Microphone options for sports video

I need to figure out the best options for audio capture for high school sports videos--primarily football (American) and volleyball. For football, I will be recording from the annoucers booth (i.e., well away from the field). I'd like to get one channel that is mostly "field" sounds (and doesn't include my behind the screen cursing), and a second channel that has more ambient sounds and that will hear me calling out down and distance (and cussing) Would a shotgun mic be useful at distances of 100s of feet?
I have a Canon XH-A1 which has dual XLR inputs. Cost is a strong consideration. Appreciate your advice.

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Ah. Yes. With potentially hundreds of clips (plays) per game, that would be a lot of clapper boarding! But I get the idea and I'm considering it. Maybe there's a way to get the LANC signal to trigger a DAT tape...
Right now, I'll be operating the two sideline cameras and we will have a third camera on a 30' tall boom in the endzone (yes, this is just high school...)
For the next day film review, the editing has to be minimal because of the time crunch, so i'm trying to work out synchronizing the cameras. There's also special football video review software that gives the coaches and players a lot of viewing flexibility from the multiple angles.
For my own use (son on the team) and for the end of year highlights stuff, I have been using Final Cut Express, which I like. Pro/Studio has a lot more features, and the fact that express loses the timecode, can only handle a few HD formats, and only works in AIC are significant limitations. $1100 and the huge time committment to get up to speed on Pro are pretty big limiatations, too.
Everyone is blown away by the video though--even transfered to DVD using iDVD. When they see it directly off the camera or on the computer, well, it certainly ain't the $600 Costco special video camera folks are used to. I'm very much a novice with using the camera, and I can't say I have a lot to compare it to, but the image is spectacular, which I assume has as much to do with the lens, it has full auto dumb-dumb modes that work reasonbly well and full control modes that give you... full control... it's reasonbly small and light. There are a lot of menu steps to get to certain functions, but there are user defined function buttons that you can set up. For me, so far, so good.

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