Major league clinic Major league clinic ADVERTISING today in Keaukaha The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association will conduct a free youth baseball clinic for boys and girls ages 5-16 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Hualani Park
Major league clinic
today in Keaukaha
The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association will conduct a free youth baseball clinic for boys and girls ages 5-16 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Hualani Park in Keaukaha.
Registration will start at 9:30 a.m. All participants must bring a registration/waiver form signed by a parent or legal guardian, a hat, a baseball glove, shoes and a water bottle.
Forms are available at the Department of Parks and Recreation’s main office at 799 Piilani St. in Hilo and county gyms around the island.
For more information, call Darrell Yamamoto at 961-8735 or 938-2012.
Vulcan golf benefit
postponed for now
The 2nd Annual Vulcans Scholarship Endowment Golf Benefit has been postponed. The event was scheduled for Friday, June 14 at the Hilo Municipal Golf Course.
A future date has not yet been determined.
HPA seeking JV
volleyball coach
Hawaii Preparatory Academy is seeking applications for a girls junior varsity volleyball coach for the 2013-14 season. For more information, contact athletic director Stephen Perry at sperry@hpa.edu.
Mana Silva
football clinic
Mana Silva of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills will conduct a free football clinic from 10 a.m.-noon on June 15 at the Panaewa Park gym.
According to a release, the clinic will feature offense and defense modern concepts as well as techniques and skills.
Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.
Refreshments and autographs follow the clinic.
For more information call Maurice Silva at 989-8974.
Primetime Football
Clinic at Honokaa
The Primetime Football Clinic, which features a handful of prominent Hawaii football coaches, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 22 at Honokaa High School’s football field.
Football players entering grades 7-12 may participate in the free clinic, and registration runs from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. Participants must bring cleats and athletic shorts.
The clinic will include drills for all positions, a one-hour lunch break and seven-on-seven competition.
Instructors include longtime Oahu football Cal Lee, University of Hawaii strength and conditioning coordinator Tommy Heffernan, UH assistant strength and conditioning coordinator Grant Steen and former Saint Louis football player Pulou Tata, who also played fullback at Oregon.
Primetime Football Clinic organizers will give away free T-shirts to the first 100 players who register.
For more information, contact Honokaa coach Bobby Embernate at 854-7509.
Puna AYSO fall
soccer sign-ups
Puna AYSO soccer is accepting registration for the 2013 fall season, which runs from mid-August until November. AYSO accepts new and returning girls and boys between the ages of 4 and 18. Participants must be 4 as of Aug. 1, 2013.
Practice days and game schedule will be determined once registration is complete. Players can register on-line at www.eayso.org -Region 738. Print three copies of the registration form and mail with payment to: AYSO PUNA, P.O Box 955, Keaau, Hi 96749.
Registration fee for Fall 2013 is $65. Late registration after July 27 will be $75. AYSO is an all-volunteer organization which promotes good sportsmanship and positive coaching. Enrollment is open to all, and everyone plays on equally balanced teams. The league trains all coaches and referees. For further information, call 965-6648.
Coach Jimmy
Yagi Summer
Basketball Camp
University of Hawaii women’s head basketball coach Laura Beeman and assistant Gavin Petersen will take part in the inaugural Coach Jimmy Yagi Summer Hoops Camp, sche duled July 31-Aug. 3 in Hilo.
The skill-development camp is for boys and girls ages 9-17 and will be held concurrently at Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium and the new Panaewa Covered Basketball Courts.
P&R Director and Coach Yagi camp director Clayton Honma said UH-Hilo women’s head basketball coach David Kaneshiro also plans to instruct at the camp, and possibly another coach from a Hawaii D-II college may help out.
The camp is being sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department, the Hawaii Police Department’s HI-PAL Program and the nonprofit Big Island All-Stars.
The camp is named in honor of former UH-Hilo basketball coach Jimmy Yagi, who coached the Vulcans for 18 years and helped guide the Vulcans-Hawaii Basketball School for 37 years.
The camp will start at 9 a.m. each day and include instruction and skill-development drills. Games will be played in the late afternoon and possibly evenings.
Players registering by the Monday, July 15 will be charged $60 each. Late enrollment is $70 per child. All enrollees will receive a camp shirt and group photo.
Registration forms are available at Aunty Sally Kaleohano’s Lu‘au Hale at 799 Pi‘ilani St. in Hilo. Checks should be made payable to the Big Island All-Stars and include the note “Jimmy Yagi Summer Hoops Camp.”
Estrella Roast
slated for June 28
The Joey Estrella Retirement Roast, a benefit dinner for the Joe and Harriet Estrella Scholarship Endowment, will be held June 28 at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel.
Tickets for the 6 p.m. event are $75 each and are available by calling the University of Hawaii at Hilo athletic department at 974-7520. Corporate tables of six or eight are also available.
The scholarship was initiated by UHH athletic director Dexter to recognize Estrella and will be given to student-athletes interested in playing Vulcans baseball.
Estrella guided the program from its inception in 1976 until retiring after this past season.
Estrella also has been a staunch supporter of Special Olympics and a backer of the UHH Blood Bank of Hawaii Drive.
West Hawaii HI-PAL
sign-ups ongoing
The Hawaii Police Activities League in West Hawaii is announcing sign-ups for a summer basketball league to be held from June 18 to July 18.
The age divisions will be 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, high school boys, girls 12 and under, girls 14 and under, and high school girls.
The deadline to enter is June 10.
Coaches interested in placing a team may call the West Hawaii HI-PAL office (326-4646, ext. 258) or officer Randy Morris (936-2789).
