On Saturday, the Fordyce community held its first Fordyce Strong Benefit Softball Tournament to help raise money for victims and survivors of last month’s mass shooting at the Mad Butcher grocery store.Ten people during the mass shooting on June 21st, and the first Fordyce Strong Benefit Softball Tournament provides relief the victims and their families. “This is well overdue for Fordyce. Especially in this town of Fordyce, I always heard that sports is a way of always bringing people together,” Tournament Director, Kevin Archer said. “Fordyce Strong means, I hate the tragedy had to happen, but even in the tragedy, there’s always purpose and good things that come out of the tragedy.”
The tournament brought together 23 co-ed teams and hundreds of supporters as the benefit surpassed the initial donation goal by raising over $20,000.
“We went through something. We went through something horrible but together as a community, we’re going to get back together and we’re going to be stronger than what we were before June 21,” Fordyce School District, Football Coach, Bobby Mcghee said.
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