Thursday, June 22,  2006

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    Southwest District champion Tazewell dominated the top awards on the All-SWD softball team for 2006.
  Three Grundy players made the All-SWD second team and two more earned honorable mention.
  The top SWD honors went to Tazewell, including head Coach Tom Keene, who was selected by his peers as Coach of the Year.
  Tazewell’s Whitney Muncey was named Pitcher of the Year, while teammate Whitney Davis was voted SWD Player of the Year.
  Grundy pitcher Amber Foster and infielders Terri Stacy and Sara Davis were named to the All-SWD second team.
  Two Lady Wave players, Sarah Ratliff and Samantha Rice were honorable mention All-Southwest District selections.
  Four other Tazewell players were named to the first team: Audra Matney, Tara Shepard, Tiffany Harris and Samantha Shepard.  
  Richlands placed three players on the first unit: Sarah Stiltner, Jenny Keene and Lindsey Lester. Carroll County placed two, Allison Quesenberry and Alyssa Weddle.
  2006 All-Southwest District Softball
First Team:
  P—Whitney Muncey, Taze-well; Allison Quesenberry, Carroll County.
  C—Audra Matney, Taze-well; Alyssa Weddle, Carroll County.
  IF—Whitney Davis, Taze-well; Tara Shepard, Tazewell; Kari Chaffin, Tazewell; Sarah Stiltner, Richlands.
  OF—Tiffany Harris, Taze-well; Sierra Taylor, Carroll County; Jenny Keene, Rich-lands.
  AL—Samantha Shepard, Tazewell; Aimee Street, Richlands; Lindsey Lester, Richlands.
  Player of Year: Whitney Davis, Tazewell.
  Pitcher of Year: Whitney Muncey, Tazewell.
  Coach of Year: Tom Keene and staff, Tazewell.

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Field Set for 38th Member-Guest Golf Tourney at WCC
52 Players Prepare For Two-Day Event

     The field has been set and the course is being groomed as some 52 golfers prepare to take part in the 38th annual Ron King Memorial Member-Guest Golf Tournament, hosted yearly by Willowbrook Country Club, near the Breaks.
  The two-day, 36-hole tournament is scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25 at WCC.
  Last year’s winning twosome, Dennis and his son, Adam Ratliff, are among the field of competitors attempting to defend their team title.
  WCC’s Board announced a variety of events for the weekend golf/social gathering, including a tournament design that will see three different formats for play over the 36 holes.
  The weekend will actually get underway Friday (June 23) with a practice round, which is optional to the participants and at their own expense. However, members are urged to call ahead and reserve a tee-time for Friday’s practice round.
  Dinner is available to the participants and their guests Friday night at the club, by reservation and at their own expense.
  Tournament play will get underway Saturday morning with a shotgun start for half of the field at 8:30 a.m. One member and his/her guest will be paired with another member and his/her guest to make up starting foursomes on each hole.
  The format for play during Saturday’s round will be captain’s choice (white tees) over the front nine holes and best ball (blue tees) over the back nine holes.
  The afternoon group will go off the tees at   1:30 p.m. with a shotgun start.
  Saturday’s round will determine qualifying for Sunday’s morning and afternoon flights, as well as medalist honors.
  Breakfast will be available (at the expense of the member) and served from 7:30 to 9 a.m.
  A complimentary lunch will be served from 11:30 to 2:30 p.m. and is available for the participants.
  Complimentary beverages will be available during the day on both Saturday and Sunday.
  Saturday evening’s festivities conclude with a dinner (casual dress), complimentary for members and their guests, at the end of play (approximately 7 p.m.).
  The final 18 holes of golf will be played on Sunday with morning flights and afternoon flights. Morning flights will tee-off at 8:30 a.m. and the afternoon flights will take to the course at 1:30 p.m., both rounds by shotgun start.
  The format for play on Sunday will be (modified) alternate shot (white tees) over the front nine holes and best ball among the twosome (blue tees) over the back nine holes.

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    Someone once told me that, in the 1930s, whenever Grundy’s football team hosted a game at the old Pap’s Bottom field, scrubs would fan out across town to promote the big game.
  There was no local radio station, so this was a novel way to advertise, sending out extra players like town criers or old-school paper boys. Only instead of yelling ‘extra, extra, read all about it”, it was something like ‘hear ye, hear ye, big game today; Richlands comes to Grundy!’.
  I don’t know if they really said that, that’s just a guess. But I’m guessing they attracted quite a few fans because quite a few people lived and worked and shopped in Grundy back in the day. For quite a few days, as it turned out.
  When my family moved here from West Virginia, Grundy’s football team had already moved from Slate Creek to Vansant and on to its current home at Bend of Slate. The games were no longer played downtown, but