DRIVING FOR DOLLARS; CELEBRITY GOLFERS HIT FOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Two hundred athletes, business people and entertainers played 18 holes for charity Monday at the eighth annual golf tournament to benefit College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. and the Special Olympics Special Olympics International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants. of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Organizers of the HR Textron Scholarship Celebrity Classic hoped to raise $80,000 from the event, said Kathleen Maloney, executive director of the College of the Canyons Foundation, the fund-raising entity for the campus. Texas Rangers Texas Rangers, mounted fighting force organized (1835) during the Texas Revolution. During the republic they became established as the guardians of the Texas frontier, particularly against Native Americans. third baseman third baseman n. Baseball The infielder stationed near third base. Noun 1. third baseman - (baseball) the person who plays third base third sacker Todd Zeile
Zeile, signed by Los Angeles beginning with the 1997 season, had his Dodger career cut short in May when he was traded to the Florida Marlins with teammate Mike Piazza. Later in the 1998 season, Zeile was sent to the Rangers, who went on to win the American League Western Division. Meanwhile, play at the country club got under way with each fivesome starting the morning at a different hole and progressing around the course. The day was capped by a cocktail reception, dinner, auction, raffle and awards for golfers who won assorted skills contests. Entry fees for the sold-out event ranged from $850 for individual golfers to the $10,000 that HR Textron paid to be the presenting sponsor, Maloney said. HR Textron also donated $5,000 to College of the Canyons to provide scholarships for engineering students. ``They want to invest in the people they want to hire,'' Maloney said. ``All these companies are telling me about the dearth of engineering, math and science majors who are coming through the universities.'' Corporate sponsors who paid $5,000 each were Ernst & Young, Morton Manufacturing, Nike and Wilson, the latter donating sets of golf clubs awarded to the tournament's winning fivesome. Other sponsors, contributing $2,500 each, were Aquafine Corp., Avery-Dennison, ACCO ACCO American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists ACCO Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma ACCo American Cyanamid Company ACCO Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Organization ACCO American Clip Company ACCO Assistant Central Control Officer North America, Office Depot, Realty Executives and Pacific Bell. Seventeen other sponsors contributed $1,500 each. Sports memorabilia was the centerpiece of the silent auction that followed the tournament. ``The most exciting thing is we have a signed Mark McGwire baseball. One of the great things Todd Zeile does is he meets these players throughout the season and he collects memorabilia,'' Maloney said. Other items on the auction block were two signed baseballs from Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa, an autographed photograph of Muhammad Ali, a baseball bat signed by Zeile and all his Texas Rangers teammates, tickets to this weekend's USC-UCLA football game, an autographed Joe Montana football jersey, and baseballs autographed by Yankees hall of famer Joe DiMaggio and Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax, Maloney said. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1-2--Color) Former Dodger Todd Zeile tees off to start the celebrity benefit Monday at the Valencia Country Club, left. Above, golf carts stand ready for the 200 players taking part. Fox TV sports analyst (3--Color) Steve ``Psycho'' Lyons takes a shot down the fairway at Monday's HR Textron Scholarship Celebrity Classic. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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