Alumni Basketball Tournament.

The Carthage High School Alumni Association (CHSAA) is hosting its’ first Men’s and Ladies Alumni Basketball Tournament on Saturday, April 3rd at Carthage High School.

The event will feature single elimination bracket play of seven men’s teams beginning at 3 pm, the ladies match up at 7pm, and conclude with the men’s championship game. Past basketball homecoming queens will be honored before the championship game. Doors open at 2:30, admission is $5, children 12 and under are free

The men’s team captains are Rob Buerge ’85, Marcus Burns ’93, James Kinder ‘95 Luke Shepherd ’05, Blake Womack ’06, Gage Tiller ‘09, David Brown ’09,

The Lady Tigers match-up features a return to the court for the ladies of 2003 including Tara Waggoner, Candice Artym, Katie Wooldridge, Aspen Roughton, and Katie Burger. Meghan Waggoner (’06), who just finished her college career with the CMSU Lady Jennies, will re-unite with her teammates for the game. They will face the class of 1995 including Mandy Stark Young, Amber Irwin Kinder, Amy Riley Swearengen, Kim Laney Wagner, Katie Norbury Miller, and Stephanie Hornback McGill. They will be assisted by Maranda Randall Huntley ’97.

Proceeds will benefit the CHSAA. The mission of the association is to unite, inform and involve alumni and friends in fellowship and support of education in the Carthage R-9 School District through the Carthage R-9 School Foundation.

For information, contact Kelly Hartley at 674-7740 or kellyhartley@suddenlink.net.

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