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Over 200 people watched 40 alums play basketball this past Saturday at Baldwin High School.
Sheree Lindsay, president of the Baldwin High School Booster Club, partnered with Darius Burton, the varsity basketball coach and Baldwin High School alum from class of 1993, to host a basketball game with alumni students dating back to 2002 to 2022. The game also collected funds for scholarships, the Booster Club, and the basketball team at Baldwin High School. The scholarship money will be announced later today at a dinner that will celebrate all Baldwin sports teams. This dinner is also hosted by Lindsay and she welcomes varsity athletes to come free of charge.
“This is the very first one of its kind, but we hope it’s the first of many,” Lindsay said about the alumni game.
Lindsay mentioned that her goal with this game was to give everyone a fun time where they can “meet up with old friends and enjoy basketball.” This is exactly what happened Saturday evening as two alumni teams, the blue team and the gold team, competed against each other. The blue team won by six points.
“The blue team were the players that graduated in even years and the gold team were the players that graduated in the odd years,” Lindsay said. “It was an awesome game. The blue team won 135 to 129 and they were down by more than 25 points.”
According to Lindsay, there were some sponsors at the event. The Booster Club took care of the concession and there were raffles as well. Lindsay says that she is still counting the funds collected, but at the game, the adults were charged $10 and $5 for students as well as children under 12.
“We are grateful to our sponsors, who helped to make this possible,” Lindsay said.
Lindsay plans on making this basketball game an annual event. Along with the basketball game, she is planning an event in the summer with the Baldwin Civic Association. She plans on it being a “back to school” event.
