A charity football challenge has raised more than £10,000. A team of former Dalbeattie Star players kicked off a series of seven-a-side games at 6pm on Friday evening that continued until the same time on Saturday.
The matches took place at the North West Community Campus in Dumfries, Queen of the South’s Palmerston Arena and Star’s Islecroft Stadium.
And, as well as raising money for Marie Curie and the British Heart Foundation, the game also paid tribute to club heroes Gary Holden, Jimmy Hannay and Frankie Styles.
And so far more than £12,000 has been raised - more than four times the original targetFormer Star manager, Ritchie Maxwell – who was part of the side – said: “The support we’ve received has been tremendous - from the three families, North West Community Campus, Queen of the South and Dalbeattie letting us use the facilities, the 26 teams that turned up so we had opposition, the sponsors of every hour and the raffle prizes.
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