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Seniors Hit The Basketball Court For West Virginia Senior Sports Classic 

Men's ball occurred on the third day of the 2021 West Virginia Senior Sports Classic Saturday at West Virginia State's Walker Convocation Center in Institute. 온라인카지노

Six groups with players from age 60 through 80 contended in the three-on-three halfcourt games, and some the seniors demonstrated that age is only a number. 

WVSSC Board President Harold Vealey is an individual from the 80 West Virginia Generals. He said he's glad to see things back to some degree typical in the wake of the COVID pandemic. 

"It's a joy to see everybody here making some great memories, playing ball, getting off the love seat and just completely have fun," he said. 

Wear Griffith, an individual from the 80 West Virginia Generals group, has been partaking in the ball segment of the WVSSC for a very long time. 

"I've been doing this for a very long time," Griffith said. "Harold [Veaely] kicked me off. My better half and I had returned from out vacation, we were watching a Marshall football match-up on TV, he said 'You wanna play b-ball?' I said 'Would you say you are messing with me? I haven't done that since secondary school.' That's the place where I began, almost 20 years prior." 

Griffith is no scour of a competitor. As quarterback for Stonewall Jackson, he won the Kennedy Award in 1952 as the province of West Virginia's top secondary school football player. 

"I'm truly appreciative I can do this. I've been honored with extraordinary wellbeing and I will keep doing it as long as I can," Griffith said. 

Griffith, Vealey and colleagues Butch Nafe and Jim Cook all went to Stonewall Jackson during the 1950s and still play together right up 'til today. 

"The folks I play with, we went to a similar secondary school. It's incredible," Vealey said. "To have the option to play double cross seven days with similar folks — I see a greater amount of my mates than I see of my own children. After the games here we will go out socially, have a couple of brews and simply talk about how incredible we were in our day." 

Vealey has his very own distinguishing strength, as he played secondary school ball against Jerry West when West played at East Bank in 1956. 

"We played at Stonewall and we won. I had an incredible game, I had 25 [points]," Vealey said. "West was not guarding me. We [later] go to East Bank and since I was 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 eased back things down yet didn't stop the 80 West Virginia Generals from taking care of business. During the pandemic, the group actually rehearsed double seven days outside and with veils. 

"We played external a couple of times throughout the late spring wearing covers, which was a genuine impediment," Griffith said. "We kept fit." 

Looking toward 2022, the 80 West Virginia Generals will go to Fort Lauderedale, Florida, to contend in the National Senior Games.