellington, where there are four months of world-class competition.”

    The five young riders were in their trainer’s care during their three-week stay. “We were always together. We stayed together in a house, and I did the cooking, though it was no culinary adventure! Mostly mac and cheese. We drove around in a golf cart, we went to the movies together . . . I was super proud of them. They were making history. They were at one of the biggest horse shows in the world and there was no stage fright — their confidence level was high, there were tears of joy, they loved it so much.”

    “There were grands prix every week with United States Olympic and international riders,” she continued. “Yes, McClain Ward was there . . . Oliver beat one of his students in a jumper division, finishing second among 27 entries, and was grand champion in a hunter division for riders 13 and up. It was a huge win.”

    Lowlicht, an East Hampton Middle School sixth grader who last summer became the first recipient of a Stony Hill Stables Foundation scholarship, finished in the ribbons at Wellington despite the fact she had to ride a borrowed pony (as she had to do at the Classic last August).

    When a visitor said he hoped she had better luck next time, Lara said, with equanimity, “When you work seven days a week, you don’t need much luck.”

    Lara’s skill has not gone unnoticed. “She’s been given a show pony to ride for a year by Olivia Golden, from whom we lease a lot of our ponies,” said Ali. “We didn’t ask her — she volunteered after seeing Lara ride in a video.”

    So, yes, the word of Stony Hill’s successes was getting around, the trainer said. “We’ve got a waiting list to board here. That’s a first. Our pony camp is almost completely full, we’ve had to hire new trainers, our new larger-than-competition-size arena, with its rubber mix competition-grade footing, opens this week. . . . It’s a game-changer. We’ll have some buff horses, you can be sure. They’ll be getting a lot of mileage in that ring.”

    Despite its recent strides, however, Stony Hill, Ali said, “hasn’t changed. Wick’s philosophy has always been to keep the doors open, to make riding fun.”

    The foundation, which Wick Hotch­kiss founded, is to hold its second fund-raising cocktail party — along with a dressage exhibition and pony drill team performance — there, at 268 Town Lane, on June 29 from 6 to 8 p.m.

    The invitation says the foundation offers “full scholarship equestrian training, including the lease and boarding of a horse, to local residents. Its goal is to promote equine sports, riding education, good sportsmanship, and to provide children and adults a healthy, life-enhancing experience.”

Turbo Tri

    A triathlon for competitors 17 and up comprising a 300-yard Gardiner’s Bay swim, a 7-mile bike leg, and a one-and-one-half-mile run is to be held at Maidstone Park in Springs on Saturday at 6 p.m.

    The race, over the same course that younger triathletes are to traverse next month, is a fund-raiser for the growing I-Tri program, which is designed, according to I-Tri’s founder, Theresa Roden, to empower adolescent girls. “Transformation Through Triathlon” is the program’s motto.

    Would-be participants (either individuals or teams) can register online at itrigirls.org/turbo-tri. A celebration with dinner, drinks, and music is to be held afterward at the Maidstone Park pavilion.

Steeplechaser

    Erik Engstrom, an East Hampton High School freshman, finished 12th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase race at the county’s recent state qualifier. Chris Reich, Bonac’s coach, said, “Erik was the only freshman in the race, and bettered his seeding by five places. I have a lot of faith that he will be a future state qualifier for sure. Only the top two go on to the states.”

    Adam Cebulski, another Bonac distance runner, wound up 21st among the county’s Class A runners in the 3,200, and 19th in the 1,600. Keaton Crozier’s triple jump of 39 feet 5 inches placed him 20th among Class A competitors in that event.

    “Thus concludes our best season yet,” said Reich. “Luis [Morales, Reich’s assistant] and I couldn’t be prouder of our guys, who finished fourth in league competition, with our first two wins in three years. We look forward to continuing on from here.”

School Records

    Shani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls track teams, said at the awards dinner on June 5 that Dana Cebulski had broken three school records in the spring season and four in the winter season.

