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FOOTBALL: Running Back Says Farewell to Arms

FOOTBALL: Running Back Says Farewell to Arms

How ‘bout them special teams? Johnny Pizzo’s long kickoff runback set up East Hampton’s first score.
How ‘bout them special teams? Johnny Pizzo’s long kickoff runback set up East Hampton’s first score.
Jack Graves
"We knew what they’d do, and we were in position, but their front line dominated our front line.”
By
Jack Graves

    The East Hampton High School football team fell back to earth here Saturday as Shoreham-Wading River, whose Tyler Anderson broke countless tackles in rushing for 328 yards and five touchdowns, won 42-14.

    Anderson, a tall back who averaged almost 30 yards per carry, invariably ran right up the middle, after having made a stutter step, leaving Bonac fans to cry out futilely in his wake, “Stop him! Stop him!”

    Later, when asked how many yards Anderson had gained, a Shoreham coach said, “A million.”

    Anderson got Shoreham on the board with a 47-yard dash into the end zone early in the first quarter, after which the Bonackers launched a drive of their own, getting down to a fourth-and-2 on Shoreham’s 16 before Andre Cherrington was stopped one yard shy of a first down.

    Two downs later, Anderson was off to the races again — a 79-yard carry that left Bill Barbour Jr., East Hampton’s coach, fuming.

    Pete Vaziri most likely would have broken the subsequent kickoff return had he not stumbled at the 50. The offense sputtered there, however, and the first period ended with the Bonackers trailing 14-0.

    By the half it was 35-7, East Hampton’s lone bright spot being the quarterback Cort Heneveld’s pitch to Vaziri, who, from 7 yards out, dived with the ball into the end zone.

    That drive began with a terrific kickoff runback by Johnny Pizzo — let’s hear it again for special teams — to Shoreham’s 28.

    A 22-yard TD run by Anderson and a 29-yard score by Avery Friedman preceded Vaziri’s dash, and an 80-yard unmolested romp by Anderson was to follow before the break.

    Anderson scored his fifth touchdown of the day when the third quarter opened, advancing through flailing arms from Shoreham’s 35 to Bonac’s end zone 65 yards away, after which he returned in triumph to the visitors’ bench for the remainder of the game.

    With the outcome long since assured, Shoreham played its subs in the second half.

    Max Lerner, East Hampton’s sophomore kicker, who took a turn at the quarterback position near game’s end, rewarded the fans who stayed — and perplexed his coaches — when, rather than punt from East Hampton’s 20, as instructed, he took off, zigging and zagging his way into the visitors’ end zone 80 yards away. He then split the uprights for the 42-14 final.

    Afterward, Barbour said, “This game was lost last winter when all of their kids were in the weight room and a handful of ours were. There were no surprises today, there was nothing fancy. We knew what they’d do, and we were in position, but their front line dominated our front line.”

    “We knew what was coming: ‘Blast and Ice’ to the strong side, ‘Blast and Ice’ to the weak side.”

    “It’s bad,” he said, in reply to a question, “when the return team is your highlight. At least we know we don’t have to work a lot with special teams.”

    Undefeated Mount Sinai is to play here Saturday. Recalling that his 2008 team, then 1-5, had toppled undefeated Harborfields in an away game, Barbour said, “It’s high school football — stranger things have happened.”

Hamptons Polo Out West

Hamptons Polo Out West

A featured match at the Scottsdale, Ariz., polo championships on Oct. 20.
By
Star Staff

   Nic Roldan, who summers in Water Mill and has played with teams contesting cups at the Bridgehampton Polo Club for years, and Tommy Biddle, another Bridgehampton veteran who once quarterbacked the University of South Carolina’s football team, are to square off in the featured match at the Scottsdale, Ariz., polo championships on Oct. 20.

   Biddle will captain the Hamptons team, and Roldan will captain the Los Angeles-based Bel Air team.

   Also on the bill will be a match pitting Harvard University versus Work to Ride, of West Philadelphia, which in 2011, with Kareem and Daymar Rosser and Brandon Rease, became the first African-American team to win the national interscholastic championship.

