The Connecticut Breeze 18-and-under girls’ fastpitch softball team needs a pitcher for the summer 2000 traveling team. The team will play six tournaments (three local/three travel) and compete in a weekday night league. If interested, please call Mark McCusker at 426-1501 or Tom Charney at 1-203-877-9148.

Travel Softball For 12 Year Olds

Any girls interested in playing traveling softball this summer and will be under the age of 13 up until January 1, 2001, can contact Paul LaFrancesca at 270-1844. The team will compete in the Central Valley ASA Fast Pitch League, in addition to competing in weekend tournaments.

New Travel Softball Division

Players are need for 10-and-under and 12-and-under summer traveling softball teams. Any girls interested, who will be under the age of 13 until January 1, 2001, should contact Paul LaFrancesca at 270-1844 as soon as possible for tryout information. (Note: if you are 11 years old prior to January 1, 2001, you must play U12). The two teams will compete in the Central Valley ASA Fast Pitch League, in addition to competing in weekend tournament. The season will consist of at least 20 games.

U15 Boys Premier Tryouts

The Newtown Strikers Boys U15 Premier team will hold tryouts Wednesday, July 12, and Tuesday, July 18, from 6 to 8 pm, at the Newtown Middle School. Call Robert Walzer at 263-4571 (e-mail at rwalzer@palm.net) or Nigel Taplin at 1-203-757-1161 (e-mail at asusa@worldnet.att.net) after July 4 for further information.

Safe Boating Course

A Basic Boating Safety/Personal Watercraft Operation course will be held Sunday, June 24, from 8 am to 5:30 pm, at the Danbury Hilton. Cost is $85. Call 1-860-236-9095 for further information and registration.

Beachside Soccer

Beachside Soccer of Connecticut will hold premier soccer tryouts for the coming 2000-2001 playing year at the Greens Farm Academy in Westport. Beachside sponsors soccer teams from U12 to U18 and all play in the highest division of the CJSA Premier League in Connecticut (three of the five teams also play in the Mid-Atlantic Premier Soccer regional league which competes from Maryland to Connecticut). Each team will play in at least six regional tournaments and four to six indoor tournaments. A top-flight coaching staff is led by Mickey Kydes, a former All-American at LIU who played professional with the NY/NJ Metrostars, the Dallas Sidekicks and the New York Fever. Tryouts will be held Thursday, July 6, and Monday, July 10, from 5 to 6:30 pm, for U15, U16, U17, and U18; Friday, July 7, and Tuesday, July 11, from 4:30 to 6 pm, for U13 and U14; and Friday, July 7, and Tuesday, July 11, from 5:30 to 7 pm, for U12. Call 1-203-847-6187 or e-mail at war@pipeline.com for more information (including fees, schedules and scholarship opportunities).