Soccer: UEFA Champions League final -- Liverpool vs. Milan (1:30 p.m., TSN). MLB: Toronto Blue Jays at Baltimore Orioles (6 p.m., Sportsnet). CHL Memorial Cup: Medicine Hat Tigers vs. Vancouver Giants (9:30 p.m., Sportsnet).
Today's events
LAWN BOWLING
Manitoba -- Open Houses. Norwood (1212 Dakota St.), Sargent Park (Sargent and Wall), St. James (100 Ferry Rd.), St. John's (1199 Main St.), Tuxedo (Corydon and Grenfell), Gimli and Wheat City (345 Park St. Brandon) lawn bowling clubs.
BASEBALL
Manitoba Junior -- Altona vs. Pembina Valley, Morden Recreational Park; St. Boniface vs. Elmwood, Koskie Field; Carillon vs. St. James, Optimist Park. All games at 7 p.m.
Russ Paddock
VOLLEYBALL
Team Canada -- Senior women's selection camp, Investors Group Athletic Centre, University of Manitoba.
Sports Officials make good call with Baird
WINNIPEG'S Vaughan Baird has won the inaugural Allen G. Rae builder award for 2007 from Ottawa-based Sports Officials Canada for his contribution to the development of sports officials and the advancement of the sports officiating profession.
In a statement Tuesday, SOC called Baird a true leader in sport and the man mostly responsible for separating amateur aquatic sports into individual organizations such as swimming and diving. He was also founding president of the Canadian Amateur Diving Association (now Diving Canada) in 1968.
Baird also founded the Aquatic Hall of Fame and Museum of Canada and is honourary president for Diving Canada. Baird is also the Founder and continuing Chair of the Aquatic Hall of Fame and Museum of Canada, and honourary president for Diving Canada.
He was an internationally renowned diving judge, having officiated at every major Games including the Olympics, the Pan Am Games, the Commonwealth Games and at World Aquatic Championships from 1964-90. He was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1984 and received the Order of Canada in 1992.
The award will be presented with others on Saturday at the SOC annual awards dinner in Mississauga, Ont.
"His vision and leadership paved the way for many other diving officials to follow," the SOC said. "Without Mr. Baird's willingness to go to battle and change things, it is debatable if the many diving leaders who followed would have had the opportunity to become leaders of officials in Canada and throughout the world."
Paddock into V-ball Hall
RUSS Paddock, head coach of the Brandon University Bobcats men's volleyball team, is being inducted into the Manitoba Volleyball Hall of Fame on Thursday in the athlete category.
Paddock has been involved in elite volleyball in Manitoba for the past 20 years, starring for the University of Manitoba Bisons and going on to play for Canada's national team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, and also playing professionally in Belgium and Germany.
He has coached the Bobcats since the school started competing in volleyball in 2005.
"I am honoured to receive this recognition," Paddock said in a BU statement Tuesday. "Volleyball in Manitoba has a great history, so to be selected to the Hall of Fame is very special."
Hand it to Haney
SELKIRK'S Debbie Haney is being recognized as Skate Canada's Manitoba's volunteer of the year at the 2007 Skate Canada achievement awards gala and banquet on Friday in Montreal.
Haney is one of 13 volunteers from each province and territory who will receive the Skate Canada volunteer award of excellence, which are presented to individuals whose efforts have produced specific, positive results both within and outside of his or her respective section.
Herd scores leader
THE University of Manitoba Bisons men's hockey team has recruited a former Western Hockey League team captain for the 2007/08 season.
Mike Hellyer, a forward with the Prince Albert Raiders who hails from Brandon, will suit up for the Herd next season, Bisons' coach Don MacGillivray announced Tuesday. Hellyer, 20, was third in Raiders' scoring with 20 goals and 32 assists for 52 points in 71 games this past season.
The 5-foot-9, 170-pound winger/centre registered 143 points in 262 games with Prince Albert in his three-year career. This past season, he also won team awards for humanitarian of the year and hardest working player.
Top athletes named
KYLE Willis of the Garden City Gophers' track and field team is the Home Run Sports Winnipeg high school athlete of the week while Kimberly-Ann Bordun of the Shevkeno Sabres track team in Vita is the Tri-Star rural high school athlete of the week.
Willis finished first in the 200 metre sprint and in the long jump at the KPAC indoor championships and was part of a Gophers' squad that finished first in the 4 x 100 relay and second in the medley relay. At 5-foot-7, Willis also played on the school's basketball team.
Bordun won the 100 metres, the 200 metres, the 400 metres and the 80 metre hurdles at the Winkler invitational track meet and at the Selkirk Royal Rumble event. She also maintains a 93 per cent average and competes in soccer, cross-country, basketball, curling and badminton.
Lawn bowling celebration
BOWLS Manitoba, celebrating 100 years of lawn bowling in the province, is enjoying its centennial by hosting several open houses in Winnipeg, Gimli and Brandon this week.
The open houses are running to Saturday at the Norwood (1212 Dakota St.), Sargent Park (Sargent and Wall), St. James (100 Ferry Rd.), St. John's (1199 Main St.), Tuxedo (Corydon and Grenfell), in Gimli and at Wheat City (345 Park St. Brandon) lawn bowling clubs.
Clarice Fitzpatrick and her daughter Shirly Fitzpatrick are both on the national team. They'll represent Canada at the Atlantic Bowls in Ayr, Scotland, July 13-22.
--Chris Cariou
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