    Her 11:42.1 is the standard now in the 3,000-meter run. She also set new marks of 4:56.55 in the 1,500 and 2:21.34 in the 800. The former record holders in those events were Brooke Tortorella, Jessie vanBinsbergen, and Ashley West.

    In the winter, Cebulski set records in the 1,000 with a time of 3:08.92, and in the 1,500, with a time of 5:00.2. She was a record-setter, as well, as a member of the 4-by-800 (10:50.02) and 4-by-400 (4:47.1) relay teams.

Softballers

    Lou Reale, East Hampton High’s softball coach, announced this week that Ali Harned, the team’s sophomore shortstop, had been named to the all-county team, that Casey Waleko, the pitcher, and her fellow junior, Ellie Cassel, had been named to the all-conference team, and that he had named Kaylie Titus, Willa Johann, Devin O’Brien, Caity O’Brien, Jessie Stavola, Nicole Fierro, and Kristen Carroza to East Hampton’s softball Hall of Fame.

Kyle McGowin

    Kyle McGowin, a Sag Harborite who pitched Savannah State to its first appearance in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I tournament, was drafted in the fifth round Friday by the Los Angeles Angels. The former Whaler finished the season with a 12-2 record and a 2.02 earned run average. He set a single-season record with 135 strikeouts in 120.1 innings.

    The 6-foot-3-inch, 180-pound right-hander, the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference’s pitcher of the year, is among 10 semifinalists vying for the College Baseball Hall of Fame’s national pitcher of the year award. The winner is to be announced in Lubbock, Tex., on June 29.

   The Yellow Slugs were anything but sluggish as they defeated the favored Oilers 6-3 in the spring adult roller hockey final at the Sportime Arena on June 4.

    And they did it despite conceding the Oilers four power plays, three of which resulted from penalties assessed the Slugs’ slick and quick forward Neil Powell.

    The game provided an interesting matchup inasmuch as Tommy Powell, Neil’s brother, was in the goal for the Oilers. Neil got the better of Tommy on two occasions in the first half, with Matt Brierley adding another for a 3-0 halftime lead.

    But Tyler Jarvis, the Oilers’ star, could not be denied: His hat trick in the second half pulled his team even with 4 minutes and 48 seconds left to play.

    It was all Slugs after that, however. Brierley made it 4-3 off a give-and-go with P.J. Beckwith, and with 3:15 left on the clock, John Amicucci, assisted by Powell’s perfect pass, made it 5-3. With 2:29 remaining, Powell delivered the coup de grace as he beat his brother for the third time that night.

    Besides Powell, Brierley, Amicucci, and Beckwith, the other Slugs were Marc Lowlicht, Mike McLoughlin, Justin Agnello, Dan D’Albora, and Dodge, the goalie.

    The Oilers’ lineup, besides Jarvis, included Mike Murphy, James Keogh, Ray Curtin, Dan Cebulski, Barney Sloan, Joe Barbaria, and Justin Leland.

    The Penguins easily defeated the Heat 5-2 in the consolation game. Michael Glass scored four of the Penguins’ goals. Chris Rydberg had the other. Robby Greene, the Heat’s goalie, made 52 saves. Kyle Mannix, the Penguins’ keeper, was credited with 22. Rob Jahoda and Jim Lagarenne scored for the Heat.

    In other Sportime news, Sportime’s women’s indoor soccer (futsal) team capped an undefeated season by defeating Los Andesitas 2-1 in the spring final Sunday. Anna Strong broke the ice with a first-half goal, adding to her league-leading mark. An own goal off a Sportime defender evened it up in the second half, but a goal by Lisa Frisicano, the tournament’s most valuable player, clinched the championship for Sportime with five minutes left in regulation.

    Sportime has a number of programs lined up for the summer. Basketball leagues for 18-and-up players are to begin June 24. Games are to be played Monday nights at 8 and 9. Sportime, according to its manager, Mike Ritsi, will provide referees, team jerseys, and prizes. The fee is $150 per player.

