KINGSTON – Nearly 120 golfers teed up for the Kingston-North Kitsap Rotary Club’s third annual “Swing for the Lights” charity golf challenge June 19 at White Horse Golf Club in Kingston.

The event, which included a barbecue catered by Mike’s Four Star BBQ in Kingston, raised more than $13,000 toward the installation of lights at the Kingston High School athletic fields. That money, coupled with the $3,800 raised last month at the Kingston Firehouse Theater’s grand opening gala as well as other fundraising events, puts KHS about $3,000 shy of the total amount needed for the lights project.

“We are already making plans for a special event in August to raise the remaining amount,” said Kingston-NK Rotary President-elect Skip Peters.

Aside from community fundraising efforts, remaining costs for the estimated $240,000 lights project will come from state matching funds and a pot of “non-obligated funds” previously meant for various projects needed at KHS.

The golf challenge drew 118 golfers, 30 more than the number attending last year’s event. In addition to contributing to the stadium lights fund and enjoying a day on the links, one lucky group of golfers got to play with former Seattle Seahawks running back Randall Morris, who now resides in Seattle.

“I think everybody had fun,” said event organizer and Rotarian Clint Boxman. “It was a good time.”

The winning foursome was comprised of North Kitsap School District Superintendent Rick Jones, Shelley Jones, Bob Dannenhold and NK School Board director Ed Strickland. The winners of the longest drive contest on hole 16 were Chad Sullivan and Judy Partyke. Hole nine longest drive winners were Roy Swift and recent NK High School grad Megan Mitchell. Winners of the closest to the pin challenge were Jason Till, Cheri Greene and Scott Montagne.

Major sponsors of the golf challenge include Pacific Eye Care, WalMart, Kingston Thriftway, Hill Moving and Storage, the Seattle Seahawks, Edward Jones Investments, S&J Graphics and the Wetter Family Foundation.