Bonac Soccer, Ross Tennis Stumble, but Volleyers Soar

Bonac Soccer, Ross Tennis Stumble, but Volleyers Soar

Esteban Valverde and his teammates have been coming on in the second halves of games, but got started too late at Amityville.
Esteban Valverde and his teammates have been coming on in the second halves of games, but got started too late at Amityville.
Jack Graves
Two teams that had been sailing along stumbled Monday.
By
Jack Graves

   Two teams that had been sailing along, the East Hampton High School boys soccer team and the Ross School girls tennis team, stumbled Monday.

    The Bonac boys lost 1-0 at Amityville as the result of a first-half penalty kick.

    The Ross girls, who had defeated William Floyd 5-2 at home Saturday, lost by the same score at Floyd Monday. Vinicius Carmo, Ross’s coach, was a bit mystified, though as of Tuesday morning he was confident his team, with a little help from East Hampton, which has yet to play its second match with Floyd, would win out in the end.

    Rich King, who coaches East Hampton’s boys soccer team, was also sanguine as to his team’s chances to win another league championship.

    “It would have been nice to have won yesterday,” he said. “If we had, we would have had a stranglehold on first place, but there’s a lot of soccer left. If we take care of business this week [games were scheduled for yesterday and tomorrow] we’ll be in fine shape.”

    Meanwhile, East Hampton’s girls volleyball team, coached by Kathy McGeehan, has had some good results lately. The Bonackers swept Westhampton Beach in three here Friday. “We really served well,” said McGeehan, who added that “we are really coming together.”

    Maria Montoya-Rueda led the way with three aces in 10 attempts and also had four kills; Carley Seekamp and Melanie Mackin each had six kills; Katie Brierley had 20 service receptions and 18 digs, and Raya O’Neal, whom Newsday recently said was “a player to watch” in Suffolk, and Lydia Budd each had 10 assists.

    The team “played the best we have all season” in winning a tournament at Harborfields Saturday, McGeehan reported. The Bonackers came out of pool play seeded fourth, but defeated fifth-seeded Harborfields in the quarterfinals, topped second-seeded Kellenberg in the semifinals, and defeated top-seeded St. Anthony’s 25-20, 25-19 in the final.

    Getting back to Monday’s soccer game, the penalty call in the box had been a legitimate one, said King, who added that “we didn’t play well in the first half. We did in the second, but we didn’t finish our chances. We turned it on too late.”

    In recent home games, with Miller Place and Elwood-John Glenn, so-so first halves have been followed by very strong second ones. Friday’s game here with Glenn was scoreless going into the break, but thereafter it was all East Hampton, which, thanks to goals by Donte Donegal, wound up winning 2-0. And also thanks to four spectacular saves by Nick Tulp, Bonac’s goalie.

    The so-so first half could be traced, said King, to the fact that “we played their game, which was to keep the ball up in the air. In the second half, we played our game, stringing short passes together. It was like a pinball game in the first half.”

    As for the Ross-Floyd tennis matches, Carmo said he’d never seen anything like it. For example, “Rory Gallaher, who won 6-3, 6-1 Saturday, lost to the same girl 6-2, 6-0 on Monday. It was windy there — it always is — and we couldn’t control the ball, but still. . . . Our first doubles team, which won here 6-4, 6-3, lost 6-1, 6-2 to the same girls there.”

    Thus, as of Tuesday, Ross and William Floyd were tied for first place in league play, each with 6-1 records.

    In soccer, Amityville led League VI at 4-0-1, with East Hampton second at 4-1-0. Elwood-John Glenn led the girls volleyball teams in League VI with a 5-0-0 record. East Hampton was in second at 4-1-0.

The Lineup: 09.20.12

The Lineup: 09.20.12

Local sports schedule
By
Star Staff

Thursday, September 20

GIRLS SOCCER, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GOLF, Westhampton Beach vs. East Hampton, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 4 p.m.

Friday, September 21

FIELD HOCKEY, Port Jefferson at East Hampton, 6 p.m.

Saturday, September 22

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Half Hollow Hills at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, Harborfields at East Hampton, 10 a.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, Ross School at East Hampton, 10:30 a.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 11:30 a.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Miller Place at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

FOOTBALL, Southampton at East Hampton, 7 p.m.

