Sports Calendar

Baseball tryouts

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- The Columbia County Storm 9-under travel baseball team is seeking players. To be eligible, players must be 9 years old by May 1. For information, call Shayne Vining at (706) 306-3728.

- The Outlaws 14U USSSA traveling/tournament baseball team is seeking players. For information, call Robert at (706) 840-1066 or (706) 541-0346.

-A Columbia County 11-U tournament baseball team is seeking players. Call Brad at (706) 541-9726 or Don at (706) 854-0908.

Tennis tournament

The 2008 Banana Open tennis tournament will be held April 17-20 at the Petersburg Racquet Club in Martinez. The tournament is sanctioned by the USTA and registration is online. Players will compete for the chance to qualify for the Banana Open Challenge in Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Oct. 3-5.

Divisions are men's and women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles from 2.5 through open divisions. Cost is $30 for the first event, $15 for a second event, plus the TennisLink fee. Deadline for entry is April 13 at 11:59 p.m. Register at usta.com or www.prctennis.com. Call (706) 860-9288.

Basketball tryouts

The Augusta Power traveling AAU and exposure basketball program is seeking players for its boys teams and 15-U girls team. Call Greg Williams at (706) 863-8712 or Dameon Key at (706) 855-7530, or go to www.augustapower.org/basketballacademy.apsx.

Volleyball camps

- Augusta Prep's sixth annual summer volleyball camps are June 5-6 and June 23-27. There are two sessions per camp: middle school from 9 a.m.-noon (grades 5-8) and high school from 1-4 p.m. (grades 9-12). Cost is $50 for the two-day camp, $120 for the five-day camp. Call coach Rich Bland at (706) 414-6145 or e-mail prepvolleyball@yahoo.com.

- The eighth annual GHS Volleyball Camp will be held June 10-13 at Greenbrier High School from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Camp is for girls in grades 5-9. Cost is $75, which includes a T-shirt. Brochures are at Greenbrier High School and on the school Web site.

Call Debbie Born at (706) 650-4152, ext. 220.

Golf tournaments

The Fourth Annual Adaptive Golf Challenge to benefit Camp TBI and other adaptive sports programs, sponsored by Walton Foundation for Independence, will be held Monday. Tee time is 10 a.m. at Augusta Municipal Golf Course. Each team will consist of three able-bodied and one physically challenged player. For information, call Vicki Greene at (706) 823-8585 or e-mail vgreene@wrh.org.

Martinez-Columbia Fire Rescue will hold its second annual golf tournament benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association at Jones Creek Golf Course on May 12. Shotgun starts at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. with 18 teams per flight. For information, call David Dickenson at (706) 831-1308.