The Old Mission Beach Athletic Club (OMBAC) swings for the fences, or rather the line, for charities with its annual Over-The-Line (OTL) Tournament, but members also go to bat all year long for many public service projects. With a membership of 400-plus, OMBAC provides helping hands all over town. Even entrance to OMBAC requires a public service hazing of sorts. “It’s a service club and it’s a very low membership fee, but three people have to sponsor you, and you have to work our events, several events, before you are admitted into full membership with the club,” said Duke Marston, an OTL veteran and OMBAC member. “The only way we can raise money for the charities we want to support is to have a lot of people pitching in. “Over the years the city has asked us to be involved in certain public events, if it involves lots of bodies and not much money, we can do that.” OTL remains OMBAC’s most lucrative fundraising event. True to its athletic club roots, the focus is on youth sports. “Primarily, it’s who seems to have the most need, but youth sports come first,” Marston said of charity selection. “We sponsor a couple leagues, youth soccer, softball. We have a scholarship fund for high school graduates. It’s not necessarily just in the beach area, although that’s where our first responsibility is, or where we first look, but we’ve sponsored things all over the city and county of San Diego.” Marston said although the club has, in one way or another, sponsored an assortment of charities over the years, the exact dollar amount the club has contributed is unknown. “Obviously, we try to make enough money from the Over-The-Line Tournament to be able to support the charities, and that varies,” Marston said.