Our Town Sports

Eudora Youth Basketball League: Registration is under way for Eudora youth basketball leagues. For first and second graders, the cost is $35 for six games. For third through sixth graders, the cost is $40 for eight games. The deadline is Oct. 29. $15 fee for late registration. Sign up at the Eudora Community Center or online at www.eudoraparksandrec.org.

Eudora Bitty-Ball Clinic: Registration is under way for a bitty-ball clinic for 3- to 5-year-old girls and boys. Cost is $27. Deadline is Oct. 25. Sign up at the Eudora Community Center or online at www.eudoraparksandrec.org.

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.

Jayhawk Golf Club Results: Tom Taylor shot a 68 to win the net portion of the fall finale of the Jayhawk Golf Club on Sunday at Alvamar. Bob Koncour followed with a 74, Chris Anderson 76 and Randy Gebhards 77. Conrad Roberts won the scratch portion with a 70. Van Reichert and Bud Stagg followed with 78s, and Mike Naegele with an 82.

Thunder Finish Second: The Thunder 16U fastpitch softball team competed in the Creature Feature 16-18U tournament this past weekend at Hidden Valley Sports Complex in Blue Springs, Mo. They went 6-2 on the weekend for a second-place finish. Team members include Meredith Morris, Kaitlin Jorgensen, Hailey Cope, Remington Samuels, Kristen Gile, Grace Miller, Elizabeth Seamears, Jordie Blair, Mac Davis, Elena Keating, Emily Strawn and Madison Coen. The Thunder are coached by Bret Morris, Dane Jorgensen, Gary Cope and Lee Seamears.

KU Rugby Benefit on Saturday: Saturday’s match between the Kansas University men’s rugby club and Benedictine will serve as a benefit for breast-cancer awareness. Kickoff is 1:00 p.m. at Westwick, located on County Road 458, two miles west of U.S. Highway 59.

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 the weekend of Nov. 7. 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.

Rodrigue Ace: Lindsey “Tiger” Rodrigue recorded a hole-in-one on the 127-yard No. 17 hole at Eagle Bend with an 8-iron. Chris Rodrigue and Jill Rodrigue were witnesses.