Local sports calendar
BASEBALL Camps Senators Baseball Camp: For ages 7-12 9 a.m.-3 p.m. July 16-20 at SUNY Ulster. Instruction focuses on fundamentals, including hitting, fielding, pitching, throwing and base running. There is also intense work on learning and improving skills, effective drills and developing proper work habits. Athletes are grouped based on age and ability. Players have the opportunity to learn about more than one position during specialty grups. Coach-to-athlete ratio is 1:12. Lead Instructor is Ulster head coach Steven Morse. Please bring a glove, bat, baseball cap, long athletic pants and footwear (rubber spikes/sneakers). Catchers should bring a chest protector, helmet, shin guards and facemask if they have them. Don’t forget topical insect repellent and sun block (spray not permitted). Cost: $210. Class Number CFK 1461. For more information and to register, visit www.sunyulster. edu/campulster or call (845) 339-2025. —— BOXING Boxing Conditioning: Led by Tom Pignone, certified boxing instructor, at the Mountainview Studio, 20 Mountainview Ave., Woodstock. Tuesdays. Children ages 7-12 from 4:15-5 p.m.; teens 5-5:45 p.m.; adults from 6-7. You will need to bring clean gym footwear. We provide the rest. Suggested donation for youth $8 per class, adults $10. Drop-ins welcome. For more information, visit www. mtnviewstudio.com, email mtviewstudio@gmail.com or reach it on Facebook. —— CYCLING 13th Annual Tour de Kingston and Ulster: June 24, starting from Forsyth Park, Kingston. Rides for all ages and abilities. Road Rides are 25 and 50 miles. Road and Trail Rides are 10, 18 and 32 miles and the Kingston Family Ride is a flat, easy 5 miles. Family Ride is free and is escorted by the race’s safety marshals and the Kingston Police Department. Barbecue lunch, raffle and scholarship awards follow the rides. For more information and to register, visit www.tourdekingston.com —— FENCING Woodstock Fencing Club: Meets 6:30-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the Cafetorium at the Woodstock Elementary School (when school is open). Instruction given at all levels in all weapons — Foil, Sabre and Epee from 6:30-8. Practice and bouting. Fence dry or electric. It is a non-profit Club with volunteer instructors in Ron Zukor of Woodstock, David Osherow of Shokan, George T. Gallagher from Kingston, plus Elene Umberto Schoeps of Olivebridge. There is no charge to join for classes, lessons or fencing. Only requirement is $10-per-year dues for a USA Fencing membership. For more information, call Elene Schoeps at (845) 657-8021 or George T. Gallagher at 3313832, e-mail YESUS@hvc. rr.com or visit www.ashokan. com/fencing.html
Attendance continues to drop at Major League parks
Major League Baseball attendance is headed to its lowest average in 15 years. And it’s not only because of the historically bad weather that’s plagued the first third of the season.
Strikeouts exceeded hits in a full calendar month for the first time in April and are on track to do so again in May. Five teams are on pace to lose 100 or more games in the same season for the first time.
Yet, there are trends Major League Baseball views as positive: New pace rules have cut the average time of a nine-inning game by five minutes, mound trips have dropped dramatically and home runs have receded from last year’s record level.
“We’ve got a long way to go,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said. “We’re relatively early in the season still and it has been an aberrational part of a season.”
Young player dies in tournament over weekend
A player for a North Carolina youth basketball team collapsed and died on the court at a tournament in Virginia.
James Hampton played for Team United out of Charlotte, North Carolina, and was at the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League event in Hampton, Virginia.
Team United director Jacoby Davis told The Charlotte Observer that Hampton was running and turned to say something to a referee Saturday night when he collapsed.
Davis says paramedics did chest compressions on the court before Hampton was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The 17-year-old played went to private Liberty Heights school in Charlotte and was scheduled to graduate high school next year.
Davis says Hampton’s team wants to play their final two games Sunday in honor of their teammate.
Nick Diaz arrested on domestic violence charges
UFC middleweight fighter Nick Diaz has been arrested in Las Vegas on allegations of domestic violence.
Clark County jail records indicate the 35-year-old was booked Thursday night on suspicion of domestic battery by strangulation but was no longer in custody Saturday.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Diaz was arrested after police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance involving a man and a woman.
A formal criminal complaint was not filed immediately and it’s not known if Diaz had an attorney who could comment on the allegations.
The Review-Journal reports he’s due in court June 26.
The UFC said in a statement it was aware of the arrest, does not tolerate domestic violence and will review the allegations against Diaz.