THEJuly 17,NORTH 2013 GEORGIATHE NORTH NEW GEORGIA July 17, NEWS2013 Page Page 13A 13A 2013 Butternut Creek Ladies Golf Association Invitational Union County wrestlers attend The Butternut Creek La- dies Golf Association hosted another great Invitational held camps in Iowa and Chattanooga at the Butternut Creek Golf Course on Thursday, June 6, 2013. We had a field of 55 players coming together for a great day of competition in golf! Joining us for this day of competition in golf were ladies from 7 different golf courses: Butternut Creek with 33; - Chatuge Shores - 11; Innsbruck - 2; Cherokee Hills - 4; Old First Place: Patti McDonald, Carol Davies, and Billie Coleman Union - 1; Royal Lakes - 1 and Chrystal Falls with 3. Green. And the winners were: Center and golf course. After a delicious break- 1st Place went to: Patti Mc- Door prizes were given fast prepared by our very own Donald, Billie Coleman, and out to all players and we also Butternut Creek Ladies a group Carol Davies; 2nd place went had a 50-50 Raffle giving other picture was made with the But- to Garnett Smith, Lilly Adams, chances for the ladies to be a ternut Creek Golf Course in the Megan Rowe and Bonnie Led- part of our winnings! background. Larry Garrett, Golf ford; 3rd Place went to Mary We want to thank all of Professional & General Man- Holmes, Betty Taylor, Terie the businesses that gave a door ager of Butternut Creek Golf McCombs and Sara Gaskins; prize giving a chance for the la- Course, gave the ladies a ’great 4th Place went to Patricia dies to take away a door prize welcome’ to our beautiful But- Plott, Buffy Chapman, Lydia even if was not a ‘golf winning ternut Creek Golf Course along Gray and Donna Workman; 5th prize’ as a winner of having the Union County sent two wrestlers to Iowa for a Hawkeyes’ Camp this summer. Here are Adam Williams with a few instructions to be Place went to Claudia Rinaldo, best score for their team! Also, (left) and Chase Stancil (right) with Coach Tom Brands. Not only did they get to wrestle with about 100 followed while in the field. We Janice Greene, Martha Barker thanks to our President Paulette boys from the Midwest but they got to might and work with several of the varsity Hawkeyes, past and all had the same thought in our and Susan Anderson; 6th Place Holzinger, who put up with all present. Photo courtesy of Coach Michael Smith-Foot mind - ’figure out a way to win went to Dot Brookshire, Lynne of us, Barb Shaw & her com- this tournament’. Busco, Lee Cromwell and Di- mittee for the decorations, Lee Sometime around 12:45 ane Thomason and 7th Place Cromwell & her committee for to 1 p.m. the ladies finished went to Kathie McAfee, Linda collecting all the door prizes, playing and gathered upstairs Beasley, Joy Davis and Jean Odena Gibson & Susan An- in the Banquet Room for a de- Sullivan. Ties were broken by a derson & their committee for licious lunch prepared by The score card playoff. arranging our breakfast food, View Grill. As the ladies en- We also had Closest to Karen Mussoline, our BCLGA tered the Banquet Room - they pin on all Par 3’s - Longest Webmaster, for doing a won- found the room decorated ab- Drive on 6 and Most Accurate derful job, Sandy Sowers for solutely beautiful with golf Drive on 7. And the winners being our hostess and to the bag decorations from the fireplace were: Par 3’s: Hole 4 - Jane men that loaded our bags to the to each individual table. Theme Childers, Hole 8 - Patti Mc- golf carts. baskets were shown on tables Donald; Hole 12, Jean Sullivan Lilly Adams, our Tourna- lined up in the middle of the and Hole 17 Kathie McAfee. ment Chairperson, was quoted room for each individual golf- Longest Drive on 6 Mary “We had a great Tournament”. er to view and put in a bid for Holmes and Most Accurate To the golfing ladies, our these beautiful baskets. Drive on 7 Linda Beasley. weekly golf day is every Thurs- Also, tables were lined Lilly Adams, Tournament day morning during the sum- up with a ’door prize’ for each Chairperson, had the opportu- mer months. We meet at 8:15 individual golfer that played in nity to introduce our Sole Com- in the Butternut Creek Golf our Invitational - no one was missioner Lamar Paris to