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Sports Briefs
Youth basketball
Cupertino Hoops offers a basketball program for players in grades 7-10. The season runs from Nov. 29 to March 4 with games played at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale. For more information, call Joe Bagliere at 408.867.9810 or Judy Sheade at 408.255.5276.
Pony Baseball
The Sunnyvale-Cupertino Pony Baseball program is accepting registration in November for players ages 7-18. The league also needs adult volunteers to become board members. For more information, call 408.245.7669.
Baseball camp
He was one of the finest baseball players the Santa Clara Valley has produced.
And now Mark O'Brien is giving something back to the community as he hosts the annual Stanford baseball camps for players ages 12-18 on the Stanford campus.
The camps will feature hitting and defense, with a special camp for pitchers ages 13-18. Camps will be held Nov. 26-28, Dec. 20-22 and Dec. 27-29 at Sunken Diamond; and the cost is $110 per session.
O'Brien starred on the diamond at St. Francis High School before going to on excel at both De Anza Community College and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. He later coached at each college before taking a position as an assistant coach at Stanford. O'Brien was the first-base coach for the Cardinal team that competed in the NCAA World Series last spring.
For information on the camps, call O'Brien at 650.723.4528.
Competitive diving
The Santa Clara Divers offer year-round training and competition for divers ages 8 and up interested in springboard and platform diving. For more information, e-mail coachbill@scdivers.com, check the Web site at www.scdivers.com or call 408.274-9542.
Pitching program
An eight-week fall pitching program for baseball players ages 9-12 will run Tuesday evenings, through Dec. 14, in the gym at West Valley Community College in Saratoga.
The program teaches fundamentals, arm care and defensive skills. Players 9-10 attend at 7 p.m., players 11-12 at 8 p.m.
For more information, call Burch Boehner at 408.998.5338.
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