Smoke Signals, Monday, February 26, 1979 — Page 3
Rams Upset Braves
In Tourney Opener
By HARRY PICKETT
LOUISBURG — Doomed by
freethrow shooting, no intensity and
lack of execution, Chowan College fell
to last place SouUieastern Community
College in the first round of Eastern
Tarheel Conference Tournament
basketball play last Tuesday night,
66-63.
The Braves entering the tournament
as odds-on favorites after capturing the
regular season crown, failed for the se
cond straight season of taking the four-
team tournament after posting unmar
red 8-0 league records.
The Braves, who shot a mediocre 45
percent from the floor, compared to
their opponents’ 54 percent, could never
get their offense moving. The Chowan
team displayed its poorest passing
game of the season, turning the ball
over to the Rams on numerous occa
sions.
The offense which averaged over 85
points per game, was unable to
penetrate the Ram zone, and an outside
shooting game was never established.
Brave head coach Jerry Smith felt that
neither team played that well. He said
that Southeastern just “wanted it
more.”
The Braves, who begin regional play
tomorrow night at Rocky Mount, Va.,
were tied with the Whiteville school at
13-all at the 12:11 mark of the first half.
Southeastern then ran off 17 points in a
little over five minutes, while Chowan
tacked on 6. The Rams held on to lead at
the half, 34-28.
Chowan was never behind by more
than eight points in the second stanza.
The Braves made a move at the lead
when center Randolph Bell chipped in a
pair of freethrows at the 9:K mark,
Robin Hoey knocked in a 15-footer and a
follow by William Hogues and a
technical foul shot by the Camden
sophomore, knotted the game at 49-all
with 8:38 left.
Burgers
After Coke
In China?
(CPS) — It didn’t take long to put two
and two together. Now that the Chinese
are abandoning tea in favor of Coca-
Cola, observers are just waiting for the
Chinese debut of — (and what else goes
better with Coke?) — burgers.
But the burger biggies are being
demure at this point. “McDonald’s has
no active interest in the People’s
Republic of China at this time,” a
McDonald’s spokesman told Advertis
ing Age recently. The chain’s sen
timents were echoed by spokeswoman
at Wendy’s International and Kentucky
Fried Chicken-Hublein.
Yet the industry journal surmises
that fast food chains are giving serious
thought to Chinese franchises, the most
determined candidate being Interna
tional Dairy Queen. Goaded by the suc
cess of its 125-some franchises in
Japan, Dairy Queen was getting ready
to break ground in Taiwan when Presi
dent Carter announced the U.S.’ new
relationship with mainland China. Now
Michael Quinn, Dairy Queen’s
operating manager for the Western
hemisphere, is unsure that the
Taiwanese franchise will proceed as
planned. Quinn said, though, that Dairy
Queen still plans to go into Hong Kong
this spring.
After the technical foul shot, Bogues
put his team ahead with a driving move
to the basket with 7:59 left, leaving the
score at 51-49, Chowan’s way. This was
Chowan’s first lead since the 12:53
mark of the first half.
Both teams’ trading of baskets the
next seven minutes, enabled the game
to be knotted four times. A layup by
Bogues put the game at 63-63 with a lit
tle less than a minute to go.
After a missed Ram shot, the Braves
had the ball with less than 40 seconds
remaining and went into a stall. But a
stolen pass by Rams’ Jeff Morrissey
ruined it all. Morrissey was fouled with
12 seconds remaining — knocked in the
first end of the one-and-one — missed
the second try, but teammate Charles
Webb rebounded the missed shot and
was fouled.
Webb tacked on the first end of the
one-and-one, but he missed the second.
Chowan rebounded and called time out.
After the time out with six seconds re
maining, the Braves once again got er
ratic and Webb plucked them again.
Webb sank the first of another one-
and-one with two seconds left to clinch a
three-point lead and victory.
Bogues led all scorers with 20 points,
followed by teammates Hoey and Greg
Dawson with 15. Webb scored 15 for
Southeastern.
The Braves are now 21-6 on the
season, while the Rams jumped to 7-14.
Porter Leads
Lenoir Win
Sophomore guard Allen Porter is
perhaps the most unheralded of all the
starters on the Chowan College basket
ball team. But given the opportunity,
the 6-foot-4 Tarboro native can be the
noisiest.
He made 12 of 16 shots, scored 26
points and passed out three assits while
leading the Braves to a 99-86 victory
over Lenoir Community College in an
Eastern Tarheel Conference meeting
February 10.
Smith said that he was very much
pleased to see Porter come out of a
slump, which has existed since the
Christmas break. But Porter wasn’t the
only Brave making noise on the court
Saturday. Six-foot forward William
Bogues contributed 18 points and 12 re
bounds. Teammate Greg Dawson
pumped in 12 points and snared 6
boards.
Smith said that his team wasn’t as ag
gressive as he would have liked them to
be, but added, “It was a good win.”