Monday, September 24

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at Ward Melville, nonleague, 4:30 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Comsewogue at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Shoreham-Wading River, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, East Hampton at Bay Shore, nonleague, 4 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Amityville, 5 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at McGann-Mercy, Riverhead, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 25

GOLF, East Hampton vs. Pierson, Noyac Golf and Country Club, 3:30 p.m.

25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 09.20.12

25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 09.20.12

Local sports history
By
Star Staff

September 10, 1987

    John Kenney of New York and Shelter Island, who nine days before had won a 5K here, continued the string by leading some 200 runners across the line in Monday’s Great Bonac 10K race in Springs.

    Kenney, a 31-year-old IBM systems engineer, covered the 6.2-mile course in 31 minutes and 41 seconds. Kevin Barry, also of Shelter Island, who won this race last year and in 1985, was third in 33:04.

    While the winner made a wrong turn between miles four and five, following the lead patrol car, which had erred, thus gaining some yardage, the runner-up, Paul Capolino of Port Jefferson, did not press the issue.

    Later, Kenney, who finished almost a minute ahead of Capolino, said he was pretty confident he would have won in any event.

    . . . To keep the leader on course hereafter, the race director, Howard Lebwith, said that beginning next year directional placards will be put at every turn. Kenney’s sub-32 appears to be the best time in recent years, if not for the entire 10-year history of the race.

September 17, 1987

    Martina Navratilova became a triple-crown winner at the U.S. Open Monday — the first such since Margaret Court did it in 1970 — at Paul Annacone’s expense. Navratilova and her partner, Emilio Sanchez of Spain, barely edged the East Hampton-reared professional and his partner, Betsy Nagelsen, 6-4, 6-7, 7-6 to win the mixed doubles title. The third-set tiebreaker went to 14-12.

    Navratilova also won the singles championship, defeating Steffi Graf, and the women’s doubles, with Pam Shriver, over Kathy Jordan and Elizabeth Smylie.

    . . . It was the first tournament that Nagelsen and Annacone have played together, and the first U.S. Open final for Annacone.

    While the Mighty Hamptons triathletes were competing in “tinman” distances Saturday, Tom Ruhle, 29, of Montauk, a Democratic candidate for town councilman, was swimming 2.4 miles, biking 112, and running 26.2 in the Bud Light Endurance Triathlon at Cape Cod.

    “The bike was the roughest, and I’m a good biker,” said Ruhle. “The wind was in our face on the return leg, from Provincetown to Hyannis. I was ready to throw my bike in the weeds after 90 miles.”

    Gene Colleary narrowly defeated George Eichhorn recently in a 36-hole final to win the men’s golf championship at the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett.

    Sailboarders at Napeague Harbor are girding their loins in the wake of a Long Island State Parks and Recreation Commission edict banning sailboard launching at the accustomed Lazy Point road-end.

    . . . The sailboarders say that Napeague Harbor is a perfect spot to pursue their sport and that the road-end beach is the perfect spot for launching the boards. A few ill-founded complaints by Lazy Point residents accustomed to gazing across unpeopled waters had brought on the controversy, they maintain.

September 24, 1987

    Word has it that the East Hampton High School football team, which has acquitted itself well scrimmaging recently with William Floyd, Centereach, Newfield, Port Jefferson, and Westhampton Beach, in descending order of school size, has the edge in League Seven’s title race.

    “I hope it’s not the kiss of death,” said East Hampton’s coach, Ted Meyer.

    . . . Bob Burns, The Long Island Traveler-Watchman’s sportswriter, who covers East End high school sports, said in last Thursday’s column that “talking with the coaches one gathers the group as a whole figures it will be East Hampton and Southampton battling it out for the crown.”

    East Hampton and Southampton boys and girls between the ages of 4 1/2 and 12 are being sought to join a Southampton-based ice hockey club, the Southampton Sharks, whose head coach is Gerry Hart, one of the original New York Islanders.

    . . . “If they can stand up and want to play, we’ll do the rest,” said Hart, a Canadian who played defense for the Islanders in the early 1970s.

