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SPORTING SCENE The Day We Crashed Philadelphia's Parade Did you sec those crazy New Yorkers "celebrating" last week following Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals? Were you watching ESPN when th cab stand into the crowd below? What was that all about? Big deal. The New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup. Whoopie! They ended a 54-year championship drought. OK. so I admit the Rangrrs' fsns had something special to celebrate. If I was a Rangers fan, I probably would have done something crazy too. or at least screamed real loud. The whole celebration scene got me thinking back to the spring of 1974. At the time. I was a member of Miss Fisher's third-grade class at Lima Elementary School near Philadelphia, Pa. I was also a pretty big fan of the Philadelphia Flyers, known in those days as the Broad Street Bullies for their "physical" style of play. I loved the Flyers. Whenever us kids in the neighborhood got together to play street hockey, we'd pretend to be Flyer greats like Bcrnie Parent, Bobby Clarke. Reggie Leach. Dave Schultz, Rick McLeish, Don Kelly, Moose Dupont... In the mid-1970s, the Flyers were awesome. When they finally captured their first Stanley Cup in 1974, the city went nuts. The Flyers, like every other championship team, were honored with their own parade. As coincidence would have it, the parade for the Flyers fell on the same day as Miss Fisher's ciass field trip to Philadelphia. I can't remember if we went ?n the zoo or to 2 museum that day. The only thing I remember was the bus ride home. One minute, we were winding briskly through the city streets pretty as you please. The next thing ! know, oui yclluw mHoo! bus came to a hail smack dab in the middle of the parade. There we were, two dozen energized Flyer fanatics, suddenly part of the frenzied celebration. This was certainly the greatest thing that had ever hap pened to any of us. We all rushed to open our little school bus windows and started shout ing and waving at the equally-energized parade watchers gathered on the sidewalk below. Tons of white confetti floated through the windows and piled up on the floor of our bus. We all took our empty orange juice containers and flung them out the windows into the crowd. !t wasn't a particularly nicc thing to do. but it seemed like a good idea at the time. People spilled over from the sidewalk into the street and began rocking our bus back and forth, not enough to cause panic, just enough to give us a thrill. It wasn't long before our bus driver found his way out of the parade and got us heading in the right direction again. But not before giving me one of the greatest days a young Flyer fan could have imagined. We got back to school a little later than expected that afternoon, but we kids weren't complaining. That unf best field trin svsr. I wish 1 could remember where we went. ose idiots jumped off the top of a taxi Doug Rutter Sports Editor COED SOFTBALL LEAGUE Mt. Olive Clinches First Mt. Olive clinched the Brunswick Baptist Association Coed Softball League regular-season champion ship Saturday with a 29-3 win over Brunswick Islands at Lockwood Folly Park. ML Olive (14 0) hsd a chains U> close out the regular season undefeat ed Tuesday night with a game against Southport "A" at Smithville Park. Gospel Center improved its sec ond -pi ace record to 11-2 Saturday night with a 13-8 victory over Mt. Pisgah. In other games. Calvary knocked off Shell Point 12-5, Bolivia defeat ed Mill Creek 9-6 and Faith "A" posted an 1 1-4 win over Faith "B." Brunswick Baptist Assn. L BOOKWORM We're at our new location before the Holden Beach Causeway, next to True Value and across from Archibald's. 842-7380 Coed Softball League Standing* Thro?igh June 19 TEAM WINS LOSSES Mt Olive 14 0 Gospel Center 1 1 2 Southport "A? 7 2 Souuipon ~B" 1U 3 Faith "A" 9 3 Bolivia 8 S Faith "B" 6 5 Calvary 7 7 Mt. Pisgah 6 6 Bethel-OI-Bch Road 6 8 Supply 4 9 Shell Point 3 9 Lebanon 2 9 Southport "C" 2 9 Mill Creek 2 10 Brunswick Islands 2 11 Shallotte Health Foods Bring This Ad In For 10% Off Purchase MM I. ihM Natural Vitamins and Herbs ? Organic Foods Nutrition Books, Health and Beauty Aids Sports Nutrition Come see Maddie, Betty or Helen. 4564 Main Street ? Shallotte 754-2113 Rsia Baker Insurance Service, Inc 5818 E. Oak Island Drive, Long Beach, NC 28465 TOO MANY TICKETS? D.W.I.? We can save you money! LOW MONTHLY PAYMENTS "Discount on D.W.I's" ?Auto Liability *Auto Collision -Motorcycles ?Learner's Permit -Sports Cars -Mobile Homes ANY DRIVER ? ANY AGE ? ANY VEHICLE MepeM \ DL 1 23's t0 9et driver's license Immediate Coverage Weekdays 9-5:30, Saturdays 9-1 Call for Prices.. .1-800-872-9876 278-3081 American Legion Exploring Support For Centrally-Located Ball Field BY SUSAN USHER Danny Gore and fellow Bruns wick County Legionnaires arc pur suing a dream they believe can be come reality in two to three years. They want a centrally-located baseball field, accessible to students from all three county high schools for American Legion play. If all goes well a ballpark could be built by the American Legion on the Brunswick Community College campus and given to the college, years earlier than the ballfield al ready marked on the master plan for the campus. BCC Trustees gave Gore permis sion last week to spend the next two months investigating the feasibility of the project. He is to return with a more detailed study and a projected timetable. "Before it can be finalized," BCC's Building and Grounds