Elkin registering for spring youth sports till Feb. 24

Registration for town of Elkin spring baseball, softball and soccer will continue until Feb. 24.

Players can be registered at the Elkin Recreation Center.

• Cal Ripken Baseball: Youth baseball program for 9-12 year olds. Age as of April 30, 2010. Participants must attend Elkin City Schools or reside in Wilkes or Yadkin counties. Registration is limited and is first come, first serve.

Cost: $55 for Elkin residents, $75 for non-residents.

• Fast Pitch Softball: Youth softball program for girls 9-13 years old. Age as of Jan. 1, 2010. Registration is limited and is first come, first serve.

Cost: $30 for Elkin residents; $60 for non-residents.

• Youth Soccer: Program for 4-13 year olds. Age as of Aug. 31, 2009.

Cost: $30 for Elkin residents; $45 for non-residents

• Run and Kick Soccer Clinic: Soccer clinic for 3 and 4 year olds. Age as of Aug. 31, 2009. Registration is limited and is first come, first serve.

Cost: $15 for Elkin residents; $20 for non-residents.


Sports media roundtable in Salisbury

Cincinnati Reds’ play-by-play announcer Marty Brennaman will be joined by the play-by-play voices of the Carolina Panthers and Wake Forest Demon Deacons and Salisbury radio personality Howard Platt for a sports media roundtable discussion at Salisbury High School on Friday, Feb. 12 from 4-5 p.m. 

The roundtable is part of a media outreach program sponsored by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and is free and open to the public.

Brennaman is an NSSA Hall of Famer who recently won his 15th NSSA Ohio Sportscaster of the Year Award (he also won four in Virginia). 

He’ll be joined by Mick Mixon, the Panthers’ play-by-play announcer, who recently won his fourth NSSA North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year Award and by Stan Cotten, who as the play-by-play announcer for Wake Forest football and basketball has won two NSSA North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year Awards. 

Platt, the 2003 NSSA North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year, has been a fixture as a morning personality and play-by-play announcer at WSTP-AM in Salisbury. NSSA Executive Director Dave Goren will serve as moderator.

The panel will discuss current issues in sports, recount stories from their careers and if time allows, take questions from the audience. For more information, visit www.nssafame.com, or call (704) 633-4275.


Girls fastpitch sign-ups in Mountain Park

Sign-ups for Mountain Park Youth Foundation girls fastpitch softball will be held on Feb. 13, 20 and 27 from 10 a.m. until noon.

For more information, call John Collins at 366-2521.


Teams needed for AAU hoops tourney in Galax

The Twin County Boys AAU organization will hold a boys AAU basketball tournament on Feb. 27-28 at Galax (Va.) High School and Galax Middle.

Registration is limited to the first eight teams in each age group.

The entry fee is $150, with a three-game guarantee. The registration deadline is Feb. 23 by 5 p.m. Teams from AAU, YBOOA, USSSA and other organizations are welcome. For more information, call Stewert Merdian at (276) 233-1328.


Surry Storm girls sign-ups

The Surry Storm Girls Basketball Club will hold two more days of tryouts Feb. 14 and Feb. 21 at Mount Airy Middle School.

On Feb. 14 and Feb. 21, tryouts will begin at 1:30 p.m. for seventh grade girls, followed by eighth grade at 3 p.m.

Contact Gerald Culler at 786-6522 or Alan Hiatt at 719-2369 for details.


Report your scores!

To report game or tournament results to The Tribune, please call 835-1513, send email to elusk@elkintribune.com or fax results to 835-8742.

We make every effort to put every reported game result in our paper. Call sports editor Eric Lusk for more details. He can be reached at 835-1513 ext. 16.