As was the case last year, the turnout at the Katy’s Courage 5K in Sag Harbor Saturday was huge — the finishers’ list totaled 1,005 — with reportedly every school in the area represented.

    The race is run in memory of the late Katy Stewart, who died a little more than a year ago at the age of 12 of a rare form of liver cancer, and its net proceeds are to go toward a four-year college scholarship fund in her name at Pierson High School, pediatric cancer research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and, in the future, a children’s bereavement center on the East End modeled after one Katy’s parents, Jim and Brigid, and her brother, Robert, visited in San Antonio, Tex., soon after Katy’s death.

    The center, said Katy’s mother, “would be for anybody who’s lost anybody, though especially for children who have experienced loss.”

    “Over the years we have known so many children who have lost a parent or grandparent, or friend, and, of course, we had lost Kate,” Brigid Stewart said in a pre-race story in The Sag Harbor Express. “And when we saw the expertise involved in working with children and their families at the South Texas center we became anxious to have something like that here.”

    In addition to the countless kids, afoot or in strollers, there were a large number of athletes owing in part to the fact that Jim Stewart for a long time coached East Hampton High School’s wrestling and boys soccer teams. There were lacrosse players too and members of the Montauk Rugby Club, not to mention some serious runners.

    A 53-year-old part-time Bridgehamptoner, Richard Temerian, won it, in 17 minutes and 32.16 seconds, outkicking a former Mercy High School protégé of Kevin Barry’s, Kiernan Kelly, 33, at the end. Kelly’s time was 17:33.72. Matt Connors, 37, was third, in 17:42.20; Jason Hancock, a 38-year-old Southamptoner who teaches at the Amagansett School, was fourth, in 17:42.99, and Brian Marciniak, 25, was fifth, in 17:53.62.

    Last year’s winner, Mike Semkus, 24, of Sag Harbor, was sixth, in 18:06.23.

    The women’s winner was 41-year-old — soon to be 42-year-old — Sinead FitzGibbon, who (no mean feat) outkicked Barbara Gubbins, 52, going down the stretch.

    “It’s a beautiful course and every school is represented — it’s so great to see the kids,” said FitzGibbon, who recently, with about 20 others from here, ran, crawled, and clawed their way through a mountainous 25K known as the Hyner Challenge in central Pennsylvania.

    “Ed and Caroline Cashin went, Dennis Loebs — my better half — Fiachra O’Hallissey, Noel Kelly, Mike Bahel, Brian Monahan . . . all the Irish,” she said, when asked for a recounting.

    “We ran uphill and down dale, up through rivers, down streams . . . in some sections you were just using your hands and your feet. It easily required a marathon effort. Chris Reich [who coaches East Hampton High’s boys track team] said at one point, ‘This isn’t running!’ It was his worst race ever.”

    FitzGibbon, who placed fourth over all “among 1,000 billy goats,” and who won her age group, added, “We’re going to do the 50K next year.”

    Bahel and Cheryl Keller used the occasion to announce that they are to be married at the next Hamptons Marathon.

    “You’ll have to run to be in the wedding,” said FitzGibbon. “The bridesmaids will do the three-miler.”

    Temerian, a New York City resident who has a house in Bridgehampton, said he hadn’t known about this race last year. When questioned, the fleet 50-something said he’d run Boston, which this year was really hot, “in 2:59,” a statement his wife, Caroline, stepped forward to amend. “Exactly three hours,” she said. “But he didn’t have to stop and walk or get medical attention.”

    Getting back to the top finishers, O’Hallissey, 41, was seventh, in 18:10.06, Doug Milano, who assists Steve Redlus in coaching East Hampton High’s jayvee boys lacrosse team, was eighth, in 18:24.17, Bahel was ninth, in 18:27.17, an eighth grader, Erik Engstrom, was 10th, in 18:29.32, and another eighth grader, Randy Santiago, was 13th.

