Four Cheney Parks and Recreation Special Olympic basketball teams competed Jan. 26 at a regional tournament in Pullman, bringing home silver medals and ribbons. In their first year of competition the Team Skills group earned a silver medal. The Individual Team, competing in shooting, dribbling and passing, and the Unified Team – who played four games on Saturday – also both earned silver medals in their brackets. The Individual team also earned three ribbons while the All-Athlete Team, in their fifth year of competing, played two games Saturday and earned a fifth-place ribbon. Forty-four athletes, volunteers and chaperones traveled to the tournament.
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