RUGBY: Fewer Sharks, Perhaps, but Enough to Win

RUGBY: Fewer Sharks, Perhaps, but Enough to Win

Brian Anderson of the Montauk Sharks broke for daylight Saturday against a rugby side from Montclair, N.J.
Brian Anderson of the Montauk Sharks broke for daylight Saturday against a rugby side from Montclair, N.J.
M.J. Mackey
“Most teams have 30 guys, and we’re in the mid to low 20s"
By
Baylis Greene

    Locals who cursed the presence of New Jerseyites here this summer can take a measure of revenge in the dispatching of the Montclair, N.J., Rugby Club back whence they came Saturday, courtesy of the Montauk Sharks by a 17-14 tally at Herrick Park in East Hampton.

    Still, “a 3-point game in rugby is a pretty close game,” the Sharks’ coach, Rich Brierley, said Monday. And Montclair is a team that just moved up to the Empire Union’s Division 2, which, taken together, could signal rough waters ahead.

    The Sharks finished the season last year ranked sixth nationally after a successful run into the Sweet Sixteen of the championship tournament in Pittsburgh. “Last year we were 8-0, which will be difficult to repeat. . . . Teams are gunning for us; we’re going to see their best games.” What’s more, “We’re depleted, numbers-wise. We’ve had some minor injuries. And people like to get married in September,” Brierley added, laughing.

    “Most teams have 30 guys, and we’re in the mid to low 20s. It’s the same core, but that core of guys is getting older. It’s difficult when you get into your 30s playing this game. That’s why the numbers are so important — you can give your players a week off, especially the bigger guys. . . . We’re always recruiting.” Practices, by the way, are twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

    But back to Saturday’s action. The Sharks’ first two tries were scored by the forwards Nick Lawler and Jim Abran “in consecutive phases of play,” Brierley said. “You get in close to punch it over.” The third was by Conor Miller. “He took a nice setup from Mike Bunce and made a 25-to-30-yard run to score.”

    The seven-game season is young yet. The Sharks’ 2-0 record means they’re in a four-way tie for first place in the Empire Union. “The top 6 of the 12 teams make the playoffs,” the coach said. “That’s our goal.”

    The Sharks’ next home game is on Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. But first, on Saturday, they’re set to tangle with more Jersey boys, which means a trip into the dark heart of Bayonne.

 

Teaching Self-Defense, Self-Confidence, and Kindness

Teaching Self-Defense, Self-Confidence, and Kindness

Michelle Del Giorno led her karate class, Storm (for a Select Team of Role Models), in a demonstration on Sag Harbor’s Long Wharf on Saturday during HarborFest.
Michelle Del Giorno led her karate class, Storm (for a Select Team of Role Models), in a demonstration on Sag Harbor’s Long Wharf on Saturday during HarborFest.
Carrie Ann Salvi
“It makes kids feel good about themselves”
By
Carrie Ann Salvi

   Michelle Del Giorno is a world champion in karate, hooked since her first tournament at the age of 16, but she said on Monday that despite what some may think, self-defense is not all about kicking, punching, blocking, and throwing. At her dojo in Sag Harbor, Epic Martial Arts East, the curriculum teaches kindness, respect, tolerance, focus, discipline, confidence, and self-control.

    Her students earn stripes on their belts through group acts of kindness. Community service projects have included preparing care packages to be sent to troops overseas with Jordan’s Initiative, collecting gently used children’s clothing for the Retreat, and raising $6,000 for Team Tarlow and Hand, which donates money to Swim Across America’s cancer research efforts. Beach and park cleanups are considered a form of self-defense too, she said, because they help protect the environment, which we all depend on. Students’ projects are recorded in a portfolio for later use in job and college applications.

    “It makes kids feel good about themselves,” she said, adding that self-confidence helps kids deflect bullying and become leaders, not followers, things they learn from their sensai through role play, too. Along with improved behavior, many students also get better grades.

    “It’s about deflecting what is around you without being confrontational,” Del Giorno said. Her students become more physically fit, but they also learn how to take care of their health in other ways — good nutrition, for example.

