The East Hampton High School boys soccer team repeated as the League VI champion here Saturday, routing Amityville, the only team that had beaten it during the regular season, by a score of 4-1.

    The visitors’ goal, by way of a penalty kick resulting from an inadvertent hands ball in the penalty box, came late in the game, long after everything had been decided.

    Rich King, East Hampton’s coach, told his charges afterward that it was the best team effort he’d witnessed in his four or five years of coaching. There had been great individual efforts during his tenure, he said, but never such a uniformly strong one.

    The players contested every ball, won the vast majority of those scrums, and persistently attacked throughout the entire 80 minutes.

    And this despite the fact that Donte Donegal, the team’s best header and one of its top scorers, began the game on the bench, one of several players who have suffered injuries lately, among them Christian Barrientos, a starter who sustained an ankle fracture during a 2-2 tie here with Shoreham-Wading River on Oct. 16.

    Donegal, who is dealing with a strained hip flexor, broke the ice, however, heading in a Nick West corner kick 12 minutes into the fray after having almost imperceptibly entered the game as East Hampton and Amityville were preparing for West’s chip across the goal mouth. As soon as he’d treated East Hampton to a 1-0 lead, the tall junior, limping slightly, made his way back to the sidelines, where he said a few minutes later that the ball had made its way to him off a defender’s foot.

    Esteban Valverde, a sophomore forward who is always a threat to score — as is his classmate West — made it 2-0 with five minutes left until the halftime break, converting a right-to-left cross from Bryan Ordonez. Ordonez, in turn, had gathered in a long pass from J.C. Barrientos, the hard-working senior center midfielder, who that day seemed to be everywhere.

    After the game was over, King especially praised the four or five players who in the past week have been called on to step up and have. One of those, Jonathan Chunchi, who had been on the junior varsity until Friday, banged a shot off the crossbar seven minutes into the second half.

    In the 57th minute, it looked as if Valverde, who’d received a pass from Ordonez, had made it 3-0, but the official nearest the play maintained that Valverde, who had cut in from the right, was offside, a ruling that King described as “godawful.”

    In the 63rd minute, however, Denis Espana, a defensive stalwart (along with Alex Serna, Alvaro Aguilar, and Lucas Escobar, among others) helped to make it 3-0, lofting a wind-aided free kick into the box from 50 yards out that Valverde head-flicked into the nets.

    Barrientos applied the coup de grace when, in the 69th minute, after receiving a pass from West, he juked the visitors’ goalie, Ronald Herrera, and tapped the ball over the line.

    Amityville’s lone goal, with seven minutes left to play, came as a result of a penalty kick by Ryan Doyle, a senior midfielder.

    Afterward, King said he and his assistant, Don McGovern, hoped to have Donegal healthy for the playoffs, which are to begin next Thursday. East Hampton, which was to have finished the regular season at Bayport-Blue Point on Tuesday, will be the second-seeded Class A team, behind Sayville, the coach said.

Golf Champs

    The following won championships recently at the Sag Harbor Golf Club: Tim Sweeney, men; Robin Corwith, women; Peter Donohue, senior men; Jean Thompson, senior women, and Ray Romano, first flight.

    In addition, Mark Weinhardt was the men’s low qualifier, and John Acquino and Liz Granitz were the president’s cup winners.

    The following were elected as officers for the 2013 season: Bill Rozzi, president; Marshall Garypie III, vice president, and Read Vail, secretary-treasurer. Ed Early, Mark Vaughn, Paul Bailey, and Claire Blodorn have been named as the board of governors.

Amigos Cup

    Frank Ackley recently represented the United States in the Amigos Cup tennis tournament in Palm Beach, Fla., winning two of the three matches he played against Mexican counterparts.

    Ackley, who at 63 was the eldest player on the U.S. team, capped a three-hour singles match on opening day by prevailing 10-8 in a super tiebreaker to defeat Mexico’s second-ranked senior player. The next day, after winning a singles match 6-3, 6-2, he and Bob Johnson, of Florida, lost 6-2, 5-7, 10-8 “to a couple of former Davis Cup guys.” Mexico went on to win the cup 28-27, though Ackley, who’s “always matched with younger players,” and who has played in the international tourney in three of the past four years, held his own. “Next year,” he said, “the matches will be played in Acapulco.”

