This weekend promises to be a sporting one with the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s Run-Swim-Run tomorrow evening at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach; I-Tri’s youth triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach and the Rell Sunn benefit surf contest at Ditch Plain in Montauk on Saturday; the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League’s all-star game at Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park Saturday at 5, and the Montauk Lighthouse sprint triathlon Sunday morning that is to begin at 6:30 with a half-mile bay swim at the end of East Lake Drive.
It is the second year for the H.L.A.’s run-swim-run, whose proceeds will help underwrite the expenses of transporting the organization’s junior and senior guards to and from the national lifeguard tournament in Virginia Beach, Va., next month.
There will be two races at Atlantic tomorrow, beginning with an A race comprising a half-mile run, a half-mile swim, and a half-mile run at 6 p.m., followed by a B race at 6:30 with quarter-mile distances.
The youth triathlon, for which the many teenage girls in I-Tri’s empowerment program for female middle schoolers spanning Mastic and Montauk have been training, is open to girls and boys ages 10 to 17. It begins at 7 a.m. Saturday. Participants are to swim 300 yards in Noyac Bay, bike six miles, and run 1.5 miles.
Matteo Somma, a member of the Long Island Youth Triathlon Team, which trains at the Nassau County Aquatic Center, Tobay Beach, and Stony Brook University, won it last year; Dylan Cashin, of East Hampton, was the runner-up, with Liam Knight, also of East Hampton, third.
Later that day, at 5, the collegiate baseball league’s all-star game is to be held at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor, the summer home of the Sag Harbor Whalers, the defending playoff champions. As of Monday, the Whalers were in second place, at 12-9, behind the league-leading 15-7 Westhampton Aviators.
Jake Tobin, who co-coaches the Whalers with Bianca Smith, said Sunday night that the following Whalers may play in the all-star game, before a crowd that will include pro scouts: Max Hart, a left-handed pitcher, who as of last week had the best earned run average in the league, at 1.65; Cole Forcellina, Patrick Teehan, and Garrett Bolwell, all pitchers; Daniel Laderman, an outfielder; Milo Suarez and Mark Henshon, infielders, and, possibly, Gabe Caso, a catcher.
“We’ve got the best bullpen in the league,” said Tobin in recounting Sunday’s 9-4 win over the North Fork Ospreys. Ryan Seaver, who gave up two earned runs in five innings, was the winning pitcher. Forcellina finished up. A two-run home run by Lucas Pierce, the catcher, tied the score at 2-2 in the top of the third. “After that,” said Tobin, “it was all Whalers.”
The sprint triathlon (half-mile swim, 14-mile bike, and 3.1-mile trail run) was won last year — for the eighth time — by Tom Eickelberg, a pro triathlete, of Newburgh, N.Y., in one hour and 54 seconds. Olivia Ebenstein was the women’s winner, and seventh over all, in 1:10:44. Neil Falkenhan, of East Hampton, was third, in 1:09:22, and Thomas Brierley, also of East Hampton, was ninth.