all the Course Pro Shop to get teams left out. ladies. Mr. Paris welcomed all set up and we tee off at 9 a.m. After lunch, excite- the ladies to our Union County If interested in playing golf ment was building up as the Community Center and But- with us, please call Lilly Ad- score cards were totaled up by ternut Creek Golf Course and ams, Tournament Chairperson, Buddy Linderman and Nicole spoke on the happenings of the at 706-745-2725. Union County also sent Chase Barnett (kneeling) to a seven-day intensive camp at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. He worked with the coaching staff of UTC, several of their college wrestlers, as well as, a few local high school coaches. Photo courtesy of Coach Michael Smith-Foot Attention Ladies: Annual ‘Sadie Hawkins’ Day Golf Tournament Ladies, it’s time to ‘Pick Breakfast: 7:30 a.m. & for ‘Closest to Pin’ along with your Partner’ and sign-up to sign-in; Lunch: provided af- Flight winners! play in our Annual ‘Sadie ter play by The View Grill; To register call Lilly Ad- Hawkins’ Golf Tournament to Shotgun Start: 8:30 a.m.; For- ams at 706-745-2725 or 706- be held on Saturday, August 3rd mat: Couples ‘Select Shot’; 781-4529 by July 29th, or you at Butternut Creek Golf Course. Cost: $50 per person. Prizes may sign up in the pro shop. 2nd Place: Garnett Smith, Lilly Adams, Bonnie 3rd Place: Terie McCombs, Sara Gaskins, Betty Ledford, and Megan Rowe Taylor, and Mary Holmes NASCAR 2013 By Gerald Hodges/the Racing Reporter Vickers is victorious at New Hampshire pulled off an career Nationwide victory. upset of sorts, by winning Sunday’s Brian Vickers finished sec- Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire. ond, followed by , It was the Racing , , Trevor driver’s third career win, and first Bayne, Sam Hornish, , since in 2009. , and . “Man, this car was good Top-10 leaders after 17 of 4th Place: Patricia Plott, Buffy Chapman, Lydia 5th Place: Martha Barker, Susan Anderson, Janice Gray, and Donna Workman Greene, Claudia Rinaldo today,” said Vickers. “We really 33: 1. Smith-594, 2. Hornish-589, showed everyone what we could 3. A. Dillon-582, 4. Allgaier-574, do. They gave me a car that I knew 5. Sadler-570, 6. Vickers-548, was capable of winning. 7. Larson-546, 8. Scott-534, 9. Brian Vickers, New Hampshire “After the last restart, I Bayne-526, 10. Kligerman-535. Cup winner. knew I had the car. It handled great, PETERS WINS IOWA TRUCK a very successful run in the Trans- and I was able to drive to the front. RACE Am series and IMSA Camel GT in When I got the lead, I was pretty scored his the 80s and early 90s. sure no one was going to be able to first truck win of the season Satur- In 1988, Roush moved south catch me.” day night at . Peters and founded a NASCAR Sprint Cup Vickers didn’t take the lead passed leader, with 27 team now called Roush Fenway until lap 286 of the 301-lap race. laps remaining in the 200-lap race. Racing with driver . He caught and passed Tony Stew- Dillon hit the wall with five-to-go, On April 20, 2002, Roush 6th Place: Dot Brookshire, Diane Thomason, Lynne 7th Place: Kathy McAfee, Linda Beasley, Joy art, and then held off and Peters streaked to victory lane almost lost his life when his private Busco, and Lee Cromwell. Davis, and Jean Sullivan on a green-white-checkered finish. ahead of . plane, went down in a lake in Troy, “I think we were the fastest The remaining top-10 fin- Alabama. Roush was underwater car,” said Kyle Busch, who fin- ishers were: , Ron and unconscious, suffering from ished second. “When I got into lap Hornaday, , Matt a head concussion, when a retired traffic, I couldn’t turn it. We’ve got Crafton, , Darrell Marine in a nearby boat, rescued to figure out how to get better on Wallace, , and Dakoda him. the long runs.” Armstrong. On July 27, 2010, Roush ran in the top- Top-10 leaders after 9 of 22: crash-landed in his private jet, dur- 5 for most of the day and finished 1. Crafton-357, 2. J. Burton-319, ing an approach to the Oshkosh, third. 