Dock Race Redux

    George Watson, who owns the Dock restaurant in Montauk, said recently that Montauk’s senior nutrition center will benefit from a 3.4-mile road race from the post office to his restaurant on Sunday, Nov. 11. The race-walk is to begin at the post office at noon. A $20 donation will yield a T-shirt and free beer at the Dock, he added.

Thursday, November 1

BOYS SOCCER, first round county Class A tournament, Miller Place at East Hampton, 2:30 p.m.

Friday, November 2

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at League III championship meet, Hauppauge High School, 4:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL, first round Division IV tournament, East Hampton at Babylon, 7 p.m.

Saturday, November 3

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class B semifinal, East Hampton High School, 10 a.m.

Monday, November 5

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A semifinal, Eastport-Shoreham winner vs. East Hampton-Miller Place winner, site of higher seed, time to be announced.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Division II’s third seed vs. second seed, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, November 7

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class B final, St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue, 7 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Division II final, Bay Shore High School, 7 p.m.

Thursday, November 8

BOYS SOCCER, county Class A final, Dowling College, 4 p.m.

   Ryan Pilla, “The Car Doctor,” who operates out of his well-appointed shop on Scuttlehole Road, recently completed a Mazda trifecta, adding a New Jersey Motorsports Park lap record to speed records he had set this past Sports Car Club of America season at Lime Rock and Watkins Glen.

    There are two tracks at the Millville, N.J. site — the Lightning track and the Thunderbolt track. Pilla set his record on the way to winning the race, and the S.C.C.A’s Mazda series, on the latter loop.

    “No one had ever broken two track records back-to-back,” Pilla said during a conversation Friday. “No one’s ever broken two track records in one season for that matter, not to mention three.”

    The 18-lap Mazda Pro Cup race ended in a photo finish. Pilla drafted the lead car coming out of the final turn as they raced toward the line, executing a well-timed slingshot maneuver in the  final yards.

    “If I’d shot out too soon or too late, he would have beaten me.”

    He learned later that he’d set a track record of one minute and 35.157 seconds midway through the race, “almost a second faster than the old record.”

    Asked how fast the cars were going, he said, “We were doing 125 on the straight.”

    The eight-race season began last January in Florida. Pilla set the Lime Rock record in the spring, and followed that up with his aforementioned record-breaking performance at Watkins Glen, on Sept. 27, and at the New Jersey Motorsports Park, on Oct. 20.

    Asked what was next for him, Pilla said, “The S.C.C.A.’s Twenty-Four Hours at Daytona in February.”

    “It will be my first time there. We’re going to be rebuilding everything in the car to prepare for it.  I’ll be driving the car with four Mazda factory drivers. It’s the 50th anniversary of the race. “

    “If we win there, it would be my biggest accomplishment of all time. Just to finish is an achievement. About 100 start the race. Last year, 42 finished.”

   Cory Midgett, a 16-year-old junior at East Hampton High School, recently finished a season of Charger division racing at the Riverhead Speedway, winding up seventh among 18 contenders in the point standings.

    For virtually the entire season, Midgett was the youngest of the drivers at the speedway.

    “He’s got a long way to go to become a NASCAR driver, which is his dream,” Cory’s father, Brian, said during a conversation Friday, “but given his age and our shoestring budget, what he did this summer was fantastic.”

    Cory raced Go Karts at Riverhead two years ago, and won the Eastern Karting Association championship, his father said. Last year, he moved up to Legend Cars with 1,200 c.c. Yamaha motors. “He raced eight to 10 times, but when he rolled it in the middle of a qualifying race — he wasn’t injured — he didn’t want to have anything to do with that car anymore.”

    This season at Riverhead, he drove a Charger division  car with a Chevrolet 350 horsepower engine housed in a Toyota Camry body, contending in 20-lap races over the quarter-mile oval at speeds between 50 and 60 miles per hour.

   “He had a first-place finish — some people race their entire careers without getting one — a second, a fifth, and seven top-10 finishes,” said the elder Midgett, who bought the car last winter “from a gentleman in Eastport.”

   His brother, Michael, and Zeke Forbell were the mechanics, Brian Midgett said. His nephew, Mikey, handled the tires, “and my son, Brian Jr., has been helping too. It’s a family thing.”

Concerning the tires, Brian Sr. said, “They’re slick — no grooves. They run much smoother through the corners and they stick to the track.”

