Sunny skies and mild temperatures made Monday an enjoyable day to be on the golf course.
Thirty-three teams took advantage at the annual Forrest City Grocery Charity Golf Tournament played at Forrest City Country Club.
Last year's event was cut short due to heavy rains.
The annual tournament raises money for the Forrest City Education Foundation.
Forrest City Grocery's Danny Tate said today the tournament raised close to $240,000.
University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles, University of Memphis Basketball Coach John Calipari and golfing pro Duffy Waldoff were among the celebrities invited to this year's event.
Long-time Memphis television and radio personality, George Klein who appeared in several movies with Elvis Presley, was also on hand.
Klein presently works with the Horseshoe Casino/Hotel chain.
Waldoff didn't play in the tournament, but did give a hitting demonstration prior to the start of the tournament and offered insight as to what golfers usually think about as they are preparing to hit the ball.
Calipari was attending the tournament for the second straight year.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
The Bambino (11-12) League completed their season Tuesday night.
And Cochran Auto, the league champions, ended the year the same way they started it -- with a loss.
On the league's final night, it was POPS making some season-ending noise by handing Cochran Auto its second loss of the year.
Ironically, Cochran's only other loss this season came against Rotary Club in the first game of the year on May 4.
In between, Cochran won 12 games to finish with a 12-2 mark.
Hess Shoes downed Taco Bell Tuesday 21-4 to finish the year in second place at 9-5.
Rotary Club defeated Bonanza 9-4 to claim the league's third place spot at 8-6.
POPS and Vaccaro Lumber finished the season locked in a tie for fourth. Both teams finished with 6-7 records.
Tuesday night, POPS scored two runs in the top of the fourth inning to rally for the 10-9 win over Cochran.
POPS scored eight runs in the top of the first inning and Cochran pushed a single run across in the bottom half of the inning.
Cochran scored eight runs in the bottom of the second to take a 9-8 lead, which held until the fourth inning.
Rhett Morphis and Brently Washington scored the two fourth inning runs for POPS.
Vaccaro scored big in their 19-4 win over Taylor Glass, getting 11 runs in the second inning and eight runs in the third.
Matt Howton and Justin Harris led the way by scoring three times each while Brian Guyton, Kyle Emerson, Trenton Ware, Cody Flowers and Charles Cole added two runs each.
Taylor Glass got single runs from Joe DeWitt and Brandon Kidd and two runs from Rylan Nimocks, both home runs.
Hess Shoes got three runs each from Kenny Grady, Josh Hinkle and Jonathan Rolfe.
William Mitchell, Parker Whittenton, Andre Stephens and Kyle Gaines scored single runs for Taco Bell.
Rotary plated six runs in the top of the fifth inning to put down Bonanza 9-4.
Garritt Clark pitched the complete game for Rotary who got runs from Tyrice Bradley, Taylor Clark, Garritt Clark, Kyle Ramsey, Julian Isom, Chauncey Boles and Brandon Rivera.
Larry bean, Tyler McCluskey, Torey Rogers and Terrence Pendleton all scored for Bonanza.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Planter's Bank stumbled Tuesday night as Junior Babe Ruth played a trio of make up games at the Sports Complex.
Planter's Bank suffered its third loss of the year, losing to league-leading Fred's 8-2, but will still finish second.
Fred's is 11-0 for the season and has already clinched the league title.
The Junior Babe Ruth League has one game left to play.
In other games played Tuesday, the VIP's took another forfeit win to improve to 4-7 for the year when they were awarded a win over Ridout.
Freeman's improved to 4-7 for the year by downing Houser's 10-7.
Fred's scored three runs each in the third and fourth innings to help notch their win over Planter's Bank.
Fred Walker scored twice.
Planter's got both its runs from Devin McLaurin.
D. J. Banks scored three times to lead Freeman's. Bryant Brown and Charles Freeman scored two runs each.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Dr. Schwartz took over sole possession of second place Tuesday night in girls' 10-under slow pitch softball action.
Schwartz defeated Title Company 9-7. The two teams were tied for second place headed into the game.
Schwartz improves to 13-3 for the year while Title Company slips to 12-4.
Each team has two games to play in regular season.
Meanwhile, Sanyo wrapped up the league's title by downing Food Giant 14-6.
Sanyo is 16-0 with two games to play.
The battle for second place is still up in the air but both Title Company and Schwartz have to play Sanyo one last time before the season closes out on Friday, July 6.
Sanyo and Dr. Schwartz will compete this weekend in the District 7 10-under tournament at Marion.
Sanyo will play West Memphis' Winners' Circle Friday at 7 p.m., at the new Marion Complex. The district tournament will conclude Sunday afternoon.
Dr. Schwartz will take on Wynne's Servco at 8 p.m. Servco finished third in the Wynne softball league with a 12-4 record.
The 10-under district tournament fields 10 teams. The top three teams will advance to the Class C State Tournament to be played at Jacksonville's Dupree Park, July 13-15.
Dr. Schwartz scored three times in the bottom of the eighth inning to rally from a 7-6 deficit to win the game.
Title Company led 5-0 before Schwartz scored three runs in the bottom of the third. They added two in the fifth to tie the game at 5-5.
Both teams scored single runs in the seventh inning to force a 6-6 tie before Title took a 7-6 lead in the eighth.
Savannah Ferguson scored three runs for Schwartz, one of those a home run. Brittney Kidd also hit a home run.
Meghan Clark led Title Co. with two runs while Christy Tittle, Ashtin Steward, Kimeshia Norris and Lori Ratton scored single runs.
In other games Tuesday, Steven's handed Southern Furniture a 15-2 loss and Forrest City Bank improved to 8-7-1 for the year with a 15-8 win over Walker Insurance.
Steven's got three runs each from Taylor Billingsley and Caitlin Peterson.
Forrest City Bank, in fifth place in the standings, has a chance to move into fourth to round out the year.
Ashley Blaylock scored three times for Forrest City Bank.