Golf Tournament Scores Big For Springfield Medical Care Systems
Posted on 10/15/2010
A Flight—First place winners, Low Gross Team, (l to r): Rick Marasa, Tim Kangas, Rick Spence, Rich Lane
Springield, VT — Springfield, VT — The 10th annual Springfield Hospital Challenge took place on Thursday, September 23rd at Okemo Valley Golf Club in Ludlow. 115 golfers competed for team and individual awards, raffle prizes, and auction items.
More than 50 sponsoring organizations underwrote the tournament, which included a box lunch, complimentary refreshments on the course, and gifts of a first aid kit and a special 10th anniversary marble desk clock. Tournament sponsors were Black River Produce, Comtu Falls Corp, IPG Employee Benefits & CBA Blue Administrators, Richard Marasa, MD, NBC Solid Surfaces, Okemo Mountain Resort, Peoples United Bank, Springfield Health & Rehab Center, Springfield Printing, USI Insurance Services/Liberty Mutual.
Club professional, Michael Santa Maria, and the excellent Okemo staff took very good care of the golfers and made the event an overall success. According to event organizer, Larry Kraft, more than $16,000 was raised to support the new Springfield Community Health Center which will be located in the former Fellows Gear Shaper building.
Team and individual winners were:
A flight
1st Place Low Gross
Tim Kangas, Rich Lane, Rick Marasa, Rick Spence
2nd Place Low Gross
Steve Birge, Jack Cassidy, Rick Skrocki, Dan Tricarico
1st Place Low Net
Mark Blanchard, Mark Devarney, Joe Greene, Brian Tarbox
2nd Place Low Net
Guy Alderdice, Tim Mello, Dave Muller, Greg White
B flight
1st Place Low Gross
Victor Baskevich, Roger Blish, Grant Greely, Eugene Sileski
2nd Place Low Gross
Steve Ankuda, Curt Lindamood, Peter MacGillivray, Scott Whittemore
1st Place Low Net
Tim Oakes, Walter Oakes, Mike Pinney, Gary Stearns
2nd Place Low Net
Nell Boni Hughes, Carolyn Lane, Candace Montesi, Dave Montesi
Closest to the Line Dave Muller
Longest Putt Brian Albert
Putting contest Ron Bixby. Richard Root, Jeff Wallin
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