April 2, 1998
The East Hampton High School girls softball team, behind the pitching of its senior ace, Annemarie Cangiolosi, and thanks to sterling team defense, nipped Patchogue-Medford 1-0 to win the Police Athletic League Softball Tournament here on Saturday.
. . . “Annemarie pitched a great game -- she kept them off balance,” said Lou Reale, East Hampton’s coach. “Her drop pitch was working great. They only hit the ball into the outfield twice.”
. . . Cangiolosi and Mylan Le, East Hampton’s shortstop, who homered twice and drove in six runs in a 20-1 opening-round win over Southold-Greenport, shared the tournament’s most valuable player award.
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Jeremy Blutstein, although unchallenged, came within nine-tenths of a second of the East Hampton High School 800-meter record in a scrimmage here on March 25 with Hampton Bays.
. . . Despite the fact that he won going away -- by 23 seconds -- Blutstein, an East Hampton senior, who also has his eye on the school’s 1,600-meter record, won the 800 in two minutes and 3.5 seconds, just missing the 2:02.6 mark set by Artie Fisher in 1988.
“I’m sure he’ll break the record,” said East Hampton’s coach, Kevin Barry. “He should be the first East Hampton guy to break two minutes.”
April 23, 1998
For the third year in a row, Maurice Manning, who led the Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees to a third-straight state Class D boys basketball championship in Glens Falls last month, has been named to Newsday’s all-Long Island team.
. . . Manning finished a stellar four-year career with 1,831 points, setting a Bridgehampton record. In the season just past he averaged 20.6 points, 12.6 rebounds, 6.7 assists, and 4.0 steals per game, according to a bio that appeared in the Newsday issue that featured the all-Long Island team.
The bio noted further that Manning was the only player in state history ever to be named a state-tournament most valuable player three times. “No one’s ever done that, and maybe nobody else ever will,” said Carl Johnson, Bridgehampton’s coach.
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For the second year in a row, the Montauk Rugby Club is the Northeast regional Division II champion, prevailing 24-14 over Worcester, Mass., on Saturday and coming back to put Danbury, Conn., away 27-7 in Sunday’s final.
. . . “I don’t think the guys realize what they’ve done,” Frank Bistrian, Montauk’s spokesman and number-eight man, said Monday. “We’re not only the best on Long Island or in New York State, but we’re the best team in the Northeast. It’s a lot bigger than I think we give ourselves credit for.”
. . . The team flew Rob Balnis, its all-America fullback, up from Washington, D.C., and was glad it did. Balnis’s play was a key factor in both games. With Montauk nursing a slim 17-14 lead in the final minutes of Saturday’s clash with Worcester, Balnis repeatedly ran up Worcester clearing kicks to keep the pressure on.
April 30, 1998
The nine-hole public Poxabogue Golf Course off Route 27 in Sagaponack was sold on April 15, though the new manager, Scott Terilli, a former assistant golf professional at the Whippoorwill Country Club in Armonk, N.Y., said that other than a face-lift confined to the pro shop and parking lot, he anticipated no major changes.
. . . Poxabogue is one of three public courses here – the others are Montauk Downs and the Sag Harbor Golf Course. The nine-hole layout was designed, said Rich Walker, Poxy’s outgoing manager, by Alfred H. Tull, and was opened for play as a membership club open to the public in 1962. Tull also designed the Bethpage State Park’s yellow course, Sunken Meadow, the Muttontown Golf and Country Club, and the Nassau Country Club’s courses, said Walker, who has been Poxy’s manager for the past seven years. Poxabogue dropped its membership and became an entirely public course “around 1982,” Walker said.