Our Play! blog is taking a hiatus, and we are not sure when it will be active again. In the meantime you can continue to submit your team photos to Your Voice, and your calendar listing to our Events calendar, both on triangle.com.
One of the perks of living in North Carolina is rarely having to stop
playing golf. Tournament series continue over the winter, and hardy
golfers turn out to compete.
Among the winter golfers are the juniors who compete in the Eastern Junior Golf Association, which visited Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington on Feb. 6-7.
Andrew Fowler of Cary and Eric Bae of Raleigh were among the champions crowned on Sunday at the invitational event.
The Triangle 18 Black team won the Black Division for ages 16-18 at
the Mid-Atlantic Power League volleyball tournament played Saturday and
Sunday at the Raleigh Convention Center.
The Pennsylvania Volleyball Academy 18s team was second in the
tournament, which consisted of 48 elite-level Junior Olympic girls
teams in each of two age divisions.
The Blue Division (ages 13-15) title went to the Carolina Juniors Volleyball 15 Blaze of Charlotte.
Triangle swimmers swept individual high-point honors and took four of the top eight places in the team competition at the N.C. Swimming Senior Short-Course Championships held Jan. 28-31 in Huntersville.
Victoria Mitchell, 17, of the Marlins of Raleigh-Wolfpack Aquatics won
the women's MVP award with 127 individual points, and Dominick Glavich,
16, of the YMCA of the Triangle Area Swim Team won the men's award with
137 points.
Mitchell, winner of the 500, 1,000, 1,650 freestyles, became the third
MOR swimmer to win the senior championships high-point award, coach
Paul Silver said.
Wet weather has forced the postponement of Saturday's Carolina RailHawks-CASL fundraising soccer clinic at WakeMed Soccer Park.
A new date will be announced.
The
RailHawks professional soccer club and the Capital Area Soccer League
announced last week they would hold a joint soccer clinic and donate
proceeds to the Haiti earthquake relief effort.
The Triangle Volleyball Club is going for a world record.
Club athletes, staff and participants in next month's Mid-Atlantic
Power League tournament will attempt to win a place among the Guinness
World Records for the number of consecutive volleyball passes, said
Sherry Fadool, associate director of the Morrisville-based Triangle
Volleyball Club.
The record attempt will take place at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Raleigh
Convention Center as a prelude to the Mid-Atlantic Power League’s Feb.
6-7 MAPL Raleigh 2010 tournament at the convention center.
Runners, it's time to mark your calendars and reserve your place at the start.
Registration has opened for Raleigh's fourth annual City of Oaks Marathon and Rex Healthcare Half Marathon, presented by Raleigh Running Outfitters.
The 26.2-mile marathon and 13.1-mile half marathon will start and
finish on N.C. State University's Centennial Campus on Nov. 7. The
races start at 7 a.m.
The Neusiok Trail needs friends on Feb. 13.
The Carteret County Wildlife Club is seeking volunteers to help improve and repair one of the major bridges on the hiking trail in the Croatan National Forest.
The work day will start at 8:30 a.m. and last until about 4 p.m. on the trail, which is part of North Carolina's 935-mile Mountains to the Sea Trail.
This week's warm and sunny days are a reminder that spring is not far
away, and that means it's time for spring recreational league and
summer sports camp registration.
Recreational league signups are under way or starting soon in numerous
sports - among them baseball, T-Ball, flag football, inline hockey,
soccer softball and volleyball - through a variety of parks and
recreation programs, nonprofit multisport organizations and commercial
operations.
And it's never too early to register for summer sports camps. Many of those camps fill quickly.
The N.C. Runnin Rebels youth basketball team of Clayton needs money
for new uniforms and travel expenses, and they're working hard to raise
it.
At 8 a.m. Saturday, the Rebels will conduct a Flapjack Fundraiser at
the Applebee’s Restaurant located at 501 E. Six Forks Road in Raleigh.
The fundraiser is part of a larger program conducted by the area Applebee's franchisee.
Golfers needing answers must thumb through the pages of "The Rules of Golf" no longer. Nope. Now, there's an app for that, too.
The United States Golf Association recently
launched its official iPhone and iPod touch application for the 2010-11
editions of “The Rules of Golf,” “Decisions on The Rules of Golf” and
“Rules of Amateur Status.” BlackBerry and Google Android versions will
be available later this month, the USGA said.
The Rules of Golf App, with a simple search function, provides instant
access to "Rules" and "Decisions." Users also can e-mail questions to
the USGA directly from the application.
