Will Almand of Cary tied for first place with Greensboro's Jordan Utley on Tuesday in leading the Triangle's contingent of qualifiers for the inaugural N.C. Amateur Match Play Championship, which will be played Aug. 4-8 at the Country Club of Salisbury.

Almand and Utley each shot a 4-under-par 68 in the sectional qualifying event conducted by the Carolinas Golf Association at the Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro. (Complete results below.)

Check out the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar with listings for camps, leagues, tryouts, instruction, fundraisers, tournaments and events around the Triangle and elsewhere.

The Lochmere swim team overcame an 80-point deficit after the morning 10-and-Under session and surged past runner-up Shepherd's Vineyard of Apex to win the fifth-annual South Wake Invitational Meet at the Lochmere Swim and Tennis Club in Cary on Sunday.

The S.W.I.M., hosted by the Marlins of Raleigh Swim Team year-round club, drew 10 teams and almost 500 swimmers who compete in Wake County's Tarheel Swimming Association summer league. (Top finishers and record-setters are below.)

The meet was one of four championship-style meets being conducted for TSA teams by area year-round competitive clubs and community clubs. Greater Raleigh Swim Meet also was held this past Saturday, hosted by the New Wave Swim Team at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary.

With more than 10,000 youth swimmers on 78 teams this summer, the Tarheel Swimming Association long ago outgrew any single season-ending championship meet.

These days, four meets give the recreational summer league's swimmers a chance to experience a multi-team, championship-meet atmosphere.

Although the four meets being held this weekend and next in Raleigh and Cary are conducted by Wake County club teams and not the Tarheel Swimming Association, TSA teams are the invited participants.

A week into July already! How summer flies.

The season's summer sports camps are flying by, too, but a few spots remain in camps offered by colleges, professional teams, pro athletes, high schools, grade schools, churches, parks and recreation departments, nonprofit organizations and for-profit enterprises around the area.

The camps cover a variety of sports, including baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, jump rope, sailing, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball and wrestling. Multi-sport camps give participants a chance to try a variety of sports without having to pay for several camps.

If you enjoy activities provided by your local parks and recreation department, you might take note of today's activities in Raleigh:

Mayor Charles Meeker is to declare July "Parks and Recreation Month."

The declaration is part of a "nationwide effort to promote healthy lifestyles and bring communities together to volunteer and get involved," ...

If you know girls fastpitch softball - or even if you don't - your help is needed when a big tournament arrives in Raleigh this month.

Volunteers are needed for scorekeeping and team check-in July 26 through Aug. 1 when the 18-and-Under ASA Girls Fast-Pitch Softball Southern National Championships are played at Raleigh's Walnut Creek Softball Complex at 1201 Sunnybrook Road.

Grayson Murray, one of the state's most outstanding young golfers, on Monday won a sectional qualifying tournament and advanced to the 156-player field for the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.

Murray, a Leesville Road High School golfer who last month won the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4-A championship, shot a second-round 66 on Monday at Bradford Creek Golf Course in Greenville for a 134 total and a one-stroke victory Jonathan Diianni of Kernersville.

Zachary Edmondson won a sudden-death playoff against Daniel Castleberry to win the Wake County Amateur golf tournament held Saturday and Sunday at Pine Hollow Golf Club in Clayton.

Daniels and Edmondson were tied at 4-under-par 138 after regulation, head pro Johnny Scott reported.

Steve Davis won the Senior Division with 3-under 139. (More results are below.)

Even when temperatures push 100, it’s basketball season in the Triangle.

Nineteen AAU boys teams from the region converged over the weekend for the Kenny Inge Invitational Tournament at Cary Academy.

The tournament, named for and hosted by the former N.C. State star, raised scholarship funds for underprivileged kids and was put on by the Basketball Heights charitable foundation, tournament spokesman Rob Orton of the Cary Cougars said.