December 22, 1976
THE HIGH LIFE
Page 7
All eyes are on the ball during J.V. Girls game.
Wolfe Leads
Whirlies
By Charlie Brown
Grimsley puts it together to
beat Page 52-42 in Girl’s Varsity
Basketball.
The young Grimsley squad
broke open a close game in the
third quarter, and kept Page
scoring flourishes to a minimum.
Forward Laura Wolfe was the
leading scorer with 14 points as
Rita Barrett and Terri Wallace
both burst through with 12 each.
Barrett was the crowd exciter as
she drove in for a turning lay-up
and ran down a fast break of
Page’s to keep the crowd up.
Wolfe, back to full strength, was
the most consistent player and an
arising star Wallace was a clutch
free-thrower. Guards Kris Gross.
Mary Ellen Goforth, Susan Rizzo
and Shell Spruill kept the ball
moving, and Rizzo and Spruill
both made fine defensive plays in
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With the top tour players on the
team juniors, the skill gets better
each game. High Point Andrews
and Ragsdale both beat Grimsley
in the first two games of the
season, 32-28 and 48-42 respec
tively. Both games were close and
now Grimsley is back to full
strength and looking ahead.
Girl’s Junior Varsity Basketball
is the newest addition to
Grimsley’s Athletic program.
Coach Richard Smith is doing his
best to mold a group of young and
very inexperienced players into a
basketball team. A 2-0 record is
posted by Grimsley in defeats of
High Point Andrews and Smith
with Neece Haith and Andy
Barkley as the top scorers. The
J.V. program could be a big help
to Varsity basketball as it would
bring in experienced talent.
McDonald’s Student
Scholarship Winner
McDonalds would like to congratulate David Irvin on being selected
a December Youth of the Month. This honor was presented to him for
his outstanding contributions to his school and community. He not only
excells in academics but in athletics and music as well. David is a
member of the National Honor Society, Varsity Football Team, and
G.H.S. Symphony Band. He has been listed in Who’s Who Among
Greensboro Youth and Who’s Who Among American High School
Students. David has received a $100 McDonalds scholarship payable to
the school of his choice.
By Steve Theriot
They have the potential to be
the best team in the history of the
school and with twelve state
champions we have had some
pretty good teams. This was the
way Coach Sawyer described his
team’s prospects for the
1976-1977 season. Led by such
stars as John Grezeszczak, Robert
Bingham, Jim Raines, Mark
Kronenfeld, Pete Gratale, Mark
Leitner, and Rusty Lambe the
team seems unstopable as they
move into the season. Coach
Sawyer also expressed hope that
some of the more outstanding
swimmers would receive some
All-American rating. Particularly
cited was the 200 medley relay.
This relay has a chance of
breaking the national record in
this event.
Robert Bingham, the reigning
state 100 breastroke champion
and record holder is, as a junior,
the top returning swimmer from
last year’s team. Bingham along
with John Grezeszczak, who is the
most outstanding swimmer on the
team specializing in individual
medley and the backstroke, will
probably be the top point scorers
in the meets ahead. Also
returning are Jim Raines and
Mark Kronenfeld, both are
seniors and superb freestylers
who will again this year excert
their domience in the distance
events. Pete Gratale a junior is
back as the top butterflyer, Wes
Benbow, last year’s top sprint-
ster, and Mark Leitner, the
reigning diving champion, are
back as seniors. Mark will be
hampered in the early sea.son by
recent knee surgery but he is
expected to recover him top form
as the season wears on.
This year’s team has a great
amount of depth which will help
the team roll up the points in the
dual meets as will as some of the
bigger meets such as the Emory
Invitational, the Eastern Seabord,
and the state. The swimmerswho
will provide this depth are Bruce
Procton and Fred Highfill in the
breastroke. Chris Hipps, Andy
Hudnell, Scott Sasser. Tommy
Theriot, and Gary Baldwin ion the
freestyle, David Trexler and
Ronnie Styers in the butterfly,
and Steve Theriot in 'the
backstroke. Charlie Bauscrman
will be what Coach Sawyer called
a good ’’all-purpose” swimmer.
The divers have always been an
intregal part of the (cam. Last
year they cemented the state
championship by scoring nine
points. We won that meet by
eight. Leitner leads a field which
includes eight newcomers. Rich
ard Goodman is the only other
returner. Richard is also slowed
by a recent knee operation. Steve
Jones leads the Beet of new
divers. Jones, the number two
diver is showing great improve
ment thus far into the. sea.son.
