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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.

East Hampton’s 11-and-12-year-old all-stars were to have played Longwood Wednesday night in the District 36 final, having edged Moriches Bay 2-1 here at the Pantigo fields in a very tense semifinal Monday evening.

The last time, in February, that Frank Ackley played in a United States Tennis Association national tournament, he couldn’t walk the day after losing a round-of-16 match in three sets to the 70s division’s top-ranked player, Ken Dahl of Montreal.

Vanessa Edwardes and Haley Ryan run the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s increasingly popular Nippers program for kids too young to be junior lifeguards. 

The lineup for the playoff semifinals of the Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer league that are to be contested at East Hampton’s Herrick Park Wednesday was to have been arrived at in games played on July 10.

Men's and women's slow-pitch softball dominates the calendar, but on Saturday there's a youth triathlon at Long Beach and a horsey fund-raiser with Georgina Bloomberg in Water Mill.

A bittersweet look back at East Hampton's high school baseball playoffs run of 1994, and the day Irish soccer fans went nuts in Montauk.

Maxine de Havenon, who sailed with the East Hampton High-Ross School team beginning as a seventh grader, graduated recently from Brown University as a national champion, an honorable mention all-American, and as New England’s sportswoman of the year.

Molly Cuevas, a former all-American field hockey player at Adelphi, finished the last leg of her 3,000-plus-mile cross-country fund-raising run at around 10 a.m. Saturday morning at the Circle in Montauk, where she was greeted by a crowd of about 50.

A grass-court pro-am at Buckskill on Saturday, while Sunday morning brings the Firecracker 8K in Southampton.

Both of East Hampton’s traveling all-star baseball teams were on a good footing as of Sunday, with the 11-12s heading out of pool play looking especially strong and the 9-10s pretty good.

A look back at the baseball exploits of East Hampton's Ross Gload, plus the Potatohampton 10K follies.

Richie Daunt, the wiry, hard-punching fighter from Montauk, two for two in recent bouts, is looking forward to a regional tournament early next month. The winners are to advance to the nationals, whose winners, in turn, are to go on to the Olympic trials.

“It’s a rite of summer,” said Scott Barter as about 150 youngsters ages 9 through 15 gathered on “the mound” at Amagansett’s Indian Wells Beach Saturday morning, where they were welcomed by John Ryan Sr. and John Ryan Jr. to the 2019 junior lifeguard season.

Molly Cuevas, 24, a former All-American field hockey player at Adelphi, can also say come Saturday that she is a cross-country runner, inasmuch as she will have run in the course of three months 3,000-plus miles from Santa Monica, Calif., to Montauk.

The Little League tournament is here, plus plenty of slow-pitch in the coming week.

The postseason slate of District 36 Little League playoff games began last weekend, with good results insofar as East Hampton’s traveling all-star boys teams were concerned.

The weather was about as good as it’s ever been at the Shelter Island 10K Saturday, bright with a fortifying wind out of the southwest, a good day for the 1,000-plus finishers.