    Next up for distance runners is Paddlers for Humanity’s off-road half-marathon at Montauk’s Hither Woods Sunday. The start-finish line will be at Ed Ecker County Park off Navy Road.

Thursday, May 10

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

GIRLS LACROSSE, East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 11

BOYS LACROSSE, Babylon at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, Stony Brook vs. Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, and East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, Center Moriches at Pierson, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 12

TRACK, East Hampton boys and girls at Elwood-John Glenn invitational, 9 a.m.

RUGBY, Montauk Rugby Club at regional tournament, Pittsburgh, Pa., also Sunday.

SWIMMING, Swim Across America fund-raising party, Breakwater Yacht Club, Sag Harbor, 6-9 p.m.

Sunday, May 13

MOTHER’S DAY 5K, the Circle, Montauk, 8:30 a.m., registration from 7:30.

Monday, May 14

SOFTBALL, East Hampton at Miller Place, and Pierson at Hampton Bays, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 15

SOFTBALL, Sayville at East Hampton, and Pierson at Southold, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 16

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

Half-Marathon

    Jason Hancock, 38, a Southamptoner who teaches at the Amagansett School, won the Paddlers for Humanity off-road half-marathon in Montauk’s Hither Woods Sunday in 1 hour and 33 minutes. Sinead FitzGibbon, 41, won among the women in 1:43.34. Paul Hamilton and John Doyle were the relay winners in 1:48.50.

T-Ball

    The East Hampton Kiwanis Club’s T-ball instructional baseball program for boys and girls 5 through 8 is to begin at the John M. Marshall Elementary School Saturday at 9 a.m. Mark McKee, who oversees the six-week session, says that the kids can sign up at the site.

Mother’s Day Run

    A 5K run and scooter stroll around Fort Pond will be held in downtown Montauk Sunday at 8:30 a.m. The suggested $10 donations are to go to a family in need. Registration, at the Circle’s start-finish line, will be from 7:30.

Roller Hockey

    Three Sportime Arena roller hockey players, Khloe Goncalves, a goalie, and Robby and Brett Nicholson, forwards, won gold medals in tournaments held in Mount Pleasant, Pa., this past weekend. Goncalves won the top goalie award in her age division, and Robby Nicholson won the high-scorer award in his. The three played under the Rapid Fire banner.

Swim Across America

    A Swim Across America fund-raising party is to be held Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Breakwater Yacht Club in Sag Harbor.

Special Olympics

    Whitney Reidlinger reported that “the Springs-East Hampton Special Olympics team had another fantastic showing at the Suffolk County Games this year.”

    Among the Springs School competitors, Lily Islami won a silver medal in the 8-to-11-year-old softball throw, and Paula Retana and Robbie Matz won silver medals in the 8-to-11 50-meter dash.

    Bronze medal winners were Isaiah Brodie, in the 8-to-11 javelin throw, a new event this year; Lily Islami and Isaiah Brodie, in the 8-to-11 50-meter dash, and Paula Retana and Juliana Figueroa, in the 8-to-11 softball throw.

    Robbie Matz placed fourth in the 8-to-11 javelin throw.

    Reidlinger said, moreover, that two members of East Hampton High School’s team, Joseph Hodgens and Anthony Palacios, won gold and silver medals in the 16-to-21-year-old running long jump.

Rowers

    Andrew Hart Adler reported that the Sag Harbor Community Rowing Club’s entrants in last weekend’s Long Island Junior championships in Oyster Bay “earned medals for three boats and picked up plenty of racing experience in the process.”

    Most notably, four Pierson sixth graders, Catherine Spolarich, India Attias, Ava Kiss, and Fallon Attias, won the girls under-14 quad race, moving up from third with 250 meters to go, and winning by a quarter of a length.

    Bronze medals were won by Gavin Nelson and Elias Van Sickle in the boys varsity lightweight double competition, and by Carly Grossman, Gabrielle Ment, Isabelle Milligan, and Julia Talasko in the girls novice quad race.

