Vasona Wildlife Run
The annual Ron's Wildlife Run returns to Vasona Park in Los Gatos on Sept. 15. The event features a 10K run, a 5K walk and a 2K kids run. For details, call 356-4945.
Scorpions Tryouts
The Scorpions girls' fast-pitch softball organization will hold tryouts for its under-14 and 16-and-under teams.
The under-14 club will hold tryouts on Sept. 8 from 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at Leigh High School. For more information, call Bryon at 842-4532.
The 16-and-under tournament team will hold tryouts on Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. at Leigh. For information, call 356-3209.
Bicycle Tours
The Clean Air Bicycle Challenge, co-sponsored by the Los Gatos Kiwanis Club and the American Lung Association, will be held Sept. 14 with tours starting from Los Gatos High School.
Tours feature loops of 20-miles, 50-kilometers, 100-kilometers and 100-miles. The registration fee runs from $10-$20, and families are welcome.
For details, call 998-5864.
Youth Ice Hockey
The Santa Clara Valley Hockey Association will hold tryouts for players ages 6-17 beginning Sept. 3.
The league is holding ice hockey skills clinics Sundays through the end of August at Iceoplex in Fremont. Mites and squirts are on the ice from 10:40-11:40 a.m. with pee wees, bantams and midgets in action from 11:50 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Hockey scrimmages for mites through midgets are Saturdays, 7:30-9 a.m., at Eastridge Ice Arena in San Jose and Thursdays, 7:45-9 p.m., at Iceoplex.
For details, call 450-2888.
Men's Basketball
Saratoga will host a men's 45-and-over basketball league this fall. League play begins Sept. 5 and games will be played Thursdays between 7-10 p.m. at the Saratoga High School gym. The cost is $44 for Saratoga residents $49 for non-residents. For details, call 867-3438, ext. 234.
This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, August 28, 1996.
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