Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Wanted: Sports info for summer

The Starr’s Mill varsity baseball team plays in the Class AAAAA quarterfinals tonight at Parkview. If they win, they play in the state semifinals. If they lose, the high school athletic season is over and the long, hot, starved for sports news, summer officlally begins.

This is our plea for your help.

We want scores from every local recreation league we can get: soccer, lacrosse, baseball, water polo, etc. If you are a coach or a parent, e-mail the scores and as much info as you want to sports@thecitizennews.com. We can’t promise that all of the information you send will make it in to the story, but we are at least trying to run every score in agate form. Be sure to include the team name, age group and sport in the e-mail and also leave a contact number, in case we have questions.

In addition to scores, we want pictures. Lots of them. Action shots, team photos, mugs, you name it. As long as it is sports-related (summer sports camps count), we want it. We would prefer the pictures to be e-mailed to sports@thecitizennews.com, at the highest resolution possible, with all the pertinent info in the body of the e-mail. There can be no guarantee of the date that the picture will run, but we will try to e-mail you when it does run to let you know.

Lastly, we want feature ideas. We’d like to do “Where are they now” or “How are they doing” stories on our recent high school athletes making a splash at the collegiate level. If they are home for the summer or would like to chat for a few minutes over the phone, send us a message. We are also looking for interesting story ideas in the field of recreation, so if you have noteworthy story or person to feature, write to sports@thecitizennews.com to let us know about it.

The summer sports sections can be very thin, but we would love to have a lot of local pictures and news filling each week’s paper. We want to be the paper you turn to for local sports coverage and to do that we need your help.

Here’s to a happy and safe, fun-filled, sports crazy summer.