    The dojo’s competition team, called Storm, or Select Team of Role Models, is comprised of students with orange belts or higher. “The kids love it,” she said of competing in tournaments. The group of 7 to 12-year-olds also performs demonstrations, such as the one on Saturday on Long Wharf during HarborFest.

    She encourages parents to stay in class to hear the messages she’s sharing with students, and they have been very supportive, she said. Her students hail from East Hampton and Southampton, as well as Sag Harbor, where she said she teaches practically the entire third grade.

    A parent of four boys, Del Giorno has taught martial arts for about 25 years. She offered kickboxing and karate classes at the Sag Harbor Gym for many years, until they grew too large and she knew it was time to open her own dojo, where she now teaches karate to children, teens, and adults, as well as jujitsu and tai chi. She has taught karate and kickboxing at the Ross School for eight years, and teaches horseback riding, too, at the school’s summer pony camp at the Topping Riding Club in Saga­ponack.

    Riding, like martial arts, has been a part of her life since childhood. Both are individual sports, which Del Giorno said she has always preferred. “I like to challenge myself.”

Ancient Foes To Vie for Cup

Ancient Foes To Vie for Cup

This photo of the Bonackers triumphant after defeating Southampton in 1987 now adorns a wall of East Hampton’s weight room.
This photo of the Bonackers triumphant after defeating Southampton in 1987 now adorns a wall of East Hampton’s weight room.
Bonac-Mariner game Saturday is first since 2006
By
Jack Graves

   Bill Barbour Jr., head coach of the East Hampton High School football team, and an assistant, Jason Menu, remember what it was like the last time an East Hampton team defeated a Southampton one.

    “It was a great feeling,” Barbour, who was the center in that game of 25 years ago, said following a recent preseason practice.

    “It was a low-scoring mudfest,” said Menu, who played a guard position. “It was fantastic.”

    The Southampton-East Hampton rivalry is one of the oldest on Long Island, dating to 1923, and the fact that the Mariners have won many more of these contests than East Hampton perhaps makes it all the more memorable here when the Bonackers triumph. Saturday’s homecoming clash under the lights will be the 50th in the series, which Southampton leads 34-13-3.

    Charlie Whitmore, who played on the late Gary Golden’s 1967 team that, while a huge underdog, defeated its South Fork rival 18-13, remembers the entire town turning out to greet the victorious Bonackers. “Everything shut down. People were in the streets, they were kissing and hugging the players. East Hampton hadn’t beaten Southampton in 10 or so years. . . .”

    The story, written by the late Howard Swanson, ran on the front page of this newspaper:

    “. . . East Hampton trailed 13-12 going into the final four minutes. South­ampton covered Rocky Claxton’s onside kick and had every intention of running out the clock, but Bob Peters stole the ball from Joe Shannon, giving East Hampton possession on its 40-yard line. Leon Overton then went to the air and connected with Keith McMahon for a first down on Southampton’s 45.”

    “Then Kent Metz rolled for seven, and another Overton-to-McMahon aerial put the ball on the Mariners’ 29. Overton was pressed on the next play, but managed to get a pass off to William Myrick in the left flat where he made a spectacular catch of the sinking ball and raced over three tacklers to give East Hampton the win.”

    To honor the ancient rivalry, Bridgehampton National Bank in 1982 began presenting the winner with a handsome silver Hampton Cup that was to be retained for a year by the school that won. Saturday’s game will be only the third such in the past 20 years, Southampton having won 14-8 in 1993 and 28-13 in 2006, the last time, until now, that the Cup was contested, the year before Barbour took over the coaching reins from David MacGarva.

    The ’87 game was played in South­ampton “in nigh-gale-like conditions, with intermittent rain and cold winds gusting the length of the field up to 40 miles per hour. Punts either traveled 15 to 25 yards or 40 to 50. . . . Mauricio Castillo’s 70-yard quick kick midway through the fourth quarter, which rolled dead on the Mariners’ 8-yard line, was the longest of the day.”

