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2012 Kern County Track & Field Championships

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:02:34 PDT

2012 Kern County Track & Field Championships

Liberty High School

Outdoors notes: Hunting licenses, big game drawing applications available

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:21:35 PDT

Hunters can now purchase 2012-2013 hunting licenses and apply for the Big Game Drawing online, the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) announced. Transactions can be conducted at any DFG license sales office, license agent or online.

All premium deer hunt tags, and elk, antelope and bighorn sheep tags are awarded through the DFG Big Game Drawing. To qualify for the Big Game Drawing, the sales transaction must be completed before midnight on June 2, 2012. When the transaction is complete, the customer will receive a receipt to show their hunt choices have been entered in the drawing. Mail-in applications will not be accepted. Beginning June 22, hunters can contact a DFG license sales office or look online to check the results.

Robert Gautney: Still time to sign up for Arvin City Amateur

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:07:59 PDT

The 17th Arvin City Amateur Championship is scheduled to be played this weekend on the Sycamore Canyon golf course in Arvin, but a small field, if the tournament is played, will compete.

As of Wednesday afternoon, only a handful of players had signed up to play in the event which is the first of six of the Michelob Ultra/Sports Authority Player of the Year tournaments in which players earn points in the championship flight towards the 2012 Player of the Year title.

May 22 community sports announcements, achievements, results

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:13:32 PDT

Camps

Soccer: (3 times a week), ages 11-12 from 9-11 a.m.; Ages 13-16, 10 a.m.-noon. Coach is Myka Peck of Garces High. Call (661) 410-3343. Starts June 4.

Kern athletes shine at Valley youth track and field meet in Kingsburg

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:27:54 PDT

Kern County track and field athletes stole the spotlight May 12 in Kingsburg, winning more than half the events in the Valley Track and Field Championships.

Six counties competed in the the meet, which included 124 events. Kern County athletes won 65 of those events.

Bette Addington: Fresno's historic Cedar Lanes to close its doors in June

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:17:51 PDT

Several weekends ago my team traveled to Fresno to bowl the California United States Bowling Congress Women's State tournament.

Returning home with teammate Sheilah Bomar, we talked about how much the Team house, Cedar Lanes, felt like Regency Lanes here in Bakersfield. Sheilah even remarked: "They have a Marge AND an Al (referring to the late Marge Langdon, manager, and the late Al Cichy, head lane mechanic of Regency)!" Cedar's "Marge and Al" are manager Joanne Christian (24 years) and lane mechanic Al Bartz (22 years).

County women's amateur golf event canceled

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:47:29 PDT

Next week's scheduled Kern County Women's Amateur Golf Championship has been cancelled because of a lack of signed-up players, tournament chairwoman Jacque Servadio confirmed.

The event, which was scheduled May 23-24 at Foss-Kern River and the Links at RiverLakes Ranch golf courses, was to be the 76th annual tournament.

Robert Gautney: Kern Women's Amateur canceled

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:28:34 PDT

After 75 years of Women's Kern County Amateur golf, there will be no 76th tournament, at least perhaps for 2012 anyway.

Jacque Servadio, Chairwoman of the tournament, canceled the event on Tuesday after the deadline for entry produced only 13 players. It was scheduled for next Wednesday and Thursday, May 23-24,at the Kern River and RiverLakes courses.

May 15 community sports announcements, accomplishments, results

Mon, 14 May 2012 23:59:16 PDT

Youth football

Bakersfield Raiders tackle football sign-ups on Saturdays at Lowell Park from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Juniors and seniors team sign-ups, ages 10-12 and 12-14. Contact coach D or Tammy at (661) 322-7441, 847-9144 or e-mail:bakersfieldraiders@yahoo.com.

Bette Addington: Bakersfield bowler wins $25,000 in Las Vegas event

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:59:26 PDT

The excitement started to brew back in mid-March when Bakersfield bowler Joe Smith won the District Finals at AMF Riverside Lanes in Riverside. It was the same weekend as our Mixed City Tournament and the news spread quickly at AMF Southwest Lanes that Smith would be going on to Vegas to bowl in the record-breaking $700,000 AMF National In-League Tournament.

Smith, 26, was among 108 finalists to compete the weekend of April 27-28, at The Orleans in Las Vegas. Finalists were competing in four divisions: Open, Division A, Division B and Division C. Smith was competing in the Open division. This year more than 25,000 AMF league bowlers entered this tournament.

Robert Gautney: Frontier's Shain wins junior tourney at Catalina

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:06:41 PDT

Frontier High senior Meghan Shain has added another title to her resume as the current Women's Kern County Amateur champion won the 45th Santa Catalina Island Championship April 14-15 at the Catalina Island golf course. Shain competed in the girls 15-18 age group.

The tournament was part of the SoCal PGA Junior Tour Series and included a field with many current college-bound players. The Santa Clara University-bound Shain shot rounds of 68-67 on the par-64 course to win by a record 13 strokes over runner-up Sachi Hamada from Fullerton, who shot 74-74.

Mixed doubles exhibition will feature Pfister, Noel and 2 female standouts

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:42:18 PDT

Stockdale Country Club head tennis pro Hank Pfister and notable local player Mike Noel will play an exhibition mixed doubles match at 11:30 a.m. Saturday with two notable female players: Hilary Barte, the former No. 1 player at Stanford, and Mayo Hibi, a 16-year-old who ranks No. 1 in Southern California and No. 5 in the nation.

Noel was a top junior player in the 1980s who later played tennis at Fresno State and on the ATP Satellite Tour. He's a civil engineer working for Swanson Engineering.

High school roundup

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:26:41 PDT

Baseball

Porterville 7, Delano 3

April 24 community sports announcements, results, accomplishments

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:23:27 PDT

Baseball

The Bombers are holding open tryouts for 8-year-olds, 1:30-3:30 p.m May 13 at the Dave Frye Baseball Complex.

Bette Addington: 4 locals advance to state bowling finals

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:05:49 PDT

A group of Bakersfield youth bowlers recently bowled well in the Pepsi District Finals and will compete in the Pepsi State Finals May 5-6 at Fountain Valley Bowl.

They are Danielle Looney, Tyler Samora, Paul St. Laurent, Nicole Tweedy and Adam Waybright. Looney and Samora, both seniors, are the oldest of the group going.