CITIES SCORE SPORTS-FIELDS BONANZA : PALMDALE, LANCASTER TO KICK OFF PROJECTS FOR GOLF, SOCCER, SOFTBALL.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents will get $9 million worth of more places to play golf, soccer and softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' this fall. Lancaster and Palmdale are each building the first phases of new soccer complexes, a private firm is building a nine-hole golf course in Lancaster, and the city also plans to add two new softball fields at Lancaster City Park. The first game at Palmdale's Anaverde basin and sports complex at Rayburn and Tierra Subida roads is expected to be played Sept. 6. The $4.2 million first phase includes the construction of an earthen earth·en adj. 1. Made of earth or clay: an earthen fortification; an earthen pot. 2. Earthly; worldly. dam, capable of holding 1,000 acre-feet of water, and the creation of five soccer fields, restrooms, parking lots and pathways. Eventually, the Palmdale soccer complex will cover 73 acres. Plans call for 10 soccer fields, picnic areas, a playground and hiking hiking Walking, often among hills or mountains, as recreational sport. It represents an activity in its own right and also figures in backpacking, camping, hunting, mountaineering, and orienteering. trails. Total cost of the project is estimated at $10.75 million. The $2.2 million first phase of the Lancaster complex will comprise 40 acres between avenues L and K-12, east of 30th Street East, and will include at least nine fields. Lancaster officials anticipate play beginning there Sept. 1. Eventually, the complex will cover 169 acres. Plans call for up to 26 lighted fields, stadium-style seating for 1,000 to 2,000 people, and equestrian equestrian a rider of horses. , bike and foot paths. The complex is estimated to cost $15 million. Soccer now played at Lancaster City Park will be moved to the soccer complex. That will allow the city to turn its ``Big Six'' softball complex at City Park into the ``Big Eight.'' ``That will be an incredible sight,'' said Jeff Long Jeff Long is an American writer. Long is an experienced climber, and Rock climbing often manifests in his writing. Bibliography Fiction
pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. director. ``Not too many people have that capability.'' Lancaster officials want to add two fields to the six at the park in time for the 1998 Amateur Softball Association tournament, which is expected to bring more than 110 teams from around the nation and pump more than $2 million into the Antelope antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats. The North American pronghorn is sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae). Valley's economy. The softball field construction, slated to begin in September, is expected to cost between $350,000 and $500,000 and to be finished by November. Antelope Valley golfers will also have a new venue this fall, the Lancaster Golf Center: a $2.4 million, 9-hole, par-3 course on 20 acres at Fifth Street East and Avenue K-4. The course will have a driving range, clubhouse, pro shop and parking lot for 110 cars. The golf course will be the first for Lancaster. The nearest golf courses are the 9-hole, par-3 Meadowlark meadowlark, common North American meadow bird of the family Icteridae, also called meadow starling. Unlike other members of the family, which comprises blackbirds, grackles, orioles, and others, the meadowlark does not travel in large flocks, and it eats harmful course in Quartz Hill, and the 9-hole regulation Rancho ran·cho n. pl. ran·chos Southwestern U.S. 1. A hut or group of huts for housing ranch workers. 2. A ranch. Sierra course just outside Lancaster city limits. The course is being developed by Steve Oh of Alondra Golf Course Inc., which operates Alondra Golf Course in Lawndale. Lancaster is also seeking proposals for the development of an 18-hole golf course. The request, issued in April, suggests the course be developed on 160 acres the city just purchased south of Avenue H between 80th and 90th streets west. Potential developers, however, can suggest other sites. City officials are asking developers to submit plans for a public golf course that would include a practice range, pro shop, food service areas and a clubhouse. The course should be a minimum of 6,500 yards. The idea of building a golf course in Lancaster has surfaced several times over the years, but nothing ever came of any of the proposals, Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
``I think something will happen this time,'' Roberts said. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--color) Contractor Bob Drury stands near the restaurant at the yet to be built Lancaster Golf Center. The course is set to open in the fall. (2--color) Work is under way on the sports complex, scheduled to open in September, at Rayburn and Tierra Subida roads in Palmdale. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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