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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RESCHEDULED BOCCE BASH
Eleventh Annual Container Maintenance Bocce Bash Tournament Rescheduled
Charleston, S.C - April 16, 2011 - The Eleventh Annual Container Maintenance Bocce Bash Tournament benefitting Special Olympics South Carolina has been rescheduled due to rain. The new tournament day will be May 21, 2011. All times and tournament play will remain the same as proposed on this new date.
For media inquires, please contact Elizabeth Bender at (678) 428-2624 or at bender.elizabeth@gmail.com
About the Special Olympics:
Special Olympics is an international organization that changes lives by encouraging and empowering people with intellectual disabilities, promoting acceptance for all, and fostering communities of understanding and respect worldwide. Founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the Special Olympics movement has grown from a few hundred athletes to nearly 3.1 million athletes in 228 Programs in all regions of the world, providing year-round sports training, athletic competition and other related programs. Special Olympics now takes place every day, changing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities in places like China and from regions like the Middle East to the community playgrounds and ball fields in every small neighborhood. Special Olympics provides people with intellectual disabilities continuing opportunities to realize their potential, develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage and experience joy and friendship. Visit South Carolina Special Olympics at www.so-sc.org.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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CHARLESTON’S FINEST ROLL
Special Olympics South Carolina hosts Eleventh Annual Container Maintenance Bocce Bash Tournament
Charleston, S.C. — April 1, 2011 — On April 16, 2011, join some of Charleston’s most generous individuals and the special needs community for the Eleventh Annual Container Maintenance Bocce Bash Tournament benefiting Special Olympics South Carolina.
Hosted at the Charleston Battery’s Blackbaud Stadium, beginning at 9 a.m., the tournament will consist of 128 teams of four playing on 32 standard Italian-style bocce courts competing in a tournament-style bracket for the chance to come home with the first place trophy. Tournament ‘repeats’ such as Container Maintenance, Army Wives, Motley Rice, Lucey Mortgage and Benefitfocus and many more have helped turned the event into a day of team spirit and Italian fashion, with anything from hot pink jerseys to Italian zoot suites and Southern hats in the mix. Athletes from the Lowcountry will be at the event cheering on players and thanking them for their support. Due to the tournament’s popularity, and regardless of the current economic position, all team spots for the tournament have been filled and a waiting list has been started. For more information on the event, please visit www.boccebash.com.
All funds raised during the Bocce Bash will go directly to Special Olympics South Carolina. This year’s event will specifically help eight athletes, one coach and one law enforcement representative from South Carolina make their way to the Special Olympics World Games in Athens, Greece in June. From our own Lowcountry, athlete Kylie MacFarland will competing for Team USA in singles and doubles tennis and coach Meta Frasch will be representing the US in sailing.
Through events like these athletes are able to receive proper sporting equipment and training year-round as well transportation and accommodations to State, National and World Games. Special Olympics events give athletes opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families and other Special Olympics athletes.
Thanks in part to our major sponsors: Container Maintenance and The Charleston Battery, as well as countless other generous sponsors.
For all media inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Bender at 678-428-2624 or bender.elizabeth@gmail.com.
About the Special Olympics:
Special Olympics is an international organization that changes lives by encouraging and empowering people with intellectual disabilities, promoting acceptance for all, and fostering communities of understanding and respect worldwide. Founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the Special Olympics movement has grown from a few hundred athletes to nearly 3.1 million athletes in 228 Programs in all regions of the world, providing year-round sports training, athletic competition and other related programs. Special Olympics now takes place every day, changing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities in places like China and from regions like the Middle East to the community playgrounds and ball fields in every small neighborhood. Special Olympics provides people with intellectual disabilities continuing opportunities to realize their potential, develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage and experience joy and friendship. Visit South Carolina Special Olympics at www.so-sc.org.
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