LOCAL SPORTS IN BRIEF

BASEBALL

Harkrider's camp begins May 30

Kilgore High School head baseball coach Tim Harkrider will conduct his annual baseball camp at Driller Park beginning Tuesday, May 30 and concluding Friday, June 2.

Morning sessions - 9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. - will be for ages 5 through 10. Afternoon sessions - 1 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. - will be for ages 11 through 14.

Cost of the camp is $60 per child, and in addition to instruction of baseball fundamentals and competitions during the week, each child will receive a camp T-shirt.

Children should bring standard baseball equipment with them.

Registration will be held May 30 beginning 30 minutes prior to each session.

Booster meeting tonight

There will be a Kilgore High School baseball booster club meeting on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the LEAP building on the Kilgore Heights campus. Items to be discussed are the end-of-year banquet; the vote on scholarship amounts; and the update on the field house.

Please try to attend this very important meeting.

GOLF

Oilmen's tourney June 9-10

The East Texas Oil Men's Golf Association will sponsor the East Texas Treatment Center Golf Classic June 9-10 at Meadowbrook Country Club in Kilgore.

This year will mark the 44th year for the Oil Men's Golf Association to sponsor this two-person scramble, which benefits the East Texas Treatment Center.

A morning flight will begin at 7:30 a.m. and an afternoon flight at 1 p.m. Entry fee is $500 per team, which includes breakfast and lunch both days for both players, green and cart fee, door prizes and Saturday night dinner for the players and one guest each.

Prizes will be awarded to the first four places of each flight based on a full field. First place, $800; second, $600; third, $500; and fourth, $200.

The hole-in-one contest (hole No. 6), sponsored by Laird Insurance Agency and The Ward Agency, is worth $15,000. In addition, a drawing will be held for two players who will have an opportunity for a hole-in-one cash prize of $100,000 on a designated hole separate from tournament play. Both days will include an electronics package for a Hole-In-One on hole No. 15.

Course food and drinks will be provided by Made-Rite, McAlister's Deli, Longview Too AMBUCS, Charlie's Sno-Balls, Smith Services, Dialog Wireline and Grant and Kristy Boyd. Breakfast provided by area bankers and prepared by K-K Mobbs Construction.

Lunch Friday will be provided by Henderson Rotary and Saturday by Kilgore Rotary. The Saturday night meal will be provided by Dialog Wireline.

Door prizes, silent auction and special ladies-only door prizes will be awarded, including a Gorham 24-percent lead crystal vase, donated by Max Daiches Jewelers of Kilgore.

A Pitt's and Spitt's Cooker with sound system will be raffled off Saturday night valued at $8,500. The cooker giveaway is sponsored by OMEGA Oilfield Services, V. Fred Rogers Estate, Loud & Clear Radio Shack and Reece Nichols/Edward Jones. Tickets $20 each and can be purchased at the East Texas Treatment Center. You need not be present to win.

For more information concerning the tournament or raffle tickets, please call Merlyn Holmes at (903) 984-5571.

SOCCER

Annual Bulldog camp July 10-14

The annual soccer camp hosted by Kilgore High School will be held July 10-14.

Children ages kindergarten through eighth grade will be instructed in the morning sessions - 8:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. - and children ages ninth grade through 12th grade will be instructed during the evening, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.

Early registration is ongoing; there is a $50 fee for the morning session students, and a $40 fee for evening session students.

Each camper will receive a camp T-shirt and be divided into groups, so they may participate with other campers the same age. Each group will also have competitions and awards will be given at the end of camp.

For more questions, contact KHS boys head soccer coach Kris Duplissey at (903) 9850097.

- BY SPORTS EDITOR MITCH LUCAS