   “Sometimes there’d be 10 cars, sometimes 18, sometimes 20,” the elder Midgett said in answer to a question. “How many were there abreast? No more than two. Three abreast wouldn’t work,” he said with a smile. “At Daytona yes, but not at Riverhead.”

   Racing — even at the beginning level — is an expensive sport, and in that regard Cory’s father said he wanted to thank the following local businesses which have leant their financial support: Richie Bono Plumbing and Heating; Mickey’s Carting; Fish 27; Springs Hardware; The Seafood Shop; John Ward Plumbing and Heating; Jim Field and Sons; Russell H. Nill Roofing and Siding; Keith Grimes Excavating, and Landscape Equipment Repair.

    “All of them — a lot of them are friends I’ve had since I was a kid — have made substantial donations, and they’ve been greatly appreciated. . . . We never could have done this on our own.”

    What next? “Next year he’ll race at Riverhead again, maybe with one or two races at other tracks. Maybe Waterford in Connecticut, or Thompson, which is also in Connecticut, though he may not be ready yet for Thompson. . . . I know some people don’t like it, but it’s a good sport, a tough sport, and it’s very hard to get to the big time.  He’s working on his car every night. . . . NASCAR racing’s like playing in the N.B.A. or in the Super Bowl.”

     “I’ve lived here all my life,” Cory’s father continued, “but my wife, Elizabeth, and I are thinking of moving to eastern Pennsylvania or to North Carolina, where Cory can continue to pursue his dream. I mean how many kids of 16 have a dream?”

   East Hampton High’s field hockey and girls soccer teams said farewell to fall last week. For these young teams presumably the best is yet to be.

    You wouldn’t have thought girls soccer had gone winless in League V this season given the high spirits with which Mike Vitulli’s charges played in the regular-season finale here with runner-up Islip.

    East Hampton helped Islip to its first goal, a defender deflecting a corner kick by Lexi Jones, a junior, who was subbing that day in the goal for Francesca Schelfhout.

    The Bonackers, whose best forward, Raffi Franey, was sidelined because of illness, and whose other formidable striker, Amanda Seekamp, anchored the backs that day, played a defensive game, rarely advancing the ball beyond midfield. Though there was some satisfaction, however, in limiting the visitors, who had bageled the Bonackers 8-0 the first time around, to that aforementioned own goal by the halftime break.

    Much credit too should go to Jones for having made two great diving saves in the first half to keep things close. She was to finish with 15 saves for the day.

    “We’re frustrating the hell out of them,” Vitulli told his charges during the halftime break.

    The visitors came on in the second half, however, a shot that bounced off the crossbar in the opening minutes serving notice. A hand ball in the box midway through the period led to Islip’s second goal, and three others  came soon after that, between the 61st and 67th minutes.

    “We fought injuries this season and we were in a brutal league,” Vitulli said afterward. “We tried hard, but the bottom line was we just weren’t up to it.”

    East Hampton finished the season in eighth, and last, place in League V with an 0-13-1 record. The team was 2-13-1 over all. The girls defeated Pierson 2-1 and Mercy 5-1 early in the season, and tied Westhampton Beach.

    Last year, the girls made the playoffs, “but this year was different,” the coach said. “We lost some key players and we got young. We’re athletic, we just have to play more, including indoors. We need to grow. We’re going to keep on them and make sure they come in next season in playing shape.”

    Becky Schwartz had high hopes for her field hockey team, but a 3-2 overtime loss to Riverhead near season’s end kept East Hampton, which finished at 6-8, out of the playoffs. “The last time we played Riverhead, some years ago, we beat them 11-0,” said Schwartz. “They were never very good, but they’ve got a new coach.”

    Nevertheless, it seemed Schwartz’s players would go out winners in a game here with Southampton on Oct. 23 as Amanda Calabrese, on a breakaway, and Shannon McCaffrey, on a corner play shot taken from the top of the circle, treated the Bonackers to an early 2-0 lead.

    The playoff-bound Mariners scored late in the first half and early in the second to tie the score, and then, as darkness was falling, and as time was running out, a questionable call on a raised ball that struck a defender in the mid-section inside the circle led to a corner play. The ball made its way to Emily Wesnofske, who was at 4 o’clock, and she swept a hard ground-hugging shot past Leonella Acevedo, East Hampton’s sophomore goalie. It was the same play that Southampton had used to tie the score.

