The Bad News Bubs, for the third straight year, and the Jetty Grinders, coming out of the losers brackets, won the A and B championships in the four-day Travis Field memorial coed slow-pitch softball tournament held from last Thursday through Sunday at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.
Mike Graham, who oversaw the tourney, said afterward that “it’s the biggest community event of the season . . . the parking lot was full.”
Eight $1,000 scholarships in the late Travis Field’s name were given out to East Hampton High School seniors this year, two of whose recipients, Emma Terry and Hunter Eberhart, threw out first balls before the first game. Schuyler Hand sang the national anthem.
Besides Graham, others who umpired the 20-plus games were Brian Anderson Jr., Austin Bahns, Dylan Field, Henry Gant, Jeff Miller, and Kelly McKee. The pitching in general was superlative and the games were close. The Jetty Grinders had to win two in the end from
Action Irrigation, and they did, by 10-7 and 3-2 scores, the second game ending with the bases loaded, said Graham. The Bubs, a team managed by Brian Turza, in similar fashion took two from Hampton Glass on Sunday, winning the first 9-4, a game in which Tucker Genovesi homered, and winning the second 10-3, a game in which Andrew Rodriguez had some big hits for the Bubs. In their first meeting, Hampton Glass edged the Bubs 14-13.
Doug Dickson was the Bubs’ pitcher, Matt Burns pitched for the Jetty Grinders. But they were among a number of impressive pitchers in the tournament, a list that includes Scott Abran, Rob Nicoletti, Jim Hansen, Thomas Bock, Kevin Farrell, Brian Anderson Jr., and Dawn Green. There were 10 teams in the B bracket, seven in the A bracket.
In other sporting action this past week, the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s women’s team placed second in an all-female regional tournament at Lido Beach — apparently its best finish thus far — and Jordan Daniel, 28, of
Westhampton Beach won Sunday’s Race of Hope in Southampton. Daniel’s time in the 5K was 15 minutes and 21.63 seconds. Sergey Avramenko, a 38-year-old who lives in Hampton Bays, was the runner-up in 16:09.99. Daniel is a two-time winner of the Shelter Island 10K, in 2021 and 2022. He was third in that race this year. The women’s winner on Sunday — and 14th over all — was Curry Fisher of San Francisco, in 20:16.66.
Reportedly 75 youngsters ranging in age from 8 to 18 turned out at the Ross School Saturday for the second Program NYC skills camp that included among its mentors Kenny Smith, JJ Redick, Chris Mullin, Carmelo Anthony, Hamidou Diallo, and Cole Anthony.
The chief goal of Jared Effron and Griffin Taylor, Program NYC’s co-founders, is to restore youth basketball in New York City. “We want to have the best coaches, youth development advisers, and N.B.A. guys available to kids under one roof,” Mr. Taylor told The Star’s Christopher Walsh last summer. The 20,000-square-foot “hub” they’re eyeing would include regulation courts, cardio and weight-training programs, classrooms, locker rooms, gaming rooms, a juice bar, and a retail area.
