Sports

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.