September, 24, 1976
THE HIGH LIFE
Page 7
Record Breaker Morton
Leads Team
by Charlie Brown
Record-breaker Dan Morton is
leading Grimsley Cross-Country
through a challenging season.
Morton broke Mai Jones 2 mile
course record with a 10:30 and a
first place finish against Dudley.
Grimsley beat Dudley in the
opener 19 to 41 without the help
of ace runner Cliff Abels who is
injured temporarily. Seniors Kent
Benfield and Scott Imbus took
excellent third and fourth places
respectively. Imbus in his first
cross-country race ever ran
superbly, and he shows great
promise as he gains experience
rapidly during the season. Gary
Hoagland, a Senior, was and
Junior Jay Bennett as both of
these runners are new to the
Cross-Country scene, but both
are running like experienced
runners.
Sophomores stole the show as
Paul Bailey finished right behind
Bennett. Bailey kept a rugged
pace behind Bennett, and he
looked like another supersoph in
the making. 11th, 12th and 13th
places were captured by the trio
of sophomores Mike Williams,
Scott Toben and weston Whittak
er. The group ran together the
whole way while they gave each
other support during the race.
Keith Miller is another soph who
is improving rapidly.
Morton, Benfield, Abels, and
Charlie Brown are the only
returning runners from last year.
Morton, Benfield and Abels will
be the leading the Whirlies in the
meets that lead up to the
Championships. This trio is vastly
knowledgeable in Cross-Country
and is ready for the tough meets
ahead.
Head coach Richard Smith and
coach Ned Jones are practicing
the team 9 times a week both
morning and afternoon and the
team is already past the 2000 mile
point in training. The lowest score
wins and it is done by adding the
places of the top 5 runners on
each team. Cross-Country is a 3
mile course that is mapped out by
each school, over any terrain the
coach of the school wants.
Molly Berry and Amy Stapleton
are the female runners who are on
the team. They compete against
the boy’s and practice with them.
Rebuilding Year
for Tennis
Rebuilting but eager describes
this year’s Tennis team as only
one of the top six is returning.
Coach Tamlin will try to mold a
young thirty member girl’s team
into an experience unit with
returning players Senior Paula
Christan and No. 1 Junior Janice
Hall leading the way.
Only 12 of the 30 out will play in
the matches though all continue
to practice everyday hoping to
make the matches.
One point is earned for the
team with each win in the
matches. There are six singles
matches and three doubles. The
singles are played with the top
ranked six players on the team
going against the other team’s
top six. No. 1 players play each
other as the others play their
corresponding opponent. The
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players call their own games with
a 9 point try breaker and a 2 out of
3 set scoring system.
Doubles matches are worth one
point apiece so there is a possible
3 points tor the team. The double
matches are played after the
singles and each team can use
new fresh players or the one’s
that played in the singles. Two
average doubles competitors can
beat better teams because of the
different game style used.
Page, Reynolds and High Point
Central will be the teams to be
this year as Grimsley will be
trying to make a good showing in
the conference.
Girl’s Tennis
Sept. 28 Smith at Grimsley
Sept. 30 High Point Central at
Grimsley
Oct. 5 Page at Grimsley
Oct. 7 Grimsley at Reynolds
Oct. 12 Dudley at Grimsley
Oct. 14 East Forsyth at
Grimsley
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Sacking the Team
Scott Imbus pashes forward
Intramural
Competition
Begins
by Steve Theriot
After considerable work on the
part of the organizers, all that is
needed now to make Grimsley’s
intramural sports program suc
cessful is a little interest from-the
student body. The program,
sponsored by Coach Weaver, is
aimed at improving school spirit!
by getting more students involved
in sports activities. Basically,
anyone can compete, but there
are a few regulations. Most
importantly, no one currently
involved in an interscholastic
sport may compete in any of the
intramural sports.
Tennis was the first to get
under way. The first matches
were held September 13. There
were a few more qualifications to
be met before students could
compete in this sport; i.e. no past
participants in tennis on the
varsity level could register for
competition. The students who
registered for the competition
were assigned a position on the
bracket. The two opponents then
decide upon a site and date for
their match. There is only one
regulation in this extremely
liberal system, that is that the
result of the match must be
turned in before the deadline or
both contestants forfeit the
match.
The basketball competition
gets under way October 12. There
is one other restriction placed on
the basketball contestants, that is
that no student can compete in
the round-robin tournament
without forfeiting eligibility for
future varsity basketball. Each of
the teams is made up of three
homerooms, (one sophomore, one
junior and one senior homeroom).
