CFC Softball

Staff Sgt. Crystal Hardy tags out Col. Chris Nowland, 71st Flying Training Wing commander, at home plate in the bottom of the first inning of the Focus 5/6 Softball Challenge played Sept. 25 on base field No. 1. Junior enlisted took on senior leadership to raise money for the 2009 Vance Combined Federal Campaign. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Joe B. Wiles)

CFC Softball

Tech. Sgt. Richard White, 71st Communications Squadron, plants a pie on Chief Master Sgt. M. Kenui Balutski, the 71st Flying Training Wing command chief, following the Focus 5/6 Softball Challenge held Sept. 25 on ball field No. 1. The Focus 5/6 donated $650 raised during the pie-in-the-face event to “Friends of Vance Families,” a local Combined Federal Campaign organization. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Joe B. Wiles)

CFC Softball

Chief Master Sgt. M. Kenui Balutski, 71st Flying Training Wing command chief, takes a swing at the ball during the Focus 5/6 Softball Challenge held Sept. 25 on ball field No. 1. Junior enlisted took on senior leadership to raise money for the 2009 Vance Combined Federal Campaign. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Joe B. Wiles)

Softball challenge raises money for CFC

Published Sept. 28, 2009
By Joe B. Wiles
71st Flying Training Wing Public Affairs

VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- The team of Vance junior enlisted beat the senior leadership team, 9 to 5, during the Focus 5/6 Softball Challenge, Sept. 25, which raised $650 for the "Friends of Vance Families," a local Combined Federal Campaign organization.

The Focus 5/6, a Vance service organization made up of staff and technical sergeants, raised money through refreshment sales and a pie-in-the-face auction immediately following the softball game.

"We had an excellent turn-out, great crowd participation and we raised more than $1,300," said Tech. Sgt. Nina Sellers, the Focus 5/6 president.

"Focus 5/6 will donate $650 to the Friends of Vance Families," she said, "a great way to kick off the 2009 CFC campaign."

Friends of Vance Families is a source of financial support for family programs conducted by the Airman & Family Readiness Center at Vance.

Spectators bid on pies to throw in the faces of the softball players. The highest bids were $300 for the pie thrown at Col. Chris Nowland, 71st Flying Training Wing commander, and $300 for the one that hit Staff Sgt. Omar Robinson, executive to the 71st FTW command chief.