Area digest 4/6/05

Umpires meeting set for Thursday

The SEMO Umpires Association will meet 7 p.m. Thursday at Kohlfeld Distributing's meeting rooms.

The meeting will cover baseball and softball part 2 tests and other association business.

For information, contact Paul Friga at (573) 270-0476.

Local golfers record holes in one

Now that the weather is conducive to golf, a pair of local golfers recorded aces recently.

* John Gilmore of Fruitland scored his first hole in one Monday at Kimbeland Country Club in Jackson. Gilmore, 67, used an 8-iron to ace the 110-yard Hole A in front of witnesses Wayne Jones and Jeff Gramling.

* Craig Downing recorded a hole in one Saturday during the Cape First golf outing Saturday at Bent Creek Golf Course in Jackson. He used an 8-iron on the 158-yard sixth hole. Witnesses were Bruce Schmitt, Phil Wellin and Larry Dauer.

Mack wins again at Poplar Bluff

Joey Mack picked up his second consecutive victory Saturday at the Poplar Bluff Speedway, winning the feature to earn a $1,200 payday.

Mack, from Benton, Mo., lapped the field up to the third-place car en route to his victory.

He had won previously at the track on March 19.

"That was the best car I have ever driven," Mack said in a press release. "Now I hope that our recent success can carry over to the MARS series."

Mack will begin competing in the Dirt Motorsports Mid-America Racing Series on Friday night in the opener at the Memphis Motorsports

Park. The series runs Saturday at the West Plains Motor Speedway in West Plains, Mo., and Sunday at the Monett Speedway in Monett, Mo.