Friday, June 15, 2012

Sports Briefs

Free swim day

The Sam Baca Aquatic Center will offer a free swim day from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday. The center is located at the corner of Eighth and Buckeye Streets. Swimmers will need to bring their own locks for the lockers. Center lifeguards will let 350 people in and then will allow more in, as people leave the center. The center offers an activity pool with mushrooms cascading water, jet sprays and a tubular water slide. The competition pool is equipped with a diving board.

Boomers raffle tickets

The New Mexico Boomers Senior Softball Club is raffling four tickets for the Diamondbacks-Dodgers June 30th ballgame in Arizona. The seats are club seats, behind home plate and the game is for July 7, 2012.

Raffle tickets are $2 each and the drawing will be held June 30, 2012. For tickets or information, call Steve Armstrong at (575)494-802 or Jay Villa at (575)546-5591.

Lady 'Cat open gym

Deming High varsity girls' basketball coach Billy Almanza announces the start of open gym and weight training for Lady Wildcat hopefuls.

Girls in grades seven and up will meet from 3-4 p.m. in the weight room on Monday and Wednesday, and from 4-5 in the gymnasium on those days.

They will also meet from 3:30-5 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday in the gym only.

Boys' open gym

Wildcat Boys' Basketball is inviting all boys, grades 7 on up, to weight training and open gym. Meet in the weight room from 4-5 p.m., then in the gym from 5-7 p.m., Monday through Thursday.

Pop Warner limits contact

CHICAGO (AP) - Pop Warner football players won't be taking quite as many hits from now on.

The youth organization said it is limiting contact in practice to try and make the game safer for young players starting this year.

It said coaches must limit contact to no more than one-third of their practice time. It is also banning full-speed, head-on blocking or tackling drills in which players line up more than 3 yards apart. The organization says coaches can have full-speed drills where players approach each other at an angle but "not straight ahead into each other." It also says there should be no head-to-head contact.

The rule changes announced Tuesday were developed by Pop Warner's medical advisory board as part of its effort to reduce the risk of concussions.

Pop Warner said it is the "first youth sports organization to limit contact in practice."

The long-term health effects of repeated blows to the head have become a major issue for the NFL, which is being sued by more than 2,000 retirees, and the concern has been trickling down to the lower levels of the games.

Some parents have voiced worry about letting their children play football, and the National Sporting Goods Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations have each recorded very slight declines in participation in recent years - though doctors are reluctant to declare the changes a trend just yet.

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