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Beep ball participants use senses to compete on level playing field
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William Miles, left, and Antonio Williams, right, congratulate fellow Columbus Midnight Stars hitter Adrene Tamplin on his point scored Saturday during the beep ball event at North Hall Community Center. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Teams of visually-impaired men and women, some completely blind, showed Saturday that a scoreboard doesn’t matter when it comes to their sport. All that mattered was taking the field and challenging themselves to do something some may think impossible: playing softball. For the first time, the Georgia Games introduced beep baseball (blind softball) into its pool of competition.