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Gold Country Vintage Base Ball is the local sponsor of Pitch, Hit & Run, which is a competition sponsored by Major League Baseball that allows boys and girls from 7 to 14 years of age to compete in a skills-based competition against others of the same age and gender. The winners of each event here [...]
Mace Meadow offers spring season golf deals Mace Meadow Golf Course, in Pioneer, is open for the season, and pro shop manager Scott Whitson has posted attractively low prices for rounds of golf. “Buck a Hole” golf, cart included, is available weekends, while 18-hole rounds during the week are $20 per player, with cart. Superintendent [...]
By Adam Dalton special to the ledger dispatch We are proud to announce that Mollie Joyce Park, in Pioneer, is now 99 percent complete. The entire parking lot has been resurfaced, and the gravel has been spread. The scoreboards have arrived, and one is already on display. Mollie Joyce is now one of Amador’s [...]
By Jerry Budrick sports@ledger-dispatch.com Chris Gascon and his family are justifiably famous as experts in building and driving cars in demolition derbies all around the area, especially in the Amador County Fair’s annual Destruction Derby. When word got out that Chris Gascon had built a 1977 Chrysler to his exacting standards, ready to run [...]
Bradley Girard thought long and hard of what to do for his senior project. He always knew about his brother Brandon Avery Girard, who was taken away by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, because pictures of him were up around the Girards’ home. His mother wanted his siblings to know that he was part of the [...]
By Kathleen Lynch special to the ledger dispatch Last weekend was filled with shooting for A&A Shooters, with a trap competition on Saturday in Los Banos and a skeet competition in Lincoln, at Coon Creek, on Sunday. A&A’s Sean Tallon, a JV trapshooter competing with a broken leg in a full cast, started [...]
By Adam Dalton Special to the Ledger Dispatch By now you all have heard about last weekend’s exciting opening day at Mollie Joyce Park. The Little League of Amador County has kicked off another season of baseball. We were so grateful that the site chosen for opening day was Mollie Joyce. We were able [...]
By Mark Kautz ledger dispatch contributor I bought three dozen poppers from a fellow blogger that hand-makes them. They arrived in the mail last Friday, so the only logical thing was to take them out to Rancho Seco Lake and give them a try. If you’re not a warm water fisherperson, let me explain what [...]
The spring session for Junior Girls’ Golf begins May 5, at Castle Oaks Golf Course, in Ione. The session is open for girls age 7 through 17, and offers weekly instruction each Saturday morning, and other events, through the auspices of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Registration for the session is scheduled for tomorrow, May [...]
Save the Preston Castle Tournament May 3 The 7th annual Preston Castle Golf Classic will be held Thursday, May 3 at the Castle Oaks golf course, in Ione. Format for play is scramble foursomes, with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. Cost per player is $120 for golf, cart, lunch at the course, dinner at [...]
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