KIWANIS FOOTBALL GAME SET FOR JULY 22

The 32nd annual Kiwanis all-star football team, featuring a clash between

the Sonoma County League and North Bay League is scheduled for Friday, July

22, at Santa Rosa JC.

Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m.

Only the top graduated seniors from the two leagues qualify to participate

in the game.

Tickets -- $10 for general admission -- are available at T&B Sports on

Mendocino Avenue across from Santa Rosa High School or at the gate.

NEIDLINGER GETS SRJC JOB

Damon Neidlinger, who led the Santa Rosa JC baseball team to a state

championship in May, has been offered a full-time coaching and teaching

position at the school.

Neidlinger, a longtime assistant for former SRJC baseball coach Ron Myers,

interviewed for the job the day after his team won the state title in Fresno.

Winning the title certainly helped Neidlinger's chances of going from

part-time to full-time at the school. It also helped seven players land

Division I scholarships.

Sophomore Stephen Pearson, who batted .529 and drove in 13 runs during the

Final Four, has accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Arizona,

where he will join teammate Konrad Schmidt (.455, 6 RBIs).

Pitcher Tony Lombardi will play at East Tennessee State. Infielders Omar

Padilla (SE Missouri St.) and Jake Kahaulelio (Oral Roberts) also have

accepted scholarship offers. Pat Brooks and Ray Silva have been offered

scholarships at Texas Pan American.

* Myers will continue as interim director of athletics at SRJC, which has

reopened applications for the position. Myers has served as interim AD the

past two years but did not apply for the perminant position.

Myers said he will start the year in the position but did not know how long

it would take for the school to go through the hiring process following an

unsuccessful attempt to find a suitable candidate.