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Benefit golf tourneys, Vintage Run, Infineon and more

Sports briefs

 

HANNA BOYS CENTER’S 19th annual Golf and Tennis Classic will be held at the Sonoma Golf Club this Monday, Sept. 19. For costs, times, to register or for more details, contact Tamara Stanley at 933-2504 or visit hannacenter.org.

 

THE BR COHN Celebrity Golf Classic returns to the Sonoma Golf Club on Monday, Sept. 26, with the event being held the Monday after the BR Cohn Music Festival. For costs, times, to register or for more details, go to www.brcohn.com or contact Alisha Whitfield at 938-4064 or alisha@brcohn.com.

 

THE VINTAGE RUN – a 5K-race and fundraiser for Sonoma Valley High School’s cross country and track and field programs – will take place during the Valley’s Vintage Festival weekend at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, starting and ending at Sebastiani Winery’s parking lot. To pre-register for the annual Vintage Run or for more details, visit the Vintage Festival website at sonomavinfest.org, or call 996-2109. Race-day registration is between 7 and 7:30 a.m.

 

INFINEON RACEWAY’S FINAL major event on its 2011 Big O Tires schedule will feature a wide array of historic cars at the popular Classic Sports Racing Group Charity Challenge taking place on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 and 2. Infineon’s popular Wednesday Night Drags – including the “Top the Cops” program and “Drifting” – continue every Wednesday through Nov. 16. To purchase tickets for the historic Charity Challenge, for more details on Wednesday Night Drags, Top the Cops, Drifting, or for general information, visit www.infineonraceway.com, www.ticketmaster.com, or call 800-870-RACE (7223).

 

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS of Sonoma Valley is hosting a free National Football League Punt, Pass & Kick competition for boys and girls ages 6-to-15-years-old starting at 1 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 17, at the club’s Maxwell Farms Regional Park site. Only soft-sole gym shoes are allowed, with the top finisher in each of the boys’ and girls’ divisions in the five age-brackets advancing to the sectional round. BGCSV will also hold three basketball sign-up sessions for boys and girls in third-through-eighth grades from 10 to 11 a.m. this Saturday, Sept. 17, and from 6 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, and Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the BGCSV Clubhouse in Maxwell Farms Regional Park, 100 Verano Ave. Cost is $60 for club members and $180 for non-members, which includes one-year of club membership, with a $10 late-registration fee. For more details on the punt, pass and kick competition or hoops sign-ups, contact athletic director Dwayne Kilgore at 938-8544, ext. 112, or e-mails at dkilgore@bgcsonoma.org or www.bgcsonoma.org.

 

SONOMA’S ST. FRANCIS Solano’s CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) basketball program for third- through eighth-grade boys’ and girls’ teams is currently holding 2011-12 season registration for all returning and new players. Mandatory evaluation days slated for Sundays, Sept. 18 and 25 (one day required), with practices beginning Monday, Oct. 17, and games starting the weekend of Dec. 3. New players need to provide a copy of their birth certificates with their sign-up forms and fees. Cost is $140 for first child and $95 for additional family members. To register, or for more details, contact Larry DiMare at www.falconscyo@yahoo.com.

 

SONOMA VALLEY TENNIS Association’s Fall Quickstart Program for all levels, and junior team tennis league for boys and girls ages 6-to-12-years-old is underway and will continue from 2 to 4 p.m. every Wednesday at the Maxwell Farms Regional Park courts through Oct. 12. No experience or rackets are necessary. The SVTA is also offering fall adult and re-entry free clinics at the Maxwell Park courts from 3 to 4 p.m. every Saturday in October. No advance registration necessary. To register for the Quickstart or junior team tennis or for more details contact Lisa Biddle at 803-1707 or email at lisabiddle@comcast.net. Also, the SVTA will hold its final Friday Night Round Robin event this Friday, Sept. 16, at the Maxwell Farms Regional Park courts, with a 20 SVTA-member/player limit. For times, costs, to pre-register or for more details, e-mail Corky Rosengren at crosedan1032@aol.com.

 

SONOMA VALLEY LITTLE League baseball’s fall-ball program is holding sign-ups for the 2011 season, which runs from Oct. 1 to 29, at Hughes and Teeter fields, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, at Hughes Field on First Street East, next to Depot Park. Cost is $65 a player. For more details, contact David Hellman at 815-9392 or e-mail at dl5hellman@yahoo.com.

 

 

SONOMA AQUATIC CLUB (formerly Agua Caliente Aquatic Center) is registering for its final summer and upcoming fall swim programs for ages 3-months-old to adults at the SAC site, 17350 Vailetti Drive. The programs include swim lessons (ages 3-and-older); stroke school (ages 5-and-older, deep-water safe); Sea Dragon swim team (novice/competitive – ages 5-and-older); junior lifeguard camps (ages 7-to-14); parent and tot water classes (ages 3-to-36 months); and adults and masters swim programs. There are also water polo clinics and fall fun-nights for ages 7-to-15 and adult categories. For program descriptions, dates, times, costs, to register or for more details, visit the SAC website at www.sonomaaquaticclub.com or call 939-8833.

 

SONOMA BOCCE BALL Association has started summer league play at the bocce courts south of the gazebo in Depot Park, with the nine-week league sessions ending on Wednesday, Nov. 2. New members are welcome and anyone interested in joining the bocce club or for more details, call (John) 938-2101, (Ken) 938-2626 or (Ginette) 935-3337.

 

VALLEY OF THE Moon Pétanque Club continues its monthly tournament and picnic events, and is currently offering free lessons in the sport at the Henri Maysonnave Memorial Courts in Sonoma’s Depot Park on Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. Anyone interested in joining the VOMPC, or for more details, can call 343-9465 or visit www.vompc.org.