Surfers from 7 to 70 took to the waters at Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk on Saturday for the 21st annual Rell Sunn Surf Contest, with all proceeds going to local families “encountering financial hardships due to debilitating illnesses or other tragic circumstances.”
Going into the July 17 playoff semifinals in the 7-on-7 men’s soccer league, top-seeded East Hampton Soccer Fever, which was undefeated, and second-seeded Maidstone Market, which had one loss, seemed headed for a showdown in the championship game that’s to be played at East Hampton’s Herrick Park on July 24.
Two Shelter Islanders, Toby Green, the high school’s boys cross-country and track coach, and Tommy Cronin, set forth on Jet Skis from Wades Beach there on June 30 with two goals: to set a Guinness world unassisted Jet Ski distance record and to raise $50,000 on behalf of Cronin’s 8-year-old great-niece, who has a rare skin disease.
East Hampton’s traveling 11-and-12-year-old Little League all-star baseball team, which had won the District 36 tournament as a 9-10 entry in 2017, lost 5-0 to Longwood at the North Shore Little League field on July 10, finishing the season at 6-1.
