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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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.