CRAWFORDVILLE, Fl. (WTXL) - Since Liberty County head baseball coach Corey Crum and his wife were electrocuted and killed earlier this month, the Big Bend baseball community has reached out far and wide. Nearly three weeks later, the Bulldogs are back on the field but not without the support from others. Wakulla Christian is one of many teams to give back and with the Crum's son Chase in mind, the Saints were prepared to give.
"We had a double header scheduled, and I just threw it out there and said hey, why don't we just give all the proceeds and just give it, maybe towards a scholarship fund or something," said Saints head coach Bubba Dempsey. "We did not have any idea it was going to blow up like it did."
"That night I put on a text when you look on your notes, you'll see time and date at 11:18, I put down $25,000 dollars," said Donny Bennett, Wakulla County's director for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. "That's what I wrote down and when I wrote it, I was like yeah right, but I felt like God was on my heart and he put it down. I told Bubba something was going to happen. I don't know what it is, it is not on me, but God is going to do something, and he absolutely showed out."
That combined effort between the Saints and the Wakulla County Fellowship of Christian Athletes was all it took. $12,500 dollars raised, then matched through the pre-paid college fund and Chase's schooling was paid for.
"Wakulla Count, when something happens, they step up to the plate and do what they are supposed too, for their residents of Wakulla County," said Dempsey.
"This shows more than it was just a game," added Seth Dudley, a junior for the Saints. "It shows that all of these kids have character and heart and you know if something happens down the road, and we're all willing to give a helping hand to our neighbor. It was just, he was a big help in this community and we all loved him."
A love that will never go away,
