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By RANDY PETTITT
Chronicle Sports Editor
ATLANTA - Derrick Speas
has learned that gold is hard to
come by - especially at track 1
meets. But at the Atlanta Invitational
Youth Games track
and field meet last weekend,
the 14 year old came away
with quite a chunk of the |
precious commodity.
Speas, who runs for the i
Twin City Relays Track Club, 1
captured gold medals in the
junior boys 100 and 200-meter
dashes at the Atlanta meet. 1
Competing against 35 other 1
athletes in both events, he was
virtually untouchable. <
Winning is not a new thing 1
to Speas though. As a 12 year
old . with the Winston-Salem (
Roadrunners, Speas was (
undefeated, but went almost (
unnoticed because his age ^
group did not have national
competition.
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Now his times of 11.25 j
seconds in the 100 and 23.5 in j,
the 200 at the Atlanta meet
already have some touting him \
as possible Olympic material * j
for the 1992 games.
Coach Lemuel Johnson of s
the Twin City Relays is one of g
the believers. 1
"We sort of look to him as
our 'Juice' number two," said
Johnson, comparing Speas to I
teammate and intermediate
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By RANDY PETTITT
Chronicle Sports Editor
CHARLOTTE - There are
downfall of even the best of teams
Hit them, and you're the hero
with victory by the slimmest of mi
hard fought battle.
Miss them, and it can be a long n
ing over what might have been.
For the Winston-Salem Chronick
throws were public enemy nu
weekend, leading to a pair of tou
NBA Pro-Am of Charlotte.
Walter Funderburk, the head
Chronicle team said it was the cla
missing free-throws down the strel
team at shot coming away with a v
"On Saturday, they made their
we didn't," said Funderburk of a
the Columbia Jazz.
"Basically, we made our rim and
We cut the lead to three a couple of
ed one-and-one opportunities that c
to one*" he said.
?A miss can get it rolling for
sometimes. Whenever we got ourse
tion to take over the lead, we jui
down the free-throws when we n<
most."
Smooth Strickland
Paced by the smooth shootins o
Strickland, who finished with a
points, the All-Stars seemed to ha
their way early in the Saturday gan
Winston-Salem forged a 27-23 fi
over the Columbia South Carolii
featured the NBA player Xavier V
the fast-paced first quarter, the t<
favor of the Jazz, who managed t
lead at the half.
Pounding the offensive boards
took advantage of the All-Stars by
unanswered points to lead by 15 1
quarter.
But the All-Stars got the fast brei
the fourth period and began to slow
With seven minutes left in
All-Star's Eddie Jordan connected <
dunk that pulled Winston to withii
The Columbia team stuck to the
and connected on a pair of free-thr<
Mason was called for a foul.
Eddie Jordan, who came off the
the Chronicle team with 14 points,
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Derrick Spec
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boys standout, Julius Reese.
"Derrick is running times
very similar to what Julius was
running at that age level. 1
really think if he continues to
improve, that he js a prospect
for the 1992 Olympics."
Speas, who is not as big as
Reese in stature, has some of
the same lofty goals as his
Mount Tabor counterpart. He
dreams of perhaps the Olympics
or suiting up in a Division
I basketball uniform.
But, although he loves
basketball, Speas admits that
rack is his thing.
"Right now, track is what I
lo best," said Speas, who atends
Paisley Middle School.
"1 sort of have this dream
>f playing basketball for
Carolina, but 1 guess when it
:omes time to trim down to
>ne sport, track would pro>ably
win.
"I just enjoy running track,
ind having guys like Julius *
leese to practice with doesn't
iurt matters," he said.
"Julius and 1 get along fine.
Ve try to help each other out.
4e has been a bis helD for me.
"I told Julius when he was a
enior in high school that I was
;oing to beat him in either the
00 or 200,'' Speas insisted.
" "He just sort of smiled."
Johnson says the two com>liment
each other.
