Basketball in the Heartland
Saturday I had the distinct pleasure of traveling to the small town of Sully for a basketball scrimmage involving three area high school teams. Getting out of Des Moines and into the countryside was good for the soul. Driving mile after mile past green fields and immaculately cared for farms and acreages was just the prelude for entering the quaint central Iowa town a few miles south of Interstate 80. It’s pretty evident the residents of Sully have considerable community spirit as virtually every home along the main road are in ‘neat as a pin’ condition. And of course being a town in which Dutch ancestry predominates, the yards are uniformly pristine. They even have one of the original style Caseys, unlike the gigantic mega marts which other places have been forced to endure. The highlight of the trip, however, was walking into the gym of Lynnville-Sully High School. This little cracker box is the type of facility in which generations of farm kids and small town boys and girls...