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Seniors hit the basketball court for west virginia senior sports conventional

Guys’s basketball took place at the 1/3 day of the 2021 west virginia senior sports traditional saturday at west virginia state’s walker convocation middle in institute. Six groups with players from age 60 thru eighty competed in the 3-on-three halfcourt games, and a few the seniors proved that age is just a variety of. Wvssc board president harold vealey is a member of the 80 west virginia generals. He stated he’s happy to look matters back to particularly ordinary inside the wake of the covid pandemic.

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“it’s a delight to look all of us right here having an amazing time, playing basketball, getting off the sofa and just thoroughly revel in themselves,” he stated. Don griffith, a member of the 80 west virginia generals team, has been taking part inside the basketball portion of the wvssc for twenty years.

“i’ve been doing this for 20 years,” griffith said. “harold [veaely] got me began. My spouse and i had come again from out honeymoon, we have been watching a marshall football recreation on tv, he said ‘you wanna play basketball?’ i stated ‘are you kidding me? I haven’t performed that seeing that high school.’ that’s where i began, nearly twenty years in the past.”

griffith is no scrub of an athlete. As quarterback for stonewall jackson, he gained the kennedy award in 1952 because the country of west virginia’s top excessive college soccer player.

“i’m absolutely thankful i will do this. I’ve been blessed with terrific health and that i’m going to keep doing it as long as i can,” griffith stated. Griffith, vealey and teammates butch nafe and jim cook dinner all went to stonewall jackson within the 1950s and still play together to nowadays.

“the men i play with, we went to the same excessive school. It’s awesome,” vealey stated. “with a view to play two time a week with the equal men — i see greater of my pals than i see of my very own children. After the video games here we’re going to go out socially, have some brews and just talk approximately how extremely good we had been in our day.”

vealey has a claim to reputation of his very own, as he played excessive faculty ball towards jerry west while west played at east bank in 1956.

“we played at stonewall and we won. I had a first-rate recreation, i had 25 [points],” vealey stated. “west changed into not guarding me. We [later] visit east bank and in view that i used to be the high scorer [the last game], he’s guarding me and i’m guarding him. He gets 40 [points] and i get seven.”

the covid pandemic slowed matters down however didn’t stop the 80 west virginia generals from playing ball. At some stage in the pandemic, the group still practiced twice every week outdoors and with masks.

“we played outside some instances all through the summer season sporting mask, which changed into a real handicap,” griffith said. “we kept in form.”

looking in the direction of 2022, the 80 west virginia generals will travel to citadel lauderedale, florida, to compete in the country wide senior games.