Thursday, September 22, 2011

Special Olympics Softball Tournament




By PEngland

On September, 10, 2011, the Hopkinton Hawks Special Olympic Team travelled by bus to Wheelock Park in Keene to participate in the State Unified Softball Tournament. The thirteen players team came home with the Division A Bronze Medal for the team competition. Peter England won the gold medal for the skills competition, which is a test of throwing, hitting, fielding, and base running abilities.

Coach Robin O’Dougherty praised the team’s good sportsmanship and effort. He was particularly impressed with the efforts of 8th grader Abby Meister, juniors David England and Charlie Bartlett and senior Peter England.

The Hawks, who had only practiced together twice before the competition faced Special Olympics teams from Nashua, Portsmouth, and Keene.

A lunch of sandwiches, chips, cookies and water or PowerAde was provided by Subway.

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