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ii" SMOKE SIGNALS, October 1989 — Page 3 CHOWAN SPORTS Wrestling Braves Are Ready f PHOTO BY KEN TRAINO 1 action. The Chowan Wrestling Team finish ed the 1988-1989 season as the 11th best junior college team in the coun try. The Braves, led by Coach Jody Taylor, did it the old-fashion way, they earned their ranking in the NJCAA National Tournament in Chicago, Illinois. Heavy weight freshman Melvin Crosby became the second highest finisher in Chowan history when he became a national runner up in Chicago. Crosby has returned for the 1989-1990 season as a starter. Chowan finished the regular season at 12-4, ranked 17th, but the experts were surprised by Taylor’s team in Chicago. In two years at Chowan, the Braves, under Taylor, have a combin ed 25-6-1 record in dual matches. Chowan has had 4 Mid-Atlantic Champions, 9 National qualifiers, a national runner-up, 4 Academic All- Americans, 3 All-Americans and an 11th place ranking. the Braves in crowd watches An excited home Heading down the field, as the Braves make an offensive comeback. -.ti- ,.,r -r PHOTO BY KEN TRAWO By Ken Traino With seven returning sophomores, the Braves volleyball team has a strong season ahead of themselves. Finishing last year with a record of 25-18, the team hopes to better themselves this season. The team last year finished 5th in the Catensville Invitational Tourna ment and 3rd in the Regional Tourna ment. In the early demonstration matches and the scrimages the girls were hav ing difficulty in handling, having long spikes, and had many “unforced er rors” according to coach Collins. As the girls play more and more together they are learning to play more as a team—a well oiled machine with all the parts running together, you might say. Collins hopes to better last year’s record and to be the best defense team in the region. Winning the regional tournament is on the list too, but is not a number one priority. The team does not really have any one outstanding player, but has a lot of very good players who are willing to give the 100% needed for any sport. The freshmen of the team need to mature quickly to handle the matches on a college level. The leadership of the sophomores will play an important role in shaping the skills on the younger players. Collins is very pleas ed with the team’s efforts so far. With a twelve member team, Collins has a lot on her hands—from training to wat ching tapes of her team in action. The team does wish that the entire student body will support them at each and every home game throughout the season. - f . 4 P^♦^TO BY SCOTT FONES Chowan scores another TD! The first of the season. It’s Not Over ’til It’s Over’ Top row starting from left to right: Dana Self, Julie Jordan, Sue Straw, Nichole Derkacz, Tammy Brown, Sue Taylor, Fonda Lyons, Theresa Salley, Coach Janet Collins.Front row starting from left to right: San Richardson, Cathy Spindler, Catrina Williams, Chris Carson, Jennifer Towell, Lisa Bunce. Braves Volleyballers Aim for the Top By Alan Goldberg Veteran Head Coach Jim Garrison led his Braves onto the field, named in his honor, this past Saturday as he began his 32nd season as the Chowan Braves kicked off their 1989 Football season against former NFL All-Pro Quarterback Norman Snead’s Ship builders from Newport News Appren tice School. Newport News received the kickoff and was unable to move the ball punting to the braves. Chowan’s offense, led by sophomore Jimmy Shropshire, started their first series from their own 39 yard line, cool under fire Shropshire led" the Braves on a 7 play 61 yard drive culminating in a 39 yard touchdown pass to, sophomore wide receiver, Darrell Boulware at the 11 ;31 mark of the first quarter for the first touchdown of the 1989 season. The extra point was no good. Kicking to the Shipbuilders, the Brave’s untested defense stopped Newport News on their series getting the ball back for the fired up offense in good field position at the 35 yard line of Newport News. It didn’t take long to get back on the scoreboard as Shropshire once again hooked up with Boulware for a ten yard strike, point after by Chuck Komegay made it 13-0 in favor of the Braves. After kicking off to Newport News they began their sustained drive of the game behind quarterback David Riddle who ended the day scorching the air waves com pleting fifteen of thirty-one passes for 206 yards. The Shipbuilders had to settle for a 40 yard field goal by Jeremy Call to make the score 13-3 