Naming the Team
By: Homer Dawson
If
it was up to you, what would you call the new baseball
team that's coming to town? Twenty two
thousand
children, from grade schools all across southeast Ohio,
got a chance to answer that question and help the Southern
Ohio team find its identity.
For
two weeks in late March and early April, suggestion forms
were delivered all across the region looking for suggestions
for the new team's name. The suggestions were wide and
varied. The Starz? The Bootleggers?
The Ocelots?
The Hotties??
After
all the suggestions were collected and then reviewed,
a winning name was found on seven entries: the Southern
Ohio Copperheads. The team held a drawing and selected
two winners. The two winning students are Daniel Gillespie,
of Athens Elementary and Lucas Rhyan of Albany Elementary.
For
winning the name the team contest, both Daniel and Rhyan
will receive four season tickets for themselves and their
families. The families of the boys received team t shirts.
In addition to the season tickets, the boys also will
get an authentic game jersey and will get to be a bat
boy for one Copperheads home game.
