Elks host Hoop Shot

By PETE FONTAINE
Posted 11/20/19

By PETE FONTAINE It was Elkdom at its very best - with an extraordinary accent on youth - Sunday inside the Cranston YMCA. Current Tri-City Elks Exalted Ruler Deborah Mangina - as well as three of Lodge 14's Past Exalter Rulers Steve Lagesse, Donna

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Elks host Hoop Shot

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It was Elkdom at its very best – with an extraordinary accent on youth – Sunday inside the Cranston YMCA.

Current Tri-City Elks Exalted Ruler Deborah Mangina – as well as three of Lodge 14’s Past Exalter Rulers Steve Lagesse, Donna Warner and Lori Eaton – hosted Tri-City’s fun-filled Elks Hoop Shoot that wound up with four youngsters winning medals and earning berths in the December 14 District Championships at Smithfield High School.

Sunday’s shoot, as Lagesse – who doubles at the Elks State Hoop Shoot Chairman – told proud parents and participants who were ages 8-13: “The Road to Chicago started here today.”

The annual Elks Hoop Shoot, you see, will have the District Championships on Dec. 14, the State Finals on Jan. 19 at famed St. Joseph’s School Gym in West Warwick at 1 p.m. and the annual New England Shoot scheduled for March 14, 2020, in Portland, Me. then it’s onto Chicago for the grand finale.

While three youngsters staked claim to championship medals and another shot to runner-up honors Sunday, Warwick resident Sarah Berube notched here fifth Tri-City Elks Local Hoop Shoot crown.

Berube, who is the daughter of Norman and Melissa Berube and is a sixth grader at Lincoln School in Providence, has won four successive state championships and last year finished at the New England Hoop Shoot Runner-up.

“We’re hoping Sarah goes on to win this year’s state and New England titles and shoots her way to the national finals,” Lagesse, who is the long-serving Rhode Island Elks Hoop Shoot Chairman, said Sunday. “Sarah is quite the shooter.”

Lagesse then noted that the 2020 National Finals – as its haven since 2016 – will be held in Chicago but as yet to have a Rhode Island shooter win the coveted national championship.

Berube, who will soon celebrate her 12th birthday, competed in the 12-13 Girls Division Sunday.

Bess Collins of St. Paul’s School in Cranston won the 10-11 year old crown while Valentino Resto of Achievement First School captured first in the 9-10 Category while Sofia Ayakian, 9, of Blessed Sacrament School in Providence placed second.

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