30 • Spurs & Feathers
August 27, 2014
Upcoming Events: Gamecock Club Colleton County Happy Hour When: Tuesday, Aug. 26; 5 p.m. Where: Fat Jacks Grillin’ & Chillin’, 309 Ivanhoe Rd., Walterboro, S.C. Welcome all Gamecocks for Happy Hour! Bring the kids! RSVP to Lori 843-909-1919 or laribellbeard@gmail. com. NYC Gamecocks Game Watching Party When: Every time the Gamecocks play football this season Where: The NYC Gamecock Club home, The Mason Jar, at the intersection of 30th St. and Park Ave. Come out and enjoy Gamecock Football with the best NYC Gamecock fans you will ever meet. Enjoy drink specials, giveaway items, cool raffle items, great food and dozens of TV’s with only Gamecock Football! Wear your game day gear, take a photo with our inflatable Cocky mascot and be proud to be a Gamecock in NYC! If you are not at Williams-Brice, you want to be here! 21st Annual Border Bash When: Friday, September 12, 2014; 4 p.m. Where: Augusta Common Tickets are $10 Advance/$15 at Gate – Kids 12 & Under are free. Available Friday, July 25 at BorderBash.net. Performances by: Kristian Bush of Sugarland and the Joe Stevenson Band. As always the University of South Carolina and University of Georgia cheerleaders as well as mascots Hairy Dawg and Cocky will be on hand throughout the evening performing and taking pictures with fans. All of this plus great vendors, food, drinks and fun games make Border Bash the place to be with your family and friends on Friday, September 12. Nashville Gamecock Club Vanderbilt Weekend When: Sept. 19-20 Friday, Sept. 19 from 7 p.m.-11 p.m.: Vandy Game Pre-Party at Tin Roof Demonbreun with Musical Guest Ricky Young. Local South Carolina Alum and diehard Gamecock Ricky Young will be
headlining. They have a lot of drink and food specials set up as well, including from 7-10 p.m. $5 Chick Dilla, $5 build you own Nachos, $40 Crowd Control (bucket of Wings/Nacho combo) and from 7-11 p.m. $2 domestic drafts, $3 craft drafts and $6 Gamecock shot. Please feel free to stop by, where you will be given a wrist band so that you can enjoy the specials and the evening.
Cherokee County Kickoff features special guests
by mike kucharski mike@spursandfeathers.com
The Cherokee County Gamecock Club had a successful fall banquet featuring some special guests in Gamecock Athletics Director Ray Tanner and Gamecock great Jeff Grantz. “It was a great time. We had about 140 people come out. Of course we had Ray TanSaturday, Sept. 20, All Day: Vandy ner, Jeff Grantz, Cocky and the cheerleaders,” Game Tailgate at Jed’s off West End. chapter president Mike Phillips said. “Last They will have music, tents, and all year we had (men’s basketball head coach) sorts of other events set up in the lawn Frank Martin and George Rogers, so now outside. You ARE allowed to bring your we’re trying to bring a former player every cooler to this event, but you cannot take year.” alcohol that you bring outside the fenced Phillips said that he met Grantz at a hotel in Orlando, Fla. before last year’s Capital One in area or inside Jed’s. You are also Bowl victory by South Carolina over Wisallowed to purchase drinks from Jed’s, consin. He said Grantz was very gracious in but you cannot take them outside to the accepting an invitation to speak at the kickoff tailgate area. party and “he said that he was glad to come and acted like he had a good time too.” Jacksonville Gamecock Club Florida Phillips said that the chapter also took the opportunity to make donations to the AthletWeekend ics Department to help with upgrades. When: Nov. 14-15 “We donated $5,000 to the basketball program for the graphics package they’re going The Jacksonville Gamecock Club to do in the tunnel and we donated $2,000 to invites all Carolina fans to Jacksonville the Williams-Brice Stadium Block C project,” to prepare to beat the Gators again! Phillips noted. “We asked Patrick McFarland November 14 & 15, 2014. Reserve your where the money was needed if they’ve got bus tickets and party tickets now! Friday new projects they’re taking on … we put the night party starting at 7 p.m. at Jackson- $5,000 to basketball because he said that was ville Marriott @ Southpoint; cost is $20 something coach Martin really wanted going per person with The Sensational Epics performing. by mike kucharski Game day bus ride on Nov. 15 five hours mike@spursandfeathers.com prior to kickoff; leaving from JacksonThe Georgetown County Gamecock Club ville Marriott @ Southpoint with a coast held its Fall Kickoff Meeting in early August of $40 per person, does not include with a strong turnout and plenty of excitement. ticket to game. “Everything turned out very well for us. We of course had Patrick McFarland in attendance Hotel accommodations at Jacksonville as well as guest speaker Andy Demetra,” chapMarriott @ Southpoint, Gamecock Club ter president Wayne Morris said. “We had a full house and everyone was very excited. rate $79/night. (904) 296-2222. Make “Andy did a great job as well as Patrick and checks payable to Jacksonville Gamethe overall excitement level is really, really high cock Club, 2948 3rd Street South #328, for our group down in Georgetown county. Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250-5847. We’ve got a pretty big contingent heading up to Please include email for confirmation. that Thursday night game against Texas A&M and we’re really looking forward to it,” Morris Any questions call: Belk Ingram: (904) continued. Morris said that about two-thirds of the about 254-5969, bingram@pbclubrealty.com; 60 people in attendance said they were headed Rod Brace (904) 755-4041, rrbrace@ to the opener when asked by Demetra during gmail.com; Dane Hall (904) 591-4877, the kickoff. He continued to compliment Demedhall88@comcast.net; Rick Williamson tra on his performance as the guest speaker for (904) 699-7952, rwilliamson1301@ the event as well. yahoo.com “Andy is a wealth of information when comes
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Pictured (l-r) at the Cherokee County Kickoff are Mike Phillips, Jeff Grantz, Kathy Baines, Tony Lipscomb and Ray Tanner. from the dressing room to the court. He said it was big for recruits, so we just wanted to use our money where it’s needed.” Phillips also noted the chapter made a $1,000 donation to the Gamecock softball team recently as the chapter’s adopted team and made a trip down for a game last season as a club. He also said their recent chapter golf tournament was a good fundraiser including 48 hole sponsors and a big enough turnout that they had to bring in extra golf carts. The excitement level was high during the event and going forward leading into the football season for Phillips and all the local Gamecock fans. “Steve Spurrier has really set the bar high, so naturally everybody is excited with the way they’re winning. It’s almost gotten where it’s expected now,” Phillips commented. “We’re looking forward to the season and we’re just counting down the days until kickoff here.”
Georgetown holds Fall Meeting
to anything South Carolina, whether it be obviously basketball and baseball or anything. He had an awful lot of information and facts about the football team that he shared with us and had some interesting numbers to share with us. He has a pretty good pulse of the team and what’s going on when some of our group asked him questions about practice and what’s going on with different players and everything … he did a super, super job,” Morris expounded. “He’s an encyclopedia of facts about South Carolina, that’s for sure.” Morris also noted how nice it was for the chapter to have McFarland at the event to fill in the Gamecock Club members on the facilities upgrades that come from their donations. He added that the group is excited to see the updates that will come around campus and at Williams-Brice Stadium. “I think we’ve got an excellent chance to have a good season and that just raises the excitement level for all of us around here. The kickoff event just kind of gets us ready to go and we’re really looking forward to that kickoff on the 28th,” Morris said.