AVON PARK The Avon Park soccer program will host its "Kick in the Grass" golf tournament on at River Greens Golf Course. It will be an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start, with all the proceeds going to the Avon Park soccer program. The cost is $50 per player, with a 50/50 drawing and other prizes available. Hole sponsorships are available for $100 ($250 for displaying company sponsorship).
For more information, contact assistant coach John P. Vincent III at 863-381-6526 or jpvincentIII@hotmail.com
SEBRING A wooden bat league is being formed for those interested softball players who are 50 years or older. Teams will be selected in a draft and the league will start Jan. 12. All games will be played at the Highlands County Sports Complex. Those interested should contact Harry Bell at 863-382-0542 or Bill Todd at 863-385-5632.
LAKE PLACID The Royal Palms Youth Bowling League (ages 7 and up) will start the spring season on Saturday, Jan. 2. New bowlers are welcome. Sign-up fee is $20, which includes a shirt. Bowling is every Saturday morning at 9 a.m. through April 10. Cost weekly is $11 and includes three games of bowling, shoes and a prize fund. All youth league bowlers are eligible for a reduced rate open bowling and free bowling with instructions on Fridays, 4-6 p.m., and must be accompanied by an adult.
Contact Frank Peterson at 863-382-9541 for more information.
SEBRING Sebring High School is selling All Sport Passes for the 2009-10 school year. The pass is valid for all home sporting events, excluding FHSAA sponsored playoffs and tournaments.
The cost of the pass is $75 per adult and $50 per student. They are on sale in the front office, check payable to Sebring High School.
SEBRING A nine-week junior tennis after-school program for kids ages 4-18 will begin Jan. 4 through Mar. 5 at the Thakkar Tennis Center at Sebring Country Club. The program will be run by Horace Watkins, a USPTA certified pro with more than 25 years experience teaching junior tennis.
Call Watkins at 863-414-2164 or the Country Club at 863-386-4282.
AVON PARK South Florida Community College will host its annual baseball camp for only high school baseball players on Dec. 19.
Cost for the camp is $60 per camper, and the first 40 registered campers will be accepted.
SFCC baseball coach Rick Hitt will serve as camp director, and camp instructors include Panthers assistant coaches Andy Polk and Chad Wright.
For more information, go to www.southflorida.edu or contact Hitt at hittr@southflorida.edu or 863-453-6661.
SEBRING Sun 'N Lake Country Club is holding junior clinics every Friday from 3:30-5 p.m.
Professionals Andy Kesling and Marty O'Hora will teach all the fundamentals of the game, including the grip, stance, full swing, chipping, putting, rules, etiquette, etc. No need to sign up; just show up. Cost per clinic is $15.
For more information, contact Kesling at 863-385-4830.
SEBRING The Highlands County Horseshoe Club league play at the Lee Palmer Complex in Sebring is open to all men and women that like to pitch horseshoes. Contract Irve Swihart at 863-452-6899 for more information.
SEBRING Sebring girls coach Debby McNall and Kim Darrow will host junior golf clinics beginning Thursdays at 4 p.m. at the Sebring Municipal Golf Course.
The cost is $10 per junior (ages 5 and up), and those participating will receive instruction in all aspects of the game. Contact McNall at 863-257-1108 or 863-386-9492 for more information.
AVON PARK The Avon Park Project Graduation golf tournament will be held on Saturday, Jan. 2 at River Greens Golf Course, with a 8:30 a.m. shotgun start.
The tournament format is a four-person scramble and the cost is $60, which includes greens fees, food and prizes. There is a $100 hole sponsor cost, and $350 corporate sponsor fee (hole sign, four golfers, food and eight mulligans). There also will be raffle prizes, longest drive contests and closest-to-the-pin contests.
For more information, contact 863-453-5210.
AVON PARK The SFCC baseball holiday youth camp will be held from Dec. 21-23 at 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. for all youngsters ages 6-13. The cost is $75 per child, and the youth camp includes baseball instruction, baseball fundamentals, technique champions, and games and awards. Camp instructors are head baseball coach Rick Hitt and staff as well as Panthers baseball players.
SEBRING The American Legion Post 74 will host an 18-hole scramble on Saturday, Dec. 19 at Sebring Municipal Golf Course. The tournament costs $55 per person, which includes golf, range balls, one mulligan, door prizes and closest to the pin for men and women. There will be three flights - A, B and C - and hole sponsors are available for $50 per hole. The tournament begins at 8:30 a.m.
For more information, contact Paul Morris at 863-446-2064, or Kim at 863-314-5919.
LAKE PLACID The Lake Placid men's senior softball league is inviting new players to join the league for the 2010 season. Interested players should come to the Lake June ball fields on Mondays and Wednesday at 9 a.m. to participate in informal practice sessions. Team rosters will be established at the end of December and league play will begin the first week in January and run through March.
SEBRING The Highlands County Parks and Recreation Department announce that registration for winter leagues will start Dec. 7 and run through Thursday, Dec. 31. games played at the Highlands County Sports Complex, beginning Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, include men's slow pitch, women's, church, recreation and co-ed leagues. Leagues are open to all adults and youth ages 16 and older.
Also, there will be an umpire's meeting Dec. 29 at 7 p.m., and a meeting for coaches only on Dec. 30 at 7 p.m. at the sports complex. Contact Dan Jamison at 863-381-8269 or leave a message at the Highlands County Sports Complex at 863-402-6755 for more information.
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