Annual Vinton County Basketball Scramble

[hawkeyepierce]

The Vinton County Boys' and Girls' Basketball Programs organized and successfully completed a 4-man scramble at Fairgreens Country Club on Saturday. Boys’ Varsity Coach Matt Combs and Girls’ Varsity Coach Courtney Hale would like to thank all of the sponsors, players, and Tim Dyson and his staff at Fairgreens. Especially thank these following companies and individuals for their generous support;

Austin Powder Red Diamond Company
Booth Real Estate and Insurance
Diamond Stone Quarries
Ed Thompson of Dixie Sporting Goods
Fraternal Order of Eagles 2799
Hale Excavating
Hamden Marathon Food Mart
In Memory of Butch Owings
Jackson Counseling Services
James P. Salyer Vinton County Court Judge
JEK Enterprises
Knox Insurance
Mama Renies
McDonald’s of Wellston, Jackson, and Oak Hill
Pepsi of Athens
Robert Grillo Vinton County Juvenile and Probate Judge
Salyer and Griffith, Attorneys at Law
Seitz Trucking
Smallwood Plumbing
Spring Street Sports
Standard Hardware
Subway of McArthur
Twin Maples Nursing Home and Rehabilitation

And special mention goes to;

Larry Arthur
Lisa Graves
Kelly West
Neal Reynolds

The winning foursomes were –

Mens’ – First Place

Aaron Ward
Chad Zinn
Jeremy Grimm
Terry Hale

Womens’ – First Place

Aimee Caudill
Andee Caudill
Debbie Webb
Mary Ann Hale

The Most Exciting and Cordial Foursome

Carl Knox
J.J. Hale
Matt Combs
Norm Persin

A great time was enjoyed by all. The Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball Programs sincerely thank everyone for their support.

[Ty Webb]

It was a great scramble as usual. Coach Combs and Hale, the volunteers, and Fairgreens staff did a great job setting everything up.

I think Norm made it the whole day without throwing a club and rarely made any negative statements about his game. He kept telling me and JJ how remarkable we were though.

[Jake Roberts]

The Most Exciting and Cordial Foursome

Carl Knox
J.J. Hale
Matt Combs
Norm Persin

You got to "Love" that foursome.

[Solomon]

I didn't have the time to go to the scramble, wish I did. It sounded like fun. I was speaking to an administrator from Jackson and he said that not only did Combs have Persin there, but I guess there were a bunch of coaches there. David Kight of Western, Gene Layton of River Valley was there, Heath McKinnis of Gallia, and he said Larry Jordan would have been there, but he had something he was doing with his grandchildren. It is great to see local area coaches supporting each other.

[Jake Roberts]

With Wellston being so close by, I'd assume Coach Derrow was there as well. hawkeye, would I be correct in that assumption?

[hawkeyepierce]

No, that was not the case. However, his nephew Andy played.

[jackson1]

Solomon, just a point of correction. Heath McKinniss is the Assistant Coach at University of Rio Grande. He came to Jackson as assistant to Dustin Ford, then took over the Jackson girls program and had back to back double digit wins in two seasons before joining Kenny French's staff at Rio.

[Solomon]

Ah, yes I think I knew that. But I think I made my point. Jake Roberts, you are too funny. It is even funnier thinking if I remember correctly, Derrow had a scramble last year for his Vegas trip and a member of Fairgreens told me he had only 3 or 4 teams show up. I wonder how many teams were at this scramble?

[Ty Webb]

15

[BLUEDEVILS]

I talked to Coach Persin, and he said that him and Coach Combs were really smoking the ball and playing well as a 2 man team for a couple of holes, and then these other 2, who he referred to as "hacker" and "whacker" showed up. I was just wondering if anybody from VC could tell me who these 2 "impostors" were, pretending to be golfers. So as not to embarass them by name, you can send me a PM. Have a good day.

[MTX]

Hi everyone

[hawkeyepierce]

Hello MTX