Category: Sports

CMGA April results

April 1 Morning Aces of Aces qualifier Flight 1 Gross: 1st Kim Barnes, 2nd Rusty Williams, 3rd Ed Frees Net: 1st Kim Barnes, 2nd Jack Goyer, 3rd Rusty Williams Flight 2 Gross: 1st Paul Graebke, 2nd Jerry Cisneros and Rafael Take Net: 1st Paul Graebke and Jerry Cisneros, 3rd Rafael Take and Bill Hartnett Flight…

Lucky Shot Pool Club annual meeting recap

Gary Vacin The Lucky Shot Pool Club elected new officers and passed several new rules at its annual spring meeting April 19: In future tournaments, two points will be awarded to the winners of each match, instead of the previous one. The procedure providing for winners of Pockets 1 and 2 in 9-Ball and 8-Ball…

IronOaks Tennis Club to host Pancake Breakfast July 1

A little tennis or pickleball, then a great pancake breakfast will be a good start for your 4th of July celebrations. IronOaks Tennis Club is hosting the annual July Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, July 1, 2017. All local tennis clubs and pickleball clubs are invited for the doubles mixer at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast to…

Lucky Shot Pool Club champs

Jerry Cisneros (left) and Jack Hill are the Lucky Shot Pool Club champions.

Gary Vacin Two familiar names will be added to the Lucky Shot Pool Club’s club champions plaque as the club completed its 2016-17 championship year. Jack Hill and Jerry Cisneros repeated as 9-Ball and 8-Ball club champions, respectively. In 9-Ball, Hill, winter and spring tourney champ, defeated Cisneros, fall tourney champ, 7-4. In 8-Ball, Cisneros,…

Niners April Golf results

Jim Wegman, Publicity The 2017 Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon is history. Our 20th year as a golf league has begun. The current Board will remain: President Jim Wegman, Vice President Joe Sigillo, Treasurer Lloyd Schaeffer and Secretary Lynn Thompson. Meeting Highlights: The Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon featured a lot of prizes and a…

April Flowers for PVLGA

Liz DeMichael, Publicity Chairman The cool and comfortable April weather allowed the ladies at Palo Verde to play great golf with lots of wins and surprises. Check it out… 4/4. The first tournament in April for the Palo Verde Ladies Golf Association was one of the most entertaining: Beat the Pro! Each golfer played their…

Softball player profile: Jim Entwistle

Larry Wolfe A true “Upstate New Yorker,” Jim Entwistle grew up in Utica and spent most of his work career in Rochester. Jim played high school basketball and baseball for the Utica Free Academy Titans, lettering four times in baseball. Jim and his twin brother John were the star pitcher/catcher combination throughout their youth baseball…

ILGA news and scores

E.J. Toon receives her Club Championship prize from club President Betty Schechter

Marcella Brown, Publicity Chairperson E.J. Toon received the Club Championship prize; Mary Dyrseth is the 1st flight winner while Kathy Schnell won the 2nd flight. Lois Coomans is the 3rd flight winner and Jo Ann Zerwekh is the 4th flight winner. The Best of the Best gross winner is Ann Annis, and net is winner…

Yay for Pickleball clinics!

Pickleball at IronOaks

Janet Myrick Now that pickleball at IronOaks has temporary use of one of the tennis courts, we have scheduled clinics for all of our rated players. The clinics fill up fast and are held on Wednesday afternoons 3:00 p.m. We are still doing free intro to pickleball for anyone who would like to try playing…

Spring Softball winners

Sun Division Champions: Standing (left to right) Gene Granquist, Kim Whitney, Doug Friesen, Larry Kaufmann and Harry Roehl. Kneeling (left to right) Dan Bradfield, Mgr. Ken Brenden, Mike Willits and Tom Lorgan (Photo by Core Photography, LLC)

Larry Wolfe The Brenden Financial Planning team, managed by Ken Brenden, won the Spring Sun Division League title with a sterling record of 15-3. In the Lakes Division, the Wolfe & Associates squad, managed by Randy Rothenbuehler, topped their division with a record of 12-6. A recap of the season-ending double-elimination tournaments will be covered…