Sports Round-Up by Paul Beitler

Register for 5K Run/Walk
The third Forgotten Children International 5K Run and Walk is Sunday, Oct. 17 at Hope Missionary Church, 429 E. Dustman Road in Bluffton. Entry fee is $15 before Oct. 11 and $20 after that. Register online at www.ForgottenChildren.org. The 5K walk will start at 3 p.m., followed by the run at 3:30 p.m. Race-day registration begins at 2 p.m. T-shirts will be given to all participants.
The event raises awareness of 167 million orphans and vulnerable children around the world and funds to provide these children with clothes, food, shelter, education and medicine and vaccinations. For more information, call Laurie Baumgartner 824-2042.

Elementary cross country races slated
All area elementary school children in grades 3-5 are invited to run in the Norwell Cross Country Booster Club elementary school cross country race on Friday at Norwell. There are six divisions. Registration and check-in begins at 3:30 p.m. First race starts at 5 p.m. Entry fee is $10 on race day.