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LADY BRAVES OF 1978-1979 — This year's edition of the Lady Braves, who
have been showing steady improvement as the season progresses, are
(from left) Queenie Torrence, Donna Hudson, Mary Jane Parrish,
Robin Hoey, a clutch performer all year, nets a soft jumper in the over
time defeat of Ferrum. Photo by Tim Walker
Overtime
Lift Edges
Ferrum
Lewis (Chic) Williams scored five of
his game-total seven points in overtime
to pace Chowan to a 89-83 home victory
over Ferrum College February 12.
The Braves overwhelmed Ferrum in
the first half, running up a 17-point lead
and holding a 13-point margin, 53-40, at
intermission.
That the Braves had all their arrows
on target was clear when the first five
baskets in their opening 12-2 surge were
scored by five different players.
The second half began on a spec
tacular note when Bames took a pass
near the top of the key pivoted, took one
step and dribble before unleashing an
awesome stuff which brought the crowd
on its feet yelling.
But that was to be the only Brave
score during a brief dry spell while
what appered to be an unsurmountable
lead slowly melted.
With 10 minutes left, Chowan’s lead
was whittled to five. TTien at 7:24, the
Panthers caught the Braves at 72-72 on
a jumper by forward Mickey Hardy,
who led all scorers with 39 points.
Ferrum missed a free ttoow and two
shots and Chowan three shots before
Hardy sank another basket to put the
Panthers on top for the first time, 74-72.
At 4:40, Ferrum held its largest lead,
76-73, with one exception, all of the re
maining points in regulation were
scored on free throws as both teams
played cautiously. At 1:27, Chowan tied
Ferrum at 78-78 on Ron Williams’ chari
ty toss. He missed the go-ahead but
William Bogues grabbed the rebound
and Chowan froze the ball until calling
a timeout with 32 seconds left.
This set the stage for clutch shooting
by both teams. After play resumed,
Ron Williams was foul^ with 13
seconds left and sank both free throws.
Ferrum brought the ball across court
and called a timeout. Then, with ten
seconds left. Hardy broke free for the
inbounds pass and swished a 20-footer
from the side to knot the score at 80 all.
Chowan was unable to produce a
score over the final six seconds and the
ball was slapped from Greg Dawson’s
hand as he attempted a short jumper
with time running out.
Chowan controlled the tip to start
overtime and Lewis Williams’ jumper
put the Braves ahead for good, 82-80.
After Ferrum scored a free throw,
Chowan froze the ball for three minutes
until Williams missed a driving layup
with Ferrum snaring the rebound.
Hardy broke for the basket and took a
long pass, but was fouled to the floor on
his layup attempt.
But Femim’s ace lost his touch. As
Chowan’s fans and cheerleaders “rais
ed the roof,” Hardy missed the shots
that would have put Ferrum out in
front. Chowan increased its lead to 87-81
on a basket by Robin Hoey and a pair of
free throws by Bogues and one by Lewis
Williams. After Hardy scored for the
Panthers on a layup, Williams tossed in
two final free throws for Chowan’s 89-83
win.
Bogues led Chowan with 23 points.
Allen Porter, Hoey and Ron Williams
each added 14. Dawson had 12 for the
night, followed by Lewis Williams’
seven, William Bames’ four and Ran
dolph Bell’s single point.
Bell was unveiled by Coach Jerry
Smith in an unusual role during the long
freeze in the overtime — the middle
man in a modified four comers
maneuver.
Instead of the familiar small guard
dribbling around at the the vortex, the
giant Bell remained much in one place
providing a ready target when any of
the smaller Braves might be comered
and forced to give up the ball. Bell then
calmly tossed it out to a free man and
the play started all over again.
'Twas Really Allen I
In the last issue of Smoke Signals,
Allen Porter was erroneously identified
as Ron Porter in a picture caption.
The error resulted from a Freudian
slip by the caption writer who momen
tarily confused the Braves guard with
another high-scoring, defensive ace
named Porter who played for a number
of NBA teams.
Braves
Clinch
ETC Title
By HARRY PICKETT
WILLARD — Chowan College clin
ched the Easterm Tarheel Conference
basketball championship here
February 10 with a 78-67 victory over
last place Southeastem Community
College of Whiteville.
The victory gives the Braves its se
cond straight ETC championship, and
only the second basketball champion
ship in the school’s history.
In clinching its second regular season
title, the Braves had to hold off a
talented Southeastern team, who were
armed with plenty of out-side shooting
artillery. After leading 4^34 at inter
mission, the Rams outscored Chowan
17-10 in the first 11 minutes of the se
cond half to pull within seven, 58-51.
Coach Jerry Smith thought his team
lost its composure during the 11-
minute lapse. He said that the Braves’
“lack of patience in the second half”
almost cost them.
The Braves were able to go up by
eleven with a feed from William Bogues
to Allen Porter with 9:45 remaining,
and then two back-to-back baskets by
Bogues to send his team soaring, 64-53.
The six-foot, all-conference forward
led all scorers with 29 points and snared
10 rebounds in guiding his team to the
win. Bogues was able to penetrate the
Ram zone and score on above-the-hoop
layups to stagger the southeastem
assault.
“Bogues plays hard,” Smith said of
his leaping sophomore from Camden.
“He’s a pressure player. When we have
to have a big basket, who gets it? When
we have to have a rebound, who gets
it?”