"They compare notes you
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the occasional Hj
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irgins in a long,
ide home, thinkJ
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one last ^H\ g
gh losses in the
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coach of the UaM
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:ch that cost his
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free-throws and
I came up short. . ^
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couldn't nail
ceded them the
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game-high 33
ive things going
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irst quarter lead
na Jazz, which
IcDaniels. After > j
5mpo slowed in
o build a 52-47
, the Jazz then
reeling nine
on a thunderous
)\t guns though,
ows when Roger Hands
bench to spark Everytime 1
did most of his crowd. But
14 points to le
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is is being touted as
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erry Strickland got the ball in the tlBA Pro-Am o1
Strickland ducked his way through heavy traffic, 4
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By RANDY PETT
Chronicle Sports EdU
i lU Nelson Petrec,
^ ml B Manager of the W
that
BrJS 1 f U discriminated agai
W 1^^ J| facility.
^^7 ^ In a Prcss releas
b> * that deeply co
r/IL ' and practices of the
Hr |Bk> nie Shore Stadium.
^ I ing treated unfairly
II ^ We signed ^
I I they're not sticking
- is ridiculous. A cov
< ;<^ ^ their llO
W 111^^1 JL m^^e ?fthe s^6
"As a taxpayer,
^^3 cess .t0 a c*ty ow
jk B^dj Petree said one oi
jafir Pond Giants are n?
hS comes
. before they can resc
anonymous, Pe
WT~~' sessional oascoa.ll t'
^0000**^^ from the city, say:
^ f;-' "First of all, for
this is a racial thing
tien.
"The city of Win:
bent over backwarc
S||lL Giants. I had a le<
'% 2 change it so they
changed it for them
"Petree and ale
pressure on the cit>
f Charlotte, he seemed to draw a again. Why in the h
and finished with a game-high 33 going t0 keep askin,
>y James Parker). - Pleas(
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il at age 14
might say," Johnson said.
"I'm just glad they're not . ,
the same age," he laughed.
"Derrick is a good kid. He
isn't jealous of Julius at all, he
just wants to do as well or better.
He wants to make a name
for Derrick Speas."
If he continues to run the
way he did in Atlanta, Derrick
Speas may indeed become a
household word much the way
Julius Reese has made a name
for himself in the track community.
According to Johnson,
Speas will continue to compete
in the sprints for now. But the
Relays' coach hopes to even!
tually have a relay team in the ~
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begin to master the 400.
"Derrick is sort of like
Julius was at first about the
400," Johnson explained.
"He wants to just run the
sprints, but I think he'll realize
the importance of building up
your endurance with the 400
eventually.
"It took Julius a little while
to come around and begin to
really work on the relays and
400. Just look what it did for
his 200 times though."
Johnson is quick to point
out though, that Speas and
Reese are two different
animals in some areas.
"Julius runs with acceleration.
He's just getting to full
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1 Giants:
s unfair
etree complains
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the President and General
insion-saiem Pond Giants says
)ro baseball teams are being
nst in the use of a city-owned
e earlier this week, Petree said
ncerned about the present policy
city and the management of ErHe
said he felt his team was beagreement
with the city and
to it," Petree said.
e things we have to put up with
lple of games, my boys had to
s and walk up the steps in the
to use the bathroom.
1 feel we should have equal acned
facility like Ernie Shore
f his major concerns, is that the
Dt being treated fairly when it
laying dates at the facility,
s required to give 20 days notice
:hedule a game.
in, who requested to remain
;tree was given a fair deal,
lay referee between Petree and
Iir
deal to Nelson and his team. I
ing we could've done would
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:iciy. 11 you Keep up with this
see the two just don't like each
I that portions of the agreement
fair.
:n, the owner of the Spirits proeam
which leases the Stadium
s Petree's tomplaints are unhim
to make a statement that
is totally ludicrous," said BasanH
vu v? iiiv us nave
Is to get along with the Pondise,
and the city asked me to
could accomodate Nelson. I
lerman Patrick Hairston put
f to make me change my lease *
ell do I have a lease if they are
g me to change it?"
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