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Vintage Run Sunday, Cohn golf classic Monday, Infineon’s final major event

Sports briefs

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. this 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.

 

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.

 

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 will hold two more basketball sign-up sessions for boys and girls in third-through-eighth grades from 6 to 7 p.m. tonight 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. The final mandatory evaluation day is this Sunday, Sept. 25, 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 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. this 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) continues its 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.