Neither of Fairview Christian Academy’s basketball teams won their games in the eighth Hoops for Hope event. But the school’s boys’ and girls’ programs showed that despite their own troubles, they’re clearly on one winning team in the fight against breast cancer.
Signal Mountain beat the Lady Falcons 48-30 and Signal’s boys defeated the Falcons 69-33 in the last two of five games held Saturday at GPS. Money raised at the event goes to the MaryEllen Locher Foundation scholarship fund, which assists area students who have had a parent diagnosed with breast cancer with college financial aid.
Fairview Christian is located in Athens, Tenn., which was one of the areas hit by tornadoes early Wednesday morning. The academy suffered structure damage to some of its buildings, including a new auditorium.
But school administrator and coach Greg Ranck emailed GPS coach and Hoops for Hope event coordinator Wes Moore to let him know the teams would be making the trip to fulfill the obligation they made of competing in the fundraiser.
“If you don’t think that’s a class act, I don’t know what you call it,” Moore said. “Here they are in a charity situation for them, and they come to a charity benefit for someone else. It shows what it’s all about with that school and it’s people.”