Welsh tournament brings visitors to Lincoln over the weekend

 

[February 25, 2019] 

LINCOLN 

This past weekend Lincoln Junior High School hosted the annual John Welsh Memorial Trogan Tournament. While the junior high offers the organization and management of the tournament games take place in 10 locations around the city of Lincoln.

The tournament features basketball players starting in the third grade through the eighth grade with both boys and girls teams participating. Many of these teams are local, but there is also a healthy mix of teams coming from great distances.

This year 172 teams signed up for the weekend event that started on Saturday morning and concluded on Sunday evening.

According to information presented to the Logan County Tourism Bureau, each team brings into the city approximately 30 people from team members to family members, bus drivers, coaches and their families, as well as those who follow the tournaments and attend as fans. With each person comes an opportunity for the city to benefit through sales tax, hotel stays, and increased foot traffic through our area stores and restaurants.

Additionally, the money raised at the tournament through admission prices and concessions help the junior high and other organizations in the community.

[Nila Smith]