3. Buescher-317, 4. T. Dillon-309, Wisconsin Airport in the late after- “We had a good car,” said 5. Sauter-305, 6. Blaney-290, noon. He walked out of the plane Burton. “I was able to run up front 7. Paludo-285, 8. Peters-281, 9. and was taken to a nearby hospital. most of the race. We’ve usually Gaughan-280, 10. D. Wallace-272. He suffered a fractured back, broken been able to run better than our re- jaw, and lost his left eye as a result. sults show. Most of the races we’ve SLOWING DOWN After a quarter-century of been in the top-10, but things have Jack Roush said in an inter- owning stock-car teams that have happened late in the race to take us view last week with USA TODAY 314 wins in NASCAR and two out.” Sports, that he was “moving to the championships in its premier series, , the pole sidelines.” Roush still works seven days a week sitter finished fourth, followed by “There aren’t so many firsts but doesn’t set his alarm for dawn , , left for me, but I’ve not lost my pas- anymore. He no longer spends 90 , , Matt sion for competition or my desire minutes before every race tinkering Kenseth, and . to operate at the top of my game,” with each of his cars’ carburetors. , who ran Roush said, “I just look forward to Until a couple years ago, strong in the latter stage of the race, enjoying vicariously the success of Roush could always be spotted with ran out of fuel with two laps to go, drivers winning their first race or his trademark hat, inspecting all the and wound up 26th. championship, and the crew chiefs spark plugs that were to be used in “I was pretty nervous there and engineers able to share in those his team’s race cars. at the end,” said Stewart. “I knew it firsts. It’s less about me and more “I’ve gone from wanting to was going to be close, but that last about being a parent or a grandpar- be the mechanic that I hoped ev- caution didn’t help. I just got tired ent to them.” eryone else would be to now I’m of trying to calculate fuel mileage Roush is the founder and the point-and-grunt guy,” Roush and drove.” CEO of and continued. “Hopefully, I’ll become had a fast car, has a net worth of $200 million. He less viable before I’m gone. The but was involved in two separate earned his money through his com- challenge is to give up the manage- accidents and finished 31st. pany “Roush Enterprises” which ment and decision-making at the lost control covers racing, freelance engineer- right time.” of her car on lap 237. She slid up ing and the selling of high perfor- Weekend Racing: The the track into , who mance automobiles and car parts only racing is a Sunday Nation- made contact with Patrick’s boy- and as co-owner of Roush Fenway wide race at the 1.5-mile Chica- friend Ricky Stenhouse. None of Racing. goland track. The Cup and truck these three drivers completed the Roush was born in Coving- teams have an off weekend, the race. Stenhouse was 34th, with ton, Kentucky and earned a Math- trucks race Wed., July 24 on the Patrick being credited with 37th, ematics degree with a bachelors in dirt at . and Kvapil 38th. physics from Berea College, and a Sun., July 21, Nationwide Top-10 leaders after 19 masters in Scientific Mathematics Series race 18 of 33; Starting time: of 36: 1. Johnson-696, 2. Bow- from Eastern Michigan University. 3 pm ET; TV: ESPN. yer-646, 3. Edwards-623, 4. Har- Roush worked at Ford af- Racing Trivia Question: vick-622, 5. Earnhardt-578, 6. ter graduating in 1966, and left in Which Cup team did J. J. Yeley Kenseth-576, 7. Kyle Busch-576, 1970 to pursue his own company. start off driving for in 2004? 8. Biffle-545, 9. Keselowski-529, He worked for a year at Chrysler Last Week’s Question: 10. Kahne-523. before leaving to open his own en- , former NASCAR “ROWDY” KYLE CLAIMS gineering business, that catered to Cup champion is in negotiations NATIONWIDE RACE NHRA, IHRA, and AHRA drag to buy ’s No. 51 Cup Kyle Busch dominated Sat- racing events. team. How many Cup champion- urday’s Nationwide race at New Throughout much of his ca- ships did Labonte win? Answer. Hampshire. Not only did he start on reer Roush offered for sale the parts Two, 1984, and 1996. the pole, but led the most laps, and that he developed for his own team. You may e-mail the survived three green-white-check- In 1982, he began to develop road Racing Reporter at: hodges@ ered finishes on the way to his 58th racing vehicles for Ford. This led to race500.com.