The approaching weekend will likely be an lively one sports-wise, what with the Artists and Writers Softball Recreation at East Hampton’s Herrick Park and the Johnny Mac Tennis Undertaking pro-am on the Sportime membership in Amagansett Saturday, and Ellen’s Run at Southampton’s Intermediate College Sunday morning.
Final yr’s Artists-Writers Recreation, apparently the longest ever performed, was received 11-10 by the Artists within the backside of the twelfth inning. With two outs within the decisive body, Parker Calvert singled, and went all the best way to 3rd on Peter Cestaro’s bloop hit, after which Andrei Lloyd, who was dubbed the Recreation’s Most worthy participant because of this, drilled a John Franco providing into the outfield, scoring Calvert with the game-winner.
Whereas nonetheless approach behind in video games which were contested since 1948, the Artists \u2014 zany within the distant previous, much less so currently \u2014 now lead the Writers 19-15-1 in video games performed within the Invoice Clinton umpiring period. Batting observe on the park is to start at 12:30 p.m.; the Recreation, which advantages East Finish Hospice, Phoenix Home, the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Heart, and the Retreat, is to start at 2. Admission apparently is similar because it ever was, $10.
In June, the Recreation’s board of administrators gave out $1,000 scholarships to a few East Hampton Excessive College college students \u2014 Bradley Rodriguez (journalism), Jadiel Rodriguez (performing arts), and Sienna Salamy (visible arts).
A pregame celebration (stay music, mild meals, money bar) is to be held tomorrow from 6:30 to eight:30 p.m. on the Clubhouse in Wainscott.
Ellen’s Run, a 5K run\/stroll in its thirtieth yr, a race that memorializes Dr. Julie Ratner’s late sister, Ellen Hermanson, celebrates life and friendship, Ratner has stated. “It is greater than a race \u2014 each breast most cancers survivor will get a rose. . . . The help and camaraderie we’ve got on the race is spectacular. . . . The survivors have one of the best power of everybody. There is a large sisterhood amongst them.”
Final yr’s race \u2014 and the three previous it \u2014 was received by Sergey Avramenko, now, at 40, a masters runner who lives in Hampton Bays. A photograph of the taking part breast most cancers survivors is to be taken at 8:40; the race\/stroll is to start at 9. Ratner has stated that attending to Southampton on a Sunday is a bit of cake.
The doorways at Sportime will open to the Johnny Mac pro-am at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The occasion, which helps underwrite the challenge’s efforts to offer New York Metropolis’s “under-resourced” youngsters entry to tennis, is to start at 2. 
 
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