Bogues!
Bogues and all-ETC teanmiate
Ronald Williams both concede that this
Brave team is much better than last
year’s club which faltered after captur
ing the regular season title, falling prey
to Lenoir Community college in the first
game of ETC tournament play. “We
think we can go further than we did last
season,” Bogues observed.
BRAVE NOTES — Chowan College’s
girls team edged Southeastem’s Lady
Rams in a game prior to the men’s var
sity contest. Coach Roy Winslow’s team
was led by Anita Durham’s ll-for-ll
freethrow shooting and 23 points.
Wilhelmenla Wilson, Laura Brailsford
and Mary Reilly each netted 10. Dale
Nealy was high for Southeastem, pour
ing in 20 points.
Blame the Snow
Some stories which should have
apperaed in this issue of Smoke Signals
are not here.
Some reporters were snowbound at
home or elsewhere and did not retum to
campus in time to meet the deadline
with stories they had been assigned.
SGA Elections
February 28
Georgia Ross, Deborah Brown, Mary Reilly, Gale Batts, Anita Durham,
Laura Brailsford, Sandra Brown, Wilhemina Wilson and Coach Roy
Winslow. Photo by Paul Kelly
Brailford, Wilson Hot
In Close Mt. Olive Loss
By KATHY FISHER
A strong comeback in the last thirty
seconds of play still ended in a 76-78
defeat for Chowan’s women basketball
team by Mt. Olive College February 14.
Mount Olive started the game off by
scoring the first two baskets. Chowan
made a comeback, and after seven
minutes of play led by eight points. This
was to be the biggest lead the Lady
Braves would have. The lead changed
hands four times, but by the end of the
first half, Mt. Olive led by a score of
3M4.
During the entire second half,
Chowan could not obtain the lead. At
one point Mt. Olive built up an eight-
point spread. Chowan made one last at
tempt with thirty seconds to play mak
ing the final score 76-78.
Laura Brailsford led the scoring by
netting 20 points. She was followed by
Wilhemina Wilson with 12 points, and
Anita Durham and Mary Reilly, who
each netted 10 points. Also scoring were
Queenie Torrence with 9 points, Gale
Batts with 7 points, Georgia Ross with 6
points, and Deborah Brown, 2 points
Mf. Olive Falls;
Slate Kept Clean
By HARRY PICKETT
Jerry Smith got his wish.
Coach Smith got his wish and a whole
lot more Wednesday, January 14 after
his Chowan College Braves thrashed se
cond place Mt. Olive College 122-88 here
in an Eastern Tarheel Conference
basketball meeting.
Smith, seeking his 20th victory and
second straight unmarred ETC regular
season conference championship, saw
his team chalk up 82 second half points
and literally blow the Duplin County
school out of the Chowan gymnasium.
At the intermission, the Braves were
up by only two points, 40-38, and Smith
said he had his doubts because of his
team’s lackluster first half showing. “I
told them (players) to get 59.” Smith
said he thought that the 59 would be
enough to hold off the Trojan club.
With the triumph, the Braves pulled
to 2(W overall and 8-0 in ETC play. Mt
Olive fell to 16-7 and 5-3.
The Braves, who were cheered on by
a standing-room-only crowd and Coach
Jim Garrison’s football squad which
was stationed behind the Mt. Olive
bench, shot 62 percent from the floor,
one of the team’s finest output of the
season. “If you shoot 62 percent from
the floor, you’re going to win a lot of
ball games,” Smith declared.
“Our zone press was as pretty as it’s
ever been. When we play well, there’s
not a ball club that can touch us,” he ad
ded.
Smith’s zone trap caused the Mt.
Olive five a lot of grief in the second
half, coupled with five straight baskets
which enabled the Braves to go up by 12
at 50-38, and then up by 16, 56-40, when
William Bogues, who was the game’s
high scorer, connected on a follow with
16:51 remaining.
The Chowan sophomores, playing
their last home game of their careers,
went out in grand fashion. Following
Bogues’ 25 points and 10 rebounds was
Robin Hoey’s 22 points. Greg Dawson
added 19, Ronald Williams 9, Allen
Porter 8, Lewis Williams 7, and despite
a scoreless effort, mostly due to a
sprained ankle, 6-7 center Randolph
Bell contributed greatly to the victory.
“I thought all the sophomores played
extremely well,” Smift reflected.
At the 5:51 mark, Lewis “Chic”
Williams nailed a 20-footer from the left
comer, running up the score to 100-70.
Twenty seconds later Smith went to his
bench, inserting what looked to be an
edition of next year’s club: freshmen
Mark Murdock, Haywood Evans, Jean
Williams, Brien Armstrong and Ricky
Lewis. Smith said of his freshman
troop, “They didn’t look bad.”
BRAVE NOTES — A trip to Hutchin
son, Kansas for the national junior col
lege tournament is on the lips of most of
the Chowan players . .. Coach Jerry
Smith thinks he has the tabs on a few
hot-shot high school basketball recruits
who will fill the spaces of the departed
sophomores . .. For the second season,
William Bogues has led the Chowan
College basketball team in both scoring
and rebounding.
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