SPORTS BRIEFS

Glendale Panthers set to hold tryouts

The Glendale YMCA Panthers will conduct tryouts for the upcoming season. The tryouts will be held today and Wednesday at the Glendale High School gymnasium, 1440 E. Broadway, Glendale.

The tryout times will be 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. for boys, ages 9-10; 7:15 to 8 p.m. for boys, ages 7-8, and girls, ages 8-9 and 10-11; 8 to 8:45 p.m. for boys, ages 11-12; and 8:45 to 9:30 p.m. for boys, age 13, and girls, ages 12-14.

A make-up tryout will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at the Glendale YMCA, 140 N. Louise St., Glendale.

Age levels are determined by one’s age on Sept. 1, 2006.

Parents must attend and sign-up their children at each session.

Practices will be held in November and December. The season will begin in January and conclude March 17.

For more information, contact Ray Calame at (818) 240-4130, ext. 24.

Fundraiser drive in honor of Polizzotto

The second annual Annemarie Polizzotto Scholarship Fundraiser Drive will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 4 at the La Crescenta Church of Religious Science, 4845 Dunsmore Ave., La Crescenta.

Annemarie was struck and killed by a car July 23, 2005 while attending her younger sister’s Little League tournament in San Bernardino.

Vendors scheduled to attend are Pampered Chef, Silpada Designs, Two Sisters Gourmet, Creative Memories, Partylite, Southern Living at Home and Paper Rabbit.

Each vendor will donate a percentage of its sales to benefit the 2006-2007 scholarship fund at Crescenta Valley High School.

Donations will be accepted.

Make checks payable to: Annemarie Polizzotto Scholarship Fund, mail to A.P.S.F. C/O Gordon Blodgett, 15860 Yarnell St., Rancho Cascades, CA 91342.

For more information, contact Blodgett at (818) 364-1153 or Diana Tyson at (818) 625-5221 or (818) 957-7160.

Glendale High football fundraiser set

A fundraiser for the Glendale High football team will be held from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday at Chevy’s Fresh Mex, 101 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale.

Dine at Chevy’s and 20% of the proceeds will be donated to the Glendale High School Football Club.

For more information, contact Rhonda Baykov at (818) 437-2292.

Fundraiser to be held for softball program

A fundraiser will be held at 9 a.m. Nov. 4 to benefit the Crescenta Valley High softball team.

The event will be held at Verdugo Hills Golf Course in La Crescenta and the cost is $50 per player.

The format will be a four-man best ball.

Prizes, lunch and a raffle will be featured. Seventy-two spots are available.

For more information, e-mail John Cookson at jcook15767@aol.com.

Inaugural golf classic to be held Monday

The first Los Angeles Futbol Club Golf Classic will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the La Cañada Country Club, 5500 Godbey Drive, La Cañada Flintridge.

Tournament proceeds will directly support youth soccer, through both scholarships and field development.

The entry fee is $250 per person and includes golf, lunch, dinner, awards and a silent auction.

Entry forms and more information can be found at the LAFC website at www.LAFCsoccer.com.

For more information, contact Tournament Director Jose Ros at (661) 755-1101, or via e-mail at JoseRosSoccer @aol.com.

Glendale College seeking golfers/coach

Glendale Community College is seeking men and women golfers to field teams that will compete in the Western State Conference starting in 2007.

The college will also be hiring a head coach for both teams.

Superintendent/President Dr. Audre Levy gave her support to reinstating the golf program.

“I’m very happy that we will be reinstating intercollegiate golf at the college as a way of providing local student-athletes an opportunity to play competitive golf close to home,” Levy said.

“Additionally, I’m pleased that we will have a women’s team to compliment what is available for the men so that we increase our offerings for female student-athletes.”

The men’s team will compete in the spring of 2007 and the women’s team will compete in the fall of 2007. The teams will practice and play at local courses in and around Southern California.

Glendale Community College fielded a golf program until the mid-1980’s when budget cuts forced the team to be discontinued.

Men and women interested in playing on the golf teams and individuals interested in coaching should contact men’s athletic director Jim Sartoris at (818) 240-1000, ext. 5371, or e-mail him at sartoris@glendale.edu.

Openings for LAFC Soccer teams

The Los Angeles Futbol Club has openings on several of its boys’ and girls’ teams for the upcoming fall season.

Visit the club’s website at www.LAFCsoccer.com for team information and practice schedules.

For more information, contact Rafa Moran (boys’ program) or Teddy Chronopoulos (girls’ program) at rafa.m@lafcsoccer.com or teddy.c@lafcsoccer.com.

Report your youth sports results

To get in all your fall youth sports results, whether it’s soccer, football, baseball, basketball, etc., please drop off or e-mail results by Monday at 2 p.m.

The Glendale News-Press encourages any and all teams to turn in their results weekly.

E-mails can be sent to grant.gordon@latimes.com and hard copies can be sent to: 111 W. Wilson Avenue, second floor, Glendale, 91203-2605.

For more information, call (818) 637-3225.

2007 GCC Hall of Fame Class set

The sixth annual Glendale Community College Athletic Hall of Fame will be held at 5 p.m. March 3 at the college’s J. Walter Smith Student Center, 1500 N. Verdugo Ave., Glendale.

Ron Wielochowski, Marji Gilles, Steve Messmer, Don Bennett and Ted Tiffany will be inducted.

Wielochowski was named the most valuable player for the school’s men’s basketball team during the 1963-64 season.

He still holds the school record for points scored and highest scoring average in a season.

Gilles won a state championship in the triple jump in 1990 and holds the school record for the event, as well as the high jump.

Messmer was a standout on the tennis courts for Glendale, before playing in Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

Bennett served as the college’s football coach from 1961-65 and led the program to two bowl games.

Tiffany was a basketball player from 1952-54 before becoming a trustee for the college.