Digest: Tryouts for spring soccer clubs upcoming

Teen basketball league

The Douglas County Parks & Recreation Department is taking registration for the new teen basketball league through Dec. 1 and the season will begin on Jan. 13.

Cost is $65 for ninth- through 12th-grade boys and girls and includes all equipment, official fees, awards and uniforms.

Each team requires a volunteer coach. The department is also continually looking for officials and scorekeepers as well as team sponsors to help reduce the cost to participants.

For more information, call J.P. Albert at 782-9828.

Elements conducting tryouts

The Elements Reloaded U11 and Elements United U14 and U16 soccer teams will hold open tryouts for the spring 2007 season today and Nov. 22 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Stodick Park and Nov. 18 and 25 from 10 a.m. to noon at Stodick.

Tryouts are open to all girls between the ages of 9 to 15 interested in competitive level soccer.

For more information, or to discuss additional individual tryout dates, call Tony or Krissy Cormier at 265-8873 or 781-5813 (U14 and U16) or Fritz Schweigert at 265-7301. For U11, call Adrian Cobb at 265-6234 or Jeremy Rutherdale at 265-2959.

Pirates tryouts

The Carson Valley Pirates spring soccer team will conduct tryouts Thursday from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon at Lampe Park.

All second-year U12 players and all U14 are welcome.

The Pirates enjoyed a successful season last year and are hoping for another solid season.

Practices will be made flexible to accomodate other winter sports.

For more information, call Travis Gregory at 266-3045 or Stacey Ziglar at 265-4409.

Carson Valley Soccer Club tryouts

The Carson Valley Soccer Club is conducting open tryouts for a number of its teams in preparation for the upcoming spring season.

Players wishing to try out should plan on attending at least one of the team's tryouts and ideally all team tryouts.

For more information, contact Tim Dry at 267-4545 or tdry@carsonvalleysoccer.org. Updated information can also be found at www.carsonvalleysoccer.org.

U12 girls will try out Saturday from 10 to 11:45 a.m. at Gardnerville Elementary.

U14 girls try out from 2 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Saturday at Gardnerville Elementary.

U16 girls try out Saturday from noon to 1:45 p.m. at Gardnerville Elementary.

U16/17 boys try out Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Lampe Park and Saturday from 2 to 3:45 p.m. at Gardnerville Elementary.

U12 boys try out Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Lampe Park and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. at Gardnerville Elementary.

U13 boys try out Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Lampe Park and Saturday from noon to 1:45 p.m. at Gardnerville Elementary.

U18 girls try out Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Lampe Park and Saturday from 2 to 3:45 p.m. at Gardnerville Elementary.

U18/19 boys try out Saturday from noon to 1:45 p.m. at Gardnerville Elementary.

Tenacity tryouts

Tenacity, a U18 girls' soccer team, will be conducting tryouts Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Edmonds Sports Complex in Carson City.

Players should meet between field 1 and 4.

WNCC coach Hillary Arthur will provide training for the team. To be eligible for the team, prospective athletes must have been born between Aug. 1, 1988 and July 31, 1991.

For more information, contact Ralph Johnson at (775) 230-0335 or Doug Benamati at (775) 885-2438.

Youth basketball leagues

The Douglas County Parks & Recreation Department will take registration through Dec. 1 with the season beginning Jan. 13.

Cost is $60 for third- to sixth-grade coed and $65 for seventh- to eighth-grade boys and girls. The cost includes all equipment, official fees, awards and uniforms.

Each team requires a volunteer coach.

For more information, call J.P. Albert at 782-9828.

Old Guys Basketball

Men 35 and older interested in playing pickup basketball are invited to the basketball court in the Pastoral Center at St. Gall Catholic Church every Sunday at 4 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m.

After teams are chosen, games go either full-court or half-court depending on how many show up. The sessions are strictly for fun and exercise.

Cost is $50, which is donated to the church for court upkeep. The sessions run from September to June.

For more information, contact John Parra at 265-3586.