    Kate Nelson placed fifth in the lightweight singles, and Alex Kamper, Alejo Majcherski, Nathan Alford, and Teague Costello took fifth in the boys novice quad race.

    Moreover, Kate Nelson and Emma Betuel, who “had a run-in with a buoy,” placed sixth in the girls varsity lightweight doubles, and Kamper and Majcherski placed eighth in the boys novice doubles.

   “We just didn’t make the plays and they did,” Lou Reale, East Hampton High’s softball coach, said Tuesday following Monday’s 2-1 loss at Rocky Point.

    The first time around, the Bonackers shut out the Eagles 2-0 as Casey Waleko, their pitcher, dominated. But this time Waleko was not quite as sharp, and she and her teammates could manage only two hits off her opposite number.

    Two errors, on a ground ball and the subsequent throw, led to the home team’s first run. Reale said “two good hits” resulted in the game-winner in the bottom of the sixth inning.

    East Hampton was hoping to snap its two-game losing streak yesterday at home against Shoreham-Wading River.

    When this writer said, “It’s not getting easier,” Reale replied, “It’s not getting any easier — it’s getting harder. That loss yesterday will affect our seeding in the playoffs. We’re not doing what we’re supposed to be doing.”   

    Though it was faced with the daunting task of winning out in order to make the playoffs following a 6-0 loss to Bayport-Blue Point on April 30, the East Hampton High School baseball team gave it its best shot, winning game two of the three-game series with the league leaders before yielding grudgingly, 13-11, in the finale.

    Will Collins, who assists Ed Bahns in coaching the Bonackers, said the second game was played Friday at the Baseball Heaven facility given the fact that the fields at both schools were, because of the rain, unplayable.

    Michael Abreu pitched for East Hampton, and, after giving up a run in the first inning, settled down, shutting out the Phantoms the rest of the way. He allowed only four hits, walked three, and struck out two.

    East Hampton’s runs came in the second and third. A.J. Bennett, the first baseman, led off the second with a base hit. Cameron Yusko was walked, and Abreu moved the runners up to second and third with a sacrifice bunt. Brendan Hughes then grounded out second-to-first, scoring Bennett, and Andrew Rodriguez struck out to end the inning.

    Jimmy McMullan, the designated hitter, led off East Hampton’s third with a single. Deilyn Guzman, the shortstop, forced McMullan at second. With Brandon Brophy, a left-hander, up, Guzman stole second, and moved to third when Brophy grounded out second-to-first. Ryan Joudeh, the catcher, then hit a ball that bounced in front of the plate and rolled down the third-base line, remaining in fair territory as Bayport players looked on and as Guzman crossed the plate.

    “Saturday’s game [played here] is still tough to talk about,” Collins said. “The umpires’ calls were questioned by the coaches of both teams. All I can say is that we overcame 8-1 and 10-4 deficits, and, trailing 13-7, rallied for four runs in our last at-bat, falling just short. . . . It was really heartbreaking for these kids, almost all of whom are seniors. I struggled to find the words in the dugout after the game. Deilyn pitched for us that day and took the loss.”

    Abreu came back after a short rest to start for East Hampton at Elwood-John Glenn Monday and went all the way again on the way to a 12-4 win.

    “Coach Bahns and I asked him how he was feeling on the bus ride there,” said Collins, “and he gave us a thumbs-up. He struck out six in the seven innings he pitched that day, walked six, and gave up nine hits. Three of the runs he gave up were earned. In addition, he went 3-for-3 at the plate and drove in four of our runs. I can’t say enough about this kid. He’s been an absolute blast to have around. We’ve really enjoyed coaching him, and we’ll miss his enthusiasm and toughness.”

    Collins added that Hughes, who played third base Monday in place of the injured Cameron Yusko, “also had a big day at the plate, going 3-for-4, with two r.b.i.s.”

    Glenn is to play game two of the series here today at 4:30 p.m. East Hampton is to finish the season at Glenn tomorrow.

