David Beard has earned a reputation for organizing some of the most entertaining, competitive and well attended basketball events every year. His Glenn Hills alumni basketball game set attendance records at Michael Curry Gymnasium last October and raised more than $7,000 for the Glenn Hills athletic department.
Now Beard has organized an alumni basketball tournament that will include former players from seven Augusta schools, with Thomson rounding out the eight team field, that will compete in bracket play this Saturday and Sunday at Richmond Academy. The first game is tomorrow at 11:00, and the championship game will be played Sunday at 3:00, right before two special high "showcase" games. David recently shared that the tournament will feature 96 of the best former players from year’s past. I’ve seen the rosters, and he’s 100% correct.
The showcase games at 4:00 (girls) and 5:00 (boys) will include 40 of the area’s best high school players. It will be the first games I can recall that don’t feature seniors only, or underclassmen only, or this county, or that town. It’s a wide ranging list of names from a broad area covering all four classes of next season’s rising crop of talent.
Check out the action at Richmond if you want to watch some fun summer basketball. Admission is $12, and your host will do his best to make sure you are entertained.
David does his work without the backing of a school system or a business with a big budget. And he proves that one man with unlimited enthusiasm and smarts, leading a small team of good people, can make something somebody with more resources or a bigger team would envy.
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