Sports

This coming weekend will be a busy one sports-wise, with the Artists and Writers Softball Game at East Hampton’s Herrick Park Saturday afternoon and Ellen’s Run at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Sunday morning.

In the end, Leif Hope, who has been an integral part of The Game for a half-century, said, it’s all about entertainment and raising money for four local charities — the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, Phoenix House, the Retreat, and East End Hospice.

The Hampton Lifeguard Association, as it did last year, placed sixth in the United States Lifesaving Association’s national tournament in Virginia Beach this past weekend.

The recent graduate of Messiah College in Pennsylvania, who was the nation’s leading scorer in men’s soccer in the fall, has signed a contract with Stumptown Athletic of Charlotte, N.C., an entry in the newly formed National Independent Soccer Association.

The Strides for Life 3-miler in Southampton Sunday morning drew a field of around 600 and made significant fund-raising strides as well for the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, to the tune of about $365,000.

Aside from the big-ticket Artists and Writers Game and Ellen's Run, there's plenty of slow-pitch softball and a tennis pro-am in Southampton Saturday.

The Pink Panthers, a team made of up the late Travis Field’s schoolmates and friends, made it four in a row at the popular softball tournament played in his name this past week at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

A hotly contested five-on-five basketball tournament at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett and 3 and 6-mile paddleboard races off Havens Beach in Sag Harbor Saturday morning left their contestants spent, while at the same time raising money to be spent on Down syndrome and breast cancer research.

Julie Ratner has from the beginning seen to it that nearly all of the money raised by the race, put on by the Ellen P. Hermanson Foundation, has been put to good use here. Ellen’s Run happens on Aug. 18, starting from Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Block Island paddle leaves from the Montauk Lighthouse early Saturday, while East Hampton lifeguards hit the national competition in Virginia Beach this weekend and men's and women's slow-pitch teams take to the Terry King field in Amagansett.

Town and village ocean lifeguard squads from East Hampton to as far as Jones Beach gathered at Main Beach last Thursday to compete in the 33rd annual Main Beach Ocean Lifeguard Tournament.

The Sag Harbor course of Jordan’s Run, a 5K in memory of Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter, who lost his life in saving those of 150 fellow servicemen in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2008, took its 448 participants by Pierson High School, from which he’d graduated, across the bridge to North Haven named after him, and along Oakland Cemetery, where he is buried.

At dawn on Aug. 10, a Paddlers 4 Humanity fleet of 50 or so paddleboarders and kayakers is to set forth for Block Island from the foot of the Montauk Lighthouse, and it goes without saying that the roughly 18-mile crossing is challenging.

East Hampton Soccer Fever and Maidstone Market played to 1-1 ties in two games in the 7-on-7 league’s regular season, but in the playoff final at East Hampton’s Herrick Park last week, it was all Maidstone.

Bonac's 11-and-under softballers take third place upstate, and an East Hampton paddler embarks on a 25-mile race around Manhattan on Saturday.

It's Travis Field benefit softball tourney time, while a benefit paddle happens at Havens Beach on Saturday. And don't forget the junior lifeguarding competition at Indian Wells this weekend.

The day the N.F.L. pros came to visit East Hampton High, and the story of the Bonacker who became Denver's TV sports guy, covering the Broncos and John Elway.

After Tom Cronin and Toby Green, both Shelter Islanders, circumnavigated Long Island, a distance of about 250 miles, last Sept. 11 on Jet Skis, Green suggested that their next run be to Key West, so they turned the trip into a world record attempt and a fund-raiser.

No sooner had East Hampton’s 11-under softball players celebrated their regional championship “mercy rule” win over the Bohemia-based Sunrise Hawks here on Sunday than they were called back to resume play, so they promptly wrapped it up, 22-7.

There was a double dip athletic-wise in Montauk last weekend — the 5K, one-mile, and half-mile ocean challenge swims for the Montauk Playhouse Foundation on Saturday and the Lighthouse sprint triathlon the next day.

Heading into the Wednesday evening league's championship game at Herrick Park, it was hard to pick a favorite between the East Hampton Soccer Fever and Maidstone Market 7-on-7 men’s soccer teams.

A lifeguarding tourney at Main Beach on Thursday, Jordan's Run in Sag Harbor on Sunday, and lots of slow-pitch softball.

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.

Baker, fresh from a fifth-place finish in the badminton tournament at the national senior games in Albuquerque, played golf, basketball, and baseball at East Hampton High School, whose Hall of Fame he’ll enter this fall as a member of Bonac’s 1965-66 championship boys hoop team.

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.

An 11-year-old triathlete from Brooklyn, Macy Putka, who started off in the third wave, wound up winning the I-Tri program’s 10th youth triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach on Saturday in 35 minutes and 59.27 seconds, besting a record turnout of 145 entrants.

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.”

Open water Ocean Challenge swims happen at Ditch Plain Saturday, and the Montauk Lighthouse Sprint Triathlon is Sunday.

Oz Pearlman, 36, of New York City, who besides a number of marathon wins is known as a magician and mentalist, won, perhaps predictably, Sunday’s Firecracker 8K (4.96-mile) race in Southampton in 27 minutes and 36.68 seconds, topping a field of 245 entrants.