    The only touchdown East Hampton needed came late in the first quarter. “With second-and-goal from the Mariners’ 6-yard line, Jamie Grubb passed into the end zone. Michael Sarlo, the tight end, leapt for it near the goal line, but the ball skipped through his hands . . . and into the arms of his teammate Jeff LaCarrubba, who had preceded him. Hank Benzenberg kicked the extra point, which proved to be crucial in the 7-6 win.”

    “. . . The decisive defensive play was turned in by Anthony Miller, who, with about one minute left to play, intercepted Bobby Sendlenski on the Mariner 35.”

    “When the clock ran out, East Hampton’s bench cleared, and the team’s captain and senior right tackle, David Di­Sunno, was hoisted aloft to display the game’s trophy, the Hampton Cup.”

    A blowup of The Star’s page one photo of joyous Bonackers, the Cup above them and Walter Casiel in the foreground, was put up in East Hampton’s weight room by Menu last spring.

    “The kids didn’t know what the Cup was,” said Barbour. “All of them were asking questions. They know now. You could tell by the way they played in the scrimmage with Southampton the other day. It’s a natural rivalry. The kids are buying into it.”

HOMECOMING: Rivalry And Rite

HOMECOMING: Rivalry And Rite

The 1952 Bonacker football team, undefeated, untied, and coached by Fran Kiernan, will be inducted into East Hampton High School’s first Hall of Fame class on Saturday.
The 1952 Bonacker football team, undefeated, untied, and coached by Fran Kiernan, will be inducted into East Hampton High School’s first Hall of Fame class on Saturday.
The honorees will include Fran Kiernan, the 102-year-old former athletic director
By
Jack Graves

   Saturday’s homecoming will mark the return of one of the oldest high school football rivalries on Long Island, the one between East Hampton and Southampton that dates to 1923, and will feature as well the induction of East Hampton High School’s first Hall of Fame class.

    The honorees will include Fran Kiernan, the 102-year-old former athletic director who coached football, basketball, and baseball here from 1945 to 1960 and served as the A.D. from 1952 until the late 1960s, and Ed Petrie Sr., who over a 52-year career oversaw numerous championship boys basketball teams and became the winningest public high school boys basketball coach in New York State.

    Kiernan is credited with “shaping the future of East Hampton’s athletic program.” He celebrated his 102nd birthday at the end of last month, and wrote from Florida, where he lives, that “the trip north is a bit much for me.” His son, F.J. Kiernan, will stand in for him.

    Among the athletes to be feted will be the basketball stars Howard and Kenny Wood; Ross Gload, the professional baseball player, who won the Carl Yastrzemski award in 1994; LeRoy DeBoard, a 1951 graduate who was a four-sport athlete (football, basketball, baseball, and track) and was named to Benedict College’s Hall of Fame in 1994; Ed Budd, a 1983 graduate who was the first East Hampton High athlete to be named to all-county teams in three sports (football, wrestling, and baseball); Margaret Dunn, a 1979 graduate who was a four-sport athlete (field hockey, basketball, volleyball, and softball) and held the career scoring record in girls basketball, and Ellamae Gurney, a 1994 graduate and all-around athlete (field hockey, basketball, and softball) who played on the county championship field hockey team of 1993 and went on to play varsity softball at Brown University.

    In addition, there will be five posthumous inductees — Walter Sheades, Frank Jewels, William McDonald, Kendall Madison, and Richard Balnis Sr. — as well as two teams, the 1952 undefeated, untied football team coached by Kiernan, and the 1989 state-finalist field hockey team coached by Ellen Cooper.

    It’s been said of the late Walter Sheades, a member of the class of 1930, that “he was a standout athlete who never quit and often inspired his teammates with motivational speeches when needed; he played quarterback and fullback for East Hampton football teams in the late 1920s.”

    Frank Jewels, a classmate of Sheades’s, “lettered in baseball, basketball, and track, and was a standout shortstop for the 1929 Class A champions. He went on to attend the University of Alabama on a baseball scholarship, and played semi-professionally.”

    Richard Balnis Sr. (1963) “was known for his passion to be the best on and off the field. His sports were football, basketball, and track. He played football at New Mexico State and co-founded the East Hampton Youth Football organization. As a physical therapist, he dedicated his life to helping other athletes play the sports they loved.”

