Community Sports

      The Ballantyne Smokies, with a new name and new diamond home, are ready to play ball this summer. The Smokies, the former Carolina Sox, are members of the Southern Collegiate Baseball League.

The 2012 Lancaster American Legion Post 31 senior baseball team will look to blend returnees along with a host of newcomers this season. The P-31 team, in its 69th season of Legion baseball, will be led by first-year head coach Quinton Rodgers, who has moved up from the junior team where he was an assistant last season.

The seventh annual Jimmy Taylor Sr. Memorial golf tournament is June 16 at the Edgewater Golf Club located at 2380 Catawba Ridge Boulevard. The format is captain’s choice team with a combined handicap. Check-in is at 10 a.m. The shotgun start is at 1:30 p.m.

      The Palmetto Lightning has struck gold again.