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Coach for field hockey

GLENBURN – The Glenburn Parks and Recreation Department is seeking a volunteer coach for middle school field hockey.

Practices are scheduled after school according to the coach’s schedule.

There are six game dates, with games starting at 3:30 p.m., two games each day.

Transportation to games is provided.

Registration and the first practice are scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18.

Those interested should contact the Glenburn Parks and Recreation director at 945-3119 and leave a message.

Golf tournament

PALMYRA – Organizers say it’s not too late to register for the second annual Putt for the Club, the Penobscot Nation Boys and Girls Club of Indian Island golf tourney set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at the Palmyra Golf Club. Participants will have the opportunity to golf with Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Seth Wescott.

The cost is $300 per team.

Food will be provided by the 99 Restaurant.

For information, call Carla Fearon at 817-7355.

Soccer tournament

HERMON – The 4v4 Summer Soccer Shootout Tournament is set for Saturday, Aug. 16, at Hermon Elementary School. Blackbear United and the Hermon Recreation Department are the sponsors of this first annual tournament focused on bringing “street soccer” to eastern Maine.

The tournament will offer eight divisions – U8, U10, U12, U14, high school, open, over 30 and over 40. Each team will play with four field players and no goalkeepers. Each team is guaranteed four 18-minute games. The U12 and up divisions will feature playoffs.

The cost is $100 per team if registered by Friday, Aug. 1. After that date the fee is $125.

The tournament will be in conjunction with Hermon Family Fun Day. Lots of activities, food and fun will be available when players don’t have games.

Schedules, rosters and rules plus Family Day activities will be e-mailed to participants when registration is received. For information, call MJ Ball, director of operations, Blackbear United Football Club, at 862-4154, ext. 2.

Guard Golf Tournament

The 13th annual National Guard Association of Maine invitational golf tournament will be held Wednesday, Aug. 13, at the Palmyra Golf Course in Palmyra. Proceeds will go to the National Guard Association of Maine Scholarship Fund.

The tournament will have 36 teams, four members on each team, competing in a scramble format. The cost is $200 per team, including chicken barbecue, greens fees, golf cart and team picture. The event will begin at 8 a.m. for 18 holes.

Organizations may sponsor a hole for $150. The company’s name will be displayed at the hole. Call Jerry Dunlap for information at 409-2296.

To register by mail, send a check to: John Goulet, Camp Keyes, Augusta, ME 04333-0033. Registration deadline is Aug. 1.

Beach to Beacon Road Race

The 11th running of the TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race on Saturday, Aug. 2, will feature the top road racers from Maine, New England and around the globe.

This year’s field of 5,500 includes runners from 14 countries and 41 U.S. states. Participants will include numerous racers and wheelchair athletes from eastern Maine.

This year’s race beneficiary is the Susan L. Curtis Foundation, the sponsor of Camp Susan Curtis, a summer camp dedicated to improving the lives of economically disadvantaged Maine children ages 8-18.

TD Banknorth, through the TD Bank Charitable Foundation, will provide a cash donation of $30,000.

This year the men’s race may feature the deepest and most talented field of Maine men ever assembled for a road race in the state.

The 2007 champ, Ayalew Taye, 20, of Cape Elizabeth, a Maine schoolboy legend who is now a sophomore at Georgetown University, is back to defend. Eric Giddings, 21, of South Portland, a two-time champ who holds the course record at 30:34, is a member of the cross-country team at Stanford, with the season getting under way soon. Ben True of North Yarmouth, one of the nation’s top cross-country skiers who also has a sub-4 mile on his resume, also is a threat if he decides to compete. The 2006 champ, Donny Drake, 23, of Portland, a former University of Maine standout, is having a strong season.

Then there’s Ethan Hemphill, 36, of Freeport, who again is dominating the Maine roads in 2008 and won the 2004 Beach to Beacon. And Evan Graves, 26, of Presque Isle, who finished third last year, is having a strong season.

One of the real wildcards is Matt Lane, 30, of Yarmouth, a collegiate All-American and elite middle-distance runner who no longer competes on the world stage. Participating as a Maine resident for the first time, he is the only runner in the Maine field who has run under 30 minutes on the course. Hemphill beat him at the L.L. Bean 10K earlier in July, but Lane was focusing his training on the Beach to Beacon.

Also, Judson Cake of Bar Harbor is back as a Maine resident and is in top shape, and Jon Wilson of Falmouth, a junior at Richmond University, just won the Pat’s Pizza Clam Festival 5 Miler at 25:44.

In the women’s race, Kristin Pierce-Barry, 34, of Scarborough and Sheri McCarthy-Piers, 37, of Falmouth, are front-runners. Training partners, both competed in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials this year, with McCarthy-Piers finishing an impressive 16th.

The TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon attracts more than 700 volunteers and brings out an extraordinary effort on the part of the town of Cape Elizabeth. TD Banknorth is the lead sponsor of the race founded by Joan Benoit Samuelson, the Olympic gold medalist and one of Maine’s most admired athletes.

She is spokeswoman for the bank’s Shining the Light for Maine Youth program.

The race director is Dave McGillivray, president of DMSE Inc., a nationally recognized event management company. McGillivray also serves as the race director of the BAA Boston Marathon.

For information about the race, visit www.beach2

beacon.org or call the race hot line at 888-480-6940.

The wheelchair entrants begin at 7:55 a.m. at the start line on Route 77 near Crescent Beach State Park, and the runners start at 8:05 a.m. The ocean-hugging course ends 6.2 miles later in Fort Williams Park at Portland Head.

Biking for MS

The Bike MS: Bike to the Breakwater Ride to benefit the Maine Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society will put the pedal to metal at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2-3, at Saint Joseph’s College, 278 Whites Bridge Road, Standish. Racers will finish the event by 3 p.m.

Maine athlete and personal trainer Jessica Gagne will give a talk about living with MS at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, at Saint Joseph’s College.

A lobster bake and barbecue will be held 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 3, at Saint Joseph’s College, in a tent behind the Alfond Center.

Cyclists may register 6-10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, and on Saturday morning before the race at Saint Joseph’s College.

The goal is to raise $420,000 to help create a world free of MS, an unpredictable and often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Funds raised support direct services for the more than 3,000 people with MS and their families in Maine, and national MS research to find a cure for this chronic disease of the central nervous system.

Bike MS is open to the occasional cyclist, a true bike enthusiast, a family looking to spend a weekend together, or those who would rather volunteer than hop on a bicycle.