Play! Recreational sports calendar

Find a team, join a league or sharpen your skills.

The free Play! Recreational Sports Calendar for youth and adult recreational sports is published each Tuesday in the Sports Section of the print edition of The News & Observer.

Among the sports you'll find included in the lengthy list that follows are baseball, basketball, cheerleading, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, rugby, running, soccer, softball and wrestling, plus the offerings of area parks and recreation department programs and commercial multi-sport facilities.

You can find more recreational sports news and announcements at http://share.triangle.com/.

CALENDAR: Requests must be submitted by 5 p.m. THURSDAY. There is no charge for listings. All requests MUST include a name (first and last) and a telephone number and must list the fee that will be charged to participants.

E-MAIL: (please type 'PLAY!' in the subject field; do not send attachments) play@newsobserver.com

MAIL: Play! Editor, The News & Observer Sports Dept., 215 S. McDowell St., Raleigh, NC 27601

FAX: (919) 829-4888

PHONE: Teri Boggess (919) 829-4831 after 6:30 p.m. weeknights

PARKS AND RECREATION PROGRAMS

YOUTH

MORRISVILLE Baseball, soccer, softball registration Feb. 1-28 residents, Feb. 15-28 nonresidents. Fee: $36-$54. Information: (919) 463-7117, www.townofmorrisville.org.

ADULT

CARY Basketball, men's 35-and-older league, registration Jan. 7-10. Fee: $450 team. Information: (919) 469-4062, tracey.hedgpeth@townofcary.org.

SMITHFIELD Basketball, Fun and Fellowship church league, registration ends Dec. 31. Fee: $425 team. Information: (919) 934-2148.

BASEBALL

CAMPS Duke Winter Camps, Jack Coombs Field, Durham: ages 7-12 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 5, ages 13-18 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 6. Fee: $125. Information: Jonathan Anderson (919) 684-2358, janderson@duaa.duke.edu.

CAMPS Campbell University Winter All Skills Camp, Dec. 28-29, Buies Creek: ages 6-12 9-noon, ages 13-up 1-4 p.m. Fee: $100. Information: Aubrey Blackwell (910) 814-4335, blackwella@campbell.edu, www.gocamels.com.

CAROLINA BLUEJAYS Triangle-based 9U AAU/USSSA travel team seeks two players. Information: Will Whitlock (919) 889-2162, whits23@aol.com, www.carolinabluejays.com.

DRAGONS BASEBALL CLUB Durham-based 14U team holding tryouts. Information: Daniel Johnson (919) 237-1977, daniel.johnson2@dpsnc.net.

IDA TERBET RAPTORS 11U USSSA/AAU individual tryouts. Information: Steve McKinion (919) 556-8896, baseball@stevemckinion.com, www.raptorsbb.org.

INSTRUCTION Hitting with Johnny Narron, Cincinnati Reds operations/hitting coach, Smithfield. Fee: $75. Information: Baseball Advancement Service (919) 202-6365, www.narronprohitting.com.

INSTRUCTION Pitching with former major league pitcher Earl Stephenson. Fees: vary. Information: (919) 894-1359, (919) 625-7077.

KNIGHTDALE KNIGHTS 12U,13U, 14U USSSA/AAU team tryouts in January. Information: Troy Dickens (919) 266-2567, www.eteamz.com/knightdaleknightsbaseball.

NEW TRAVEL TEAMS Forming in Benson, Four Oaks areas. Ages: 9U, 12U. Information: Earl Stephenson (919) 894-1359, (919) 625-7077.

RALEIGH ORIOLES Men's 21-and-older team seeks players; wood-bat league plays mainly Sunday afternoons. Information: Dan Thomson (919) 345-3244, danthomson2003@yahoo.com.

BASKETBALL

CAMP, LEAGUES Holiday Hoops Camp, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 26-28, MVP Sports Center, Wake Forest; boys 6-14, girls 10-14; $125. Little Hoopsters instructional league. Sundays 1:30-2:45 p.m. Sundays Jan. 22-March 26; grades K-1; fee TBA. Winter adult league, 10-week season, Thursday evenings, $50 player. Winter corporate adult league, 10 weeks, Wednesday evenings, $750 team. Information: (919) 423-9203, www.1on1basketball.com.