    While the season’s now over for girls soccer and field hockey, boys soccer, the League VI champion, football (see above), girls volleyball, and boys volleyball continue on.

    The girls volleyball team swept Mount Sinai in three here last Thursday. The first set, which wound up in Bonac’s favor, 25-9, set the tone. During it, Katie Brierley, Maria Montoya, and Raya O’Neal served aces, and Melanie Mackin, who was fed by O’Neal, had 7 kills.

    The boys soccer team, seeded second, behind Sayville, in the county’s Class A tournament, is to play seventh-seeded Miller Place here today at 2:30. The winner is to play the Eastport-Shoreham winner in a semifinal at the higher seed on Monday. The Class A final will be played next Thursday at Dowling College at 4 p.m.

    Girls volley ball is to play a first-round (semifinal) match here Saturday at 10 a.m. The county final is to be played at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue Wednesday at 7 p.m.

    Division II’s second and third-seeded boys volleyball teams are to vie Monday at 5 at the site of the higher seed. The final is to be played at Bay Shore High School on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

    The girls swimming team, which finished with a 2-3 league record, is to compete in the League III meet at Hauppauge High School tomorrow at 4:30.

   “We were playing for our lives,” Pete Vaziri said in the euphoric aftermath of Friday’s beatific 33-14 victory under the lights at McGann-Mercy in Riverhead.

    Indeed, Friday’s high school football game was a must-win for the Bonackers, who, as a result, nailed down Division IV’s last (eighth) playoff spot. That means they’ll be playing in the first round at top-seeded Babylon, which crushed them 44-7 in the season opener on Sept. 7, but Babylon (a traditional thorn in East Hampton’s side) can wait.

    First, a few thousand words about the above-mentioned blessed event.

    Mercy’s opening kickoff was taken by Johnny Pizzo to East Hampton’s 35-yardline, after which Cort Heneveld, the triple-option quarterback, darted to Mercy’s 25. Handoffs to Andre Cherrington and Danny Barros yielded a first-and-goal inside the 10. Cherrington then rushed to the 5, after which Heneveld emerged from a fierce scrum into the end zone.

    Max Lerner’s subsequent kickoff went deep, and the defense forced the home team to punt from its 24. The Bonackers took over at their 47, and 10 plays later, thanks to Cherrington’s 4-yard blast up the middle, was in the Riverhead Catholic school’s end zone again.

    “I think maybe they took us a little too lightly,” Cid Cerchiai, a longtime volunteer assistant, said, with a broad smile.

    Five touchdowns later, Bill Barbour Sr., the head coach’s father, said, “What we told the kids this week is that Mercy [which went in at 6-1 in contrast to East Hampton’s 2-5], aside from Shoreham, really hadn’t played anybody, while we had played a much tougher schedule than they had, and, aside from Babylon, we’d been in every game we’d played. Plus, Mercy had already clinched a playoff spot.”

    The Monarchs got one back early in the second quarter, Tom Kent’s score from the 1 capping a 76-yard drive during which he did virtually all of the ball-carrying.

    Mercy’s kickoff went out of bounds, enabling the Bonackers to take over at their 35, and in the blink of an eye Heneveld took off again, outsprinting Mercy’s secondary into the end zone. Lerner’s point-after attempt was good for a 19-6 lead that effectively sealed the win.

    Before the half was over Mercy’s quarterback, Asaiah Wilson, and Paulo Foscolo had combined on a 58-yard scoring pass play, and Vaziri, in response, had run the ensuing kickoff back 80 yards, zipping by Wilson, the last defender, at midfield to keep East Hampton in the van.

    Mercy threatened when the third quarter began, moving the ball down to a first-and-goal inside the Bonac 10. But East Hampton’s defense held, containing Kent twice before Wilson took to the air twice, underthrowing his receiver in the end zone on third-and-goal and overthrowing Foscolo at the 3.

    Thereafter, the Bonackers ate up the clock, and, with a little more than 3 minutes remaining Vaziri came up with a big interception at East Hampton’s 35, a prelude to yet another 65-yard touchdown run by Heneveld.

    In short, it had been one of those rare games in which the Bonackers, whose defense has been porous in the past, could do no wrong.

    “I’m going to buy a lottery ticket,” Randi Cherill, the trainer, said as the final minutes ticked away.

