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Celebration includes golf, volleyball fun

By John Rittenhouse
Golf, volleyball and baseball were some of the spring attractions during the annual Friendship Days celebration in Hills last weekend.

The Hills Thunder took on a pair of amateur baseball teams at the diamond in Hills Saturday afternoon. (Look for related story elsewhere in the sports section.)

An 18-hole golf tournament staged at the Rock River County Club near Rock Rapids, Iowa, was on tap for Friday.

Fourteen four-player teams made up the field for a best-ball scrambler.

When the tournament was complete, a team consisting of Tim Plimpton, Duane Fiala, Claude Van Driel and Tom Arends emerged as the champions.

Brad Berkhof, Jon Finke, Kelly Demuth and Scott Olson formed the second-place squad.

Denise Wysong produced the women's longest drive during the tournament, while Travis Korver slapped the men's longest drive. Blake Wysong drained the men's longest putt.

An eight-team volleyball tournament was played on Saturday.

A team captained by Amy Behr won the championship.

Teams led by Lowell Rozeboom and Doug Diekevers placed second and third respectively.

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