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THE SUN
SPORTS
APRIL 21, 2021
Another exciting season begins on Island pitch
Sixteen ladies at the Key Royale Club competed in a five-week single elimination nine hole match-play tournament beginning March 17. Last week, Laura Purcell battled Pam Lowry with Pam defeating Laura in a hard fought match. She was crowned the KRC Ladies 2021 Nine-Hole Match Play Champion.
BY MONCIA SIMPSON SPECIAL TO THE SUN
ANNA MARIA - After a couple of weeks off, the soccer action resumed at The Center for the adults last week. The game play started with Sandbar and Flynn Law taking the field. The first half of the game ended tied at 3, but Flynn Law turned the game in their favor after a quick fourth and final goal by the Sandbar team after a bobble of the attempted save by Flynn Law’s Mark Long. Long ended the game with seven saves in his team’s victory. Two Flynn Law players had hat tricks. Damir Glavan and Eric Pullen both got three shots past the Sandbar goalie, Kevin Mulcahy, for the six points and the win. Mulcahy made nine recorded stops in the action-packed game that ended in a 6-4 Flynn Law victory. On the other side of the field, Alec Pichardo scored three goals of his own for the Sandbar team, with an additional goal by Luis Pichardo. With week one complete, in addition to Glavan, Pullen and Pichardo, three other players top the scoreboard with three goals. Timo Vecchio, Kali Richardson and Daniel Hampton all put three points in the game stats. Connor Haughey tops the charts with 10 saves. In his second season as an adult player, Tyler Brewer is on the top of the leaderboard with three assists going into the second week of spring soccer on the Island.
Key Royale golf heats up
TUESDAY, APRIL 13 - LOW NET SCORE
MONICA SIMPSON | SUN
Above, veteran Jessica Williams moves past the Flynn Law defender to advance the ball into scoring territory for the Sandbar team. Right, Flynn Law’s Hakan Toka went against Race Arande, one of the Sandbar squad’s playmakers, for most of the first half of play last Thursday night.
SUN SCOREBOARD TUESDAY, APRIL 13 YOUTH CO-ED SOCCER WEEK #2 8- TO 10-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE
30 31 33
Flight B Susan VanOrsdale Sue Christenson Judy Todd Annette Hall
31 32 32 33
Flight C Laurie Hicks Jody Maleeny Judy Menchek
28 29 32
Sue Christenson, Sue Powers and Meredith Slaven had chip-ins!
THURSDAY, APRIL 15 - SHAMBLE, RECORDING TWO SCORES ON EACH HOLE FROM TEAM MEMBERS
Beach Bums Bridge Tender
1 2
Tidy MD Solid Rock Construction
2 0
11- TO 13-YEAR-OLD LEAGUE
Flight A Helen Pollock Sue Wheeler Ellen Boin
Blalock Walters The Gitt Team
4 1
AM Bath Time Grooms Auto
5 4
THURSDAY, APRIL 15 ADULT CO-ED SOCCER WEEK #1
1st Place - Brian Comer, Kathy Donnar, Tim Donnar, Mitch Donnar with a score of 63, one under par 2nd Place - Mike Brakefield, Chris Chambers, Tony Donnelly, Scott Mitchell with a score of even par, 64 3rd Place - Dean Christensen, Bill DiMenna, Mike Gillie, Debi Wohlers with a score of two over par, 66
Sandbar Flynn Law
4 6
Salty Printing Slim’s Place
5 6
Killer Bate C.A.B.B.
4 9
Sato Real Estate Beach Bums
8 3
The Key Royale Club First Annual Men's MemberMember tournament was held April 2 with 24 twoman teams split into three divisions by handicaps competing for the championship. After 18 holes of golf, the winners and ties from each division competed in a playoff. Five teams battled in the three-hole, sudden death playoff. Winning the championship on the last hole were Dave Richardson and Gary Risner. Finishing in second place were Jon Holcomb and Ron Vandeman followed by Bill Ford and Jim Livanos in third.
