Islanders are part of charitable outing

Golf will bring together the two key players from one of the most pivotal sports trades of all time, and the executive who made the deal. Butch Goring, Billy Harris and Islanders Hall of Fame general manager Bill Torrey will play in the 12th annual family golf outing and auction June 18 at Middle Island Country Club.

The Islanders went on to win the first of their four Stanley Cups soon after Torrey's 1980 deal with the Kings, sending Harris and Dave Lewis to the Kings for Goring. All of them still consider themselves part of the Islanders family, so they will join other alumni in the charity outing run by Joey McMahon, the team's former equipment manager, in memory of his mother, Lee, who died in 1999 of brain cancer and Joey's son, Aidan, who died at 13 months in 2002 of complications from liver disease. Anyone interested in playing or contributing should visit www.lam-foundation.com.

Double eagle

Mark Rossianno of Queens claims that as a golfer, he is "nothing special, about a 12- or 13-handicap, I've broken 80 three times." But just playing golf was a special occasion for Rossianno, who recently had a mild heart attack that required a stent to open an artery. It got even better on the par-5 seventh at Douglaston Golf Course this week. He hit his drive past a right bunker, and drove his cart ahead to see where the flag was, so he would know where to lay up with his 4-iron. He hit that shot 235 yards, saw it bounce, hit the cart path, roll onto the green and into the hole for a double eagle. "I had never seen one before," he said.