    A youth roller hockey league for 5-through-10-year-olds is to begin July 9. Games are to be played Tuesday evenings, beginning at 6. Sportime will provide refs, jerseys, and prizes. The player fee is $150. A free youth hockey session will be held Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., said Ritsi.

    A junior volleyball clinic for boys and girls ages 11 to 17 is to begin July 8. The sessions will be held Mondays from 6 to 8 p.m. “Expert coaches will teach the fundamental techniques of passing, serving, setting, spiking, and defense,” Ritsi said. “The players will participate in position-specific drills, combination drills, and scrimmages. This is a great program for young players who aspire to play for their school teams or for older players who want to practice in the off-season.”

    The fee is $150 per player; $95 for those on Sportime’s Waves teams.

   Both of Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School’s Final Four state playoff teams lost in semifinal contests Saturday; the boys were edged 1-0 in a pitchers’ duel by Seton Catholic, a Binghamton area team, and the girls were shut out 7-0 by Frewsburg.

    Seton Catholic and Frewsburg went on to win the state Class C championships, in baseball and softball.

    The 1-0 loss was the first in two years for Pierson’s senior left-hander, Colman Vila, who during that span went 19-1. He threw a no-hitter against Friends Academy on June 4 as Pierson won the Long Island Class C championship and was credited with a save the next day as the Whalers, with Jake Bennett pitching most of the way, downed Haldane 5-4 in a regional final.

    Although pitching on short rest, Vila, who’s to attend the University of Delaware in the fall, went the whole way Saturday, at Broome Community College in Binghamton, giving up five hits, walking one, and striking out eight. Seton Catholic’s run was unearned.

    His opposite number, Michael Korchak, was a tad more effective, shutting out the Whalers, who had four hits, received one walk, and struck out 12 times.

    Nevertheless, according to The Sag Harbor Express’s Gavin Menu, who made the trip upstate, “Pierson had base runners in the second, the fourth, the fifth, and seventh innings.”

    “Forrest Loesch doubled in the second, but was stranded as Korchak, who is a lefty like Colman, struck out the next two batters. Colman had an infield single in the fourth, but got no farther. Joe Faraguna, the designated hitter, singled in the fifth . . . we didn’t do anything in the sixth, but in the seventh, Loesch reached first base safely on an error, but then Korchak struck out Jake Bennett and got Faraguna to ground out.”

    Pierson’s coach, Jon Tortorella, was quoted as saying in Newsday’s account that Korchak, who mixed fastballs with off-speed pitches, kept his hitters off-balance all day. “He was amazing,” said Tortorella, adding that “I couldn’t be more proud of Colman — he wasn’t as rested as he usually is . . . I couldn’t be more proud of him. He put us in this spot.”

    Menu said Seton Catholic’s run came in the third. “Joe Wasko, their center fielder, hit a two-out line drive to right that got by Jake Bennett, who had pulled up after charging in to make the catch. The ball skipped by him, and went all the way to the wall as Wasko went on to third. It was called a triple, but it was more like a single and an error. The next guy hit an awkward little bloop between first and second, which bounced off Kyle Sturmann’s glove, and the run came in.”

    “They were very disappointed,” Menu said when asked how the Whalers had reacted to the loss.

    However, most of the team, with the exception of Vila, Bennett, and Faraguna, will be back next year.

    And that was the good news for Pierson’s softball team too. Following its 7-0 loss at Queensbury to Frewsburg, Caitlin Daniels, who’s been assisting Melissa Edwards in coaching the team, said, “We had four eighth-grade starters this year, we’ve got five freshmen, three sophomores, two juniors [the team’s stalwarts, Kasey Gilbride, the hard-hitting shortstop, and Samma Duchemin, the pitcher], and only one senior [Julia Schiavoni]. The other team had eight or nine seniors. So, we’ll be back.”

    It was also a consolation to know that Saturday marked the first time Pierson’s baseball and softball teams were competing together in state Final Fours.