    Bill Barbour Jr. told his happy players afterward that he was proud of them and that they should be proud of themselves. During a television interview, he said, “We’ve played a tough schedule, so tonight was an opportunity for our kids to let loose. We executed our game plan, which was to own the ball and control the clock with first downs mixed in with sudden strikes. . . .  Offensively, we took what their defense gave us, and defensively we made some big plays.”

    As for Babylon, “We know what they’ll bring — once you take a shot to the face you know what it feels like. But we’re excited — the kids will be up for it. It’s the first time we’ve been in the playoffs since 2009.”

    “We’d like to upset them,” Heneveld said.

    Jamie Wolf, whose suggested long count had drawn Mercy offside on fourth-and-2 at midfield midway through the fourth quarter, thus extending a drive — and taking more time off the clock — said that he thought the team would be able to ride its momentum into the post-season.

   A record turnout enjoyed an extraordinarily warm October day at Crescent Beach on Saturday for the Shelter Island Fall 5K run and walk. Mary Ellen Adipietro, the race’s director, said on Monday that 670 had registered and almost 600 finished the race, a benefit for the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Southampton Hospital and the North Fork Breast Health Coalition.

    The winner was Chris Koegel, a 29-year-old from Malverne and a relative of the Theinert family of Sag Harbor and Shelter Island. Koegel’s time was 16 minutes and 39 seconds, close to his personal best. He has run the Shelter Island 10K, but it was his first 5K on the island, he said, calling it a “beautiful course.”

    As his relatives were out of town running an Army 10-miler in Washington, D.C., it was “an honor to run on Shelter Island for Joe,” he said, speaking of his cousin Lt. Joseph Theinert, who was killed in Afghanistan. Wearing a “Joey” shirt, he said, “I also know my grandma would have been excited.” Patricia Theinert died in August. “It is one of the first times we stayed in Sag Harbor without her . . . she is greatly missed.”

    Janelle Kraus Nadeau, 34, of Shelter Island and Madison, Conn., was the winner among women, in a time of 18:49. Cliff Clark, her former high school coach, who was on hand as a volunteer, recalled when she was a decorated athlete at Shelter Island High before she went on to Wake Forest. Her running career at that university involved indoor and outdoor 5,000-meter Atlantic Coast Conference championships in her senior year and earned her a spot in its Hall of Fame. She qualified for the N.C.A.A. championships in that event and barely missed qualifying for the Olympic trials.

    Now, however, a 1-year-old baby is on her hip, though that doesn’t seem to slow her down. A regular at the Shelter Island races, she ran with a bridal veil a few years ago and then got married that afternoon. Her husband, Bill Nadeau, 36, finished first in his age group and sixth over all in 19:09 on Saturday.

    Bryan Knipfing, a 28-year-old Shelter Islander, took second over all with a time of 18:36, and John Cline of Boston took third in 18:45.

    Barbara Gubbins, 52, of the Gubbins Running Ahead stores, was at the race as a sponsor and a runner, finishing second over all among women in 19:34, crossing the finish line a few seconds after Rom Tubatan, 35, of Wainscott. Lorna Cook, 52, of East Hampton, was the first female racewalker to come in, with a time of 29:45.

    Also awarded that day was Holly Mott, 39, of Mattituck, who took first among runners who were breast cancer survivors.

    Adipietro said it was exciting that more teams have gotten involved, some with up to 50 members, taking part for survivors or victims of the disease, which kills more than 180,000 women a year in this country. The race was dedicated to Teresa Montant of Shelter Island, who died of cancer a year ago.

    The event raised about $22,000, to be split between the Coalition for Women’s Cancers and the Breast Health Coalition, Adipietro said. A raffle generated an additional $3,000 for Lucia’s Angels, which helps East Enders who have breast cancer with baby-sitting, ambulatory trips, therapeutic spa services, and assistance with bills such as health insurance premiums, home heating, automobile repairs, and groceries.

   After bowling a perfect game, the first in her life — and she has been bowling since the age of 7 — the 42-year-old Dot Grossman dropped to one knee and cried.

    Asked if he’d gotten “the shot,” her husband, Ian, who is the East Hampton Bowl’s general manager, and who watched the singular perfect game unfold, said he had not, though it would have been hard to do, he added, “because everyone ran to her and enveloped her in hugs.”

