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? THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1996 B1 ^
Yellow Jackets
A Team will be
hard-pressed to
live up to last
season's success
By SAM DAVIS
Chronicle Sport Editor >
Carver will have a tough
act to follow after winning
? the North Piedmont 3-A
Conference Junior Varsity
? championship and claiming,
last year's mythical City
County JV championship.
" First of all the team lost
its coach. Darryl Hall, who
decided to step down from
the junior varsity to spend
fOore time coaching the Yel
low Jackets' varsity defen
sive backs. As of now, Keith
Wilkes the varsity coach,
hasn't announced a new
coach and all of Carver's
varsity coaches are pitching
in to help get the '96 season
off the ground.
; Secondly, the entire
nucleus of last season's
junior varsity has moved up
to the varsity level.
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that ot Taunc I Carver's few
Rice, K be to a lot of the
the Winston-Saleni Chroni- V load for the
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, ...... action at fullback this season.
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V ?JO man fullback, the football
the starting halfback on I r M|K] during a
the Yellow Jackets varsity L I "
team. The team's fullback in fck
the Yellow jackets, uregg is battling
s ground-oriented A jH Kevin Eaton for the starting fullback
attack, Mike '\ ' ABi^l
rently the projected starter at
fullback on varsity. Photos
Wilkes says the team is
in a quandary, but has some
talented young players who
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Tiny Indians
have come long way
since segregated days
As I passed the football practice field at
Kennedy Middle School recently and saw the
hundreds of African American children par
ticipating in POP Warner Football. 1 couldn't
help but think about my first experiences in
the Northwest Midget Football League with
the Indians (or Red Shield Boys Club as we
were called then).
It was 30 years ago when my oldest
brothers. Matthew and Isiah. got a paper route
in the Waughtown Street section of Winston
Salem. That was in 1966. w hen everything in
this area was segregated.
One day, during the course of their work,
they ventured onto Stadium Drive. As they
proceeded north on that street they noticed a
building where white boys descended in
groves each day. Finally, they got the nerve
up to go and find out w hat w as inside the Red
Shield Boys' Club. They were surprised at
what they found - a place where boys could
come and play games all day once they paid
membership dues, which at the time was only
$1.
Not onlv ihat, they were encouraged to
participate alongside their white counterparts.
Having been raised in the segregated commu
nity of Happy Hill Gardens. the\ were taken
aback bv all of this. However. Dave Riekard.
the director at that time, told them they were
welcome to join. So Matthew and Isiah
Davis became the first African-Americans to
join the Boy's Club.
A few days later. I followed my brothers
to check out this "Boys' Club." It was unlike
anything 1 had e\er seen before. Games to
pla\, ev en craft courses- wereottered, there
was a swimming pool that was open year
round and the\ also took trips to visit places.
But more important 1\ for me. there was a
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Eagles hope to get out of blocks early during '96 season
A Weeks, Brayboy, Barber could help East fly high
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Sports EChronuiediior? ?agjes are yOUng? but talented and
... . El lender says that he wants to make sure that
The overall approach has changedI at a? of hjs junior varsj , learn (he
East Forsyth, where varsity Coach Joe Bill same technique that is being t a ht on the
Ellender is taking a hands-on approach to Varsitv level
getting his young players ready for the junior ..We-re a? coaching both the varsity and
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^oQch Joe Bill Ellender, East's varsity coach, has spent extra time with the junior varsity linemen
his season to make sure the young Eagles learn the intracasies of the W'ing-T offense. The
Eagles will rely on fundament football, especially early in the JV season. Photo by Reginald
Eamphell
the jayvecs together this year." Ellender says.
"We want to get them going through the
same kind of practice as the varsity players. 1
think this is going to he best for our pro
gram."
Last year the Eagles started slowly hut
gathered steam during their conference sea
son and finished with a .500 record. This
year. Ellender says he hopes to improve
upon that record and keep the program mov
ing in a positive direction. The 40 or so play
ers that turned out for the start of preseason
drills has the Eagles optimistic that they can
get their program back to the top of,their
conference.
"Right now we're kind of an unknown
quantity," Ellender says. "Last year we lost
some early that I thought we could have
won. But then late in the season we heat
some real good teams."
This season Ellender say s he hopes to
get out of the blocks early.
On offense, the Eagles have several out
standing players returning. The most intrigu
ing might be Courtney Weeks, who will line
up at several positions.
"Courtney is a young man with a lot of
talent," Ellender says. "We're going to try
him at several places to see where he works
out the best."
At the start of preseason drills Weeks
wis working at both halfback and quarter
back. A lot will be determined by the devel
opment of Jason Bray boy. a freshman, at
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down the road to Wake Forest and will wear
that he wore for the Demons. McCoy,
's picture day, was one of the state's top
and senior seasons.