    A 21-year-old native of New Zealand, Michael Poole, won Saturday’s 31st Montauk triathlon in 1 hour, 47 minutes, and 54 seconds, a record.

    Poole was 11th out of the water, in 21:13, though only two seconds separated him from the eventual runner-up, Tom Eickelberg, who was the first to emerge from the brisk and choppy one-mile Lake Montauk swim.

    Poole, who, according to his wife, Hayley, a fellow Aucklander, prefers the shorter non-drafting races, blew Eickelberg and everyone else away on the bike, coming into the transition area from the 22-mile leg in 46:42 minutes, a blistering average of 28.26 miles per hour.

    His 37:31 time for the hilly 10K run was also the day’s fastest.

    A junior chemical engineering major at the University of South Florida, the quiet-spoken Poole came to the race with Bob McKeown’s South Shore Tri Coach group, which is based in Babylon. After crossing the finish line a full five minutes behind Poole, Eickelberg, a pro who works at Mike Monastero’s Babylon Bike Shop, and who is the two-time defending Montauk sprint triathlon champion, said, “I was the fastest loser. He was the better man today, very rock ’n’ roll. . . . He caught me three or four miles out. It was like I was riding a bike and he was riding a motorcycle.”

    Eickelberg works with Ryan Siebert, 21, of Patchogue, who won here last year. But Siebert could not defend because of a leg injury. “Frankly, I didn’t think I’d have any competition,” said the somewhat dejected Eickelberg. “I’ll have to prepare for next year.”

    Another story that day was the third-place finish of 52-year-old Eben Jones, who has won this race nine times, his last championship coming in 2002. Obviously pleased with his 1:55:11.4 time — he was one of eight competitors to break two hours — the New Canaanite, who is the father of four, said, “I’m in shape this year — I wasn’t last year, though I came because Merle [McDonald-Aaron, the race director] asked me to, to celebrate the 30th anniversary. . . . I’m going to do an Ironman in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, soon. It’s a national race, and I intend to beat the guy who beat me in my age group at Hawaii two years ago.”

    Though he bemoaned the fact that he had “old legs,” Jones nevertheless did the run in 40:40, at a swift 6:30-per-mile pace.

    Asked if his children — two boys, two girls — were athletic, he said with a smile, “They all are, though the most athletic is the least competitive, and the least athletic is the most competitive.”

    The women’s winner, in the absence of Laurel Wassner, the defending champion, who won this race outright in 2011, in 1:53:25.3, was Ali Crum, 29, of New York City, in 2:07:24.1. She was 23rd over all.

    “I love the course,” said the first-timer, who was the women’s winner in the Olympic-distance triathlon in Montauk last fall.

    “It’s her first triathlon win,” said Crum’s husband, Ryan Johnson, who’s also 29. “She’s getting better and better. . . . We train every day together.” While she beat him in last fall’s race here, on Saturday he edged her, finishing 18th, in 2:03:46.8.

    Katie Bottini, 26, of Wilton, Conn., was the women’s runner-up — and 29th over all — in 2:11:11.0. The third-place woman was Nadine Moors, 35, of Shirley, who was 31st over all, in 2:13:35.5.

    Erin Tintle, 41, of East Hampton, won the women’s 40-to-44-year-old division. She was 127th over all, in 2:32:12.4. David Pitches, 67, of Montauk, was second in the men’s 65-69 division, in 3:02:26.8, and Dan Roberts, 40, of East Hampton, was third among the 40-44-year-old men in 2:10:45.6.

    Among the other locals who competed that day were Doug Milano, an East Hampton Middle School teacher, who was eighth in the men’s 25-29 division in 2:15:41.3; David Sherwood, 44, of Sag Harbor, whose time was 2:40:41.4; Kevin Fee, 45, of Montauk, whose time was 2:42:41.7; Tim Treadwell, 47, of Amagansett, whose time was 2:44:35.2, and Brian Pfund, 20, of Montauk, whose time was 2:57:40.7.

