SPORTS

32 THE SUN SPORTS FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Youngest footballers learning game at The Center

BY MONICA SIMPSON

SPECIAL TO THE SUN

ANNA MARIA - Each Tuesday night, The Center’s gridiron becomes the training ground for the 4- to 5-year-old flag footballers. This season’s clinic, sponsored by the Sandbar, has two teams, more than 10 players on the roster, and two great volunteer coaches.

Coach Dhaval Patel and Kevin Shook take the field each week, not only teaching the rules and skills of the game, but also sharing their love of the game and working with kids.

At the end of the season, the youngest players in the league look to the 6- to 7-year-old league as the next level of play, before competitive recreational play begins when they turn eight.

In week four action, the adult flag football league’s standings were rattled as the Sandbar team, coming in with the only win in the season, defeated the undefeated Solid Rock Construction squad by two touchdowns.

Solid Rock Construction now shares the same record at 3-1-0 with Prosper Bradenton at the top of the charts going into the second half of the regular season.

As the adult flag football season looks to the playoffs in the coming weeks, the adult indoor soccer league struggles to make a game happen. With two forfeits last week, the match-up between Sato Real Estate and Gulfview Windows & Doors ended in a tie, after each team scored seven goals. No winner gave each team a 1-0-1 record going into week three of play.

SUN SCOREBOARD TUESDAY, FEB. 1 YOUTH FLAG FOOTBALL – WEEK 4 8- TO 10-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE Mac Parkman Foundation 18 Progressive Cabinetry 12

Moss Builders 39 Solid Rock Construction 21

Prosper Bradenton Beach Bums 20 18

Shady Lady 20 Bradenton Beach Parasailing 12

11- TO 13-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE Blalock Walters Miz & Hiz Biz Moss Builders Nissan of Bradenton 31 6

Investigative Lawyers Group 24 Wash Family Construction 2

HSH bye week

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2 YOUTH FLAG FOOTBALL – WEEK 3 MAKEUP GAMES 8- TO 10-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE Moss Builders 33 Shady Lady 14

Solid Rock Construction 21 Prosper Bradenton 15

Bradenton Beach Parasailing 7 Progressive Cabinetry 0

Beach Bums 20 Mac Parkman Foundation 0

11- TO 13-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE Wash Family Construction 24 Miz & Hiz Biz 32

Moss Builders 26 Wins* HSH 26

Blalock Walters Nissan of Bradenton 25 8

Investigative Lawyers Group bye week

THURSDAY, FEB. 3 ADULT CO-ED FLAG FOOTBALL – WEEK 4 Shady Lady (1-3-0) 27 WTBL (2-1-1) 38

Prosper Bradenton (3-1-0) 47 Cortez Deep Sea Fishing (1-3-0) 12

TBT (3-0-1) 31 Moss Builders (2-2-0) 28

Solid Rock Construction (3-1-0) 14 Sandbar (2-2-0) 26

THURSDAY, FEB. 3 ADULT CO-ED INDOOR SOCCER – WEEK 2 Slim’s Place (0-2-0) Beach Bums (2-0-0) Win by forfeit

Sato Real Estate (1-0-1) 7 Gulfview Windows & Doors (1-0-1) 7

MONICA SIMPSON | SUN Above, The Sandbar Orange team's Mason Shook and Holden Bittle dive in, trying to stop opponent River Chambers. Sandbar Team Grey teammates Kalvin Kroth and Cooper Patel look on as Chambers move down the football field. Left, Mason Shook, for the Sandbar Orange team, feels the pressure of Sandbar Grey team's Cooper Patel and Meyer Gail as he rushes for big yards in the youth flag football clinic at The Center. Coach Kevin Shook and Holden Bittle watch teammate Shook run down the sideline.

Key Royale golf scores

MONDAY, JAN. 24 MODIFIED STABLEFORD 1st Place Team - Jon Holcomb, Hoyt Miller, Dave Rincke and Blake Ress with a score of +6 1st Place Individual - Gary Alvord and Dave Rincke with a score of +5 2nd Place Individual - John Cassese, Larry Brattain and Quentin Talbert with a score of +3

TUESDAY, JAN. 25 - LOW NET SCORE

Flight A 1st Place Marcia Friesen 34 2nd Place Jenny Huibers 35 3rd Place Tie Lisa Edmonds, Pam Lowry 36

Flight B 1st Place Janet Razze 29 2nd Place Tie Peggy Clauhs, Judy Todd, Jackie Gorski 33

Jenny Huibers got a chip in and a birdie on Hole #5.

THURSDAY, JAN. 27 - SHAMBLE - COUNTING TWO BEST SCORES FROM THE GROUP 1st Place - Eric Lawson, Nub Turner and Tom Young with a score of 62, two under par 2nd Place - Gary Alvord, Ken Butler, Rich Salzburg and Greg Shorten tied with Dean Christensen, Tim Donnar, Tom Solosky and Quentin Talbert with a score of 63, one under par