Today's Sports

Five Points of Life Manager Brite Whitaker believes the numbers tell only part of the story she saw at Saturday’s Five Points of Life Kids Marathon in Ocala.

 “We had 440 participants register this year, that’s an increase of nearly 35 percent over last year,” said Whitaker. “But the biggest measures of success I saw were all the smiles on the kids’ faces when they got their medals at the finish line.”

     Ocala Palms Golf & Country Club hosted the Free Enterprise Open Golf Tournament on April 16th. The tournament benefits the Florida Council on Economic Education, which provides programs free of charge to students and teachers from K-12.  These programs help teach economic literacy and financial responsibility.

     Thanks to the 100 players, 40 sponsors, and many volunteers the tournament was a tremendous success raising over $5,000 for the FCEE. 

For those who despair over their golfing game, Gene Perry holds out hope.

“The older I’ve gotten the better I’ve gotten,” he said. “After I turned 70, my golf game really took off.”

Although he claims his golfing skills are only average, Perry recently recorded his fourth career hole-in-one. The Ocala Palm resident was golfing his home course when he used a #7 iron  to hit the ball 112 yards for the hole-in-one on Hole #6. Bob Dolan and Bob Fitzgerald were witnesses to the shot.

 IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. That's how Harold "Buster" Hair who played 3rd base, shortstop and outfielder for the Birmingham Black Barons and Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Baseball League from 1953–1958 compared their experience when asked as regular, ordinary guys who were part of an extraordinary situation, while they were playing in the league, did they ever think they were doing something extraordinary others would celebrate years later. Hair answered their situation was much like that of the woman's league in the movie by that name.