Russellville’s Dockins adds to medal haul at Special Olympics USA Games

Published 8:46 am Thursday, July 5, 2018

Russellville gymnast Lee Dockins added a pair of silver medals Wednesday to the all-around gold she won the day before at the Special Olympics USA Games in Seattle.

Dockins took silver in both the vault and balance beam events. Her vault score of 17.05 was .68 points behind Madeline Csont of New York. She went on to score a 16.78 on the beam, just .3 points shy of a gold medal in that event.

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Dockins has two more events Thursday – the floor exercise and the uneven bars. She will be featured with the five Kentucky gymnasts at the Games on Thursday’s ESPN2 USA Games recap show. They will air a feature Julie Foudy shot with the team in May and there will be an interview with Holly Rowe.

The Bowling Green-Russellville flag football team dropped its first game of the USA Games tournament Wednesday in the medal round. After dominating pool play, Kentucky was placed in a higher division, but was still competitive. They dropped a 14-6 heartbreaker to Iowa. Kentucky was to play Idaho, who it beat in its first game in Seattle on Thursday morning for the bronze medal.

Glasgow bowler Daniel Williams closed out his competition in these Games with a fourth-place finish in the team event. Williams teamed with Joseph Jarrell of Olive Hill, Michelle Barnes of Carrollton and Kelly Kunisch of Elizabethtown to bowl a combined 1,131 series, finishing just 73 pins behind the bronze medalists from Delaware and only 76 pins behind Mississippi, which took the silver.

On Tuesday, Williams teamed with Jarrell to claim the gold medal in their division of the doubles competition. Williams and Jarrell bowled a 637 combined series to take gold by more than 50 pins over Nathan Kemp and Kevin Bass of Northern California. Nathan Golden and Samuel Seifarth of Tennessee took bronze.

It was the first medal of the Games for both Williams and Jarrell, who placed fifth and fourth, respectively, in their singles division Monday.

Despite injuring her knee in practice Monday, Russellville’s Dockins took the all-around gold Tuesday in her artistic gymnastics division. Dockins posted a score of 66.25 to top the podium, finishing two points ahead of silver medalist Kellie O’Donnell of Illinois. Kentucky teammate Danielle Blakeney took the bronze. It is the first all-around gold medal for Dockins, who won the silver in both 2006 and 2014.

The Kentucky football team won its final pool play game 38-6 over Texas to finish pool play with a perfect 4-0 record.