OVER 30 LEAGUE
Mule Riders Top Wannabes
During Close 65-56 Game
The Mule Riders defeated the Bridgers scored u game-high 26 for
Wannabes 65-56 last Thursday in the Has Beens.
the Brunswick County Over 30 Brunswick County
Men's Basketball League. Over 30 Men's League
Buddy Milliken scored 26 points Standings As Of Feb. 20
to lead the Mule Riders, who im- Team Wins Losses
proved to 4-0 on the season. Henry Mule Riders 4 0
Randolph had 15 for the Wannabes. Galloways Gang 2 1
In last Thursday's other game. Wannabes 2 1
Galloways Gang thrashed the Has Top Guns 1 1
Beens 74-56. Conel Jenkins scored Has Beens 0 3
18 points to lead the Gang, and Tim Dosher Hospital 0 3
BBQ, Yard Sale Aid Fire Dept.
A barbecue dinner and yard sale and hushpuppies.
this coming weekend will benefit Volunteers will deliver five or
the Grissettown-Longwood Volun- more plates in the Shallotte area,
teer Fire Department. Plates can be ordered in advance by
Barbecue dinners will be sold calling Judy Clemmons at 287-6686,
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and or on the day of the barbecue by
Saturday, Feb. 25 and 26, at the fire calling the station at 287-3030.
station on N.C. M04 north of Gris- The yard sale begins at 10 a.m.
settown. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the fire station.
Each 54 plate will include home- Both events will be held rain or
cooked pork barbecue, yams, slaw shine.
Edward E. Hayes, M.D.
& Glenn R. Gangi, M.D.
are pleased to announce the
opening of their office
limited to the practice of
UROLOGY
in Calabash
at Calabash Medical Center
Starting March 1
Please call 754-3093 to
schedule an appointment
Accepting: Medicare ? Medicaid
Participating with blue Cross/blue Shield Costwiae
(Self Deferrals Welcome
ClttM THl W<UNf,W>CK BFACON
FIRST GAME STARTS AT 5 PM
Tourney Opens Monday Al Whiteville
BY DOUG RUTTER
Local high school basketball
junkies will be up to their eyeballs
in roundballs next week when the
Waccamaw Conference's boys and
girls teams converge on Whiteville
High School for the annual league
tournament.
Play begins Monday night and
culminates Friday with the girls' and
boys' championship games. First
round contests are slated Monday
and Tuesday, with semifinals on
Wednesday and Thursday in the
Wolfpack Gym.
One dozen games will be played
over the five days. There should be
plenty of close ones among them,
especially on the boys' side where
all seven teams in the conference
have at least an outside chance of
winning.
Conference front-runners East
Columbus and Whiteville are ex
pected to battle for the tournament
title, but the league's five other
clubs could upset the Waccamaw
pecking order.
West Brunswick may be the
quickest team in the conference.
Pender has the explosive Tyronne
Jordan. West Columbus boasts the
conference's top scorer in Magellan
Powell. South Columbus is led by
Four Place
BY DOUG RUTTER
Ninth place was the best Bruns
wick County's contingent could do
at the North Carolina state high
school wrestling championships lasi
weekend in Greensboro.
All three of West Brunswick's
representatives and one wrestler
from North Brunswick finished
ninth in their respective weight clas
ses. Two other North wrestlers who
niiajifitHi for ihe loumanisnt did net
finish in the top 10.
Completing for the Trojans were
Ja Mitchell at 145 pounds, William
Stanley at 160 and Steve Brooks at
heavyweight. North Brunswick's
Adam King placed ninth at 189
pounds.
All four wrestlers lost their first
match, won the second and lost the
third. North's two other state quali
fiers, 135-pounder Mike Ganey and
152-pounder Josh Chadwick, lost
their only two matches in Greens
boro.
All six local wrestlers had quali
fied for the individual state champi
onships with top-four finishes at the
eastern regional tournament two
weeks ago in Williamston.
"I don't feel like we wrestled our
best," West Brunswick Coach Joe
Noble said of the state tournament.
"1 think we went up there a little ap
prehensive about being in 3A."
West Brunswick, due to growing
enrollment, moved up from the 2A
class this year. Noble said the com
WACCAMAW
CONFERENCE
BASKETBALL
STANDINGS
Through Monday, Feb. 21
BOYS
Team League Overall
EastColumbas 9-1 20-2
Whiteville 9-1 16-4
West Brunswick 5-6 9-13
Pender 4-6 10-11
South Columbus 4-7 8-13
West Columbus 3-7 7-11
South Brunswick 2-8 6-14
GIRLS
Turn League Overall
Whiteville 7-3 17-4
South Brunswick 7-3 13-8
East Columbus 6-4 10-12
South Columbus 5-6 11 -9
West Brunswick 5-6 8-14
Pender 3-7 10-11
West Columbus 3-7 5-14
high-jumping Brandon Simmons.
