Mandeville Lightning tryouts

The Mandeville Lightning, an 11-year old United States Specialty Sports Association travel baseball team, is holding open tryouts for the upcoming 2009 season on Nov. 22 and 23 at Harbor Field in Mandeville.

For more details, please contact Ray LoCicero at (504) 554-1784. Pelican Running Club

The Pelican Running Club is a Pelican Athletic Club community program and is in its third marathon-training season. The group meets each Saturday morning at 7 at the Mandeville Trailhead for a group training run on the Tammany Trace. 

The suggested training schedules (available online at mardigrasmarathon.com) are designed for folks training to complete their first marathon or half-marathon event. The group is very participatory in nature and we’ve had great fun the past two years preparing for the New Orleans Mardi Gras Marathon events. The training group is open to the community. For more information call 966-7887 or visit fklinge@thepac.com.

NCS hosting

basketball camp

Northlake Christian School is sponsoring a Thanksgiving basketball camp Nov. 24-26 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day for participants in grades 1-7. The $100 camp fee includes a T-shirt.

Coaches Monty Fontenot and Ryan Perkins, a former Wolverines’ basketball player and graduate, will conduct the camp. It will include demonstrations, 5-on-5 league play, group fundamentals and station work with contests and prizes. No lunch will be served, but the camp store will be open with snack items for sale. Basketball campers will be able to deposit money in a camp bank account to purchase snacks.

To pre-register, send check payable to WAPA or you can register on the morning of Nov. 24. For more information call 892-2683, ext. 2001.

SHS boys’ soccer Alumni Game

Slidell High will be hosting an Alumni soccer game on Dec. 27 at 2 p.m. to help raise money for the current team and to celebrate the school’s 100th anniversary.

SHS is looking for all former players from the 1980s to 2008, who would like to participate. A $25 donation is asked from all players.

For more information, call Slidell coach James Gipson at 290-8886.

The program is trying to keep a firm count on the number of players, so send checks or contact Gipson by Dec. 22.

Franklinton Nationals

The Franklinton Nationals 11U boys United States Specialty Sports Association team is holding tryouts.

For more information, call Monica at 502-7770.

Montz holding soccer camps

The Jared Montz Pro Soccer Camps will be held Dec. 13-14 at Coquille Sports Complex and Dec. 27-31 at Pelican Park.

Montz is a Mandeville High graduate and professional soccer player.

Both clinics are for children ages 5-13. The one at Coquille will run from 1-4 p.m. Cost is $75 if you sign up by Dec. 12 and $85 by Dec. 13.

The cost includes an autographed picture, Montz soccer ball, question and answer session, chances to win Montz gear, prize giveaway, camper action pictures from e-mail and a chance to be on Montz TV.

Campers must provide water, ball, cleats, shin guards and sunscreen.

For the clinic at Pelican Park, the cost is $180 by Nov. 25, $195 by Dec. 26 and then $205 by Dec. 27. The cost covers the same things in both camps, but participants receive a T-shirt in the second camp.

The camp will run from 1-4 p.m. on Dec. 27-28 and 9 a.m. until noon Dec. 29-31.

For more information, you can call 237-0763, visit www.jaredmontz.com or e-mail montzjc@aol.com.

Umpire training begins on Jan. 11

Training for high school and recreational baseball/softball umpires begins on Jan. 11, 2009.

No experience is necessary, and the average pay is $18 an hour.

For more information call Gary Dragna at 845-9444 or e-mail him at GSD742@aol.com.

Youth tennis

program offered

The Northshore Tennis Association has an ongoing Junior and Mr. Pee Wee development tennis program for boys and girls ages 4-18.

It starts with private or semi-private sessions to familiarize youngsters with tennis terms, stroke production and procedures. The year-round programs are held on the Kehoe-France Northshore School and public courts in Covington and Mandeville.

Competitions are held for boys and girls 10 and under that have not been ranked on a state level and are new to tournament competition.

Yearly registration is $25 and $5 and an unopened can of tennis balls is required per tournament or $8 total per tournament.

For more information call Peter Taggard at 373-6487 or Alan Avodyan at 845-2322.