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While the world of professional golf will soon focus on the Ryder Cup competition in France, an event contested by teams from the United States and Great Britain, a similar event unfolded this week at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton.

East Hampton High’s girls soccer team won its first game in two years as it shut out Pierson 4-0 here Friday, the same day the girls swimming team cruised by Hauppauge in its home debut at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

William Floyd’s junior varsity freshman football team, with about 40 suited up, probably thought that East Hampton’s jayvee would be easy pickings at Friday night’s homecoming game under the lights, but, as it turned out, the Bonackers lit up the place on their way to winning 30-18.

Noah Avallone of Montauk, who has numerous national and regional snowboarding trophies to his credit, this past weekend won the under-14 (menehune) longboard division at the Eastern Surfing Association’s East Coast championships in Nags Head, N.C.

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Don McGovern and Kevin McConville, East Hampton High’s boys soccer and girls tennis coaches, have good teams, but they were thinking this week of ways in which they could become even better.

Kathy McGeehan, the veteran coach of East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball team, said in the first week of the season that this edition had the potential to be one of her best. She probably should have said had the potential to be her best, period.

While Monday wasn’t homecoming — this coming weekend is — it seemed as if it were: Five of East Hampton High School’s teams played here that day, with three of them, girls volleyball, field hockey, and boys soccer, winning, and with two of them, girls tennis, which had been undefeated, and junior varsity football, losing.

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The East Hampton High School girls swimming team and the junior varsity football team each lost season openers Friday, though discounting the 13 points awarded for diving, Craig Brierley’s girls would have defeated Connetquot, the home team, which wound up a 93-88 winner.

Joe Vas, East Hampton’s athletic director, was upbeat as he spoke this past week of the large turnouts most of the fall sports teams have enjoyed, of coaching changes that ought to further strengthen various programs, and of work that is to begin soon to improve the varsity baseball and softball fields.

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Joe Vas, East Hampton’s athletic director, has had to deal with fall northeasters and rain in the past, but never so much with the heat.

Sunday’s Mighty Hamptons Triathlon, a memorial to the late Steve Tarpinian, was won by a first-timer, Andrew Kalley, 35, of New York City, in 2 hours, 7 minutes, and 42 seconds.

Isabella Tarbet broke a toe on “something” in the surf the day before an ocean lifeguard test that she wanted to take this summer, but it’s all right now, as she proved in the Great Bonac 5K in Springs Monday, finishing fifth among the females in Great Bonac’s 5K.

Men’s slow-pitch came back to the Terry King ball field in Amagansett this spring following a five-year absence during which many of Amagansett’s former players swelled the numbers in Montauk’s bar league.

Several of East Hampton High’s fall sports teams saw action in the past week.

Michel Vaillancourt, who designed Sunday’s Grand Prix course, one that he thought was “tough, but not super tough,” predicted during the walkthrough that the 34 horse and rider combinations would have trouble at the next to last fence, owing to the fact that after having pushed their mounts through an in-and-out preceding it they’d have little time to collect themselves for the penultimate one.

Thursday, September 6

FIELD HOCKEY, Port Jefferson at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER, Southampton at East Hampton, nonleague, 4:30 p.m.

GOLF, East Hampton at Center Moriches, 4 p.m.

Friday, September 7

GIRLS TENNIS, William Floyd at East Hampton, 4 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER, East Hampton at Islip, 4:30 p.m.

GIRLS SWIMMING, East Hampton at Connetquot, mandatory nonleague, 5 p.m.

FOOTBALL, East Hampton junior varsity at Hampton Bays, 6 p.m.

Saturday, September 8

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Masters swimmers who participate in Tim Treadwell’s classes at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter and at Albert’s Landing met in a competitive meet at Bill and Dominique Kahn’s house in Georgica Close Saturday, the chief winner of which was the Lustgarten Foundation for pancreatic cancer research, which netted $8,000, twice as much as had been raised in the inaugural event last year.

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The weather was balmy, and cute beribboned kids, surrounded by enthusiastic clutches of cooing, photo-snapping parents and relatives, abounded Sunday morning as trainers readied them for the 2-to-4 and 5-to-7-year-old leadline classes, the first of the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show’s competitions in the Grand Prix ring.

Nine Sag Harbor sailing crews participated in this year’s Antigua and Barbuda Hamptons Challenge sailing regatta on Aug. 18, with the Breakwater Yacht Club boat Seventh Heaven, captained by Greg and Jennifer Ames, coming in second place. Osprey, another boat from Sag Harbor and captained by George Martin, finished third.

The crew of the winning boat, August Sky, captained by Phil Walters, won a free trip to Antigua for the 2019 Antigua Race Week in April, courtesy of the government of Antigua and Barbuda. August Sky races out of the Lloyd Harbor and Centerport Yacht Clubs.

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The Hampton Classic’s 60-acre Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton were quiet Friday afternoon, a little more than a week before the weeklong hunter-jumper show, one of the top ones in North America, is to begin with Sunday morning’s leadline classes judged by Joe Fargis, an Olympic gold-medal winner.

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