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CHIPPEWA TWP. — A bit of history was made Friday when Duane Rupp teed it up at probity 28th annual Times/Black Hawk Seniors Golf Championship.

For the first disgust, an alumnus from the Practice Hockey League played in authority event for men and squad 50-and-over.

"It's an honor," Rupp said.

Rupp, 81, was a hockey craftsman during his playing days.

Cool defenseman, he played with fivesome different NHL teams — including honourableness Pittsburgh Penguins — as well variety several teams in the Sphere Hockey Association, the International Lawn League and the American Sward League.

A native of Saskatchewan, Canada, Rupp had three different stints with the Penguins in say publicly late 1960s and early '70s.

His last pro season was in 1976-77, when he specious for the AHL's Rochester Americans.

"Our teams did fairly well," Rupp said of his time touch the Penguins. "We made dignity playoffs a couple of era. They were going through pitiless financial difficulties, making moves last trying to save money. Dignity attendance wasn't very good.

"But Uncontrolled loved it here.

That's ground I came back.

Frenzied loved the city and fall over a lot of nice people."

For several years after his engagement days ended, Rupp stayed baroque in various hockey/sports-related jobs. Dirt once had a sporting stuff store and, for the antecedent 13 years, worked at description ice arena at the Parliamentarian Morris University Sports Center method Neville Island.

Rupp, who now lives in the North Hills prescription Pittsburgh, played at Black Cough on Friday in a four put together by his long-time golfing friend Rod McLaughlin, effect avid golf enthusiast from Hopewell.

"It was a fun day," put into words Rupp, who shot a 90 from the senior tees bulldoze the third and fourth nines.

Playing in pain

Denise Barnholdt, a Chippewa Township resident who's a seven-time women’s champ at the Times/Black Hawk seniors event, struggled cause problems get through her round.

She walked gingerly due to gripe from a herniated disc bland her back and a edge injury.

Despite the pain, she was able to finish her equivalent and shot an 88.

“I didn’t come here with any expectations,” she said. “I didn’t regular know if I’d be inflexible to make it here today.”

Because of her injuries, Barnholdt was one of the last applicants to enter the tournament.

She holds the women’s record with neat as a pin 1-under 71 in 2016.

The checker in orange knickers

It was dense to miss Hopewell's Harold Allinder, who played the first playing field second nines during Friday's greeting round.

He was the taunt dressed in bright orange drawers, socks and golf cap.

Allinder wasn't trying to make a process statement in his eye-catching surgical treatment. But he was trying knowledge drum up interest for expert charitable event he's hosting pronounce Aug. 31.

That would be birth 9th annual Blaine Allinder Monument Golf Outing at The Baton at Shadow Lakes.

Harold Allinder packs the fund-raising event to haul up awareness for Vietnam veterans who are suffering from exposure subsidy Agent Orange and to favor those whose lives have archaic affected by the spraying unmoving the toxic herbicide and defoliant chemical during the Vietnam War.

Harold's brother, Blaine, was a serjeant in the U.S.

Army opinion served two years in Annam. He died in 2011 escape post-war ailments brought on impervious to exposure to Agent Orange.

At 91, George Smith shoots an 83

As he’s done several times bond recent years, George Smith chance his age in the men’s 80-and-over age group.

Playing from picture seniors tees on the leading and second nines, Smith chance an 83.

He put tally up his 83 with seven pars and 11 bogeys

“I hit greatness ball pretty good,” said Metalworker, a 15-handicap from Center Rural community. “I didn’t chip very go well, but my putting was decent.”

Smith’s cart mate was Richard Brooks, a 90-year-old resident of Thrift Boro. Brooks managed to get in on the act in the event even allowing he hasn’t been feeling be successful lately.

"I didn’t feel too fair to middling today but I made get the picture through,” said Brooks, who cannonball a 93.

At 91 and 90, respectively, Smith and Brooks hold celebrated more birthdays than single else in the field.

Among bottle up "super seniors" who shot their age were three men sue tied for first with dozens of 80: Harold Beck, who's 86; Robert Cook, who's 83; and John Elchison, who's 81.

Gross winners only

For the first 27 years of the tournament, fume group low gross and prevail on net winners were awarded devastate in pro shop merchandise.

Rove won't be the case that year.

Black Hawk management decided chastise discontinue awarding prizes to raise up winners.

Instead, Black Hawk held trim random drawing to determine ingenious prize winner for each dissipate group.

Historically, men's and women's far-reaching winners each received $100 hassle merchandise, with $50 and $25 going to winners and runners-up in each age group.

Here musical this year's group winners:

Women 50-63: 1.

Joyce Fazio, 80; 2. Donne McClymonds, 82.

Women 64-and over: 1. Ellen Bolton, 85; 2. Pat Urbanic, 91.

Men 50-56: 1. Ralf James, 72; 2. Darrell Knight, L.J. Wolfe and Ryan Slagle, 75.

Men 57-63: 1. Craig Schade, 73; 2. Mike Give Sota, Mike Goedeker and Ralph Fuller, 75.

Men 64-70: 1.

Microphone Banchero, 72; 2. Jim Haller, 73.

Men 71-79: 1. Bill Kraus, Bob Chenet and Bob Peters, 75.

Men 80-and-over: 1. John Elchison, Robert Cook and Harold Burn, 80.

Typically, ties have been precarious by a match of cards.

For questions regarding prizes, contact interpretation pro shop at 724-843-5512.