Sports Briefs

The Pioneer Football Booster Club will have its monthly meeting on May 13 at the Warren County High School Cafeteria at 6:30 p.m. All parents are encouraged to attend. If you have any questions, call Mike at 939-2540, Tricia at 939-3515 or Stacey at 473-6782.

Relay for Life golf scramble

Homeland Community Bank will be sponsoring a golf tournament to help benefit the local American Cancer Society Relay for Life program on May 17 at the Collins River golf course.

The tournament will be a four-man scramble, with first, second and third flights being awarded.

Entry fee is $75 per person or $300 per team. Hole sponsorships are available.

The round will kick off at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start. Entry fee includes driving range, 18 holes, golf cart and lunch.

If you would like to sponsor a team or sponsor a hole contact Steve Hillis at 931-507-1433.

WC Pioneer Youth Football

The Warren County Youth football league will hold early sign-ups for tackle football along with a fund-raiser yard sale in the Bobby Ray parking lot May 17 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

YMU Golf Tournament

The Third annual Young Men United Golf Tournament will be played Saturday, June 7, at RiverWatch Golf Course, with a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start. Deadline to enter the four-man scramble is June 2, and entry fee is $70 per person.

White tees and Mulligans are available for $5 each, and the green fee includes golf and cart, lunch, two closest to the hole prizes and a long drive prize.

First through third will be awarded, as well as $500 cash for a hole-in-one on No. 7, and $500 more, donated by A-Christian Commercial Roofing Construction Co. (469-585-7060 or 473-1028).

The field is limited to 62 teams, so enter as soon as possible. To enter or for more information, call Charlie Boyd at (931) 212-6072 or RiverWatch at (931) 761-8124.

USSSA Summer Slam

A men’s D and E softball tournament using USSSA rules will be played Saturday, May 10, at the fairgrounds. Entry fee is $175, plus a $25 sanction fee if the team needs to be USSSA sanctioned. Deadline to enter is Wednesday, May 7.

A two home run limit will be enforced, with extra homers counting as outs. Teams must provide their own 44 or 47 core USSSA-stamped softballs.

First through third place, an MVP and 10 all-tournaments will be given if 10 or more teams enter.

To register or for more information call Terry Beard at either 815-3253 or 473-3530.

Flag Football for girls

The Warren County Pioneer Youth Football League is currently conducting a survey to determine whether there is enough interest to form an all girls flag football program. It would be for girls 8 through 15 years of age, and the sign-up cost would be around $40 to cover insurance and a jersey. The league has flyers at the front desk at the Civic Center which anyone who is interested can go by and fill out, or you may call one of the phone numbers below and leave your name, phone number, and age. There will also be representatives at the locker room behind Bobby Ray Elementary School each Saturday in May from 9 a.m. until noon to answer questions and get your information. The phone numbers to call are: 931-212-6463, 668-2304, or 507-8014.

‘SPORTS BRIEFS’ POLICY

The Southern Standard’s ‘Sports Briefs’ are provided as a courtesy to our readers who wish to publicize their sporting events (tournaments, camps, sign-ups, etc.)

‘Sports Briefs’ are printed in the Standard sports section whenever space in the section allows. Announcements will run, free of charge, in the two editions leading prior to the event. Exceptions to that policy can be made, particularly when the announcement applies, for example, to not-for-profit organizations’ events or for multiple-week youth league registration periods.

If you have an announcement you would like to be included in the ‘Sports Briefs,’ e-mail your information to [email protected], fax to 473-6823, or call 473-2191, ext. 241.