at the end of the first quarter. The second quarter was the debut of sophomore tailback Eric Bates, from Fredricksburg,VA., who picked 177 yards on 15 carries for the day, one of which was an electrifying 82 yard touchdown run with 9:37 remaining on the half. The point after, by Komegay, was good making the score 20-3. Newport News, however, came right back with a sustained drive en ding on a quarterback keeper by Rid dle of 2 yards, the point after was no good with the half-time score 20-9 in favor of the Braves. The second half proved to be another story as Gar rison’s young tested team committed 8 turnovers as Newport News regained their momentum to score 9 unanswered points to cut the margin to only 2 points at the end of the third quarter. The old axiom, “it ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” came to pass in the fourth quarter as Chowan’s offense sput tered, however, Newport News could do no better until, with 1 ;01 to go into the game, aided by a personal foul against the Braves, the Shipbuilders’ Call who had kicked two previous field goals of 40 yards a piece split the uprights from 25 yards out as Newport News took their first lead of the day 21 to 20. The Braves were not to be un done as quarterback Shropshire, who had an excellent afternoon completing 6-10 passes for 120 yards and three touchdowns, hooked up with Malcolm Hart from 51 yards out for the game, winners with only 9 seconds left on the clock to bring the Braves back in classic fashion. The Braves offensive ly had big numbers for the day amass ing 332 total yards but turnovers in the second half kept Newport News in the game with the opportunity to win ex cept for the fourth quarter heroics of Shropshire. Defensively, Chowan was the fourth leading team against the rush national ly last year. Despite graduating ten from last year’s starting lineup the Brave^ served, notice that ihe^,would be a force again this year as they held Newport News to only 41 yards on the ground, led by sophomore Spencer Carter, with 6 tackles and 2 quarter back sacks and Tyrone McGlothen with 7 solo tackles. Newport News had to go the air-waves the majority of the afternoon gaining 206 of their total 247 yards. It wasn’t pretty to watch but I’ve been in this buisness long enough to know that despite our tur novers our team had enough poise to make the big play when it counted the most,” according to Head Coach Gar rison who picked up his 172 career victory before a very happy and reliev ed home game.^crovtd as tliey fexit^ James G. Garrison Stadium. Support Your Team DATE Oct 7 OcL 14 Oct. 28 Nov. 4 Nov. 11 DATE Oct. 1 1989 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE OPPONENT Fork Union Millitary Academy (Parents Day) Potomac Stale College Nassau Community College (Homecoming-Hall of Fame) Montgomery Community College (Most Inspiring Teacher Day) North Greenville College (Greer High School Stadium) 1989 FALL GOLF SCHEDULE PLACE TIME Home 2:(X) p.m. Away 1:30 p.m. Home 2:00 p.m. Home 1:30 p.m. Away 1:30 p.m. OPPONENT Ferrum Invitational Oct. 2 Ferrum Invitational Oct. 3 Ferrum Invitational Oct. 6 Newport fJews Apprentice School Oct. 16 Louisburg-Chowan Invitational PLACE Old Mill Golf Country Club, Carroll Co.. VA Old Mill Golf Country Club, Carroll Co., VA Old Mill Golf Country Club, Carroll Co., VA Sleepy Hole Golf Course Portsmouth, VA Wake Forest Country Club 1989 VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE DATE OPPONENT PLACE TIME Oct. \** Anderson College A.C. 12:00 p.m. Oct. 4 Norfork Slate University Opponent NSC 6:00 p.m. Oct. 7 Catonsville Community College Invitational Tournament *CCC 9:00 p.m. Oct. 11 Elizabeth City State University ECSU 8:00 p.m. OcL 14 Charles County Comm. College Invitational Tournament CCCC 9:00 a.m. Oct. 18 Meredith College Opponent M.C. 6:00 p.m. Oct. 20** Hagerstown Junior College Anderson College Home 6:00 p.m. Ocl21** Hagerstown Junior College Anderson College Home 9:00 a.m. Oct. 25 Hampton University Christopher Newport College Home 6:30 p.m. Oct. 27** Catonsville Community College Spartanburg Methodist College # Home 6:00 p.m. Oct. 28** Catonsville Community College Spartanburg Methodist College # Home 9:00 a.m. Nov. 3-4 NJCCA Regional X Tournament A.C. TBA Nov. 10-11 District Nine Tournament TBA TBA Nov. 20-22 National Volleyball Tournament Miami Dade South C.C. TBA * (Chowan plays at CCC) Miami, FL Parent's Day: Homecoming: # Conference Match; •* * nMm
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