Kickball event benefits Big Brothers and Big Sisters
PLYMOUTH – The first annual Showdown in Cheese Town adult kickball tournament was a big success Saturday at the Quit Qui Oc Athletic Complex.
The event raised approximately $8,000 to benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Sheboygan County.
A pair of Sargento teams squared off in the men’s division finals. Louie Gentine’s pitching sparked the winning team to victory over the squad captained by James Meyer. The championship squad’s captain was Gentine.
The coed division featured some fierce competition. In the semifinals, Glacier Transit and Storage edged Team Downs, 1-0, and Orion upended Sartori Food Corporation (score unavailable).
GTS edged Orion in the championship game (score unavailable).
The tourney, which included 18 teams (14 coed and four men’s) and about 220 players, was set up with pool play. The three pool champions and one wild card team advanced to the semifinals.
“I am very pleased with the results – being a first-year effort,” said Tim Kaker, executive director of Big Brothers and Big Sisters.
“I think we have a good base to build upon for next year. The participants, spectators and even the workers had a good time.”
The proceeds help fund the agency’s community-based and school-based programs. The programs matched more than 550 children in the county with caring and positive adult role models in 2008.
“We had wonderful sponsor support,” Kaker said.
He thanked the following major corporate sponsors: Sargento, Sartori; Masters Gallery; Old Fashioned Foods; Johnsonville Sausage; Blue Harbor Resort; Wurtz, Roth, Basler & Brock, S.C.; B93.7; The Point; Larry's Distributing; Glacier Transit and Storage; and Cedar Grove Warehousing. Most of the sponsors also had teams in the event.
A Sargento team paced by Louie Gentine's pitching performance defeated a second Sargento team captained by James Meyer in the Men's Division of the first Showdown in Cheese Town adult kickball tournament at Quit Qui Oc Sports Complex in Plymouth recently (Aug. 15).
In the Co-ed Division, Glacier Transit and Storage edged Orion for the championship. Glacier beat Team Downs in one semi-final game while Orion beat Sartori in the other semi-final.
The tournament was set up with “pool play” meaning to advance, a team needed to either win its pool of teams or have a record worthy of securing a wildcard berth. Pool champs and one wildcard team advanced to the tournament semi-final matches.
The Showdown, which will be an annual event, is a fund-raiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sheboygan County. The proceeds help fund the agency's community-based and school-based programs that matched more than 550 children in the county with caring and positive adult role models in 2008.
