TRR photo by David Hulse Fallsburg left fielder Mike Hernandez scorches a base hit during a big eight-run fifth inning during the April 25 victory over Eldred. (Click for larger image)

Comets blast Eldred

By TOM KANE

ELDRED — In an April 25 match-up with Fallsburg, Eldred’s boys baseball team “shoulda stood in bed,” as the old saying goes in the sports world. The Yellowjackets were roundly defeated 13-2 by the Comets, lead by pitcher Corey Huber, who went all the way.

The five-foot, six-inch pitcher threw six strikeouts and walked four, limiting the Yellowjackets to three hits.

“Fallsburg is a Class C school and we’re Class D,” Eldred coach Frank Kean said. “When we switched to the Orange County league, there weren’t enough Class D schools left so we have to play the larger schools.”

This is Kean’s 28th season as the Yellowjacket baseball coach.

Eldred has an enrollment of about 790 K-12. Fallsburg’s is about 1,350.

Especially painful for Eldred was the fifth inning, when Fallsburg batted around, knocking in eight runs. Eldred also had a number of throwing errors, making the Comet score climb.

Fallsburg’s Joe Calvello had two hits and two RBI’s. Teammate Rafi Fine went two for five, with an RBI.

Eldred’s John Schneider had a double.

Eldred is 0–3 overall and 0–2 in the league.

Coaches needed for Empire State Games

REGION — Frank Intervallo, the Hudson Valley Regional Director for the Empire State Games, has announced several openings in coaching positions for the 2001 games, a state-wide, Olympic-styled athletic competition run by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Competition is conducted in 28 sports in Open and Scholastic divisions. This year, the games will be held July 25 to 29, in The Mohawk Valley Area. The Hudson Valley Region covers Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties.

These are volunteer positions, and coaches should be prepared to participate in conducting regional tryouts, which will be held in May and June, as well as practice sessions, which will be conducted from the end of regional tryouts through the actual games competition in the end of July. Coaches will also be expected to supervise the conduct of the athletes on their teams while engaged in Empire State Games activities.

Positions are available for the following teams:

Head Coach: Basketball, Open Women’s; Tennis, Scholastic Men’s; and Volleyball, Open Men’s.

Assistant Coach: Basketball, Open Women’s; Lacrosse, Scholastic Women’s; Volleyball, Open Men’s; and Wrestling, Open Men’s and Scholastic Men’s.

Interested coaches should send a resume to: Frank Intervallo, 31 Reade Street, Yonkers, NY 10703.

Resumes may also be faxed to 914/423-9116 or e-mailed to ESGHV@OPTONLINE.NET.

For more information call 914/423-9116.

World’s biggest disc golf day

HONESDALE — The summer season of disc golf events will begin with World’s Biggest Disc Golf Day scheduled on Sunday, May 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Prompton Lake Disc Golf Course. It is a non-competitive event that allows both beginning and experienced disc golfers to come out to the course and enjoy a relaxing round or two of disc golf.

World’s Biggest Disc Golf Day is held every year at courses all over the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. More than 20,000 players world wide are expected to participate. For a registration fee of $12 participants will receive a professional quality golf disc of their choice and a T-shirt with this year’s World’s Biggest logo.

The main goal of World’s Biggest is to introduce the sport of disc golf to new players, who will learn how to throw a driver from a tee pad, how to loft an accurate approach shot and then finish the hole with a soft putt into a metal basket.

Advance registration forms are available at Northeast Sports in Honesdale. Information on World’s Biggest can also be obtained by contacting the Pocono Disc Golf Association at 570/253-0140.

Participants can also register on the day of the event. The person who brings the most new players to the course will win the Rolf Frei award, named after a Swiss disc golfer who brought 52 friends to World’s Biggest in 1992.

Be an owner for a day

MONTICELLO — All the thrills and excitement of being an owner of a harness horse are in store for a lucky fan, who’ll be chosen in a drawing on each Sunday program in May at Monticello Raceway. Once that fan is selected he or she will have a chance to win up to $600.

All fans attending the raceway on Sundays in May will receive an entry blank to be filled out and deposited in a receptacle. A drawing will take place midway through the program to determine who will be the “Owner For A Day.”

After the “Owner For A Day” is chosen, the winner will select a horse that he/she wants to “own” in the race designated as “Owner For A Day Race,” which will be near the end of each Sunday card. The “Owner For A Day” will receive money equivalent to the purse earned by that horse in that race.

No purchase is necessary to play “Owner For A Day,” but extra entry blanks are available with each $5 wager before the drawing takes place.