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The West Montgomery Warriors, under
the direction of Coach Alan White, made
tremendous strides in track this season,
which was recently completed. After a
relatively slow start, the Indians thun
dered inpressively down the homestretch,
barely being edged by East Montgomery
before placing third in the conference
chan^jionship meet ahead of both East
Montgomery and Randleman, 8 1/2 points
off the winning pace* ,
West opened at home against Rohanan
with two meets, losing 53-33 and 48-38,
Traveling next to Randleman,the Warriors
absorbed their worst beating, 63-23,
Two triangular meets preceeded the East-
West encounter and the conference meet.
Against East Montgomery and Randleman,
West grabbed 23 1/2 points behind the
Eagles with 54 and the Tigers with 29
1/2. Against East and Siler City, the
Warriors fell way back of the pace gain
ing only 16 points to 48 1/2 for East
Montgomery, Here:the turning point loom-
od. In a night meet at West against the
Eagles, the Warriors captured 5 of 9
first places and held a 411/3 to 39 2/3
edge going into the last event. In the
mile relay, after one lap and trailing
only by steps, Rodney Brigmaq stuirfcled
and the Braves' hopes fell with him. East
emerged victorious by 3 1/3 points,44 2/3
to 41 1/3.
In the conference championship meet,
an outstanding individual performance by
versatile Frank Crunp carried West to a
third place, ahead of East Montgomery
and Randleman both of whom owned victor
ies over the Warriors, Rohanen won the
championship with 30 points, just ahead
of Siler City who had 27 1/2. Next came
West with 21 1/2, then East with 18 and
Randleman with 13,
Crunp, who was individual high scor
er for the meet, took two first places,
one second, and one fourth, gaining 14
pf West^s 21 1/2 points. His heave of
42 feet, 2 1/2 inches, a personal high,
led all shot putters and his leap of 18
leet, 4 inches led the broad juirpers, A
high juirp of 5 feet, 7 inches gained him
a second place and he ’ did the 220 yard
dash in 24,1 seconds for a fourth, Jim
Harris added 3 1/2 points to West's total
with a third place in the broad junp at'
17 feet, 2 3/4 inches and a split .for ,
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third in the high jump at 5 ft, 6 in. A
of 4:00.4 gave the mile relay quartet
of‘Rodney Brigman,Darrel ’Morris, Moon
Harris and Reggie Miller a third place.
Morris also ran fourth in the mile run
sporting a time of 5 minutes, 20 seconds
and Miller ran fourth in the 440 with
58.8 seconds.
I3ASEBALL
West Montgomery's baseball story
could well be summed up in a rearranged
version of a well- known phrase: from
riches to rags, to riches.
After two exhibition losses to Nor
wood, the Warriors scorched the league
with their hard, timely hitting and ex
cellent defense.Their efforts resulted
in* an uncontested first round conference
lead with wins over every other team in
the loop, a 400 record. After opening
with an 8-4 trouncing of the Eagles of
East Montgomery, the Braves marched to
successive triunphs over Rohanen, 6-0;
Siler City (Jordan-Matthews), 6-3; and
Randleman, 4-2,
As the second round of conference
activity began, the clock struck mid
night on this Cinderella story and for
tune apparently waved a fond farewell.
As consistently as the Warriors had won,
they lost. East Montgomery first blem
ished West's undefeated slate (5-3) and
before the season ended,Rohanen (14-8),
SiifiB City (5-3), and Randleman (5-7)
all owned victories over the luckless
Indians,
The playoffs came and with them a
sent)lance of the former spit and polish
of West's forces. The Warriors pur
chased their ticket to the conference
championship by brushing off Rohanen
9-8,
It was West Montgomery against Siler
City in the finals and the Warriors
responded to the call beautifully with
a 3-1 triuirph, Ri^t hand ace Charles
Crouch pitched beautiful one-hit ball
and the Warriors pounded out 3 runs on
5 hits with 1 error to gain for West
Montgomery its first athletic champion
ship,
C, D, Thompson, Crouch, Fincher
Jarrell, and Reggie Miller coirposed
West's mound staff. Thomps5n finished
with a 3-1 record. Crouch had a 2-1
slate, and Jarrell ended with one of
eaph. Miller compiled an 0-1 tab.
Jimny Saunders won the batting title
with a .310 average,.