D.A.R.E. Keeps Kids on the Court

The wet weather has kept many athletes from and off the diamonds and courts and fields this spring, but the games went on recently for hundreds of elementary school students.

The  held its 13th annual D.A.R.E. Basketball Tournament earlier this month at , where several hundred fifth graders representing each of Lakewood’s seven elementary schools played each other over the course of a day.

In the end, one team outlasted all others. The winning team is pictured to the right, along with its coaches and mascots.

Front row, from left, mascots Mac McFarlin and Carlisle Cashman. Second row, from left, Isaac Karel, Gregory Whitkofski, Sarah Krost, Mady Lewellyn, Eddie Budzar-Tigue, Erica Wells, Abe Dalisky, Andrew Duna, Owen O’Donnell, Brennan Foran, Jake Sala and Evan Budzar. Third row, from left, coach Marc Budzar and Chris Karel.