By JESSE LAMAR
General Manager
GUIN - The Marion County Lady Red Raiders are the Class 1A, Area 12 champions and have punched their ticket to the next round of the postseason after defeating the Lady Bears of Lynn High School in a shutout 15-0 victory.
The Lady Raiders started the tournament with a first-round bye after finishing the regular season as the top-seeded team.
The Lady Raiders competed against Lynn in their first game of the tournament, winning 14-4.
Winfield – Leonard Key, who will turn 94 on March 10, served two years in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Key was stationed in the South West Pacific theatre during World War II, being posted in countries such as the Philippines, New Guinea and Guadalcanal.
Key is the son of Chester and Texaner (Norris) Key, who raised their family on an 80-acre farm north of Brilliant, where they maintained peach and apple orchards. He was one of five children and he had two brothers—Lynu and Loyd—and two sisters—Modene Alexander and Dorothy Tucker (all deceased).
