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Also More Stories, Religion and Classifieds November 24, 2016
Winston-Salem Prep hires new girls hoops coach
BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
THE CHRONICLE
Going into the season
as the two-time North
Carolina High School
Athletic Association
(NCHSAA) 1-A state
champion, the Lady
Phoenix of Winston-Salem
Prep will face everyone's
best effort. For Prep they
come into this season with
a myriad of unknowns,
such as integrating almost
an entire new roster along
with a new head varsity
coach
The Phoenix won those
two state championships
under former coach Eugene
Love, who left Prep to take
another coaching position
in Ohio. They will now be
led by interim head coach
Kent Phillips. Prep initial
ly tabbed Bill Tibbs as
Love's replacement in July,
but he resigned shortly
before the girls were to hit
the practice floor, citing
personal reasons.
With only two days
before practice was to
begin, Winston-Salem Prep
athletic director Zach
Hargett had to make a
quick but appropriate deci
sion. He said that even
though Phillips was not the
school's first choice, it
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Photo by Timothy Ramsey
In his first year at
Winston-Salem Prep,
interim head coach
Kent Phillips will lead
the Lady Phoenix var
sity basketball team.
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Kerpersville overwhelms Prep in |
boys' njiiddfle school vollOyball ;
BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
THE CHRONICLE
Much of what makes a good team is
based ton continuity and teamwork rather
than sheer talent. For the boys of
Kernersville Middle, they have a little of it
all. They put those skills on full display as
they beat the Phoenix of Winston-Salem
21-5
Prep in two dominating volleyball sets.
As Set One opened, the Hawks wasted
little time asserting their dominance,
jumping out to a 7-2 lead. The boys of
Winston-Salem Prep made a little run,
prompting a timeout from Kemersville
with die score at 10-6. The Hawks quickly
composed themselves coming out of the
timeout and stretched the lead out to 16-10
behind some quality serving.
The Phoenix tried to m%ke the neces
sary adjustments in an attempt to get back
into the set but Kemersville held tough,
closing out the set with a powerful spike
from their front line.
The second set started off as though it
were a close one. Kemersville only led by
one with the score at 4-3. Kemersville
then went on a run led by Daryn Reid, Tola
Oduyoye, Camden Parrish and Garrett
Walker to stretch the lead to 10-4. Prep
was then forced to take a timeout to slow
down the Hawks. The timeout did not
work as Dalton Pike and "fyler Williams of
Kernersville made sure there would be no
comeback and closed out the set by the
score of 21-5.
Winston-Salem Prep head coach
Dwayne Leach says he knows that with
having only six players on his team they
are thin but they play hard. He says he
knows with more practice his team will
continue to improve.
"1 thought we played pretty well and
we kept the score close during the first
game," Leach said. "They didn't get down
when we were behind but we made a lot of
mistakes that gave them opportunities, so
we have to just shore that up and capitalize
on our chances.
"I think our guys are starting to get
together. They started pretty late as far
them practicing together but they are
gelling. We have a small squad, but we are
now learning what we can do."
Kernersville coach Amy Bunch said
her team has a great mix of upperclassmen
and sixth-graders and they all help one
another get better every day.
"The guys all worked together and
communicated well and they served strong
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The Kernersville player is set to serve the ball in the game against Winston
Salem Prep.
WSSU Rams fall to LIU Post in first- round heartbreaker
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LONG ISLAND, N Y.
, ? Winston-Salem State bat
tled back from a 17-point half
time deficit to outscore Long
Island Post, 24-14 in the sec
ond half, but fell just short, as
the Rams would fall 48-41 to
the Pioneers on Saturday
afternoon at BethDaee Federal
Credit Union Stadium in Brookville, NY.
The Rams' season comes to an end at 9-3, while the
LIU Post Pioneers improve to 12-0, and advance to the
second round of the NCAA DII Playoffs.
The WSSU Rams were able to score first, when
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Jayron .Rankin picked off a LIU pass and returned it 35
yards' for a score, with a little more than 1:34 seconds into
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the game. Will Johnson converted the PAT, to put WSSU
up 7-0.
Long Island answered back with a 10-yard pass and
catch for a touchdown, as Jeff Kidd hooked up with Shane <?
Hubbard for the score to tie the game at 7-7.
The Pioneers scored again in the first quarter, when
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