Digest: Cougars, Wildcats hosting tryouts

Teen basketball league

The Douglas County Parks & Recreation Department is taking registration for the new teen basketball league through Dec. 1 and the season will begin on Jan. 13.

Cost is $65 for ninth- through 12th-grade boys and girls and includes all equipment, official fees, awards and uniforms.

Each team requires a volunteer coach. The department is also continually looking for officials and scorekeepers as well as team sponsors to help reduce the cost to participants.

For more information, call J.P. Albert at 782-9828.

Elements conducting tryouts

The Elements Reloaded U11 and Elements United U14 and U16 soccer teams will hold open tryouts for the spring 2007 season and today from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Stodick Park and Nov. 25 from 10 a.m. to noon at Stodick Park.

Tryouts are open to all girls between the ages of 9 to 15 interested in competitive level soccer.

For more information, or to discuss additional individual tryout dates, call Tony or Krissy Cormier at 265-8873 or 781-5813 (U14 and U16) or Fritz Schweigert at 265-7301. For U11, call Adrian Cobb at 265-6234 or Jeremy Rutherdale at 265-2959.

Wildcats wrestling sign-ups

The Douglas Wildcat youth wrestling will be taking sign-ups for the 2006-07 season Nov. 27 and 30 at the Carson Valley Middle School multi-purpose room from 6 to 7 p.m.

The club is open to boys and girls ages 5 and up. Cost is $80 each for the first two children in a family, $60 for the third and $55 each for four or more.

Participants must bring a copy of their brith certificates to the sign-ups.

The season runs from January to March with tournaments all over Northern Nevada on the weekends.

The team practices two to three times a week starting in the first week of December.

For more information, contact John Grant at 782-5618 or 7202311 or Jon Murray at 691-1454.

Carson Valley Cougars tryouts

The Carson Valley Cougars competitve traveling baseball program will be conducting tryouts for its 14U and 13U squads in early December.

All athletes interested in participating, whether they have played in the program before or not, must have at least one parent or guardian attend one mandatory parent meeting.

Meetings scheduled are at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 28 and 29 at the Cougar practice facility at 2222 Park Place, building 3, unit A off of Airport Road.

Tryout dates are Dec. 2 and 3 at Stodick Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Dec. 5, 6 and 7 at the Cougar facility from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Dec. 9 and 10 at Stodick Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

To play on the 14-under squad, the cutoff birth date is May 1, 1993. For 13U, it is May 1, 1994 .

The Cougars' season runs from February to July and includes tournaments in Northern California and a trip to College World Series in Omaha, Neb.

For more information, visit www.cvcougars.com or call 783-4977 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Youth basketball leagues

The Douglas County Parks & Recreation Department will take registration through Dec. 1 with the season beginning Jan. 13.

Cost is $60 for third- to sixth-grade coed and $65 for seventh- to eighth-grade boys and girls. The cost includes all equipment, official fees, awards and uniforms.

Each team requires a volunteer coach.

For more information, call J.P. Albert at 782-9828.

AAU basketball tryouts

Tryouts for the Carson Valley Tigers sixth-grade AAU basketball team will be Dec. 3 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Douglas High School gym.

For more information, contact David Thomas at 267-1908.

Old Guys Basketball

Men 35 and older interested in playing pickup basketball are invited to the basketball court in the Pastoral Center at St. Gall Catholic Church every Sunday at 4 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m.

After teams are chosen, games go either full-court or half-court depending on how many show up. The sessions are strictly for fun and exercise.

Cost is $50, which is donated to the church for court upkeep. The sessions run from September to June.

For more information, contact John Parra at 265-3586.