Patriots Drop Opening Game 21-7 To Powerful Enka Team
The Madison Patriots open
ed the 1979 football season at
O.E. Roberts Stadium last
Friday against Enka, losing to
a heavier team by a score of
21-7.
The Patriots played a hard
and spirited game, but the
decisive difference was the
running, kicking and tackling
of a one-man team named Bob
Baldwin, Enka's talented
junior halfback. Time after
time, Baldwin bulldozed
through the Patriots' defen
sive line for 5- and 10-yard
gains. He also did the punting 1
and made a number of sure I
tackles.
The Enka line outweighed
Madison on both offense and
defense at times moving the
Patriots almost at will. Again
and again the right side of
Help Available For Cover Crops
With the harvest of bur ley
tobacco and other crops under
way and soon to be completed,
this brings a need for winter
cover crop to protect the land
from winter erosion.
W.B. Zink, county executive
director of ASCS, has an
nounced that government
cost-sharing is available
through ASCS for winter cover
crop and requests may be filed
anytime.
"Cost-sharing is limited to
seedbed preparation, seed and
the seeding operation, at the
rate of $4 per acre," said Zink.
"It is not authorized for
designated set-aside acreage
or volunteer stands."
Mars Hill Lions Play
Season Opener Sept. 8
The 1979 season begins for
the Mars Hill Lions Sept. 8
with a home game against
Liberty Baptist of Lynchburg,
Va.
The Lions were expected to
have an extremely .strong
defense, with nine of 11
starters returning from last
year's team. But end Greg
Plemmons died in an off
season auto accident, cor
nerback Admiral Webster
tranferred elsewhere to ar
chitecture, and noseguard
David Harrison has been
suspended for five games
because of a dormitory rules
infraction. Nevertheless,
Coach Claude Gibson feels
there is still good defensive
strength in his returning
lettermen and new recruits.
On offense, Gibson says
there is still no quarterback
firmly established in the
position, and also that more
offensive line depth is needed.
Mars Hill finished seventh
last year in the eight-team
South Atlantic Conference,
with a 2-5 conference recod
The team was 5-7 overall,
however, and even this record
does not indicate the team's
strength. The defense led the
SAC-8, holding opponents to a
field goal or less four times.
And the Lions lost four games
by a total of 10 points. This
year Coach Gibson is ex
pecting that the Lions will
raise their standing on this
basis ? even if they simply
play as well as they did last
year.
The seeding must be per
formed in accordance with
good farming practices, which
include a well prepared seedb
ed, a full seeding of adapted
seed and the application of
lime, and phosphate and
potash where necessary to
assure a good stand and good
growth, Zink said.
Pasturing consistent with
good management may be
permitted, but none of the
growth may be harvested for
hay or seed. A good stand and
growth must be obtained and
kept on the land until Feb. 15
for rye and March 1 for all
other seeds.
Zink also said that a limited
amount of funds are available
for other government cost
sharing practices, such as per
manent vegetative cover
establishment and permanent
vegetative cover improve
ment.
Assistance and complete
details for these practices are
available at the ASCS Office.
Any farmer desiring cost
sharing should visit the office
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
The National Association of
Engine and Boat Manufac
turers estimates that more than
50 million persons participated
in recreational boating in 1976.
ALVIN WILSON and the Happy
Valley Boys entertained the
public with first-rate bluegrass in
Hot Springs Sept. 1. Goose
Gosnell, at? left, emceed the event.
Wilson says his base player, far
right, is the only one-armed man
he knows of to slap a string bass -
and he says there is none better
than he's heard. The music was
sponsored by the Trail Cafe.
A LION-HEARTED dart thrower
aims for six target balloons at the
Lions lawn fair on the site of the
old hotel in Hot Springs.
Enka's offensive Hue battered
holes for Baldwin to plunge
through. Baldwin, weighing
182, would then reach the
secondary at full steam where
the Patriot defensive backs,
most of them weighing ISO,
would have to wrestle him to
the ground.
Madison's touchdown came
on a clean breakaway by
quarterback Tim Wilde in the
third quarter. Wilde, seconds
after entering the game to
replace senior Phil Bentley,
sprinted untouched through
the right side of the line for SO
yards to the end zone.
Hensley's point-after was
good.
Following this dramatic
play, however, the Baldwin
machine, aided by sophomore
halfback Kevin Trantham and
senior fullback Scott White,
resumed its pressure on the
Madison defense, grinding to
the S-yard line with eight
minutes to play. Bob Baldwin
built up steam for the TD but
was stopped on the two on a
superb shoestring tackle by
Tim Merrill. Enka scored on
the next play, however, and
the Patriots could not come
back despite several good
runs by Mike Hensley.
With four minutes left Enka
began another march:
Baldwin to the right for 15;
Baldwin up the center, un
touched until met by
145-pound Tim WiMe; Baldwin
to the >3; Trantham finding a
hole to the IS. Then, with just
It seconds left, quarterback
Jeff Andrews lobbed a pass
over the line to 6-foot-3 end Bill
McElrath for a third
touchdown.
Enka used a right shift in
their backfield on nearly half
their plays, concentrating
their running attack time
after time on the left side of
the Patriots' defense. For the
first eight minutes of the
game, every play went to the
right.
Noseguard Greg Meadows
played an outstanding game
on defense despite frequent
double-teaming as did defen
sive back Lee Hoffman.
Dwayne Buckner, Lome Max
well, Steve Adams, Tim Mer
rill, Kevin Barnette, Phil
Bentley and Mark Fox also did
an effective job at preventing
the hard running Baldwin
from breaking away for any
long gains.
Mike Hensley's kicking was
outstanding; his punts were
high spirals that held the Enka
Jets to short runbacks. Lee
Hoffman had several good
runs, including a 20-yard
kickoff return to open the se
cond half._
Hot Springs Fair
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plays guitar in Nashville with
Jim Ed Brown.
"We play just about all the
traditional bluegrass songs,"
he said, raising his voice
against a passing Southern
Railway coal train. "We were
doing 'Orange Blossom
Special' a few minutes ago
when along came a train and
joined right in, waa-a waa-a
waa-a. We can't compete with
that!"
One unusual aspect of
Wilson's band is the string
bass player, who has only one
arm. He lost the other to
gangrene years ago after a
bad burn. He lays the fiddle
flat, plucking with his right
hand and "fingering" with his
left foot. Wilson says he
doesn't know of a better bass
player anywhere.
A leading attraction of the
Lions lawn fair was the half
mile float trip down the
French Broad, organized by
Rich Wist, the owner of
Smokey Mountain River Ex
peditions. For $1 kids and
adults alike got to paddle and
splash from the raft com
pany's headquarters
downriver to the old hotel site.
"It was great," said one dripp
ing 10-year-old boy after
reaching dry land. "There's
this one real good place where
you just go straight down, like,
and it seems like you're just
falling, and then you come
back up again."
According to Wist, the float
company charges $22 per per
son for a day-long river trip,
from Barnard to Hot Springs;
Madison County residents go
at half fare. Next year he will
charge $25 for non-residents
and $15 for residents.
On the 80-acre grounds of
the old brick hotel, the Lions'
fair was going strong, featur
ing a hayride, flea market,
games, concessions, grilled
burgers and franks, and
bingo, as well as the river
rides. "The turnout has been
good," said Bernie Pfeifley,
the Lions' president. "Things
will really be humming after
dark when we get ready for
the fireworks. We're very
pleased."
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It's Kick Off Time!
MIKE HENSLEY KICKS OFF in against Enka at O.E. Roberts
the Patriots' opening game Memorial Stadium.