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SUGARCREEK TWP., Greene County — If you've wondered about those strange yellow-topped metal baskets that popped up behind Bellbrook Middle School this fall, you've seen the beginnings of the community's nine-hole disc golf (or Frisbee golf) course.

In disc golf, each hole consists of a tee and a basket, with players trying to get their Frisbee or disc from the tee into the basket in as few throws as possible. There are existing courses in Kettering, Miamisburg, Dayton, Englewood and Germantown.

The Sugarcreek course was created by the Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Partnerships for Success youth group, with assistance from the University of Dayton Ultimate Frisbee Club and funding from the Greene County Commissioners.

The course is a work in progress, with the baskets installed, but the concrete tee pads and the signs indicating hole numbers still to come.

Susan Lopez, who works with the Partnerships for Success group, said the goal is to have the course complete and open for play early in the spring. When completed, the course will be open to the public during non-school hours.

Lopez said former Bellbrook student and PfS member Tyler Claude-Pierre, now at Ohio University, had the idea for the course seven years ago and got money from the county commission to buy the equipment, but it took awhile for the project to go forward.

"It was supposed to go at the old middle school, then we had to wait, then they built the new middle school," Lopez said. "Finally, we got tired of waiting."

Bellbrook High School senior Jordan Ewing took over the project and designed the course, which goes across the wide-open, grassy area behind the school and around the two ball diamonds.

The holes were dug and poles put in place in October, then the PfS and UD students led a group installing the baskets Nov. 8.

Lopez said the Partnerships for Success group is student-led and extremely active, with teens helping organizations like the park district, running an annual coat drive and adopting a family during the Family Resource Center's Christmas Kindness Program.

"The youth do a really, really good job," she said.

For more on disc golf, visit www.daytondiscgolf.org.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2278 or

jkelley@daytondailynews.com.