Other divers include Tyke
Barhma. John Caffey, Mike
Cottingham, Todd Poston, Joe
Ray, Tom Tarduogno, and Colby
Warren.
After seven grueling weeks of
practice the Girls Swim Team is
now in the process of preparing
for the beginning of this season’s
meets. Many returning stars from
last year’s team provide a good
base for this year’s team but lack
of good team depth caused by the
few number of girls out for the
team this year considerably
dampened the girls’ hopes of
regaining the state crown they
lost last to Willington Hoggard.
Score A Few More
By Billy Tsintzos
Well people, it’s that time
again, it’s time for me. Mr.
Benchwarmer. to bring you
another clean, fresh, and pleasant
edition of the Benchwarmer.
Lately though, it seems that my
career as the writer of this article
would be threatened. Many of my
reports have it that students,
players, and even parents were
not extremely happy with what 1
have to say. Of course, you know
that this is all inside and carefully
camouflaged information, and
because of this, nothing harmful
can happen to the players, also
the parents shouldn’t be able to
understand what I’m writing in
the first place, but if you still
think you can stop me, let me just
say this...DON’T MESS WITH
THE PRESS. So now I’ll just let
my good ole trusty pencil cut
loose and we’ll see what we end
up with. OK...1 knew you would
understand.
First on my agenda is an
experience which happened to me
as well as a couple of other
fellows I know. It seems that one
rainy Sunday we went riding in
this guy’s jeep, this trip should
never be repeated. The owner
and driver of the jeep was
someone named.. .Geefcr.. .hea
ven help us. Nevertheless, the
mere existence of the dreaded
drug soon became totally
excruciating. The jeep was first to
wither away and die. We were
then forced to walk out of the dark
wooded forest, but still in our
midst was the ever-present,
mind-expanding.. .Geefcr drug.
I'he total trip soon forced our
minds into delirium. We finally
staggered into civilization, know
ing that the drug had ahead\
caused permanent damage to out
hrains. With this knowledge, we
continued our long homeward
trek, with the shadow of death
hanging over us, that is, the
shadow of Geefcr hanging over
us. Finally we made it home, one
totally destroyed jeep, four weary
and drug damaged travelers,...
and one Geefcr.
Liitely Frankenstein Cox has
been acting quite strange, he
seems to enjoy putting his long
flowing hair in pins and curlers. I
thought this was all in the process
of being a teenager until 1 heard
him call himsclf---Francis. Now it
is just a matter of time, for after
basketball season, Francis will fly
to California for a change, and
bOy I don’t mean weather, as a
matter of fact I should have said,
GIRL, because Frankie’s new
name will be,..Dr. Renee Cox.
Spanky Sue entered his name
into the 1977 Indianapolis 500
after spectators were awed as his
superb handling of his automobile
on the dangerous roads of baja
Green Valley. It is because of this
spectacular display that Spanky
will spend the next 2-3 weeks in
solitary confinement. Dick “Ca
sanova 11" Gilbert is one young
man who 1 must talk about.
Although Dick is slow on the court
he is pretty fast with the girls. On
bus trips back from away games,
Dick is always attempting to carry
on healthy conversations with the
young ladies. And recently he’s
been going out on hot dates which
resulted in his shooting off the
rim all week long.
Bulletin: Missionary Lee Evans
in peril as he drifts down rapids of
the Zambezi river...natives attack
missionary Lee with poison
darts...his whereabouts are
prc.sently unknown.
Jabbo Harris enjoys himself to
the utmost at a joint most of the
brothers know as "the crib.”
There he performs the acts which
have made him famous off the
court while on the court he
performs acts which made him a
famous attraction at the state zoo.
Billy Shephard Carpets adver
tised John Kobos’ hair as a new
example of the sponge look in
rugs today.
Mark "Rudolf” Yost re.ently
gave up his bachelorhood as he
announced his engagement to
himself. Have fun. Rudy.
On road trips to save space,
Hugh "Pic” Elkins is bent and
folded into an attache case atid
placed in the rear of the bus.
Later he is extracted, pressed,
and ironed out into the worl.l
famous physique in which he is
known for ----"the human
toothpick.”
Well, 1 don’t think anyone will
get too angry at what I have
written in this i.ssue and if they
do, tough luck baby. All 1 can say
is my pencil has come to a
screeching halt, mainly due to the
tact that 1 have run out of space,
and its finally time to say so
long...until next issue this is Mr.
B. saying, CHOW!