Men's Legacy Retreat & Golf Tournament

On April 27-28 twelve men from Mountain View participated in the 14th Annual Men's Legacy Retreat & Golf Tournament at Mountain Ranch Golf Club at Fairfield Bay, Arkansas.

 Mountain Ranch is a beautiful course in the rolling hills adjacent to Greer's Ferry Lake.  Many holes are very challenging.  We played a practice round on Friday and the tournament on Saturday.

We took meals and lodging at Budd Creek Baptist Camp.  Friday evening included a challenging sermon for men from a young pastor.   

 The tournament is played as a 4-man scramble.  These are my three teammates, Bob Heller, Brad Jester, and James Chambers.  I let them know right off that the only reason I was on their team was to make it a legitimate foursome.  We shot a 9 under par 63 in the contest. 

This is the second team from Mountain View; John Dewick, Brian Denton, Gene Colter, and Jack Spencer.  Brian is our "organizer".  He is formerly from Arkansas and played in this tournament with his church there.  He started taking one team, then two, and this year he took three teams.  

The third team consisted of Glenn Miller, Mike McAfee, Bob Acklin, and Buddy Seibert.  Buddy won the longest drive contest.  Glenn got "my door prize".  I had won a door prize each of the three previous years.  Well.... I guess it was Glenn's turn.,  

There was a "log jam" at the turn.  Jack and Gene were relaxing as they waited for their turn to tee off on Number Ten.  I don't know what they scored, but all Jack could talk about was the fish fry that awaited at the end of the round. 







Only Buddy brought home a trophy.  Only Glenn won a door prize.  But we all brought home sore muscles and good memories. 

This is the link to the Men's Legacy Retreat and Golf website:   http://www.menslegacyretreat.com/

The Rivalry

It was another great Tiger win today in the Border Showdown between the universities of Missouri and Kansas.  It's the second oldest college football rivalry in the nation.  Today's 24-10 Mizzou victory was the 120th playing of the game, the first of which was played in 1891.  The oldest rivalry is between Minnesota and Wisconsin who have played 121 times. 

The game was played in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium.  The first 16 MU-KU football games were played in Kansas City.  Later the schools changed to home-and-away locations.  The KC site was renewed in 2007. 

Missouri has won 3 straight over Kansas and 5 out of the last 6.  When Missouri moves to the Southeastern Conference next year, they would like to continue to play Kansas as a non-conference game, but Kansas appears to be reluctant to play us. 

Some say the bitterness between Missouri and Kansas goes back to the Civil War.  While the two schools maintain diplomatic relationships, they don't even agree on the series results, as MU claims it had the lead at 56-54-9 before today's game, while KU claimed that it was tied at 55-55-9. The dispute goes back to the 1960 season, when unranked KU came to Columbia and upset undefeated and #1-ranked Mizzou, 23-7. The win was later forfeited by KU after the Big 8 Conference ruled that ineligible players took the field for the Jayhawks. Kansas counts the result on the field in their record books, while MU counts the forfeit in its win column. The loss remains as likely the most bitter in Tiger history, as it cost MU a chance at its only national championship, as the Tigers went on to finish 10-1 on the field (11-0 in the record books with the forfeit), and ranked 5th after defeating Navy in the 1961 Orange Bowl.

My favorite MU-KU game was in 2007 when Mizzou won for the second straight year against Jayhawks, claiming a thrilling 36-28 win over KU at Arrowhead Stadium. Nicknamed "Armageddon at Arrowhead," the game featured 11-0 and 2nd-ranked Kansas against 10-1 and 3rd-ranked Mizzou, with #1 LSU having been upset the night before - meaning the winner would likely ascend to #1 in the polls.  The post-game photo below of KU QB Todd Reesing is a favorite of all Tiger fans.  Unfortunately Missouri's No. 1 ranking only last one week. 

M - I - Z  .............................Z - O - U  !!!!!!!!!

A Championship Season

On Saturday, My Corner of the Ozarks, was buzzing with football excitement.  The Mountain View-Birch Tree Liberty Eagles played their quarterfinal state playoff game against Lamar at home.  Downtown Mountain View was packed.  Not only was there a lot of local interest, but Lamar brought many fans. 

This was the second year in a row for the Eagles to advance to the quarterfinals and to face Larmar.  Last year Liberty lost in the final 8 seconds.  This year Lamar out-played us 33-18. 

However, the Liberty Eagles certainly had a championship season.  It was their first loss of the year.  So they finished 12-1.  It was the first 12-win season in school history.  They were conference champions.  Last year they only had 2 losses.  So for two years their record was 22-3.  Congratulations Eagles!!

We sat in the stands in the presence of four older gentlemen who played on the 1960 Mountain View Pirate championship team.  Those past champions came out to support today's champions.