Mar 25, 2019 admin
New Philadelphia, Ohio—The Rockets celebrated massive wins before Tuesday nighttime’s community basketball game.
Tuscarawas County Special Olympics Coordinator Richelle Lefler says the Rockets Silver and Rockets Skills Team both had stellar showings at the State Championships this past weekend. The Skills Team earned numerous medals and fourth-area finishes, while the Silver Team claimed the Division III championship title.
“For our capabilities competition, Chelsea Lefler and Seth Seth Oberholzer each received fourth-region finishes. Abby Cool earned a second-place finish, and Larry Smitley received gold, after which our Rockets Silver basketball crew also won gold,” she says.
Lefler says the athletes are beaming with pleasure after those victories. Mostly, the Silver crew players who bounced returned after losing three starters.
“The Silver crew, especially, had some diverse, demanding situations and setbacks here later in the season, so for them to tug together as a team and pull out this victory, it’s simply a fantastic testimony to their resiliency and their willpower, and their grit,” she says.
Lefler says this comes weeks after the Rockets bowlers grabbed every other handful of medals and ribbons at the National Special Olympics Bowling Tournament in Las Vegas.
“We had one of our doubles teams earn silvers. That was Angelica Mendoza and Alex Adkins. One of our groups earned two bronzes: Michael Johnson and Jon Wheeler. We had one crew earn silver and a fourth vicinity, which vicinity to Kershel and Kory Zehnder, and then we had a group that earned a bronze and sixth-location, national Wells and Russ Shiar,” she says.
The Rockets will return on Tuesday night at 6:30 for their annual network basketball game at Central Catholic High School. Lefler says that is a fun and pleasant opposition with thethe purpose of having the Rocket become a member of forces with unique guests from the network.
“That will be a team of workers from the Tuscarawas County Board of Developmental Disabilities or provider corporations, including Advocates for Success or Adult Day Services or Starlight Enterprises, and then add different community individuals, board participants,” she says. “We’ve had principals of neighborhood faculties, family contributors of various employees. It’s super, and it’s tremendous, and it’s simply a laugh.”
Admission is free, and Lefler says they’re hoping to p.C. The stands with cheering fans. The Rockets even have a charity basketball game against area first responders on Apr 12 and a multi-county friendship game on Apr 18. Both video games are easy to wait for and can be heleasyStrasburgfor -Franklin High School.
