Ferriday — Huntington School will hold a basketball tournament Saturday afternoon, but this one won’t count toward the Hounds’ record.

These games will, however, matter a lot to someone who wants to go to Huntington.

The second annual “Dribbling for Sunshine” Macy Loomis Basketball Tournament will tip off at 10 a.m. at the Huntington School gym. Proceeds from the tournament go towards the Macy Loomis Scholarship Foundation, which awards full-tuition scholarships to current and prospective students.

The tournament consists of a 16-team, single-elimination bracket, and the winning team will receive gift certificates to La Fiesta Mexican Restaurant in Natchez.

“Last year we raised between $1,500 and $2,000,” said foundation secretary Tanja Maroon. “We don’t have any corporate sponsors, other than if a business wants to pay the $100 entry fee for a team.”

Spectator admission to the tournament is $3 per person, and there will be T-shirts and raffle tickets on sale, along with music and concessions.

The $10 raffle tickets are for a handmade cedar, LSU-themed ice chest.

The scholarship is in memory of Macy Loomis, a Huntington student who died in a car accident on June 14, 2007, two months before her 12th birthday.

“It’s an honor to be able to keep Macy’s name and her memory alive,” said Maroon, who was Macy’s aunt. “It’s not so much that Macy would be forgotten, but (it’s nice) just to have her name being heard on the radio and in the school. As time passes, names are not spoken as much because their life on earth has stopped. We don’t mention them as much.”

The scholarship covers the entire tuition for Huntington School, and Maroon said she hopes the scholarship will preserve the memory of Macy, who was chosen for the junior varsity cheerleading squad just before she died.

“She was very kind and very genuine,” Maroon said. “She loved Huntington, and she was one of the biggest fans there. She was jus tone of those kids that you see that really had that school spirit within them.

“Her personality was just so bubbly, and her smile was one of the biggest things that would be recognizable to those who knew her.”