    “She’s one of the best female bowlers I’ve ever seen,” said the general manager, who is his wife’s coach, “and the first woman ever to bowl a 300 on these lanes, which date to the 1960s.”

    Because Grossman’s 12-straight-strike feat took place during a Nine-Pin TAP league (in which nine pins down equal a strike) on Oct. 15, “her score can’t be sanctioned,” said her husband, “but all of Dot’s strikes were real — her name’s going up on the board.”

    The lanes’ general manager said that he, himself, had bowled “a few 300s,” but added, “I don’t care how many you’ve bowled, your knees start to shake at the end and your heart rate accelerates. . . . Bowling a perfect game is extremely difficult.”

    For her part, his wife, who grew up in Locust Valley, said she began bowling with her mother, who would take her to Madison Square Garden, “where there were a lot of leagues.”

    As for falling to one knee and tearing up, she said, “I never thought I would actually ever get one [a perfect game]. I always thought I’d leave the 10-pin. “Oh yes, I was shaking — there are so many chances to not throw a strike. . . . I bowled a 283 once, many, many years ago, and I’ve had 279s and 280s, but never this.”

    Asked why she thought women had not fared quite as well as men in the sport, Grossman, who’s averaging 205 in three leagues at the Bowl — the aforementioned one, the Wednesday Mixed, and Thursday’s women’s league — said, “The men have always thrown a heavier ball, which makes for greater speed and torque, while women have generally used a lighter ball — 12 to maybe 14 pounds — which results in lower speed and less deflection. Though now, the new equipment is enabling us to throw a ball equivalent to what the men throw.”

    The new 300 club member said she used a 15-and-a-half-pound ball (16 pounds being the heaviest) that had been drilled for her recently by Paul Sanchez of Riverhead. “He knew I had a birthday coming up.”

    She said she also wanted to thank the Bowl’s mechanics, Jeff Jager and Will Garbowski, who had laid down the oil pattern that night.

    Asked what came into her mind when preparing to bowl the game that came after her 300, Grossman said, “I thought I’m exempt from bowling well for a while!”

    “The expectation level’s so high now, but that’s okay.”

   The Montauk Rugby Club finished the regular season here Saturday with a 46-5 thumping of Bayonne, N.J., thus winding up in second place in the Empire Geographical Union with a 6-1 record.

    Now the Sharks must wait until early May to find out whether they’ll be one of the two sides from the Northeast and New England regions to advance to U.S.A. Rugby’s Division II Sweet Sixteen.

    For finishing second, Montauk will get a bye in the first round of the regional playoffs, as will the Empire Union’s undefeated champion, Danbury, Conn., a side that Montauk did not play this fall.

    Rich Brierley, the Sharks’ coach, said in reply to a question that he thought the locals were on the same level as the Connecticut team.

    The regional Final Four would probably be played on Randalls Island in New York City, he continued, adding that “Danbury will play the Princeton-Syracuse winner, and we’ll play the Rockaway-Buffalo winner on May 5, and the finals will be the next day.”

    As for the site of the Sweet Sixteen tourney, Montauk’s coach said, “It’s yet to be determined. U.S.A. Rugby puts it out to bid. I’d be more than happy if we went back to Pittsburgh. They did an excellent job last year.”

   The Sharks scored eight tries in Saturday’s game at East Hampton’s Herrick Park. “We had them moving back for most of the game, but it took us a while to get going,” Brierley said.

   There was, he said, “at least a one or two-man overlap” when Erik Brierley, Montauk’s fullback, took off on a 25-yard run down the sideline about 15 minutes into the fray, touching the ball down in Bayonne’s try zone.

   “The forwards set that try up,” said Brierley, who added that “they played great all day, especially James Lock, one of our props, and our ‘man of the match,’ who was everywhere and then some!”

Before the first half had come to an end, Jim Abran (assisted by Gordon Trotter), Connor Miller (again assisted by Trotter), and Steve Turza (assisted by John Glennon) had scored tries as well, treating Montauk to a 24-0 lead at the break.

   It was more of the same in the second half as Erik Brierley, Zach Brenneman (two), and Trotter scored. Trotter, whose wife was said to be on the verge of giving birth, did not have a great day kicking — he converted three of the eight tries — but, given the onslaught, it mattered little.

   “After our seventh score,” said Brierley, “I had it that Gordon made the [two-point] conversion, the referee had it that he didn’t, and Gordon said he didn’t remember.”