    McDonald-Aaron said, “Everything was fine . . . there were no bad accidents. They [the Ocean Rescue Squad] pulled one swimmer out of the water, but he wasn’t transported to the hospital — he was fine. . . . With all the rain the day before, I was so stressed out and getting a lot of calls with crazy questions, but the weather cooperated nicely on race day.”

    The beneficiaries of the triathlon, which is named for its founder, the late Robert Aaron, are the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, the Montauk Senior Citizen Nutrition Center, the East Hampton Town Police Benevolent Association, the Montauk ambulance squad, Phoenix House, and the St. Therese of Lisieux youth ministry.

   Jim Nicoletti, who heads East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame committee, announced the selection of the Hall’s second class at the athletic awards dinner on June 5 — a group that comprises 11 individual honorees, two coaches, and two championship teams.

    The designees are to be formally inducted on homecoming day, Saturday, Oct. 12, at a ceremony following a breakfast in the high school’s cafeteria.

    The athletes cited are John Gilmartin of the class of 1932; Mark Ryan Jr. of the class of ’35; Harry O’Rourke of the class of ’49; William Myrick of the class of ’68; Tony Gilliam of the class of ’78; Sandy Fleischman Richman of the class of ’79; Kim Hren of the class of ’85; Eric Kaufman of the class of ’87; Melanie Anderson of the class of ’97; Lara DeSanti Siska of the class of ’98, and Mylan Le, also of the class of ’98.

    The coaches named to the Hall of Fame were Mike Burns and Richard Cooney Sr., “the one who really was responsible for extending the sports program here to what it is now,” according to Nicoletti.

    The teams taken into the Hall were the 1976-77 Southeast Regional championship boys basketball team — effectively a state champion, for teams could advance no further than regional competition then — and the undefeated, once-tied 1965 football team that, according to Nicoletti, “had the greatest number of standout athletes on its 31-man roster than any team in East Hampton’s history. . . . They also won championships in baseball, wrestling, and basketball.”

    To come under consideration for Hall of Fame selection athletes must be at least 10 years out of high school. Nicoletti said later that of the 60 nominees 30 were put on the official ballot considered by the 12-member selection committee, a list that was narrowed down to the above-mentioned 13.

    Fleischman Richman played five of her six years of varsity tennis on the boys team, at number-one singles in her sophomore and junior years. In her senior year she played on the girls team and won the New York State championship, defeating her semifinal and final opponents 6-0, 6-0. An elbow injury when she was at the University of North Carolina prevented her from pursuing a professional career.

    John Gilmartin, a triple-threat fullback on East Hampton’s 1932 team, was described by Norton (Bucket) Daniels in a 75th football anniversary publication printed in 1998 as “unquestionably East Hampton’s finest fullback, in addition to being a fine passer and, without doubt, one of the best punters in school history. His long, high spiraled punts were something to behold. One in particular, with a slight breeze behind it, carried close to 80 yards.”

    A two-time all-Long Island nominee, Gilmartin won a football scholarship to Villanova.

    Mark (Junie) Ryan, an all-county halfback, was, according to Daniels, “one of East Hampton’s better open-field runners.” He was the right halfback on Frank (Sprig) Gardner’s 6-1 team of 1934, considered one of East Hampton’s best.

    “When Junie Ryan ran,” Daniels wrote, “he appeared to be galloping, with high-flying knees and vicious stiff-arms, which made it so difficult to bring him down.”

    O’Rourke was a four-year varsity player for Fran Kiernan, and led the county in scoring in his senior year.

    William Myrick was, in Nicoletti’s words, “a tremendous three-sport athlete who earned 11 varsity letters, in football, basketball, and baseball. Basketball was his first love, so he turned down a football scholarship to Syracuse so that he could play basketball at Stony Brook. He was that school’s first 1,000-point scorer.”

    Nicoletti added that Myrick won the Murray Hantz award given to the football team’s most valuable player “two years in a row.”

