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HIGH LIFE
October 29, 1976
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Dan Morton sprints ahead.
Cross Country
Grimsiey and
Page Duel
By Charlie Brown
Up and down goes the Grimsiey
Cross-Conntry team through the
season.
Dan Morton has broken every
course record that he has raced
on, including the courses of
Reynolds^ Grimsiey, Page and
East Forsyth. Dan’s only loss
came at the hand of Billy Lynch of
Sanderson, who' is defending
cross-country state champion, but
bringing both under the Grimsiey
course record at the Grimsiey
invitational.
The team has been plagued by
injuries throughout the season
bringing its record to 3-8. In the
city rivalry between Grimsiey and
Page, the outcome is 3 meets to 2
in favor of Page but with Grimsiey
getting healthy for the all
important City Championship and
Conference meet. The top three
teams in the conference are
Reynolds, Grimsiey and Page
with no other real competition.
In the Grimsiey Cross-Country
Invitational, Reynolds came out
the winner by far with a low score
of 43, that totally beat all other
teams. The Whirles placed 5th
and Page was 6th in the
mini-state meet. It was a 2-way
race for the individual first placed
as Lynch broke away from Morton
in the last 3/8 of a mile, to bring
both under the all course record.
Steady performances by Kent
Benfield and Cliff Abels have
kept Grimsiey in the running. Up
and down, describes Scott
Imbus’s season as he is trying to
get it together for the big meets
ahead. Gary Hoagland is getting
over hay fever but will compete to
round out Grimsley’s top five.
Vastly improving soph. Paul
Bailey could be a surprise at the
end of the season followed closely
by junior Jay Bennett. Both
Coach Richard Smith and Coach
Jed Jones see a close race in the
Varsity Football
Whirlies in Slump
sectional between Grimsiey and
Page, while Grimsiey has not lost
a sectional in the last year
Reynolds will go to a different
sectional than Grimsiey and
Page.
Molly Berry is the Grimsiey
Cross-Country team’s star girl
runner. She has competed against
and beaten boys from other teams
with her best meet at East
Forsyth beating eight male
runners. Molly has trained hard
the entire season, and because of
this she could be the best high
school female distance runner in
the state. In the 10,000 meter (6.2
miles) race held at Greensboro,
Miss Berry placed third in the
women’s division against other
women older than she. Only a
Junior, she could be challenging
more male runners next year and
frighten a few guys to go faster.
In the spring, Molly will compete
in the mile in Girl’s Track.
There will be four sectional
cross-country meets to determine
who goes to the State
Championship. The sectional will
be held at Duke University on
November 5 with the top 2 teams
advancing to the State Meet.
North Carolina’s State Cross-
Country Championship will be
run at Chapel Hill on November
13. Forty teams and over 280
runners will compete in the
sectional with the top IS runners
and 2 teams going to the state.
The major powers in the state are
Reynolds, who looks undefeat-
able, Cary, Sanderson and maybe
Grimsiey and Page,
If Grimsiey does make it to the
State, the best hope is for a high
finish as Reynolds just about has
the title locked up. Inexperience
has hurt the Whirlies, as only 3 of
the top 7 have run cross-country
before. As the saying goes, one
runner does not make a team.
By Gary Sue and Steve Theriot
The Grimsiey Whirlie varsity
football team has fallen on bad
times lately including a blistering
defeat at the hands of arch-rival
Page.
It seems like ages have passed
since the Whirlies upset High
Point Andrews and held bright
hopes for a successful season. But
since that time the Whirlies lone
victory has come against haplass
High Point Central and is coupled
along with five defeats.
The Page game turned out to
be the turning point for the
Whirlie season as it decided
whether the Whirlies would be
attending the playoffs as
participants or spectators. As it
turned out the Whirlies will be
sitting in the stands during
post-season action. Page demo
lished the Whirlies behind a
punishing rushing attack that
simply wore the Whirlies down
until their defense .completely
collapsed. The final tally of 25-7
reflected the spirited buthopeless
effort.
Although the Whirlies are
having their problems, halfback
Glen Ford has proved to be the
most outstanding player of all. It
seems that 100-yard rushing
performances come naturally to
him; nevertheless the blocking of
such standouts as big Mark Sugg
and powerful Vernon Greene are
what springs him to his successful
nights.
The Whirlies have also suffered
injuries in key positions, mainly
at quarterback. Starter David
Irvin and backup Don Dempsey
were both injured in the same
game which opened the gate for
Alan Leake to enter the spotlight.
Although he put in a fine effort,
the Whirlie offense has really
failed to click in past games.
In their duel with the Vikings of
North Forsyth they fell victim to
eight turnovers which proved to
be fatal to the Whirlie cause as
they were toppled 14-8. Neverthe
less Glen Ford recorded another
excellent performance as he again
exceeded the lOO-yard plateau.
J.Y. Football
The Junior Varsity football
team has rallied from a poor start
and now proudly posts a 3-2-1
record. After losing its first two
contests to High Point Andrews
by a score of 34-14 and to Durham
6-0 the team seems to have gotten
on top of their game, as they have
not lost in their last four outings.
Coach Whitley attributes this
turnaround in their play, to game
improvement, the team has
experienced. Especially cited
were the linemen, who the Coach
added will be able to step “right
in” the Varsity ranks next year if
they continue their great
improvement.
The team’s first win was in a
home game against Ragsdale.
When the final buzzer had
sounded it signaled a big win for
the Whirlies; the Tigers went
down 46-20. Next on the agenda
for the team was High Point
Central, in a hard fought battle
the Whirlies slipped away with a
close victory, 18-14. With an even
record the team was ready to host
Western Guilford at Jamison
Stadium. For the Whirlie fans at
the game the undisputed
high-light of the evening was the
Glen Ford evades Pirate.
half time display presented by the
son of one of Western’s coaches.
This little blond haired tot showed
the crowd blazing speed and a
unique style of running. His style
played on the fans emotions by
causing them to want him to score
maybe more than he did. Anyhow
he ran to the 15 yard line and
made an abrupt U-turn. The
crowd led by Mark Yost began to
yell “turn around, run tlje other
way.” When the kid heard this he
made another about-face and
again raced towards the goal line.
As he reached the five yard line
he once again made a IM degree
turn. The aspiring runningback
ran this direction for about 20
yards then convienced by Yost,
that he should be traveling in the
other direction, one more turn
had him facing the right goal line.
In a matter of seconds he had
crossed the goal line and reached
paydir Now only one task lay
before our hero and what else
than a little dance followed by a
spike of the ball. Fortunately, he
was the only Hornet to reach
paydirt as Western fell 42-0. Next
on the list was cross-town rival
Page. In this all important game
the Whirlies fought to a tie. As
the game ended, there were two
obvious facts; (1) the final score
was 22-22; (2) one Page receiver
did not get much sleep that night.
You might wonder why he lost
sleep over the game, well it went
like this, there were less than 50
seconds left in the game and
because of a break-down in the
Whirlie secondary he found
himself wide open,, the quarter
back threw him the ball and he
started to run towards the goal
line and a sure, victory. After
running five yards like this he
became bored with this easy
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