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SPORTS/The Charlotte Post
Thursday, May 25, 2000
Blazers take 14-under AAU title
SPORTS SHORTS
The Concord Blazers won the
14-under N.C. AAU basketball
championship by beating the
Triangle Knights 73-64.
The Blazers roared to a 44-16
lead at halftime and coasted to
their 15th win in as many
games. In earlier tournament
games, Concord beat the Walie
County Sting 77-54 and the
Greensboro Gators 66-55 in the
semifinals.
The Blazers will play in the
Hall of Fame Classic in
Knoxville, Term. Friday before
hosting the Blazers Invitational
Tournament June 10 in Concord.
• Joy Newsome and Victory
Christian Center’s girls basket
ball team made school history
this year.
Newsome averaged 22 points
per game in the postseason to
lead VCC to the N.C.
Independent Schools Athletic
Association and National
Association of Christian Athletes
championships. Newsome, a 5-7
forward,averaged 16.5 points
through the Southern Piedmont
Athletic Association tournament,
then improved to 22 points, 4
assists and 10 rebormds in the
postseason. She also averaged
four steals a game for VCC,
which finished the season 26-5.
• Jim Dent Jr. won the
Ridgewood Golf Club’s touma-
EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS
EVERYONE’S CONCERNS
The Concord Blazers won the 14-under N.C. AAU basketball title last
week with a 73-64 win over the Triangle Knights.
ment in Columbia, S.C., last
week.
Dent fired a two-round total of
151, four shots better than
Wanda Green and six strokes
better than Robert Whetstone in
the championship flight.
Bill Barrett topped the seniors
flight with 157. Stanley Foggie
was second, also at 157 and Ben
Dawson was third at 159.
Suzann Kemp won the ladies
flight with 200, nine shots better
than Linda Jones.
Results from the Ridgewood
Golf Club tournament at
Columbia, S.C.
Championship flight: Jim Dent
Jr. 151; Wanda Green 155; Robert
Whetstone 157.
Senior flight: Bill Barrett 157;
Stanley Foggie 157; Ben Dawson
159.
Ladies flight: Suzann Kemp 200;
Linda Jones 209; Eva Hannon 212.
First flight: Curtis Wilson 156;
Eveme Carr 160; Virgil Wynn 160.
Second flight: Thad Washington
165; Wyatt Blackmon 165; Doug
Blackwell 166.
Third flight: Paul Hampton 174;
Blue Abney 174; Les Bradstreet 174.
Fourth flight: Murray Wood 181;
David HiU 186; Ceven Liverman
187.
Aggression pays for Portland in Game 2
Continued from page 16A
they used in Game 1, but with
much different results. They lost
the opener 109-94 Saturday.
“We added a little bit more
aggression,” said Brian Grant,
whose defense on Shaquille
O’Neal resulted in the Lakers
center getting 23 points, 12
rebounds and four fouls.
The Blazers scored the game’s
first eight points, punctuated by
Pippen’s slam dunk off a steal by
Steve Smith. That quieted the
crowd of 18,997 at Staples
Center. But Portland played its
best in the third quarter, outscor-
ing the Lakers 28-8, which tied
the Los Angeles franchise playoff
record for fewest points in a
quarter.
“We all knew we were all going
to come out with attitude.
Everybody had attitude in differ
ent areas,” Grant said. “We were
able to post up and kind of get
them rattled. Whoever was post
ing up, we just wanted to go at
them hard.”
Portland scored 17 points off
the Lakers’ 14 turnovers, while
committing just seven miscues
that resulted in no points for Los
Angeles. Rasheed Wallace had
29 points and 12 rebormds in 46
minutes, proving how costly his
ejection after 16 minutes was in
Game 1.
“Everyone went out there
enthusiastic and in an attack
mode,” he said. “Coach D (Mike
Dunleavy) just wanted us to tiy
our inside shots and rebound
well.”
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Sting nursing wounds
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tjie next year. As soon as the WNBA season wraps up in August,
^e’s off to Sydney, Australia with the U.S. women’s team for the
Rummer Olympics. When that wraps up in early October, Staley
dtarts her first season as head coach of Temple’s women.
PT haven’t had a summer off for quite sometime so my plate is
liind of always full,” she said. “It’s probably a good thing for me
because now I know I have the WNBA, I have the Olympics, then
E have Temple, so I have three things. I’ve kind of narrowed
everything down to three things and I’m not going to be all over
the place. I’ll know where I’ll be - in either Charlotte, Sydney or
in I’ll be in Philadelphia.”
;When Staley’s healthy again, she knows she’ll be back on the
floor directing the Sting’s offensive and defensive attack. Staley
plans to take even more of a leadership role this season especial-
Ijf since power forward Vicky Bullett was traded in the off-season.
• “I think we’ve got a lot of young players here, a lot of players
who may have not played in the WNBA, so they’re definitely
going to need some leadership,” Staley said. “I’ll be more
qssertive than I was last year.”
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