Baseball booster club golf tournament draws 30 foursomes

The Fallbrook Baseball Club boosters program held its ninth annual golf tournament and drew 30 foursomes for the competition January 21 at the Vista Valley Country Club.

“Everything went well,” said Fallbrook Baseball Club president Laura Vandivort. “It was a great success. It seems everybody had a great time.”

The tournament involves a shotgun start and utilizes a best ball format, in which members of a foursome tee off from the previous best shot of the group. The winning foursome consisted of Donny Lucy, Pat Lucy, Dave O’Hagan, and Dave Dunn, who finished at 14 under par.

The Lucy brothers played baseball for Fallbrook High School, O’Hagan was a Stanford University teammate of Donny Lucy, and Dunn was on the University of San Diego team with Pat Lucy.

O’Hagan was also the winner of one of the “closest to the pin” contests. Stan Neiman was the other “closest to the pin” winner.

New Fallbrook High School varsity head coach Jesse Schuveiller was the male who won the “longest drive” contest, while Kim Brockie was the female with the longest drive.

Although rain was a possibility that day, it did not affect the golf tournament. “The sky held for us,” Vandivort said.

The golf tournament was followed by a dinner which included a raffle and auction.

“We’d just like to thank the community for all their donations,” Vandivort said. “There was some lively bidding back and forth.”

Parent Kim Murphy was in charge of obtaining raffle items. Former Fallbrook High School principal Bob Thomas served as the master of ceremonies for the dinner while assistant coach Gary Carter introduced Schuveiller before the new coach spoke to the audience.

“We’re very thankful to Vista Valley. They always do a wonderful job,” Vandivort said.

The Fallbrook Baseball Club raises money for the varsity, junior varsity, and freshman high school programs and for the off-season “Indians” club team. “It goes for maintenance of the field; it goes for uniforms, equipment,” Vandivort said.

The proceeds from the 2007 golf tournament and banquet allowed for the purchase of a pitching machine and also for the acquisition of a new portable backstop for the varsity program, allowing the older backstop to become available for the junior varsity field.

New catcher’s equipment is purchased every year to ensure the safety of the players behind the plate, and annual expenses also include balls, bats, travel, tournament registration fees, and umpire fees.

The actual high school baseball season will begin with tryouts February 16.