Eighty-four golfers teed off June 18 for the 16th annual CASA Father’s Day Charity Golf Tournament at the Allen County Country Club.
The tournament is a celebration of fathers, and the roles fathers play in raising children, but also to have some fun while raising funds for the Court Appointed Special Advocates Program.
All funds will remain within the 31st Judicial District including Allen, Neosho, Woodson and Wilson counties to help serve abused and neglected children in the court system.
Judges Daniel Creitz and David Rogers, each of whom serves on the CASA Advisory Board, hosted the event.
Competition was divided into three flights.
Winning the A Flight was the Kansas Walnut foursome, Tim and Tom Stinnett, Chad Bruner and Rhett Smith from Iola and LaHarpe. Second went to Ash Grove Cement, with team members Trenton Zartman, Jessie Morris, Dustin Wehlage and Jessie Holtzman, from Humboldt and Chanute.
Ash Grove donated its cash prize back to CASA to further the program.
Winning first in B Flight was Community National Bank, with members Mike Waldman, Tom Strickler, Dan Leslie and Dave Cescon, all from Iola. Second went to Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, with team members Jeff and Cole Wheeler, Alex Krumm and Nate Audiss, from Chanute. 
In C Flight, the Porter Family Team #1 took first with members Nicolas, Brianne and Nathaniel Porter and Eric Bambick from Butler, Mo., Choctaw, Okla., and Fredonia. Earning second in the C flight was the Winans Team led by Gary Winans, with teammates Joel, Jordan and Christian Winans, from Buffalo, Tulsa and Sand Springs, Okla.
The tournament was sponsored by the Porter Family, Community National Bank, Steve Faulkner Ford and Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline. Gold Level Sponsors include Ash Grove Cement, Nelson Quarries, Hofer, Hofer & Associates, B & W Custom Trailer Hitches, Farm Bureau Financial and Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in addition to more than a dozen Silver and Bronze level sponsors and 17 Hole sponsorships.
