Former Hancock College and Cal Poly first baseman/outfielder Jimmy Van Ostrand has been selected to play for the World Team in the 2007 Futures Game, to be held in San Francisco on Sunday at AT&T Park.

Van Ostrand, selected in the eighth round of the 2006 June Amateur Draft by the Houston Astros, is hitting 303 for the Lexington Legends through Wednesday's game with eight home runs and 43 runs batted in. Lexington is a Single-A team in the South Atlantic League.

In 2006, Van Ostrand led Cal Poly with 13 home runs, 13 doubles and 49 RBIs, finishing with a .297 average. He belted four home runs and drove in 11 runs in the Washington series en route to national and Big West player of week honors, going 7-for-12 in that series to lift his average 45 points.

Van Ostrand finished the season with a nine-game hitting streak and 18 multiple-hit games, including five three-hit games. The Richmond, British Columbia native produced six games with four or more RBIs and started all 56 games that season - 44 at first base and 12 in right field - en route to first-team All-Big West Conference honors.

Rolex Sports Cars

SM's Edwards takes GT point lead

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Santa Maria native Paul Edwards and co-driver Kelly Collins took second place in the GT class at the Rolex Grand-Am Series Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona on Thursday night, giving Edwards and Collins the points lead in the category.

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The runner-up finish gave the No. 07 Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R their fifth podium in eight races this season, good enough for a two-point lead over German rookie Dirk Werner.

Collins qualified the car on the outside of the front row, next to eventual race winners Nick Ham and Sylvain Tremblay and their No. 70 SpeedSource Mazda RX-8. Tremblay went on to take the checkered, with Edwards finishing 9.1 seconds behind.

“I felt taken advantage of when the Mazda raced by me into turn one,” Edwards said. “We had the measure of them in the infield and then onto the banking they just roll bye us. I was able to maintain the lead and then I got caught in bad places by DP cars that dive down under and that cost me time, that allowed the Mazda to close up the gap and motor bye. We are in the drivers points lead and have run very consistently and mechanically trouble free all year.”

The Collins-Edwards duo took a two-point lead (255-253) over Werner and his No. 87 Farnbacher-Loles Porsche, with whom the Banner duo had entered the night in a three-way tie. Werner and teammate Bryce Miller finished third. Tremblay moved seven points behind Edwards and Collins.

The Gainsco/Stallings Pontiac of Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney won the Daytona Prototype and overall title on the famed 3.5-mile road course, using much of the 2.5-mile trioval.

Youth Baseball

YMCA to host baseball camp

The Santa Maria Valley YMCA (SMVYMCA) is holding a summer baseball camp next week, Monday through Friday, July 9-13 at the YMCA at 3400 Skyway Drive.

Cal Poly pitching coach Jason Kelly will teach all areas of baseball to boys and girls, ages 9 and up for two hours each day.

Please call Tracy Kelly at the YMCA at 937-8521 to register or for further details.

July 6, 2007