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Aughenbaughs playing in Palau youth games
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Posted on Jul 18 2008
Saipan’s Aughenbaugh siblings—Elijah, Charity, and Kevin—are currently vacationing in their mother’s home island of Palau and while there, they are taking part in the country’s first-ever Belau 18 & Under Youth Games.
Their father, Keith, in an email to the Saipan Tribune said his two sons and daughter are representing Ngardmau State where their grandmother Mechelins’s family (Kumangai) is from.
Elijah Aughenbaugh, 16 year old, is currently playing shortstop and pitcher for the Ngardmau baseball team.
Eli, as he is fondly called, was the starting third baseman on the Senior League playoff champion Jets in the recently completed 2008 season of the Saipan Little League Baseball Association.
Through three games in Koror, Eli has gone 6-for-11 batting and pitched a complete five-inning game Wednesday evening against Aimeliik in a shortened 10-run rule victory, 12-2. He had eight strikeouts and was 4-for-4 at the plate in that game for Ngardmau.
Eighteen-year-old Charity, meanwhile, is playing for the Ngardmau girls volleyball team, which currently has a 2-3 win-loss record in the volleyball competition of the Belau 18 & Under Youth Games. Charity is a 2008 graduate of Marianas High School.
Last but certainly not the least, 13-year-old Kevin, an incoming eighth grader at Hopwood Junior High School, was to run the 800m event in the men’s track and field competition in Koror.
The first-ever Belau 18 & Under Youth Games kicked off with an opening ceremony held last July 14 at the Palau National Gymnasium.
All six states were in attendance along with Palau National Olympic Committee board members, several members of the participating states’ legislature and families, friends, and spectators.
Teams representing the states of Ngardmau, Anguar, Pelilieu, Aimeliik, Ngwail, and Sonsorol are participating in the weeklong event in track and field, baseball, volleyball, basketball, and paddling.