    Having returned from a singular spring training trip to Orlando, Fla., where it had won all eight of its scrimmages, the East Hampton High School softball team flirted with disaster in a crossover game here on April 18 with Eastport-South Manor, but Kathryn Hess, the senior catcher and cleanup hitter, saved the day.

    As a result of Hess’s two-out single to right field in the bottom of the seventh inning, a hit that scored Casey Waleko from second base, the Bonackers went home happy on the long end of a 4-3 score.

    But their coach, Lou Reale, while relieved, wasn’t all that pleased. “It’s the worst I’ve seen us play in a while,” he said during a conversation afterward. “It was pretty ugly. We made errors, we looked at called third strikes — four times, I think it was — and their pitcher was no different from anyone we’d seen in Florida, and we made mental mistakes. . . . We were lucky to come away with a win.”

    The coach was found to be in a better frame of mind Friday morning as he recounted last Thursday’s 7-3 win at Kings Park, a win to which Ellie Cassel, who has been batting sixth in the lineup, contributed mightily, going 4-for-4 at the plate with three doubles and four runs batted in.

    “She hit well at the beginning of the season, and then dropped off a bit, and now she’s making good contact again — I’m thinking of moving her up to fifth in the order,” Reale said of the sophomore outfielder, who played last year on the junior varsity.

    Cassel called attention to her power in the game with Eastport-South Manor, rocketing fouls wide of the left-field line in two at-bats, balls that would have fetched the fence had they stayed fair. But the hitting star in that contest, at least until Hess came through in the seventh, was Bonac’s leadoff batter, Dana Dragone, one of the team’s three seniors.

    In the bottom of the fourth, Dragone, who had doubled in the first but was stranded there as the next three hitters, Waleko, Deryn Hahn, and Hess, were retired — Waleko and Hess on strikeouts — smacked a two-out, two-strike triple down the right-field line that scored Ali Harned, Ilsa Brzezinski, and Ceire Kenny for a 3-0 East Hampton lead.

    Waleko, who was on the mound that day, held the visitors scoreless through the fifth and sixth, though she was clearly getting tired. Eastport loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the sixth, following a single, a walk, and another single, but Waleko fanned the next two batters, the first on a nice 0-2 changeup, and Brzezinski, the sophomore first baseman, snagged a lazy liner hit her way for the third out.

    The visitors led the seventh off with successive singles, the second one to right. Dragone’s throw to Brzezinski arrived too late to record an out at first, and Brzezinski’s subsequent throw across the diamond to Hahn went wide, resulting in Eastport runners at second and third with none out.

    When Waleko fell behind 2-1 on the next batter, Reale came out to talk things over. He left Waleko in, but, with the count 2-2 Waleko’s next pitch was ripped over third, and got by Cassel, who chased what was to be a two-run triple to the fence.

    Having seen enough, Reale replaced Waleko with Sam Mathews and rearranged the outfield so that Waleko was in left, Dragone in center, and Cassel in right.

    Mathews wound up walking the first batter to face her, on a 3-2 pitch. She got the next one on a comebacker to the mound, but Eastport tied the score at 3-3 as a hard-hit ball bounced off the second baseman Ceire Kenny’s shin into Brzezinski’s waiting hands.

    Mathews then gave up another walk, on four straight pitches. A pinch-runner was brought in at first and a sleeveless pinch-hitter strode to the plate. With the count 1-1, the base runner stole second. But she remained there, as Hahn, after gathering in a ground ball hit her way, rifled a throw to the outstretched Brzezinski for the third out.

    Dragone led off East Hampton’s last at-bat by popping out to Eastport’s first baseman. But Waleko, with the count 1-2 — she’d fouled off three successive pitches after taking two strikes — beat out a grounder to short. With Hahn up, Waleko stole second, sliding in ahead of the catcher’s throw, but she remained there as Hahn popped out to second.

    That brought up Hess, who had taken a called third strike in the first, flied out to right in the third, and had been hit by her bunted ball as she ran up the first-base line in the fifth.