    Bill McDonald (1966) “was a standout athlete in football and wrestling at East Hampton High School. A second-team all-American football player in 1965, he went on to captain Vanderbilt University’s football team. He was named to the all-Southeast Conference team as a sophomore.”

    Kendall Madison (1991), whose untimely death at the age of 21 in January 1995 shocked East Hamptoners, was an outstanding three-sport athlete and honor roll student here before winning a full athletic scholarship to the University of Connecticut, where he was the strong safety on its football team and majored in economics. The Kendall Madison Foundation was formed shortly after his death to keep his joyous, confident spirit alive. It gives out four-year college scholarships each year to East Hampton High seniors, who, in turn, are required to act as mentors to younger children here.

    The 1952 football team members were Scott Bennett, Don Bovie, Frank Cafiso, Dave Cheney, Louis Cicero, Jim Clark, Frank Dragotta, Charles Gould, Russell Peele, Richard Sage, Daniel Shields, John Tilley, Fred Yardley, Robert Yardley, John Astorr, Edward Conklin, Richard Cooper, William DeBoard, Charles Gould, Joe Green, Steve Kaiser, Charles Kaiser, Dave Kerstisin, Robert Lynch, Francis Orr, Kennel Schenck, Robert Taylor, and Joe Embro.

    The 1989 state-finalist field hockey team comprised Shana Menu Altschuler, Megan Barnett Anderson, Diane Brubaker, Dawn DaCostafaro, Nicole Ficeto, Danielle Ficeto, Danielle Bateman Gaines, Michelle Hammer Hill, Meredith Diefendorf Hinz, Bridget McSweeney Keane, Diana Lys, Renee Grau McCormack, Jennifer Vish Palmer, Paula Hatch Rubley, Carolina Vargas Schaefer, Rebecca Libath Stryker, and Andrea Wyche Wilson.

    A number of East Hampton’s varsity teams are to be playing Saturday, beginning with girls soccer versus Harborfields and boys volleyball versus Half Hollow Hills at 10 a.m., followed by girls tennis versus the Ross School at 10:30, girls volleyball versus Rocky Point at 11:30, and boys soccer versus Miller Place at 4.

    A carnival is to be held on the high school’s front lawn at 2 p.m., there is to be a bonfire at 6:30, and the Hampton Cup football game is to begin at 7. The Hall of Fame inductees are to be honored at halftime.

The Lineup: 09.27.12

The Lineup: 09.27.12

Local sports schedule
By
Star Staff

Thursday, September 27

GOLF, East Hampton vs. Center Moriches, Maidstone Club, 4 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, Eastport-South Manor at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Eastport-South Manor at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

CROSS-COUNTRY, Westhampton boys vs. East Hampton, 4 p.m., and Elwood-John Glenn girls vs. East Hampton, 4:30, Indian Island County Park, Riverhead.

Friday, September 28

GIRLS TENNIS, West Islip at East Hampton, nonleague, 4 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Elwood-John Glenn at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, Sayville-Bayport vs. East Hampton, nonleague, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 5 p.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, Westhampton at East Hampton, 5 p.m.

Saturday, September 29

HAMPTONS MARATHON, marathon, half-marathon, and 5K, Springs School, from 8 a.m.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, East Hampton at Harborfields tournament, 8:30 a.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, East Hampton at Westhampton, 10 a.m.

FOOTBALL, Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, 2 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, East Hampton at Greenport, 2 p.m.

Monday, October 1

BOYS VOLLEYBALL, Sachem East at East Hampton, nonleague, 5 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Amityville, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 2

GOLF, Ross vs. East Hampton, South Fork Country Club, Amagansett, 4 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY, Rocky Point at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, Sayville at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton vs. Westhampton, Indian Island County Park, Riverhead, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton vs. Miller Place, Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 3

BOYS CROSS-COUNTRY, East Hampton at invitational meet, Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, 9 a.m.

BOYS SOCCER, Bayport-Blue Point at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, Hauppauge vs. East Hampton, Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS TENNIS, East Hampton at Westhampton, 4 p.m.