Double Dip Tourney (and Other Briefs)
Double Dip Tourney
A highly competitive eight-team five-on-five basketball tournament, a benefit for the LuMind Research Down Syndrome Foundation and the IDEAL School of Manhattan, was held at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett Saturday, with Jason Grossman’s White Team, which included Nick Tuths of East Hampton, emerging as the winner. The Whites defeated the Purple Team, on which David Locascio, formerly of Sag Harbor, played, 11-5 in the final. Tuths had a lot to do with the White Team’s success, blocking shots and knocking down shots from long range. Others on the winning team were Cliff Teller, Sam Teller, Reese Grossman, and Andrew Chung.
Anthony Provident puts the tournament on and is the host of a fund-raising party in the evening. Besides Tuths, other former East Hampton High School basketballers who played were Brandon Kennedy-Gay (the day’s high-scorer), Kyle McKee, Brian Marciniak, and Will Shapiro. While the games were hotly contested, only one player, Ethan Feldman, who is on New York University’s team, came to grief, suffering an ankle injury crashing into the boards after making a layup.
Sailing Race Is On
The Antigua & Barbuda Hamptons Challenge sailing race in and around Noyac Bay is to be held in Sag Harbor Saturday, with a tentative starting time of 10 a.m. The winner’s prize, said to be the largest sailing prize offered between Maine and Florida, is to be an all-expense-paid trip to Antigua for the captain and crew to Antigua’s Sailing Week in 2019.
Rob Roden, the race’s founder, died Saturday, at the age of 70, though his wife, Theresa, has said the race will go on. Roden’s life will be celebrated at the awards party, which is to be held at Havens Beach from 5 to 8 p.m. that day. Proceeds will benefit Theresa Roden’s popular I-Tri “transformation through triathlon” program for adolescent girls.
Runs Scratched
The East Hampton Rotary Club’s 5 and 10K road races scheduled to be held at Fresh Pond in Amagansett at 9 a.m. Saturday were canceled, the timer, Bob Beattie, said, because of an electrical storm. The decision, he said, was made at 7 a.m. Soon after, he added, a house nearby was struck by lightning. Beattie said, in reply to a question, that the races may be rescheduled for October. “It takes 30 days to get a permit,” he said.
Add a Paddler
In reporting the results of the recent Paddle for Pink paddleboard races in Sag Harbor, Josette Lata’s name was omitted in listing the winners: She was the first female among the 14-foot stand-up paddleboarders in the 6-mile race. Kim Nalepinski was the top female paddler in that category in the 3-miler.