Boosters Raise $3,500 With Donkey Basketball Games

  • Tecumseh High School Principal Randy Dilbeck goes in for the basket as Tecumseh Firefighter Rhett Banks plays defense and Police Officer Dakota Castle looks on during the first game of the Tecumseh Donkey Basketball event Nov. 6. The Tecumseh school administrators lost to the firefighters and police officers, 2-6. The event was a fundraiser for the Tecumseh Tip In Booster Club and raised $3,500. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
    Tecumseh High School Principal Randy Dilbeck goes in for the basket as Tecumseh Firefighter Rhett Banks plays defense and Police Officer Dakota Castle looks on during the first game of the Tecumseh Donkey Basketball event Nov. 6. The Tecumseh school administrators lost to the firefighters and police officers, 2-6. The event was a fundraiser for the Tecumseh Tip In Booster Club and raised $3,500. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
    There were 600 spectators in the bleachers and Tecumseh basketball players cheering from the sidelines at the Tecumseh Middle School gymnasium on Sat., Nov. 6. It might have been a normal basketball game—except for the donkeys. During two elimination games and one championship showdown, there were eight donkeys, four per team, ambling back and forth between baskets, shod with rubber...

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