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Boulware satisfied with Rams'
football progress this spring
Michael Bloomfield (40) anchors the Rams defensive line.
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Photos by Craig T Greenlee
BY CRAIG T. GREENLEE
FOR THE CHRONICLE
Springtime is in full swing, and
the start of the next football season is
still five months away. Even so,
expectations are high at Winston
Salem State University. Rams fol
lowers got a glimpse of the not-so
distant future at die annual Spring
Game played last Saturday, April 11
at Glenn High School in
Kernersville.
The Red team emerged with a 20
16 win over the White team.
Quarterback Rod Tinsley delivered
the game-clincher with a six-yard
touchdown run with less than three
minutes left to play in the fourth
quarter.
"I'm satisfied with the progress
we've made," said WSSU Coach
Kienus Boulware, whose team fin
ished up at 9-2 last season.
"Everybody was able to get accli
mated to our new system."
The burning question as to who
will start at quarterback wasn't
resolved during spring practice.
Freshmen Rod Tinsley and
Demetrius Lewis showed promise,
but neither was able to establish a
clear advantage over the other.
For now, it's a neck-and-neck
race between the two. "They 're new.
and they're learning as they go,"
Boulware said.
With 140 days to go before the
season kicks off at UNC Pembroke
on Sept. 3, it's too early to tell what
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Kienus Boulware addresses his team after the
conclusion of Saturday's Spring Game.
Red vs. ISM?
Team Red defeats Team White,
20-16, in scrimage game
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE _
The WSSU Red Team's quarterback, Rod
Tinsley, scored on a six yard run with 2:52 left
to play, to give the Red Team a 20-16 win
over the -White Team Saturday in the
Winston-Salem State University Spring
Game.
Kicker William Johnson opened the scor
ing for the White Team in the first quarter
with a 33 yard field goal. The Red Team
answered in the second quarter, as William
Johnson tied the game with a 47-yard field
goal.
The White Team scored the day's first
touchdown, on a Demetrius Lewis to William
Belcher pass and catch for a touchdown.
William Johnson would bring the Red Team
closer, and bring the fans to their feet when,
with one second left before the half, he would
connect on a 54-yard field goal to bring the
score to White Team 10, Red Team 6 at the
half.
The Red Team would take their first lead
of the day when Kenneth Sharpe would go off
the right side for a 21-yard touchdown run to
put the Red Team on top, 13-10.
The White Team answered back with a
run of their own, when Entrone Jones went 45
yards through the middle for a score, to put
the White Team back out in front 16-13.
But it was the Red Team with the final
answer, as Rod Tinsley would take it himself
around the left end for a six-yard touchdown
run with 2:52 remaining to give the Red Team
with 20-16 win.
Kenneth Sharpe led the Red Team in rush
ing with seven carries for 48 yards and one
touchdown, while Malik Moseley rushed five
times for 27 yards. Rod Tinsley added one
rushing touchdown.
Tinsley finished 10 of 21 for 96 yards with
two interceptions. Rashan Williams had two
catches for 50 yards, while Anthony Bowen
(25 yds), Julian Primus (10 yards), Markus
Kershaw (2 yards) and Malik Moseley (2
yards) each had one catch. Canard Brown had
three catches for 4 yards.
Defensively for the Red Team, Anthony
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Track winners gearing up for championships
BY CRAIG T. GREENLEE
FOR THE CHRONICLE
West Forsyth pulled off a satisfying
double in winning the boys' and girls' team
titles at the Scott Brent Track and Field
Invitational held last weekend at Mount
Tabor.
"The Brent" is also known as the
Forsyth County Championships. It's the one
meet during the season in which all the pub
lic high schools in the county compete
against one another.
Even though the Brent is considered one
of the season's highlights, it also serves as a
building block for the remainder of the sea
son. Now, these track athletes turn their
attention to their respective conference
championships scheduled over the next two
weeks. The Piedmont area has several ath
letes who appear in the state rankings on the
NC Runners website (nc.milesplit.com).
Sprints
In retrospect, the boys' 200-meter dash
turned out to be a race of county champions.
Carver's Brian Sessoms was expected to
repeat his double as 100/200 champ from a
year ago. Sessoms won the 100 in a tightly
contested race over West Forsyth's Breon
Jenkins with wind-aided 10.88 seconds.
Jenkins bounced back to even the score
in the 200. He closed with a rush over the
final 20 meters to win by a step over
Sessoms. Jenkins was clocked in at 21.98
(wind-aided).
Sessoms and Jenkins will not have a
rematch. Carver (2-A) and West Forsyth (4
A) compete in different conferences and
they're in different classifications. Because
of that, the schools won't face each other in
the same regional and state championships.
The boys' 200 featured another Brent
winner, Chace Washington-Saunders of
Reagan who claimed the gold by winning
the 400 earlier in the day. Washington
Saunders won the 400 easily in 49.0 and
finished third in the 200 (22.34 wind
aided).
With the track season entering its final
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West Forsyth's Vernon Espinoza leads
the pack in the 800-meter run.
Deacons looking to make late-season surge
Photo by Craig T.
Greenlee
At the start
of this
week,
Deacons
senior
Matt Pirro
led the
ACC in
pitching
wins.
BY CRAIG T. GREENLEE
FOR THE CHRONICLE
With a little under a month left in the regular sea
son, Wake Forest remains hopeful that it has enough
left in its tank to make a serious run in the ACC
Baseball Tournament. When it comes to league play,
the Deacons (9-9) have gotten mixed results.
The most recent example was a road trip vs. Pitt.
In losing twice in the three-game series. Wake Forest
was victimized by spotty pitching in the opener (8-3
defeat) and lack of bat production in the third game.
The Deacons' bats were silent in an 8-4 loss in which
they went 1-for-12 at the plate with runners in scoring
position.
In the middle game, however, the Deacons drilled
eight extra-base hits in a 12-4 victory. Stuart Fairchild
went 4-for-5 and drove in five runs. Gavin Sheets hit
a three-run home run and Will Craig drove in three
runs.
There's still enough time left for Wake to put
together a late-season surge. Even so, it could be an
uphill battle. Right now, the Deacons are in the midst
of a two-week stretch that included road trips for nine
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Tiara Patterson-Mills of Mount
Tabor in action.