{"id":33036,"date":"2024-12-19T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/?p=33036"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:07:35","slug":"65th-annual-lanierland-basketball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/65th-annual-lanierland-basketball-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"65th\u00a0Annual Lanierland Basketball Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"CjVfdc\"><strong><span class=\"C9DxTc \">65<\/span><span class=\"RijTuc C9DxTc \">th<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">\u00a0Annual Lanierland Basketball Tournament<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">In the 1950s in Hall County, football was the inclusive king. It was a time when local taxpayers were accustomed to supporting the football programs, and basketball, which at the time had been played for a little over a quarter century under the GHSA, took a major back seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">When Cecil William (C.W.) Davis, who starred as a basketball player at Piedmont College, moved to Hall County in 1953, he was welcomed by the assertion that taxpayers would not support the construction of gymnasiums in the county. Davis, who passed away on March 11 of 2017, founded the Lanierland Tournament in 1960 as a way for the programs in Hall County at the time \u2014 East Hall, Gainesville, North Hall, and South Hall \u2014 to compete in tournaments without having to endure extensive travel expenses. Davis, the principal at South Hall in 1960, was asked in a 2008 interview with the Gainesville Times how and why he came up with the idea for the tournament. He clarified, \u201cWe wanted to be able to share expenses and knew we could rotate the tournament from school to school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Six decades and more than one hundred championship games later, Lanierland is the longest-running invitational basketball tournament in the state of Georgia. The tournament\u2019s foundation remains the same, but the field size has grown over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">We look forward to celebrating the 65<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">th<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">\u00a0anniversary of Lanierland with our community, and we are grateful to our sponsor, Jackson EMC, for its support in helping to continue the tradition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/hallco.org\/lanierland-basketball-tourname\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.LanierlandFan.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/hallco.org\/lanierland-basketball-tourname\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33038 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"2634\" height=\"852\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2634px) 100vw, 2634px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner.png\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner.png 2634w, https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner-1030x333.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner-768x248.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner-1536x497.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner-2048x662.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner-1500x485.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.hallco.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024LLfanbanner-705x228.png 705w\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>65th\u00a0Annual Lanierland Basketball Tournament In the 1950s in Hall County, football was the inclusive king. 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