LOCAL SPORTS IN BRIEF

BASEBALL

Harkrider's camp begins Tuesday

Kilgore High School head baseball coach Tim Harkrider will conduct his annual baseball camp at Driller Park beginning this 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 Tuesday beginning 30 minutes prior to each session. BASKETBALL

Rangers' camp June 5-9

The Runnin' Rangers basketball camp will be June 5-9, 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, and is sponsored by Nike.

The registration fee is $125. That includes a hot lunch each day, a regulation basketball, camp T-shirt, and a season pass to Kilgore College basketball games for the 2006-07 season.

In this camp, station work will emphasize passing, dribbling and shooting. Daily contests will be held. There will be also three-on-three league play and five-on-five league play daily.

For more information, (903) 983-8270. TENNIS

Free tennis lessons to be offered here

Kilgore High School will be one site of a round of upcoming free tennis lesson camps throughout East Texas.

The Longview Tennis Association (LTA) made the free lessons possible by receiving a grant from the United States Tennis Association's Texas chapter, and plan on conducting the lessons at several high schools around the area for children ages eight through 17.

The intent of this program is to take the game of tennis to the children and help eliminate the need for transportation.

The lessons given at KHS will be the week of June 19-23. Other sites where lessons will be given are White Oak High School (June 12-16), the Longview Parks and Recreation department's Third Street tennis courts, near Good Shepherd Medical Center (June 26-30), and at Longview High School (July 10-14).

Beginner, intermediate, and advanced groups will be formed for instruction with a fun game day on Fridays. The lessons will be given from 9 a.m. until noon each day.

Students will need to bring their own water, a hat or cap and sun block. Also, they may bring a racket, or a racket will be provided. Each student will be given a waiver document for parents or guardians to sign. Four certified instructors, plus area coaches and LTA volunteers will provide instruction and assistance for each site. Parents or guardians are encouraged to attend with their children to register, sign the waiver and help register other children. 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, the 44th year for the tournament, a two-person scramble benefitting the 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 in July

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) 985-0097.