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Sports camps offer summer fun for kids

Former San Francisco Giants second baseman Rob Andrews will head up the San Francisco Giants Youth Baseball Camps that will be held this summer at various Bay Area locations.

There will be a Giants Youth Camp held June 22-26, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. each day, at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino. The camp is open to players ages 8-12, and the cost is $215 per player.

An advanced training class for players ages 10-12 will be held June 29-July 3 at Monta Vista. The cost is $215.

The camp features instruction according to age groups. All campers receive a free ticket to a San Francisco Giants home game, a tour of 3Com Park (including the Giants clubhouse) for campers and their parents, visits from former pros who will provide instruction and sign autographs, a camp T-shirt, a 5x7 color photo with coaches and visiting pros, and a camp scouting report.

Call (800) 442-6874 for information.

Santa Clara Baseball School

The annual Santa Clara Baseball School returns to Santa Clara University this summer, under the direction of Broncos head coach Mike Cummins and former Santa Clara player and coach Lou Lucas.

Camp sessions include: Session I--June 22-26, basic fundamentals and hitting, 9 a.m.-noon, $110, and pitching only, 1-2:30 p.m., $60; Session II--July 6-10, hitting only, 9-10:15 a.m. or 10:30-11:45 a.m,, $60; and Session III--July 20-24, basic fundamentals and hitting, 9 a.m.-noon, $110, and pitching only, 1-2:30 p.m., $60.

Joining Cummins and Lucas on the camp staff this summer will be Santa Clara pitching coach Greg Gohr, a former Santa Clara mound star who spent four years in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers and Anaheim Angels.

For more information, call 554-4680 or 267-3831.

Santa Clara Soccer Camps

Santa Clara Soccer Camps will hold a series of camps for boys and girls, ages 6-17, at Santa Clara University.

Camp sessions include: Girls' Residential--July 5-9, ages 9-13, field players and goalkeepers; July 12-16, ages 9-17, team camp; July 18-22, ages 14-17, field players and goalkeepers; Boys' Residential--July 24-28, ages 14-17, field players and goalkeepers; July 29-Aug. 2, ages 10-13, field players and goalkeepers; Girls' Day Camp--July 12-16, ages 9-13, 9 a.m.-noon; Boys' Day Camp--Aug. 3-7, ages 6-16, 9 a.m.-noon; Boys' Strikers Camp--Aug. 3-7, ages 10-16, 1:30-4 p.m.

Santa Clara Soccer Camps also features a Boys' and Girls' Full Day camp in Utah, June 29-July 3.

For more information, call Eric Yamamoto at 551-1988.

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This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, June 17, 1998.
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