The officials will be Grimsley
basketball players.
On the acquatic scene, a water
polo league is planned to begin in
the near future. Any student not
currently involved in an inter
scholastic sport may compete.
The teams will be formed by
combining as many as six
homerooms. Also a swim meet is
planned for October 13, entries
are due by October 8. A list of
events will be posted on the
intramural bulletin board in the
main hall.
There are plans for a wrestling
match and a cross-country meet
to be held in late October.
Interested persons should see
Coach Weaver in room 403.
A running score will be kept in
each competition and the
homero m with the highest
number of points when the
competition is completed will
receive a trophy.
by Billy Tsintaos
The season is new, and old''
failures of Grimsley football
teams are trying to be forgotten
while the new crop of athletes,
and old returnees will attempt to
give the Whirlies a winning
season.
Grimsley has imported a new
head coach this year, and
sometimes, looking at the
Whirlies, you wonder if they
should import a new team. But
then again there are some
normally good intelligent players
. ... no strike that, there are some
normally good players but I doubt
if any of them are intelligent,
come to think of it, I doubt if any
of them are normally good. Well,
what do you say we run down a
list of the players and see what we
come up with, ... hmm, ... hmm,
... boy, we got some real hot
ones.
Well, -hey-you know how
trainers rap tape around the leg,
well there’s a player by the name
of T-Ernest who has to rap
something else around his leg.
Lemme see here, oh yea, him,
ya’ll know what a toothpick looks
like dontcha’, well they designed
them after Hugh “Pic” Elkins. In
the offseason, Elkins was used as
a key to unlock doors. What’s this
...split end ... Larry Spivey, well
howzabout that, I guess he’s
made for that position, I mean
with such a slender physique and
blazing speed. Once I heard when
he completed the lOO-yard- dash,
there was a bahd playing the
theme to the new television
series, “Harry the Turtle.”
David Cox is another of the
brilliant superstars to hit the
Whirlie lineup, he established
himself as having fluent and
smooth motions on the field and
being able to run with the grace of
a rhinoceros in heat.
David Irvin is the quarterback
of the potent Whirlie offense. In
the offseason he picked up a
nickname which was, “The
Hunter.” His specialty was the
wounded duck.
Then there is Lee Evans, he
whataminute, didn’t he become a
missionary and leave for Afirica?
Well I’m not sure so lets keep on
checking the list, ... oh boy, the
cool one, here is, the one and
only, Chuck Jones, otherwise
known as the “Bad News Booze,”
he is only commonly called “the
intellectual.” Boozle is best know
for his gentlemanly manner,
when against the Smith Eagles
last season, he lost his temper
and hit an opposing player, but
later they politely made up.
Jimmy White is another one of
these so called cream of the crop,
he is know for his ferocity and
viciousness in hitting. During his
offseason, Jimmy was used as a
signal tower at Kennedy Airport.
Hmm ... yea ... oh yea, here is
Glen Ford, otherwise known as
“the Rock,” now here is a real
smoker.
Lemme check on a couple more
players on the list, ...well, here is
another solidly cool dude, David
“cut loose” Bolton. “Loose” is
widely known for his use of the
' English language, “I mean like
wow man.” He is also believed to
be the first football player in
space. He is nicknamed the
“incognito kid.”
The Whirlies were also having
contract disputes with fullback
Mark Yost. Money is the main
item involved here. The Whirlies
would like to pay him $30,000 for
j a year, but Yost would prefer a
sleek $250,000 no cut contract. To
stall for time, Yost had himself
injured this was done by laying
, himself across the tracks of his
. electric train set.
Grady Yourse is another of the
Whirlie running backs. He is one
of the most intellectual of all the
Whirlie athletes and already
qualifies for a Rhodes Scholar
ship. After he completes his
studies at Oxford, he will most
likely teach at his fathers’ old
alma mater, Chicken University.
Lets check the lineman out, oh
yea, Mark Sugg, a sad case! he
suffered from malnutrition and
now is nothing but a living
skeleton. If you want to help
Mark, please send canned foods
to:
Food to Sugg
2500 Pound Street
Lasagna, Wisconsin, 99999
Well, on that note I say it’s
about time to truck it on, and I’ll
be truckin’ it to Argentina after
people get through reading this
article. Chow brother.
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