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Young ‘Guns’ Win Paden City Alumni Game

By Staff | Jul 6, 2011
Paden City High School graduates participating in last weekend’s alumni basketball game were, kneeling from left, kneeing: Mike King, Jamie Price. Wes Cosper, Ricky Wright, Dave Cosper, Bobby Bowers, Jonathan Lindsay, Scott Surface, Ryan Thoburn. Standing: David Yeater, Doug Snider, Mark Jackson, Chris Loy, Ronnie Henry, Jared Feldmeier, Mike Shockley, Mitch Koerber, Clifford Clegg, and Brad Billiter. (Photos by Bruce Crawford)
Pictured jumping, at left, is 1991 Paden City graduate Mark “Hacker” Jackson getting the tip from elder PCHS?graduate Michael King. Tossing the ball is Paden City 1964 graduate Larry Sine. The Young Guns nipped the elder graduates, 52-51 in a thriller.
Erica Sapp

In the Paden City High School Alumni basketball game July 1, the older team raced out to an 8-0 lead, but a pair of three point bombs and a deuce evened the score before the older guys took a two-point lead into the locker room.

During the break, Paden City Alumni girls from as far back as 1969 took their turn on the Bob Burton Gymnasium floor for a free throw competition, where Erica Sapp sank 8-10 to win. Other participants in the contest included Penny Smith Baker, Vicki Yurisko, Holly Sands Jefferys, Miranda Sine Corcoran, Brittany King, Ashley Miller Shockley, and Pam Smittle Billeter.

Following the free throw event, the second half of the game was just as exciting as the first half, with the elder alumni keeping up with the younger grads. However, a shot from beyond the arch by Doug Snider just missed its mark at the buzzer and the young alumni boys won, 52-51, in a barn-burner.