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When the Caribou High School softball team decided it wanted to raise money to play for a week in Florida, it eschewed the standard fund-raising routes.
Instead, the girls slaved over the summer planting grass, shoveling coal, carhopping at a Caribou dairy bar and glueing 11,000 potato bags by hand. OK, so they did bow to tradition – they had a garage sale and held 50-50 raffles at Caribou basketball games. All told, the hard work earned the team more than $12,000.
“The girls are very excited,” coach Sue White said. “I’ve got some girls who have never left the state before, so they’re excited for this.”
The team leaves Caribou Friday afternoon and will spend the night in Waterville. They take off from Portland Saturday and return to Maine on April 24.
The girls have two days off during the week. On Sunday they plan to visit Disney World in Orlando, Fla., which is near their host city of Clermont. They will play Monday through Thursday and then spend a day at the Epcot Center, also in Orlando.
To plan the playing schedule, White hooked up with Mike Crawford, who coached baseball at Madawaska for 25 years and is currently coaching at South Lake High School in Groveland, Fla. Crawford knew White through her father, Bob White, who was the president of the Caribou Little League when Crawford was at Madawaska.
The Vikings will play five games against teams from Mount Dora and Umatilla, along with the South Lake team.
“They will see some tough competition but if the pitching’s working they can win some of those games,” Crawford said.
Crawford is also organizing a picnic and cookout for Caribou and the baseball teams from Presque Isle and Bucksport, who will also be in town.
“I just hope it doesn’t rain,” Crawford said with a laugh.
The Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association has announced the recipients of its 1998 awards.
The Bob Lahey Athletic Administrator of the Year Award went to Cape Elizabeth athletic director Keith Weatherbie. Jim Murphy of George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill received a special achievement award. Woody Verge of Thomaston and Bob White of Caribou won Distinguished Service Awards.
Other recipients include Brad Leach of Saco, who won the Maine Sports Hall of Fame Retired Athletic Administrator award, Stearns of Millinocket’s Don Dow for a state award of merit, Edward Little of Auburn’s John White for service in the field of athletic administration and John Casavola of Windham for service outside the field of athletic administration.
Media awards went to Larry Woodward of the Portland Press Herald and George Hale of WABI radio in Bangor.
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