MARCH 31, 2015
It is one thing to hit one half-court shot in the game of basketball.
Chad Stubblefield went one better, though, on Saturday. After finding nothing but air on his first attempt, he drained the next two shots during the Hoop-A-Thon event at Calloway County High School. Those two shots helped him become not only a hero of every weekend warrior who has ever played the game, but most importantly, of his daughter Morgan, who will get to drive the Dodge Dart he won from David Taylor Chrysler.
“I’ve got to admit, it was kind of surreal after I hit the second one,” said Chad, who represented a team from The Murray Bank during the tournament that raised about $1,500 for the Murray Need Line. Stubblefield got the chance to shoot after his name was selected during a drawing.
“After I hit the first one, I was feeling pretty good. “Hey, at least I hit one!’”Then when I hit the second one I see (13-year-old son Ellis) start jumping up and down. It was a great feeling.”
The main beneficiary of Chad’s skill – Morgan, 19, a student at Murray State University – along with her mother, Jennifer, were not present for the magic moment.
“I was helping Mom clean the house,” Morgan said, explaining that word of her dad’s accomplishment reached her and Jennifer before Chad and Ellis returned home.
“I had to wait until he got home, though. I wanted to see his face to see if it was real,” Morgan added. “Pretty soon, I realized it really had happened. We came (to Taylor Chrysler) that day. I couldn’t wait to see it.”
The black Dart will replace Morgan’s current vehicle that has logged 170,000 miles.
“It’s been a good month,” said Taylor, who had reason to celebrate another accomplishment Monday as earlier in the day his dealership satisfied its goal of selling 50 vehicles in the month of March, meaning a $10,000 donation to St. Jude Research Hospital of Memphis, Tennessee. “And we did it with a day to go. We’re just lucky to be in this community.”
Jennifer Stubblefield echoed that sentiment.
“This doesn’t happen,” she said of her husband’s accomplishment. “When you think about it, though, this is what Murray and Calloway County is about, to have someone like Mr. Taylor decide that this is something worthwhile. It’s just such a blessing to have people like this in our community.”
By John Wright
Murray Ledger & Times
