Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Fishermen owe lives to alert gardener

Because a friend had to work, Marlene Goll wasn’t on the golf course early Friday. Instead, she was puttering around her back yard and likely saved the lives of three fishermen.
“I was doing some transplanting in my yard, and I saw three men in an older fishing type boat going south,” she said. “They looked like they were having a hard time because the waves were quite large and there were white caps.”
Charles Sacra, 69, Leonard Bracher, 65, both of Owensboro, and Garry Wade, 65, of Pensacola, Fla., were rescued after the waves swamped their boat, about 9:15 a.m.
Goll said the fishermen went about 70 yards and their boat sank. “I saw it go up and then it went down,” she said.
The high winds and waves had swamped the small boat dumping the men into the water.
“I saw they were hanging onto the boat, and I ran to the house and called 911 and told the dispatcher the circumstances,” she said.
Goll then called her husband, Dick, and plumber Raymond Dawes who were working near the street in front of the house.
Daniel Richardson, conservation officer with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife who investigated the incident, said the men were not injured. They were staying at Hurricane Creek Campground, and were on their way back to the boat ramp, Richardson said.
The Golls live in Cannon Hills South Subdivision on Lake Barkley where the main channel of the Cumberland River hugs the rocky shoreline. Their back yard slopes down to the limestone boulders along the bank. She estimated the water is at least 50 feet deep there.
Dick Goll said he and Dawes heard his wife hollering. “She said there was a capsized boat out there full of fishermen and to come in a hurry, and that’s what we did,” he said. “We saw the overturned boat and the rough water — it was awful rough out there. The waves out there were probably three or four feet high, steady swells. Every so often, a big one came along, and I imagine that’s what they caught.
“They were clinging to the boat when we got there,” Dick Goll said.

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Crittenden County proved little threat to Lyon County’s district streak the Lee S. Jones Park May 1. The Lady Lyons picked up a 13-2 win in five innings and moved their spotless district win streak to seven.
Lyon picked up five runs in the bottom of the opening inning to take an early 5-1 lead. Lindsey Bridges doubled to bring in Hayley Parrent and Katie Gray. Brittany Doom drove in a pair of runs and Auburn Sutton capped the run with a double to bring Doom home.
The Lady Rockets scored their second and final run in the top of the second inning and kept the contest close until the fourth inning.
Doom singled to lead-off the inning, followed by singled from Sutton and Aubrey Riggs. Sutton showed her base running skills on Riggs’ hit, leaping over an infielder scrambling for the hit.
With the bases loaded, Gray singled, bringing Doom home. Parrent doubled for two more runs. Brittany Brown batted in Gray for a 9-2 lead. Parrent took advantage of a catcher error to cross the plate with Lindsey Bridges batting. On the next pitch, Bridges hit the fence to bring Brown in. Jaylyn Guess doubled, followed by another hit by Doom for the 13-2 lead.
Crittenden was silent in the top of the fifth as Lyon County took the win.
Sarah White picked up the win on the mound, giving up just three hits.

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