Rec Center Roundup

The Palisades Recreation Center’s Summer Basketball League concluded with its championship games last weekend. In the Minor Division, the Cavaliers swept the Lakers two games to none and in the Major Division the Spurs beat the Timberwolves two games to one. In baseball, the Minor Division Dodgers defeated the Angels two games to none. Sign-ups for fall sports (roller hockey, boys and girls basketball and flag football) are in progress. Parents can register their kids by mail or by stopping at the Rec Center office (851 Alma Real Drive) through the end of next week. Cost per player ranges from $90 to $100. Practices for fall sports begin later this month and games begin the first week of October. Flag football will take place Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Girls basketball games will be on Saturdays in the small gym and boys basketball games will be on Sundays in the small gym. If the new gym reopens on schedule October 19, basketball games will be moved there. Roller hockey will be Friday nights or Saturday afternoons on the outdoor basketball courts. AYSO will use the Pali Rec Center playing fields for its younger age division practices from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and for games on Saturdays throughout the fall season. Progress continues on the floor replacement project in the new gym. Pali Rec Center Director David Gadelha is hopeful the gym will be available by the third week of fall basketball. ‘They have stacked the new floor in sections but they haven’t started laying it down yet,’ he said. ‘They may be waiting to let the floor acclimate a bit before they start. No one has been by in a couple of weeks.’ The 90-day project began July 19 and the City of Los Angeles hired a private contractor, Hur Hardwood Flooring, to complete the work. Gadelha insists the facility will not be reopened until a guard or security grate is installed around a pressure gauge that burst and caused irreparable water damage to the wood floor.