Even South Brunswick, which
will finish at or near the bottom in
the regular-season standings, could
be pesky with its four-corners of
fense and veteran coach Gene
Doane running the show.
On the girls' side. Whiteville and
South Brunswick arc the favorites to
face off in the championship game
for the third straight year. Coach
Mike lsenberg's Lady Cougars have
won two straight tournament titles.
West Brunswick's girls have
struggled at times this season but
could be dangerous if they make it
to the finals. The Lady Trojans
swept Whiteville this year, and won
their first game with South
Brunswick in triple overtime.
Tournament pairings will not be
finali/ed until the last regular-season
games are played Friday night. The
boys' and girls' top seeds will re
ceive first-round byes in the tourna
ment and automatic berths in the
semifinals.
The tournament will be the last
chance to qualify for the state play
offs for three boys' teams and three
girls' teams in the Waccamaw
Conference.
The league will receive four state
playoff berths this year for the boys
and four for the girls?two for the
2A schools and two for the 3A
schools.
The top regular-season finishers
in the 2A and 3A classifications,
based on won-loss record versus all
conference teams, will automatically
receive state playoffs berths.
The second-place teams in each
class (2A and 3A) also will make
Ihe playoffs unless a lower-seeded
team from the same class wins the
conference tournament, in which
case the tournament champ would
qualify.
Admission to the Waccamaw
Conference Tournament is $4 per
person Monday through Thursday
and $5 per person for the champi
onship games Friday night
Below is the tournament sched
ule:
?Monday, Feb. 28: No. 3 vs. No.
6 girls, 5 p.m.; No. 2 vs. No. 7 girls,
6:30 p.m.; No. 4 vs. No. 5 boys. X
p.m.
?Tuesday. March I: No. 4 vs. No.
5 girls. 5 p.m.; No. 3 vs. No. 6 boys,
6:30 p.m.: No. 2 vs. No. 7 boys. S
p.m.
?Wednesday, March 2 (semifi
nals): No. I vs. winner of No. 4 vs.
No. 5 girls, 6:3(1 p.m.; No. 1 vs. win
ner of No. 4 vs. No. 5 boys, 8 p.m.
?I'hursday. March 3 (semifinals):
Winner of No. 3 vs. No. 6 girls vs.
winner of No. 2 vs. No. 7 girls, 6:30
p.m.; winner of No. 3 vs. No. 6 boys
vs. winner of No. 2 vs. No. 7 boys. <S
p.m.
?Friday, March 4: Girls Champ
ionship Game, 6:30 p.m.; Boys
Championship Game, 8 p.m.
Ninth At S
petition was much stiffcr in the 3A
ranks than it was at the 1A/2A level.
Stanley, who took sccond place
and was the county's top finisher at
(lie casiciii icgionai, lost his first
state tournament match 20-6 to Joey
Bradford of Winston-Salem Glenn.
In the consolation bracket, Stan
ley won by default over Brevard's
Kenny Norman before losing in the
third round to Jason l.egg of Harnett
OlUIIIWj lllll.>IICU III.1*
high school career with a record of
56-29-1.
At 145 pounds, Mitchell opened
the state championships with a 1 fi
ll loss to Robbie I .ail of St. Ste
phens.
The West Brunswick junior came
back with a second-round win over
Marty Paxton of Concord. Mitchell
trailed 9-4 after the second period
tate Wrestling Tourney
but pulled out a 15-9 decision. bounded with a pin of his own in the
Mitchell was eliminated in the consolation brsckct. Brooks pinned
third round by Steven Bell of Sun Asheboro's Travis Daye in 2:22.
Valley, who won by a count of 17-1. In the third round. Jeff Sorrell of
Mitchell is 59-31 in three years with Eastern Randolph defeated Brooks
the Trojan wrestling team. 13-2. Brooks closed his high school
In the heavyweight division, career with a 54-26 record.
Brooks opened up against the even- West Brunswick senior Dexter
tual state runner-up. North Gaston's Cokeley was 59-34 for his career.
Fred Watson, who won by pintail in Junior Chris Jackson, a fifth-place
4:23. finisher at 125 pounds in the eastern
Brooks, who will play fuotba!! regional, is 5!) 9 over the !a:;t two
next fall at North Carolina A&T, re- years.
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