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WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, NOVEMBER 22. 1988-PAGE 3 TBC Boys Gunning For Warriors North Edgecombe Goes After Back-To-Back Championships Can North Edgecombe repeat its undefeated run through the regular-season in the Class 1-A Tobac co Belt Conference? The Warriors, coached by Warren Jones who starts his 14th year at the helm, finished a perfect 18-0 m the conference only to lose to No. 2 seeded Chocowinity in the finals of the conference tourna ment. They advanced to the third round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association playoffs before falling to Hallsboro. The Warriors are expected to return three starters among seven lettermen when the football playoffs end. The football Warriors have advanced to the state quarterfinals leaving Jones with but one varsity candidate to work with. Thus, the Warriors will get off to a slow start. Jones figures the conference teams will be gun ning for his squad this season. “I think it’s going to be tough for us,” he said. ‘T think everybody is going to be laying for us saying -~*^f we don’t beat anybody else, we’re going to beat North Edgecombe. I would like us to be on top but, I wouldn’t bet on us.” But, judging from the talent Jones has available, there are those who would. Dereke Belcher, the Warriors’ sixth man last sea son and a deadly accurate three-point gunner, is expected to start. Belcher, who is playing football, averaged 14.3 points per game last year and is the second leading returning scorer. Claude Archer, who is playing in the defensive secondary for North Edgecombe, is expected to get the job done at the point, Jones said. He will join Rodney Conyers, Larry King and Orlando Whitaker as expected starters. Jones said he looks for Chris Bryant and John Cherry, junior varsity performers last season, to contribute. Offensively, Jones said he will strive to have his cagers “get up and down the floor under control.” Defensively, he plans to play a strong man-to- man with some trapping and a lot more pressure. But, all of that will have to wait until the end of the football season. , JOHN A. WILKINSON BELHAVEN — John A. Wilkinson has a long proud history in basketball. The last chapter, however, will be written this year as Wilkinson will be consolidated with Bath next year to form North- side High School. However, the Bulldogs, led by second-year head coach Mike Proctor, could go out in a splash of glory. The Bulldogs only return three lettermen and no starters. But, an influx of players off the 16-2 junior varsity squad have brought an air of optimism to preseason practice. The returners are Lamont Green, James Mackey and Mike Cox. Green averaged 8.5 points and 4.5 rebounds a game last season while Mackey and Cox chipped in with approximately four each. Proctof said he expected Adolphous Fonville and Nelson Harvey, up from the jajwees, to make an immediate contribution. The Bulldogs, which posted a 14-6 record last sea son and a 15-8 overall worksheet after falling in the first round of the playoffs, will run a motion offense and a man-to-man defense. CHOCOWINITY INDIANS Chocowinity enters a new era this season as Steve Robinson takes over as head coach, replacing De- Wayne Kellum, last year’s Washington Daily News Coach of the Year. Under Kellum, the Indians notched their best season in five years, winning the conference tourna ment and advancing to the Sectional semifinals be fore seeing a 14-game win streak ended against Gates County. Chocowinity finished 19-6. The Indians overcame a third-place finish in the Washington Daily News Holiday Invitational Tournament as Curtis Myers provided 18.7 points a game in earning WDN player of the year honors. Robinson comes to Chocowinity after a one-year stint at B.F. Grady Junior High in Duplin County and a three-year reign at Harrell’s Christian Academy where he coached both boys and girls. He has a core of seven lettermen including one starter to work with. Belhaven Wilkinson Bulldoas Bath Pirates He said he hopes to run a motion/flex offense to get the ball inside. Defensively, the Indians will go man-for-man with some zone and full-court and half-court traps. “We have good quickness and should be a good rebounding team,” said Robinson. "Our weakness is experience — I’m worried most about our back- court. But, the boys have adjusted pretty well. They are working real hard with a lot of effort.” Depth, shouldn’t be a problem, Robinson said. He hopes to go nine or 10 players into the bench. BATH PIRATES Melvin Smith emerged the leading scorer in the Tobacco Belt Conference but the Bath Pirates could only manage an 8-10 TBC record and a 9-11 overall worksheet in the 1987-1988 season. This year. Smith has gone on to junior college in South Carolina but fellow starters Cee Edwards, an exciting young point guard, and Keith Boyd, a out standing receiver in football, join lettermen Pooh Woolard and Tony Woolard as the base for the Pi rates to build on. (See TBC BOYS, Page 4) Warrior Boys, Lady Indians Tabbed The North Edgecombe boys and Chocowinity girls, for the second consecutive season, are the Class 1-A Tobacco Belt Con ference coaches’ picks to win the regular-season cham pionships. In the Washington Daily News sports department’s annual poll of the 10 conference coaches, last year’s undefeated regular-season boys’ cham pionship squad was named to repeat on nine of the 10 ballots. Columbia earned the other No. 1 vote. The girls’ coaches selected Chocowinity, last year’s regular- season (17-1) and conference tournament champion, to re peat, listing the Lady Indians on seven No. 1 ballots. Belhaven earned two first-place votes and Aurora earned one. In the boys’ voting. 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