Fayette County Sports HOF inductees honored at golf outing
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Mark King watches the putt by his son Jarrod King on the second green at Pleasant Valley Golf Club during Friday’s Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame golf outing. Jarrod King was inducted into the hall of fame as a member of the 2021 class.
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Lauren George Clemmer hits off the 14th tee at Pleasant Valley Golf Club during Friday’s Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame golf outing. George Clemmer is part of the 2021 hall of fame class.
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Lauren George Clemmer rolls in a birdie putt on the 13th green at Pleasant Valley Golf Club under the watchful eye of Gene Huey during Friday’s Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame golf outing. George Clemmer is a member of the 2021 class, while Huey was already inducted as an individual and part of Uniontown’s 1964 basketball team
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Darwin Stalnaker reacts as his putt on the seventh green at Pleasant Valley Golf Club falls short of the cup during Friday’s Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame golf outing. Stalnaker was inducted in the county hall of fame in 2016.
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Gene Huey hits off the 14th tee at Pleasant Valley Golf Club during Friday’s Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame golf outing. Huey, who is in the hall of fame, was part of a foursome that included Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame Board Chairman Chris Cluss and 2021 inductee Lauren George Clemmer.
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Uniontown senior Adena Rugola powers off the No. 18 tee at Pleasant Valley Golf Club during Friday’s Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame golf outing.
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Uniontown sophomore Logan Voytish powers off the 18th tee during Friday’s Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame golf outing at Pleasant Valley Golf Club.
The sun shined brightly on Pleasant Valley Golf Club Friday, appropriate for the honorees of the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2020/2021.
Around 100 golfers played in the outing before the luncheon that introduced and recognized the newest class to be inducted into the county’s hall of fame.
The most-recent class will be formally inducted in the banquet set for June 18, 2022, at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus.
Those recognized Friday at the luncheon were Shelley Bortz (Geibel Catholic), Jason Bodnar (Laurel Highlands), Krystal Brooks (Brownsville), Lauren George Clemmer (Uniontown), Terence Jackson (Uniontown), Ross Kershey (Dunbar Township), Jarrod King (Connellsville), Chad Salisbury (Frazier), along with deceased inductees Adam Donnelly (German Township), Dr. Ted (Konetsky) Kell (German Township), Fran Lemansky (Uniontown), John Lozar (German Township) and Wilfred Minor (Uniontown).
Several inductees, new and old, played in the golf outing, including, George Clemmer, King, Gene Huey, Darwin Stalnaker, Bill Marovic, and members of the Lemansky family.
The luncheon also recognized the county’s WPIAL and PIAA gold medal winners in 2020 and 2021. Rick Hauger and the 2019-2020 WPIAL boys Class AAAAA basketball champions, the Quarzo sisters, Gionna and Jolena, Ella Ciez, and Maria Mrosko, were among the recent gold medal winners attending the event.