TROIANS RIPPED BY FAIRMONT West Brunswick Rebounds To W hip South Robeson 86-64 BY JOHNNY CRAIG West Brunswick rebounded from its worst loss of the prep basketball season last Tuesday with an 86-64 romp Friday over host South Rob eson in Waccamaw 2-A Conference play. Earlier in the week the Trojans lost their first game of the current five-game road swing by a nearly identical 85-64 count. The Trojans, now 8-2 in the WC and 16-3 overall, return home Friday for the first time in three weeks to host North Brunswick. West Brunswick visits East Bladen next Tuesday in its final road game of the regular season. "I really didn't know what to ex pect after the loss to Fairmont which roughed us up a bit," said West Brunswick coach Billy Mims of his team's league win at South Robeson. "I was pleased with the way we came back." South Robeson After a sluggish opening 12 min utes, the Trojans came alive with a second-half rally that began just be fore the halftime break to pound South Robeson for the second time this season, 86-64. "We looked pretty tight in the first quarter but midway in the sec ond period we began executing as we are used to," said Mims. "We re ally built a good lead in the third quarter on the play of Jerome Mar lowe and James Clarida." Marlowe and Clarida, a pair of Trojan reserves, started for the first time this season to help the team re group after the loss to Fairmont. "Both Jerome and James de served to play because of their per formances in practice of late. Some thing needed to be done after our loss against Fairmont," added Mims. "Sometime during the later stages of this season, the conference tournament or the state playoffs, we're going to need some extra people to come in and get the job done. Giving our reserves the chance to play tonight will help us in the long run." Both teams ended the opening period in an 18-18 deadlock before the Trojans inched ahead 41-35 at the half. West Brunswick continued to pull away in the third quarter leading 66-49 and the Trojans outscorcd South Robeson 20-15 in the final period. Ricky Daniels led the Trojans with 38 points after being held to a season-low 13 against Fairmont. Shawn Bowcns added 13 for West while LaPcriy Hill followed with eight. William Odom and Willie Davis scored 13 points each for South Robeson (1-7, 5-13) and Tracy Jacobs added 12. Score By Quarters West Brunswick 18 23 25 20 ? 86 South Robeson 18 17 14 15 ? 64 West Brunswick scoring: Bowcns 13, Marlowe 6, Grissctt 2, Lance 5, Hill 9, Mitchell 5, Reaves 8, Daniels 38. South Robeson scoring: Odom 13, Davis 13, Jacobs 12, Norris 6, Alford 6, Locklear 3, Paris 1, Hunt 6, Taylor 4. Fairmont West Brunswick received its worst defeat since a 71-48, season ending loss to South Brunswick on Feb. 23, 1990, in last Tuesday's am bush at Fairmont. Despite the absence of three starters, including leading scorer Jonathon Grissctt, the Golden Tor nadoes (7-3, 17-3) pounced on the visiting Trojans early for an 85-64 romp to gain a temporary share of second place in the Waccamaw Conference. "This was our worst game of the year," said Mims. It wasn't bccausc wc just didn't shoot well or rebound well ? we just plain didn't get after people." "We just didn't husdc nor did wc play with any intensity. After look ing at the game films, wc should have lost by 40 points," said Mims. Fairmont rolled up a 29-10 lead in the First quarter while hitting three of four three-point shot at tempts. The Trojans were able to cut into the Golden Tornado advantage only slightly in the second period and trailed 48-32 at the half. "Wc may have taken them a little lightly after Finding out they were missing three starters. But Fairmort has a pretty deep lineup and it cer tainly helped them tonight," added Mims. The Trojans closcd within 14 points, 61-47, in the third quarter but Fairmont used a 24-17 scoring edge in the final period to protect the win. "Our reserves played the final five minutes and did better than our starters," explained Mims. Daniels led the Trojans with a season-low 13 points while Hill and Bowens followed with 10 each. Corey Alison led four Golden Tornadoes in double figures with 19 points followed by Chris Hunt with 18, Demetrius Wittingham with 15 and Terance Watson 12. Score By Quarters West Brunswick 10 22 15 17 ? 64 Fairmont 29 19 13 24 ? 85 West Brunswick scoring: Bowens 10, Johnson 8, Marlowe 5, Grissett 2, Hill 10, Mitchell 3. Hughes 3, Reaves 8, Daniels 1 3, Clarida 2. Fdrmont scoring: Watson 12, Alison 19, Wittingham 15, Hunt 18, Taylor 6, Vaught 6, Ghee 4, Hinson 5. COUGS TOP W EST COLUMBUS . SCORPIONS South Brunswick Boys Strengthen Conference Lead STAFF rHOTOS BY JOHNNY CRAIG COUGAR BLOCK ? South Brunswick's Preston McGriff (41) blocks Nate Frink of West Columbus from driving to the basket during Friday's Waccamaw 2-A Conference contest The Cougars won 79-67 and remained unbeaten in league play (10-0) while im proving to 16-3 overall. Milliken's Leads Co Milliken's defeated the Beach Bums last Tuesday to remain in first place in the Brunswick County Co Ed Volleyball League. In other league results last week, the Tar Heels downed Larry's Bar, Gene's Body Shop won over Roberto's Pizza and Richard Jones Construction topped topped Bruns wick Community College. League play continues next Tuesday at Shalloue Middle School with four more matches sched uled ? Roberto's vs. Milliken's at 7 p.m., Larry's Bar vs. Beach Bums at 7:45 p.m? Gene's Body Shop vs. Brunswick Community College at 8:30 p.m. and Tar Heels vs. Jones d Volleyball League Construction at 9:15 p.m. Also, makeup dates have been scheduled for the matches postponed from Jan. 15 and Jan. 29. All match es will be played Mar. 5 and Mar. 12 respectively at their original times. Brunswick County Co-Ed Volleyball League Standings as of Monday, Feb. 11 Team W L Milliken's 8 1 Tar Heels 7 2 Gene's Body Shop 6 3 Jones Construction 6 3 Beach Bums 6 3 Roberto's Pizza 3 6 Larry's Bar 1 8 Brunswick Comm.College..,0 9 STATEMENT SAVINGS 7.00% 7.25% ANNUAL YIELD RATE ?