    This time, however, Hess came through, lining a 2-1 pitch well up the right-field line, and Waleko came around to score the winning run standing up.

    “Casey didn’t beat that throw by much — she should have slid,” Reale said afterward.

    Waleko struck out 10 that day and walked two, but gave up seven hits — four, Reale said, in the last two innings.

    The next day, Mathews pitched a four-hitter in the aforementioned 7-3 victory at Kings Park. She struck out two and walked none. Her drop ball resulted in the home team’s batters hitting 14 ground balls, Reale said, all but one of which were fielded cleanly.

    Following Saturday’s 24-22 loss in a friendly match with the White Plains Rugby Football Club, Rich Brierley, who coaches the Montauk R.F.C., said, looking ahead to the regional Sweet 16 tournament in Pittsburgh, that he liked Montauk’s chances.

    The Sharks, he said, are to play the Midwest champion (probably Wisconsin) in the first game, on May 12. To advance to the Final Four, which is to be contested in Glendale, Colo., over the June 2-3 weekend, Montauk will have to win both games it plays in Pittsburgh’s Cheswick suburb, home to the Pittsburgh Harlequins.

    To prepare for the Sweet 16, the Sharks, a Division II entry, scheduled friendlies with Division I sides this spring. “Our main goal — even more than the tournament — has been to get a lot of our young guys more experience. . . . Frankly, I thought we played better rugby than White Plains, but they capitalized on a few of our mistakes.”

    That having been said, “I’d much rather that our mistakes stem from aggressive play rather than from just standing around. . . . Some of our young guys were playing matador defense.”

    Montauk scored four tries Saturday, two by Zach Brenneman, the former Notre Dame all-American lacrosse midfielder, one by Connor Miller, and one by Ryan Borowsky. Brenneman and Miller are backs who are new to the game; Borowsky is a veteran forward.

    A breakaway by Erik Brierley, another young back, almost tilted the pendulum Montauk’s way in the final minutes as he streaked to White Plains’ 22-meter line before being brought down.

    A number of the side’s stalwarts, including Nick Finazzo, Teddy Grabowski, and Jarrel Walker, were out of action Saturday, “though, while we’re banged up a bit,” said Rich Brierley, “nobody’s seriously injured. We should be at 100 percent when it comes time to play in Pittsburgh.”

    John Glennon, the team’s hooker, was cited afterward as Montauk’s man of the match. “It’s the forwards who keep you in the game, while the backs generally get the glory,” Brierley said. “The forwards are the ones who provide you with momentum and field position. We rely on our forwards a lot.”

    The Long Island Rugby Club and Montauk are to vie in another friendly match at East Hampton’s Herrick Park this Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m.

    Later that day, from 6 to 11 p.m., the side will hold a Casino Night fund-raiser at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett at which there will also be “a gourmet buffet, a 50-50 raffle, and a massive Chinese auction.”

    The tickets cost $60 per person in advance and $75 at the door. Among the prizes will be “golf foursomes at the Bridge and the South Fork Country Club, gift certificates from local retailers and to local restaurants and inns, spa treatments, and personal training sessions.”

    Tickets can be had by e-mailing Nick Finazzo at [email protected], or by visiting the mountaukrugby.com Web site or the Montauk Rugby Facebook page.

Thursday, May 3

BOYS LACROSSE, Westhampton Beach at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, Bayport-Blue Point at East Hampton, and Pierson at Greenport, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TENNIS, William Floyd at East Hampton, and Ross at Eastport-South Manor, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 4

GIRLS LACROSSE, Mattituck-Greenport-Southold at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, East Hampton at Bayport-Blue Point, and Pierson at Greenport, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, Pierson at Stony Brook, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 5

SOFTBALL, Connetquot at East Hampton, scrimmage, 11 a.m., and Pierson at Mattituck, 2.

RUGBY, intrasquad scrimmage, Herrick Park, East Hampton, 2 p.m.

