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Merritt team tops at local fundraiser A softball tournament this past weekend raised over $2,500 to help a woman with eyesight problems.
Jake Courtepatte NEWSROOM@ MERRITTHERALD.COM Both players and specators were out in full force on Saturday at the ball diamonds in Central Park for a good cause. A softball tournament was held to help out with living costs for Corrine Munro, put on by her husband Clay. Altogether, the
tournament raised over $2,500. Corrine has been out of work for a few months due to an issue of debilitating eyesight. She will soon be seeing Neuroopthamologist Dr. Brian Sexton in Vancouver. “I was just fundraising to help her with her living costs, etc.,” said Clay. “Until we can figure out what’s going on with her
eyes. I love my wife, I’m just doing what I’m supposed do to take care of her and my kids.” The Bandits (pictured right), out of Merritt, came out on top at the end of the day. The Punishers out of Chilliwack finished in second place. The consolation bracket was won by the Bulldogs out of Logan Lake.
GOLF TALK: Sloan reaches PGA playoffs with clutch performance in final week Jake Courtepatte NEWSROOM@MERRITTHERALD.COM Merritt’s own PGA pro will be playing for the FedEx Cup. It took right up until the final week of the PGA Tour season for 34 yearold Roger Slaon to book his ticket to the postseason. He came ever so close to clinching his first PGA win this past weekend at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North
Carolina, falling to multiple-time winner Kevin Kisner in what was a sixway playoff. After finishing the opening round on Thursday with a mediocre 71, Sloan was able to shoot a pair of 64s over the subsequent two rounds before closing out with a 66 on Sunday. His round on Sunday was capped off by a particularly good back nine, when he birdied two of the final three
holes to put his name in contention for the playoff. The par-three sixteenth hole saw Sloan stick it within eight feet off the tee, draining his first putt. It was another one-putt on the parfour seventeenth, from just under six feet. The tournament wraps up what has been an impressive streak for Sloan to close out the season - in the past three
tournaments he has competed in, he has finished T-16, sixth, and now T-2. The finish soared Sloan 39 spots up in the Tour standings, from 131st to 92nd. The top 125 players at the end of the season on the Tour secure both a spot in the race for the end-of-season FedEx Cup and a Tour card to compete in the next season. Sloan earned a purse of $389,440 for his finish.