$100.00 Minimum Balance ?Unlimited Withdrawals ?Interest Posted Quarterly ?Interest Compounded Daily C|t*c4a Business Hours ^ ni5l Mon.-Thurs. 5s=S Investors ^ Fri. 9AM-6PM savings bank Drive-In Opens _ at 8:30 AM Coastal Plaza XxfiO/ ShallOtte, NC 28459 ei?i rue srunswick beacon 754-5400 BY JOHNNY CRAIG South Brunswick used a pair of league basketball wins over West Columbus, 79-67, and North Bruns wick, 74-55, last week to extend its Waccamaw 2-A Conference lead to two full games in the loop stand ings. The Cougars used the wins to re main unbeaten in league play and improve to 10-0 and 16-3 overall. The remaining members of the league's first division ? West Brans wick, Fairmont and Whitcvillc ? all lost one conference contest last week to help put South Brunswick in the driver's scat for its first cage crown in school history. West Columbus It was just the type of game South Brunswick coach Gene Doane was afraid of as his Cougars struggled to edge past the Wacca maw Conference cellar-dwelling West Columbus Vikings. Not until an early fourth-quarter spurt were the league-leading Coug ars assured of picking up the win in a key week in the Waccamaw Conference cage race. "We start out with a 13-point lead and all of a sudden nobody can make a layup," said Doane. "For the first time, everybody in the confer ence is shooting at South Bruns wick. Thai's something that none of these kids have experienced." "We devastated their defensive press but just made bad judgment in getting the shots and making the layups. It's a long season and we've hit the fiat spot now. We just have to be ready to come out of this and be ready to play from here on out in the sketch, " added Doane. 'This was a tough game for the kids to get up for. And the worst thing that could happen is getting out to a big early lead and every thing is going smooth. Then all of a sudden we are trying to make things happen without playing proper de fense and executing like we should." Sophomore guard Josh White helped key the early Cougar run that sent them up 13-0. White scored seven of the points and dished out an explosive assist that forward Greg Williams turned into an alley-oop slam dunk to the de light of the South Brunswick crowd. West Columbus responded with six straight points of its own and with 2:30 remaining in the opening period the Vikings still trailed by only seven, 17-10. However, South Brunswick went on a 8-0 tear keyed by the play of Mike Cole that sent the Cougars to a 25-10 lead at the end of the peri od. West Columbus' Franklin Mc Donald scored seven of his 16 points in the second period as the Vikings struggled to stay within striking distance of the Cougars. McDonald converted on a three point play with 28 seconds remain ing to cut ihc South Brunswick lead to 38-3 1 but the Cougars scored the final four points of the period for a 42-31 halftime advantage. West Columbus outscored the Cougars 9-1 in the first 1:37 of the second half to cut the South Brunswick lead to one, 43-42. South Brunswick outscored the Vikings 8-4 in the final 1:17 of the third quarter to pull ahead 61-54. The Vikings' James Greene scored his only points at the start of the final quarter to cut the South Brunswick lead to 61-56 but West Columbus would never gel closer in the time remaining. The Cougars outscored the Vikes 12-1 during the next four minutes to race to a 73-57 lead and West Columbus never got closer than 1 1 points in the last three minutes. White led South Brunswick with 24 points and Williams added 21. Preston McGriff also scored 13 for the Cougars. Kcno Jones scored 20 points and McDonald 16 for West Columbus (1-10, 6-12). South Brunswick also won the ju nior varsity game, 77-59. Scooter Moore scored 26 points to lead the Cougars. Score By Quarters West Columbus 10 21 23 12?67 South Brunswick 25 17 19 18?79 West Columbus scoring: Frink 3, Freeman 6, Greene 2, McDonald 16, Latham 7, Jones 20, Roberts 13. South Brunswick scoring: White 24, Williams 21, Smith 8, McGriff 13, Parker 7, Cole 4, Fullwood 2. North Brunswick McGriff scored 12 of his team leading 21 points in the fourth quar ter to lead South Brunswick to its 74-55 win over the host Scorpions. South Brunswick led 14-13 in the first quarter but the Cougars used a big 23-9, second-period advantage to build a commanding 37-22 half time bulge. The Cougar lead grew to 53-30 in the third quarter before North Brunswick managed to outscore South 23-21 in the final period. Williams scored 15 points to help the Cougar cause and White added 12. Dwaync Waddell led North Brunswick (2-8, 6-12) with 23 poinLs and Greg Waddell added 12. Score By Quarters South Brunswick 14 23 16 21 ? 74 North Brunswick 13 9 8 23 ? 55 South Brunswick scoring: Mc Griff 21, Williams 15, White 12, Hankins 4, Fullwood 2, Parker 8, Cole 2, M. Smith 8, K. Smith 1. North Brunswick scoring: D. Waddell 23, G. Waddell 12, Bald win 6, Walker 8, Toomer 2, Lowcry r * WHITE LAY VP-South Bruns wick's Josh White breaks away for a lay up in the Cougars' 79 67 Waccamaw 2 -A Conference win over West Columbus last Friday. White scored 24 points to lead the first-place Cougars to their 10th straight confer ence win this season. IS I N G 0 Thursday Nights ? Doors open 6:15 pm at Calabash VFW Post 7288 Carter R