SPORTS SHORTS SPORTS SHORTS (August 13, 2004)

OF LOCAL NOTE . . . The Bay Area Nor Cal 16-and-under baseball team, which included Palo Alto residents David Chezar and Michael Silton, took the bronze medal at the JCC Maccabi Games in Austin, Texas. BANC, which lost to Baltimore, 9-7, in the semifinals, came back to defeat Phoenix, 16-6, for the bronze medal. Chezar hit a bases-loaded double in the game. Silton started all seven games for BANC, playing in the outfield, first and third. BANC was 6-1 overall, 4-0 in pool play . . . 12-year-old East Palo Alto resident Caprice Powell, finished second in the 100 meters on Saturday at the Hershey National Track and Field championships in Pennsylvania. Powell went 13.91, to finish just behind winner Zelika Dixon of Brooklyn, who won the race in 13.80 . . . Stanford senior goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart was named to the Missouri Valley Hermann Trophy Watch List as one of 25 candidates for the award which goes to the best women's collegiate soccer player in the nation. Barnhart is Stanford's top-ranked goalie in career goals-against average at 0.457.

COACHING CORNER . . . Castilleja School is looking for coaches for the upcoming season in varsity cross country, JV water polo, JV tennis, varsity track and field in addition to an assistant coach for swimming. Interested persons should contact Athletic Director Jez McIntosh at jez_mcIntosh@castilleja.org . . . Woodside Priory School is looking for a boys' junior varsity and girls' varsity soccer coach. Contact Athletic Director Mark Stogner at 851-6107 or at mstogner@woodsidepriory.com . . . Menlo-Atherton High is looking for a number of coaches for the 2004-05 season: frosh-soph softball, frosh-soph volleyball, girls' JV lacrosse, girls' varsity lacrosse and cheerleading. Interested persons should contact M-A Athletic Director Pam Wimberly at 322-5311 (ext. 5706).

ON THE LINKS . . . The inaugural Tony Makjavich Memorial Golf Tournament will be held Sept. 11 at Moffett Field Golf Course. The event honors the former Palo Alto Oaks' baseball manager, who died last year after a memorable 45-plus years of coaching the Palo Alto-based semipro team. Proceeds from the tournament will go towards funding the Oaks, thus preserving Makjavich's legacy with the team. Cost for the tournament, which will be played as a scramble, is $150 per person and includes green fees, cart, prizes and a tri-top BBQ dinner. Cost for a foursome is $500, or $125 per person. A shotgun start gets things under way at 1:30 p.m. For those who want to attend the dinner only, cost is $20. Sponsorships also are available. For an entry forms, contact paoaks@hotmail.com or phone coach Steve Espinoza at (650) 302-3279.

SOCCER NEWS . . . The Major League Soccer Camp will run its camp programs for boys and girls ages five and older at the Cubberley Community Center fields between Aug. 16 and 20 from 9 a.m.-noon and 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost is between $100-$135. For more information visit MLScamps.com or phone 1-800-680-6272 . . . The MVLA CyberRays, a first season CYSA Girls Under-13 Class 1 soccer team, are looking for players from Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills among other local cities. Coach Simon Weiss played at North Carolina. For information, call 1-650-996-0505 or e-mail soccer@albertos.com.

CORRECTION . . . In the pre-Olympic story in Wednesday's paper regarding Stanford women's swim coach Richard Quick, it was stated that quick graduated from Southern Methodist University in Houston. Actually, SMU is located in Dallas.

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