Sunday, May 6

HALF-MARATHON, Hither Woods, Montauk, with start-finish line at Ed Ecker County Park off Navy Road, 9 a.m., registration from 8.

Monday, May 7

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

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

Tuesday, May 8

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

GIRLS TRACK, Westhampton Beach at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS TRACK, East Hampton at Westhampton Beach, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL, Port Jefferson vs. Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

BASEBALL, Stony Brook vs. Pierson, Mashashimuet Park, Sag Harbor, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 9

SOFTBALL, Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, and Pierson vs. McGann-Mercy, Stotzky Park, Riverhead, 4:30 p.m.

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

BASEBALL, Pierson at Stony Brook, 4:30 p.m.

TRACK, Ross-Pierson boys and girls at Stony Brook, 4:30 p.m.

Ryan Pilla, “the Car Doctor,” is to return to Daytona, Fla., this weekend to compete in pro touring class races there.

“The last time I was in Daytona, in 2006, I had the pole position in the enduro,” the sports car mechanic and driver said Monday. “Two of us, Patrick Dempsey, the actor, and I, shared a Ford factory Mustang. I brought it in in first place after my hour-and-a-half stint. When he finished we were in 15th. This time, I’m driving the entire three hours myself, in a Mazda I built

    East Hampton High’s baseball team, as the result of a 6-0 loss here to league-leading Bayport-Blue Point Monday, will have to win all five of its remaining games in order to make the playoffs.

    The Bonackers were able to take the last of a three-game series with Shoreham-Wading River, winning 14-5 on Friday.

    Will Collins, who assists Ed Bahns in coaching East Hampton’s team, said, “Deilyn Guzman, who pitched for us, went five and two-thirds innings, giving up only three hits and striking out three. He walked five and hit four batters, though.”

    Timely hits by Guzman (a home run), Brandon Brophy, Ryan Joudeh, A.J. Bennett, and Cameron Yusko coupled with Shoreham errors resulted in an early 10-2 lead. Brendan Hughes homered in the sixth inning, his first round-tripper at the varsity level. Bennett finished the game with four runs batted in; Brophy and Yusko, who went 2-for-3, each drove in two.

    In other action Monday, the softball team defeated winless Harborfields 7-2 as Kathryn Hess, the hard-hitting senior catcher, homered. Sam Mathews pitched and got the win. Lou Reale’s team was to have played the League V leader, Islip (10-2), here Tuesday, but rain forced a postponement. East Hampton and Sayville were tied earlier this week for the League VI lead, each at 11-1.

    The girls lacrosse team, as reported elsewhere, is on the cusp of making the playoffs, which would be the first time in the program’s 12-year history. The boys lacrosse team was 4-6 (4-8) as of Tuesday, in 16th place among the 22 teams in Division II. Games remained with Elwood-John Glenn, Westhampton Beach (here today), Bayport-Blue Point, and Babylon (here on Friday, May 11).

    The boys “played very well,” according to their coach, Mike Vitulli, in defeating Deer Park 6-1 on April 24. Vitulli said that in that game Drew Griffiths “won six of nine face-offs, and we were able to generate some long offensive possessions. Defensively, we had success playing a zone. Mike Jara [who had seven saves] played well in the goal for us.”

    Fourth-place Hauppauge defeated East Hampton 15-3 on Friday.

    Westhampton Beach clinched the league championship in boys tennis by edging the Ross School 4-3 at Westhampton Saturday. The Hurricanes’ pivotal point came in third doubles, a three-setter that ended with Westhampton’s duo defeating Jordan Schwimmer and Mikey Peterson 7-5 in the third.

    Ross had won 4-3 in the teams’ first meeting, in Ross’s bubble, earlier in the season.

    Westhampton played at East Hampton Monday, bageling the Bonackers 7-0. Michelle Kennedy, East Hampton’s coach, recently had to recast her lineup inasmuch as Marco Silimbergo, a transfer who had been East Hampton’s number-one, moved back to Florida.