Baseball reunion plans continue

Published 9:50 pm Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The annual minor league baseball reunion will be held Aug. 4-5, with former player Spencer “Onion” Davis, who now lives in Bainbridge, as the guest speaker.

Clint Chafin, who got the annual reunion off the ground several years ago, continues to promote the event.

From noon-12:30 p.m. Sunday, WCTV will air a feature on minor league baseball in the area and will highlight the reunion. Rob Shaw from WCTV interviewed Chafin, Jack Daughtry, Tommy Proctor and Jack Bridwell for the story.

Also, all next week during its 6 p.m. sports report, WCTV will show short segments from the 30-minute show.

Chafin also will be the guest speaker at the meeting of the Moultrie Rotary Club on Tuesday, Aug. 1.

Chafin also has written a story on the history of baseball in Colquitt County that will appear in the upcoming issue of Moultrie Magazine.

Of this and that:

• The Moultrie-Colquitt County Parks and Recreation Department’s annual fishing rodeo will be held from 8-11 a.m. on Saturday, June 3, at the Magnolia Sports Complex pond. The event is open to boys and girls 15 and under and is sponsored by the recreation department and Larry’s Bait and Tackle.

• The first two-week session of tennis lessons sponsored by the Moultrie-Colquitt County Parks and Recreation Department will begin Tuesday, May 30.

The 4- to 7-year-old beginners will meet from 8:30-9 a.m.; the 8- to 12-year-old beginners will meet from 9-10 a.m.; the 12-and-under intermediates and advanced will meet from 10-11 a.m.; the 13-and-older intermediated and advanced will meet from 11 a.m.-noon; and the 13-and-older beginners will meet from 6-7 p.m.

Lynda Moseley will be the instructor.

For more information or to sign up, contact the recreation department at 890-5429.

• The annual Moose Moss Invitational diving meet will be held Saturday through Monday at the Moose Moss Aquatic Center. Teams from Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Georgia and Florida will have divers in the field.

Competition will begin at 9 a.m. each day.

• Connell Electric won last weekend’s men’s open low bid softball tournament held at the Knuck McCrary Complex.

The team defeated Mercer Motors 23-11, Southern Floors 23-18 and the Young Guns 33-14 to reach the championship game, where they were defeated in a rematch with the Young Guns, 25-24.

That forced the “if” game and Connell prevailed, beating the Young Guns 27-17 for the title.

• The Ocilla Men’s Birthday Club will sponsor a men’s softball tournament on June 9-10 and a girls 16-and-under fast-pitch tournament on June 23-24.

The tournaments will be held at the Ocilla Softball Field on Highway 90 next to Sunny Dale.

For more information, contact Tony Johnson at 468-9809 or Henry Baker at 468-4409.