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SPORTS
Long-range
shooter
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Photo Submitted
Kaylan Richardson, who will be a sophomore this fall at Alice
Lloyd College, led the team in three-point shooting percentage
during her freshman year, earning this award from coach David
Adams. Richardson graduated from Owen County High School in 2005.
Junior
golfers tee off
Little
League action
T-Ball
Fun
On
the links
On
the sidelines
One for the record books
TIM
MANDELL
My brother’s 20-year
high school reunion is coming up in a few weeks.
He’s not too interested in going, or really all that interested
in any of his old classmates.
That’s okay.
I didn’t like high school, I didn’t go to my 10-year
reunion, and I haven’t stayed in contact with any of my
old peers.
Both my brother and I have moved far away and moved on with our
lives.
Some people love high school, others don’t, just as some
people love reunions while others stay far away.
I don’t know if I’ll go to my 20-year reunion when
it swings around in three years, and the only reason I can come
up with for even considering attending the event, is that my wife
has never been to my home town, let alone my home state.
But not that much interesting came out of my class.
My brother’s class on the other hand, turned a silly idea
into a ridiculous event that swept up the entire town for nearly
a week, and broke a world record.
The record has since been broken several times, but when I logged
on to the reunion Web site, that initial record was still the
talk of the class.
It was their claim to fame.
I don’t know how the idea came up, or why any one else decided
to pursue it, but the idea was invented by someone, and it took
off, and for a smallish size town, it was the most exciting thing
to hit the area in years.
What the Los Alamos High School Class of 1986 decided to do was
play a softball game — for 100 straight hours.
Through the heat and rain and all through the night, two teams
made up of members of the Class of 1986 played an endless softball
game.
During the game they ate, they slept, they took bathroom breaks,
but the game never stopped.
Fans came and went, to watch a few innings and support the players,
and as the hours stretched on, to help keep them awake, and keep
them going.
By the end, with the world record approaching, and the final hours
ticking down, the final minutes creeping closer, the area around
the field was packed with fans, and the players were delirious,
tired and hungry.
But they kept playing.
For 100 hours.
Why?
I don’t know.
Maybe it was a dumb idea.
Maybe it didn’t make any sense.
Maybe it was pointless.
But it’s something they’ll never forget.
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