    In this writer’s account of the [Gary] Golden Years [1961-68] in the aforementioned 75th anniversary publication, Myrick’s 29-yard touchdown reception in the final minutes of the 1967 game clinched an 18-13 upset win over previously undefeated Southampton, a victory that brought the whole town out, according to Charlie Whitmore. “They were kissing and hugging the players. . . . East Hampton hadn’t beaten Southampton in 10 or so years.”

    Likewise, said Nicoletti, Tony Gilliam “was a tremendous three-sport athlete [football, basketball, and baseball] who twice led the conference in scoring in football and was a two-time all-conference player. He was all-county in baseball, and started at guard on the championship boys basketball team of ’76-77.”

    Kim Hren was all-county in three sports — softball, tennis, and volleyball — a rare achievement, and was an excellent Little League baseball player as well.

    Eric Kaufman was a county wrestling champion at 112 pounds — East Hampton’s sole county titlist in the sport — and was the state runner-up. At Cornell, he was Ivy League wrestling’s rookie of the year before ending his competitive career. At East Hampton, he compiled a 105-12-1 career record, and went 32-2-1 in his senior year.

    Melanie Anderson, a Paul Yuska award winner, earned 11 varsity letters, in field hockey, basketball, and softball. She was all-state in the latter sport, and played for Bloomsburg (Pa.) University in two Division II college world series. Lou Reale, her former coach, described her as “the best hitter I’ve ever seen.”

    Mylan Le, who was all-state in field hockey and softball, and who was all-conference in basketball, played with Anderson on Bloomsburg’s two world series softball teams.

    Lara DeSanti Siska played varsity field hockey and softball for four years here, and went on to play field hockey at Smith College.

    Richard Cooney, a former athletic director whose 30-year career at East Hampton included 16 years as its head football coach — the 1981 team won a county championship — is credited, as aforesaid, with having brought East Hampton High sports into the modern era. The high school’s fields are named for him.

    When Nicoletti announced at the awards dinner on June 5 that Mike Burns, also a former longtime teacher, coach, and athletic director — his boys track teams won nine league championships — had been named to the Hall of Fame, there was a resounding round of applause.

    Having put in 33 years at East Hampton High, where he also helped coach football and boys lacrosse, Burns, though retired, is back, helping his son-in-law, Steve Redlus, who recently took over as head football coach from Bill Barbour Jr., condition the players.

    The 1965 football team’s roster included Bill McDonald, a posthumous inductee last year, a high school all-American honorable mention who went on to be the captain at Vanderbilt, and the late Jim Miller, who went on to play semipro ball.

    Others on that team were Myrick, Ronald Gilliam, Ken Clark, Steve Cary, John Geehreng, Doug Strong, Dave Brown, Lyman Babcock, Robert Sucsy, W. King, Dennis Walker, Rick Lawler, Mike Frood, Robert Keller, Tom Keller, Ray Bimson, Milton George, Kent Metz, Roy Cary, Robert Peters, Ronald Webb, Gary Green, John Henry Albert, Jim Brooks, F.J. Kiernan, Marvin Collins, Richard Lia, J. Strong, and Charles DeSanti.

    The roster of the ’76-77 state-championship boys basketball team comprised Howard Wood (an inductee last year), Kenny Carter, Ed Petrie Jr., Tony Gilliam, Scott Rubenstein, Andy Fisher, Matthew Bennett, Anthony Allison, Jerome Jefferson, Randy Strong, and John Thompson.

   Ian Lynch, the Colgate-bound East Hampton High School senior and class valedictorian, made the all-state golf team as a result of his 15th-place finish in the state tournament played on Cornell University’s course last weekend.

   It was the first time that Lynch, who also was the recipient of Suffolk golf’s sportsmanship award, had made the all-state team.

   Claude Beudert, who has coached Lynch on East Hampton’s varsity since his seventh-grade year, said he shot rounds of 76 and 82 at Cornell “in trying conditions. There was a thunderstorm Sunday with torrential rain, and on Monday it was 60 degrees and the wind was blowing 25 miles per hour. . . . He’s had the greatest impact on our program of any player I’ve ever coached.”