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Scholarship flag football tournamenmt plays through drizzle
Kalamazoo Conquistadors give up title to Elite
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Team Elite won the fourth annual Joe Watkins Memorial Scholarship Flag Football Tournament. The team included Jacquez Williams, David Katzman, DJ Bratcher, Alex Cruz, Ryan Glazer, Gyri Durant, Julian Stokes, Travois Lewis, Tucory Rhodes, Tony Glazer; in front Richard LeCounte. Tracy Lewis is not pictured. - photo by Patty Leon
What’s a little rain when it comes to playing football? Apparently the day-long drizzle was not a factor in making the fourth annual Joe Watkins Memorial Scholarship Flag Football Tournament a success.Fourteen teams braved the melancholy weather as they honored a former classmate, teammate and friend, Joe Watkins, who died in a car accident in November 2011.Watkins’ former Liberty County High School baseball teammates came up with the idea of the tournament a month after the Georgia Southern University pitcher’s death. His family used proceeds to establish a scholarship fund in his name.The tournament raises most of the money for scholarships to high-school graduates in Liberty County, who played baseball or softball during their prep careers.
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