Twenty students from the Sweet Home and Central Linn school districts competed Saturday in the Sweet Home Elks 2009
Hoop Shoot at the Boys and Girls Club for a chance to represent the local Elks Lodge at the district hoop shoot competition in Eugene this weekend.
Moving on to district are Kobe Galster, who finished second in the district last year, Devin Stafford, Cole Ashcraft, Kelika
Aiona, Karly Newport and Tressa Lovik. Other top finishers in the best-of-25 free-throw competition, who won’t compete at district, were Chase Barnes, Nick Marler, Trevor Cowell, Brandon Keenon, Keanu Aiona, Jaeric Cvitanich, Dennis Baxter, Kavic Belcastro, Marissa Magee, Mariah Thayer, Sydney Belcastro, Mercedes Patterson and Jessica Stockman.
Other winners in the various school competitions were Quinn Dinsfriend, Keanu Austin Bruijun, Brenner Roberts, Lauren
Yon, Shania Baxter, Alicia Shadden, Dakota Garcia, Hannah Jewitt, Renee Phillips, Caroline Huss and Jesse Webb.
This year’s Hoop Shoot competition was dedicated to lifetime member and Past Exalted Ruler Bill Moore, who died late
last summer. Moore’s wife June Moore was on hand Saturday to observe a moment of silence and dedication of the event.
“Bill and his wife June were at every Hoop Shoot in Sweet Home for as long as anyone can remember,” Elks Spokeswoman
Carla Claasen said. Their grandson, Ron Moore, served as chairman of the event for many years.