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Chfpnicle Sports Editor
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:The world of the three-point
st&nce is pretty awkward, maybe
e\<n a little crazy.
A football lineman prepares to
wjick havoc on the man before,
hfik. But he doesn't take a running:
start. No, he has his back to
die sky.
;If you stand 6-foot-6 and
w?*gh 270 pounds, you might
wfrtder if your body is not better
suited to another sport.
INot James "Plug" Melton,
who's every bit that big, and
ge0d enough to earn a starting
job at right guard on the
Vfinston-Salem State offensive
fCEKit as a freshman. First-year
pBiyers rarely start for the Rams,
but Melton's talent was too big
fof Coach Bill Hayes to ignore.
"You don't get too many Danny
Moores or James Meltons in
your entire coaching career,''
Hayes said. "I plan to get four
good years out of James. There's
no point in putting him on a
waking?list. He's?a?quality?
athlete." ^
It's not as if Melton didn't
have the opportunity to play
another sport, either. In addition
Prep Football
McKinnie
_?to victory
By DAVID BULLA
Chronicle Sports Editor
CLEMMONS -- Herman
McKinnie ran for 113 yards on 22
carries and scored a touchdown
to lift unbeaten West Forsyth
past Glenn last Friday night.
That sets up a battle of 3-0
teams Friday night, when West
hosts Carver at 8 o'clock. The
Titans won last year's game 21-8
;as Derrick Byers completed 15 of
20 passes for 134 yards. ,
The Titans seemed relieved to
;get past the previously unbeaten
Bobcats, who drove to the West
5-yard line in the game's last two
iminutes before tailback Randy
Jones was stopped inches short of
a first down.
"That was too close for me,"
said fullback-defensive back
Bobby Paige, who helped stop
Jones on the fourth-and-two
play. "I hate stuff like that.
"We are a good team, but one
: of these days the penalties are going
to catch up with us."
It appeared the Titans had
stopped the Bobcats on a fourthand-17
at the West 34-yard line.
; Brad Stanbery's fourth-down
! pass was incomplete, but a per
sonal foul against Donald Scales
; gave Glenn a first down at the
; Titan 14-yard line.
; Jones was thrown for a four!
yard loss on first down before
! fullback Charlie Harris gained
five. However, a clipping penalty
.! on third down gave Glenn a third
I Weymouth Jones open over the
! middle and Jones took the ball to
| the West 6.
| Randy Jones received the call
; on fourth down, going off left
; guard and nearly getting the first
I down on a second effort.
"It was an isolation inside,"
; said Jones, who had 77 yards on
; 15 carries for the 2-1 Bobcats. "1
; didn't see any hole and tried to
I punch through."
It was a disappointing near;
miss for Jones, who had finally
; gotten the Bobcat offense un;
tracked with a 31-yard run earlier
! in the drive. Backup tailback
Landon Gary went 25 yards on
; the next play.
; That put the Bobcats in field;
goal range, but Jones was glad
, Coach A1 Hooker played for the
| win, not the tie.
"We wanted to win or lose
; when we got that close," Jones
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' non-conference game.
4'Now maybe we're off our
; high horse because we know we
; can lose, and we know what we
' have to do to get over the hill."
The Bobcats had raced to a 6-0
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James Melton earned CIAA Rc
week for his role In the Rams' w
James Parker).
to being an all-stater in football,
Melton led Norfolk's Booker T.
Washington High to back-toback
Class 3A Virginia basketball
championships. He was recruited
by several Division 1 basketball
programs.
Indeed, basketball was his first
love. t V
?"For a long time I didn't want
to play football," Melton said.
"1 didn't like all that hitting and
hard work. Cal (Davidson,
Washington's football coach)
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leads West
over Glenn
lead in the first quarter after
Mario Patterson intercepted
West backup quarterback Doug
Sakowski, playing for the injured
Byers. Stanbery completed a
four-play, 17-yard drive with a
three-yard keeper.
Glenn tried a two-point conversion,
which was successful.
But an illegal-motion penalty
canceled that before the kick was
wide right.
The score stayed that way until
Scales recovered a Jones fumble
on^ the next-to-last play of the
first quarter. The Titans then
drove to the Bobcat 10-yard line,
where Kevin Wendelboe booted a
27-yard field goal for a 6-3 Glenn
edge.
West put together the game's
first sustained drive on its first
possession of the third quarter.
McKinnie carried for 53 of the 70
yards, including the last 22. But
Mark Cartner missed the PAT
kick wide right.
The defenses dominated until
the Bobcats' late march.
Linebacker Donald Carter.
subject of frequent double teams,
said West's defense did not get
down after Glenn drove to the 14
with time running out.
"Our defense never gets
down/' Carter said. "We just
kept on sticking it to them until
the end."
The 6-foot-2, 200-pound
Carter finished with a personal
season-low of eight tackles, but
Mark Wylam and Mark Perry
-picked ^up -the-slack-with-40-hits?
each.
Paige said the Titan defensive
front took control in the second
half.
4The defensive line's responsibility
is to keep the offensive
line off Donald," Paige said.
"They were sending two guys at
him all night, so that made it
doubly hard. But Donald had
more freedom in the third and
fourth quarters."
West Coach Dennis Zeiters
credited Defensive fYw-?rHir?atrtr
Dave McConnell with masterminding
a unit that has not allowed
a sustained drive for a
touchdown in three games.
"Coach McConnell does a
super job," Zeiters said. "It's
totally his doing. They've worked
awfully hard."
Zeiters* I-formation offense
worked best with McKinnie
sweeping, but the passing game
was non-existent with Byers benched
by a severe cut in his right
thumb. He had hurt it on a
quarterback sneak in the Titans'
9-6 win over East Forsyth last
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fussed at me a lot."
Melton's years in high school
were kind of a highwater mark in
Tidewater basketball. J.R. Reid,
his teammate in Boo Williams'
AAl) program, was the subject
of a major recruiting battle even^
tually won by the University of
North Carolina. And
Washington won two state titles.
But Davis, former Virginia
Tech all-America Bruce Smith
and Norfolk State defensive back
Joe Scott convinced Melton to
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*'1 could write a book about
Cal Davidson," Melton said.
"He always encouraged me. I
already miss the guy, even though
we had some bad times when he
cussed me."
Like the time Melton could
barely finish a lap around the
track.
But Melton got serious the
summer before his senior year.
He started to run hard and kept
running up until preseason practice
last month. Ah, youth. He's
often first in line running sprints
or hills these days.
Melton decided on football
after some close encounters with
7-footers in AAU ball. WSSU,
Hampton University and Norfolk
State were his main suitors.
"Norfolk and Hampton are
too close to home,'* he said.
"They have excellent football
programs, but 1 wanted to get
away from home."
So Melton chose WSSU and
was surprised when Hayes made
him a starter.
"Don't get me wrong; 1 was
ready to play,'" he said. "I just
wanted to watch and see what's
going on for a while." I
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