Zach Seabolt of Raleigh shot a 4-under-par 66 from the championship tees to win the 22nd Annual Jack Ratz Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament held at the Wildwood Green Golf Club in Raleigh on Monday.
Katie Seymour of Wake Forest won the girls 16-18 title, shooting a 79 for a five-stroke victory over Alli Mossinghoff.
The West Raleigh Baseball's Cal Ripken 10U and 12U teams got a big send-off on Wednesday evening as they prepared for the Cal Ripken World Series.
Alumni from the youth baseball organization turned out to help the Southeast Regional championship teams practice at the West Raleigh Exchange Club Park in advance of the 12U Cal Ripken World Series scheduled for Aug. 13-21 in Aberdeen, Md., and the 10U Cal Ripken World Series being played Aug. 13-20 in Winchester, Va.
USA Baseball's inaugural Women's Development Camp takes place this weekend at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary.
Details for that camp and camps in other sports, plus team tryouts, league registration, instruction and tournaments can be found in the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar below, an expanded version of the calendar that appears each Tuesday in the print edition Sports section.
The Tarheel Swimming Association has put its 41st annual summer recreational league into its history book, with the Prestonwood Piranhas again winning the overall title.
This year, the league grew to than 10,400 athletes ages 18 and younger on 78 teams from community pools around Wake County, TSA president Bob Goudreau reported.
Competition was held on Tuesday nights in June and July unless postponed to Wednesday because of storms. Nineteen teams won division championships.
Lindsey Hilts' two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning drove in Jasmine Lamontagne on Sunday, and the North Carolina Challengers defeated Long Island (N.Y.) Bandits-Smith 5-4 to become national champions for the first time.
The 16U team from the Triangle-based girls fast-pitch softball organization won the 16-and-under PONY National Championship Tournament on Sunday at Thomas Brooks Park in Cary.
The Southern Zone Age Group Swimming Championships, which start today at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary, are just one of the many recreational sports events you'll find listed below in the expanded version of the Play! recreational sports calendar.
The Cary City Invitational swim meet celebrated its 30th anniversary over the weekend, and lots of people were at the celebration.
More than 1,000 swimmers in six age divisions for boys and girls, plus a large contingent of volunteers, turned out for Saturday's competiton.
Buffaloe Lanes North fixture Nancy Strickland is the Capital Area U.S. Bowling Congress Association Hall of Fame’s 37th inductee.
Strickland, 61, of Raleigh, has been a bowler for 41 years at various area facilities, and she has served the area bowling community by being active in organizations such as the Capital Area USBC Association, the Raleigh Women’s Bowling Association and the N.C. Women’s Bowling Association.
You may notice a lot of girls softball players in the Triangle this weekend and next week.
The PONY Softball Fastpitch National Championships are returning to the Wake County for the fifth year in a row.
Champions have been determined in the Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department’s eight spring baseball leagues, which ran from March through June and ended with league tournaments.
More than 1,000 players ages 9-14 participated, Tyler Bolton-Fuhrman reported. About 500 players competed in the Mustang League (ages 9-10), 370 in the Bronco League (ages 11-12) and 180 in the Pony League (ages 13-14).
