By Chandler Myers The Atmore Advance
Published: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:17 AM CDT
Softball
has become a popular sport over the years with high schools, colleges,
churches and the Olympics making it as routine to play as other
high-profile sports like basketball and football.
A lot is involved in the sport with fielding, hitting, pitching and running, keeping any participant active throughout a game.
For
Atmore’s seniors ,their experience with softball goes beyond a
simple game of five or six innings and has them match their strength
with other competitors at the Senior Olympics Masters Games.
Loraine
Weinmann, Ron Weinmann, Jean Wilson and Ann Amerson took their arms to
the Masters Games to see if they could out throw the opponents in their
respective age groups.
Loraine Weinmann was the only senior to place at the district games finishing second with a throw of 68 feet.
Weinmann said she competed in the event just to see how well she could do.
“I just wanted to see if I could do it,” Weinmann said. “It had been....
