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The Hampton Lifeguard Association finished an impressive fifth in the United States Life Saving Association's national tournament in California last week, but the biggest news coming out of the tourney was that four of H.L.A.'s U-19s qualified to compete for the U.S. team in the International Surf Rescue Challenge in New Zealand.

A look back to when Ross Gload was a top major league prospect, and lifeguards in an invitational tournament here did themselves proud, once again.

I'm ashamed to admit that I've done very little fishing this season. But I have a good reason.

“This is one of those rare opportunities when you don’t have to ask taxpayers for money to do the things that improve students’ lives,” the district superintendent said of the newly paid down construction bond.

Seventeen teams, at least two of them including present-day and former East Hampton High School students on their rosters, went at it in A and B brackets over the weekend in Amagansett.

The East Hampton Town and East Hampton Village entries topped the women’s field in last Thursday’s Main Beach invitational lifeguard tournament, while the town’s men’s A team finished third, behind Smith Point and Jones Beach.

Ryder Abran, a key figure in the East Hampton Little League’s county-finalist 10-U all-star team’s most recent season, has overcome a disease that can reduce the ball of the hip’s ball-and-socket joint to putty by interrupting blood flow.

At the Jordan’s Run 5K, which starts just off the hill at the foot of Jordan Haerter’s alma mater, Pierson High School, two more recent grads, Justin Gardiner and Penelope Greene, finished first and second on Sunday.

Last week, Capt. Rich Jensen, who keeps a charter boat at Orient, did something different. He had an open date and took some friends and family out on the water to catch and release sharks.

Thanks to the pitching of Max Kra and a walk-off hit by Alex Schuchard in the bottom of the seventh inning, the East End Ospreys repeated as the Hamptons Adult Hardball league’s champion Sunday in Bridgehampton.

A coed double-elimination softball tournament played each year in memory of Travis Field, who died at age 20 in a car accident in 2008, is to begin at 5 p.m. Thursday with opening ceremonies at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

Nat Butler, a Montauk native, has taken extraordinary photos of N.B.A. players on and off the court over the years, as is abundantly evident in his recently published book, “Courtside: 40 Years of NBA Photography.” At 62, he’s still at it.

On Sunday, I took four of my friends on the water with Capt. Rob Aaronson of the charter boat Oh Brother. It was my first time fishing out of Montauk this season, and it was good to be back home.

“You decide who you are,” Kerri Walsh Jennings, the beach volleyball Olympian, told 50 young people at East Hampton High Monday morning, a day after her surprise visit to the junior lifeguard program at Atlantic Avenue Beach. “You choose what to focus on.”

The week ahead will feature the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s run-swim-run tomorrow at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett and what could be the last 18-mile Paddlers 4 Humanity paddle from Montauk Point to Block Island Saturday.

The East Hampton Little League’s 10-U all-star baseball team became one of only a few in local annals to advance to sectional competition.

It’s a great tradition. The popular Montauk Grand Slam charity fishing tournament — now in its 25th year — will once again be held this weekend at Uihlein’s Marina on West Lake Drive.

There were 163 finishers in the I-Tri empowerment program’s 16th youth triathlon Saturday at Long Beach in Noyac — 129 of them being I-Tri members.

Melina Sarlo, who’s about to enter her sophomore year at Hofstra University, where she’s playing on its women’s lacrosse team and majoring in business, was a member of the Argentine lacrosse team that recently qualified to play in the World Cup championships next summer in Tokyo.

Kerri Walsh Jennings, a five-time Olympian (and three-time gold medalist) from California, will be in town this week to give a youth volleyball clinic at East Hampton High School Monday morning that is to be followed by a pro-am beach volleyball tournament Tuesday at Kirk Park in Montauk.

Memories of a weird, egalitarian “Panathon” road race, and happy times at the Montauk Lighthouse Sprint Triathlon.

The Sag Harbor Whalers celebrated July Fourth by routing the Shelter Island Bucks 16-6 at Mashashimuet Park, “shattering a Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League single-game record with 20 walks.” Plus, Kenny Wood’s son, James, is now an M.L.B. All-Star.

East Hampton’s 12-U Little League team fought its way into the District 36 final by besting the North Shore Americans on July 3.

Maidstone Market, the Tuesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer league’s perennial power, didn’t look that powerful in its first game, but was back to dominant form in the next.

I’ve received an unusual number of emails questioning my Russian heritage.

On the East Hampton Indoor-Outdoor Tennis Club’s 30th anniversary, Scott Rubenstein, its progenitor and managing partner, took stock of his 52 years in the business.

While it might not be ideal for spur-of-the-moment registration, I-Tri’s Hamptons Youth Triathlon on Saturday morning should give spectators plenty to cheer for.

From an epic, 134-mile row to a Tiska teeing off to celebrate a new Gansett back nine, it happened here.

Will Darrell, a former East Hampton High School pitcher who was Vassar’s number-one starter during the college season, is now in his second year playing summer ball with the Sag Harbor Whalers.

Venetia Satow, 18, took up sailing only three years ago, when her family moved full time from England to Sag Harbor. Now competitions are going well both locally and regionally.