Special Olympics Competes in Basketball Tournament
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UPLAND — Special Olympics Indiana Kosciusko County athletes competed in the “Take It To The Hoops” basketball tournament Feb. 15, sponsored by Special Olympics Indiana Grant County and hosted by Taylor University. Kosciusko County Director for Special Olympics Becky Walls said the county’s Special Olympics Panther basketball team and skills participants competed against other area athletes in the regional winter tournament event. In the first game of the team basketball double elimination tournament, the Panthers lost to Cass County by a score of 32-23. They won a close 29-24 contest against Madison County, then had to again face Cass County and lost 31-12 in their third and final game. In the skills competition, the following local athletes placed in their divisions: Sharon Singleton, 2nd; Sandy Hunter, 2nd; Michelle Ousley, 3rd; Mary Bicknell, 4th; Sandy Bibler, 4th; Martha Sullivan, 4th; Jim Nuell, 1st; and J.D. Miller, 3rd. Joe Baranowski, veteran Kosciusko County Special Olympics basketball coach, noted that the county athletes “played exceptionally well this year against fierce competition,” according to information from the county chapter.