Chair man A1 Woolen suggested, "I'd like to have our lawyers draw up a con tract to make sure what they say they will do, they will dn " This season two American Legion teams in the county ? one serving the Leland area and the other serv ing the South port -Oak Island and Shallotte areas ? merged into one team for youths ages IS to 18. But the team plays at North Brunswick High School in Leland, said Gore, which creates a hardship for stu dents in the opposite reaches of the county. Only two West Brunswick students are involved in Legion ball this season. "We don't get a whole lot of par ticipation from those areas because the kids don't have the time and can't afford to drive that far," said Gere, a Shallotte resident and athlet ic director for American Legion Post 445 at Winnabow. As envisioned by Gore, the field would be owned by BCC and its use control led and scheduled by BCC, with American Legion provided use of the Held from mid-May through mid-July, or slightly longer if the team makes the playoffs. He Dronosc5. that JTiaintenance be Catamaran Sinks Off Holden Holden Beach's water nwi* unit "ved three SsTsrday after their catamaran sank several hundred yanis offshore. Holden Beach Police Chief Robert Cook said four men launched the boat from the beach in the vicinity of 150 Ocean Blvd. West. There are small holes in each pontoon to lei the water drain out and they forgot to pat the plug? in," Cook sad. "They got aboe* 500 yards offshore and it sunk." Cook said one of the men swam ashore and the water rescue squad went out to pick up the other three and the boat. The chief said one ot the men had the tip ot his ieh index anger pinched off while the group was trying to light the boat.' New Chief Reports At Annual Calabash EMS Board Meeting Frank Egan, newly elected chief of the Calabash Volunteer Emer gency Medical Service, told the an nual general board of directors' meeting that the squad answered 7i0 calls during the year 1993-94, working 2.289 manhours and travel ing 24,844 miles. The meeting took place June 7, with 23 attending. Egan said 326 calls were in Cal abash, 141 in Sunset Beach 243 wiifc 7! for ? .urua! aid for Waccamaw and 66 for Shallotte. There are 17 active squad mem bers. The chief assured the member ship that the local squad, comple mented by the county service, pro vide. complete coverage. The following board officers were elected: Kathy Morfit, president; Lina Angstadt, vice president; Jack Brady, treasurer; and Maryn Hall, secretary. Andy Campbell and Ro bert Correll were elected two-year board members. Walter Dodge was elected one-year board member. Holdover board members are Frances Wrenn and Thomas Lynch. Morfit thanked those attending for their support and expressed ap preciation to squad members and thrift shop workers for their "devo tion to service to the community." a "joint effort" of the college, the American Legion and Brunswick County Parks and Recreation Department, with a long-range goal of establishing an endowment to provide for perpetual maintenance of a "first-class field" at no expense to the college. Tending the Bermuda grass in field, he suggested, would provide practical experience in turf manage ment and irrigation for students in BCC's recreational grounds man agement curriculum. Gore said he foresees the project being constructed in stages, starting with a field that must be built to ma jor league park specifications, fenc ing. dugouts, press box and sprinkler system, for an estimated cost of $50,000. Restroom facilities and a parking area would come later. "I don't see this being a one-year project," he said. "I see this as a two- to three-year project. We don't want there to be any cost to the col lege." Local Anjcricsii Legion [aou would raise some of the money through events such as their annual fish fries, which support the Legion bascbaii program, and through SGuuCitatiOuS in iii? coniiii unity. He said several industries have already pledged their support. Gore anticipates working with the county recreation department to seek possible grunts, and has contacted the N.C. National Guard about the possibility of an engineering unit's help building the field. The oniy commitment trom the c-^ege, at least for now, would be the land. Gore estimates the overall project would require about 10 acres, at a site to be chosen by BCC The field would be available for a BCC intramural ball team and for hesting events such as the Special Olympics. Its large outfield would accommodate soccer. Drv^ ??:<! ?Ium. MV-A tk. UVV/ IIUMVVO a?iu Miv; |*MW uiw idea of a ballfield; a sports/recre ation complex that includes a ball field is part of BCC's long-range master plan and would help provide a well-rounded college program. That projcct rates lower in priori ty than several other projects that re late directly to students and their studies and also require substantia! financial support. The most immedi ate is space to house the recreational grounds management and a new aquaculture program that begins this fall. However, as Chairman Dave Kelly pointed out, the American Legion's goal is to build a field in a ccntial '.oca; mi i. "If not here then they will raitf the money to build it someplace else," he said. "The project is going to happen and Uie money is going to come out of the community." Gore sees the project as a way for the American Legion to achieve its goal, and in the process, help BCC realize a long-term goal of its own without jeopardizing funding for other projects. 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