Free State High baseball meeting: Organizational meeting for ninth graders interested in playing baseball at Free State will be held Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m. in the main gymnasium. Information regarding spring tryouts will be provided.

If you are interested, but cannot attend, please contact Mike Hill at 832-6050.

LHS Winter Sports Meeting and Forms Deadline: Lawrence High School will hold its winter sports informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 10. The deadline for turning in forms for participation in the first day of tryouts and practices is also Wednesday, November 10. Winter sports at both high schools begin Monday, Nov. 15.

Thanksgiving Run: Registration is under way for the seventh annual runLawrence Thanksgiving Day Run, Nov 25. Start the holiday with a morning 5K run. A free 1K kids fun run starts after the 5K. Sign up online at http://www.runlawrence.org/10TDayentry.html. Or pick up entry forms at Francis Sporting Goods. For info, contact Dee Boeck, runlawrence@gmail.com or 785-841-3587.

Softball clinic: Kansas University softball assistant coach D.J. Mathis will hold a six-week pitching clinic this fall for pitchers of all ages and skill levels.

The clinic includes six one-hour sessions with Mathis, who was an all-American pitcher at Oklahoma from 2006-09, and will be held in the Anschutz Sports Pavillion on the KU campus. The cost of the clinic is $300 and sessions will run on Nov. 7, 14, 21 and Dec. 4, 12 and 19. Participants can choose from three different time slots: 5:30-6:30 p.m., 6:30-7:30 p.m. or 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Trail Hawks to host 10K trail run: The Lawrence Trail Hawks will host the second annual “Sanders’ Saunter Heavy 10k Trail Run,” Saturday, Nov. 20 on Clinton Lake’s North Shore Trails.

“Heavy” means the course is slightly longer than an official 10-kilometer race — about 6.5 miles. The Lawrence Trail Hawks are Lawrence’s original trail- and ultra-running club.

Sanders’ Saunter begins and ends at the Corps of Engineers trailhead on the Clinton Lake North Shore Trails, in Overlook Park. The marked course includes difficult rocky, root-bound trails; smooth, flat, easy trails, scenic lake views; long stretches through old-growth forest; and two traverses of Sanders’ Mound, for which the race is named.

Sanders’ Mound is a hill overlooking Clinton Lake at the far east end of the North Shore trail system.

Rick Mayo, Kearney, Mo., set the course record in 2009 with a 46:49 finish. Stephanie Zelnick, Lawrence, was the first woman in 59:32.

More information is available online at www.Lawrencetrailhawks.com, or by e-mailing race director nick.lang@gmail.com.

Youth Volleyball Tryouts: The Lawrence Lightning Bolts U-13, U-16, U-17 volleyball teams will be holding tryouts. Tryouts for the U-13 team will be held Saturday morning from 10 a.m. until noon in the Corpus Christi Gym. There will be a $5 tryout fee. Tryouts for the U-16 and U-17 teams will be the weekend of Nov. 14. For more information, contact Craig Friedrichsen at 408-6571 or saintscyo@sbcglobal.net.

LHS grad runs in DC marathon: Kate Marden, LHS class of 1999, competed in the U.S. Marine Corps Marathon on Oct. 31 in Washington, DC. She finished with a time of 3:10:16, good for 35th place out of 8,668 women and 379th overall out of 21,879 runners.

U-15 local soccer team takes second: The KSA Renegades of Lawrence took second place last weekend in the U-15 Division of the Governor’s Cup Soccer Tournament in Topeka. Coached by Kyle Glick, the team members are: Addie Campbell, Danielle Campbell, Kylie Cobb, Alex Ewy, Jessica Ferguson, Brooke Glasnapp, Hanna Heline, Annie Hierl, Gretchen Hierl, Kierstin Hutfles, Adriana Jadlow, Sacha Mayer, Rosemary Newsome, Lily Ross, Amanda Schaller, Bailey Sullivan, Bret Watson, and Sarah Whipple.

Jingle Bell Run comes to town Dec. 12: The North East Chapter of the Kansas Arthritis Foundation is holding the second annual “Jingle Bell Run” in Lawrence. The run will take place on Dec. 12 (Sunday), beginning at the Community Building (115 W. 11th St., Lawrence). Registration and packet pick-up is at 7 a.m. and the 5K run begins at 8:30 a.m. There is also a 1-mile family stroll. For more information and details, visit www.jbrlawrence.kintera.org or call 785-691-6990.