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PRE-SEASQN FOOTBALL
Trojans Battle Aycock Falcons Saturday
YOGI HICKMAN, head football coach at West Brunswick, will gat
a good look at his team Saturday at CJB. Aycock.
SPORTING SCENE
Cal Ripken's Streak
Has Gone Long Enough
Cat Ripken Jr. played his 2,000th consecutive Major League Baseball
game last week, pulling him ever clos
er to breaking the all-time record held
by New York Yankees' great Lou
Gehrig.
More than 25,000 baseball fans in
Minnesota showed their respect with a
standing ovation as Ripken took the
field for Game 2,000. It left Ripken
just 130 games short of Gehrig's leg
endary mark.
With all due respect to the folks
in Minnesota, I wouldn't even consid
er applauding Ripken's streak. Here's a man who is doing everything he can
to manufacture his own place in baseball history.
Barring injury, the Baltimore Orioles' shortstop will break Gehrig's
mark next season. And at this stage, I think it would have to be an injury of
the life-threatening variety to keep Ripken out of the lineup.
Ripken hat said in interviews that the consecutive-games streak and
Gehrig's record don't mean that much to him, but I find that hard to believe.
If the record didn't mean anything, Ripken would take a day off once in
a while like every one of his teammates and every other baseball player. At
age 33, I'm sure Ripken could use at least one break during a 162-game sea
son.
He hasn't missed a game since May 30, 1982, when he was a rookie
third baseman with the Orioles.
During the streak, Ripken has batted around .280, hit more than 300
home runs and collected over 1,150 RBI. His home run count is higher than
any shortstop in history, and he owns the single-season record for fewest er
rors at his position.
Ripken is a great player with Hall of Fame credentials. But in my mind,
the streak has tainted his career. When baseball fans think of Ripken they
think of the streak, not his outstanding glove or his powerful bat.
I think the streak has gone long enough.
Marffc On The Rocks
Former West Brunswick High School tennis coach and assistant athletic
director Martie Gillis Anowood will be teaching this year at Rocky Mount
High School. That's the good news for Martie.
The bad news is that her husband, former Trojan assistant football
coach David Arrowood, will be teaching and coaching at Rocky Mount's
arch rival. Northern Nash.
Things could get mighty interesting around the Arrowood household
Nov. 4, when Rocky Mount and Northern Nash meet in the regular-season
finale with the possibility of a playoff berth at stake.
In need be, Martie could always come back to Shallotte that night for
the West Brunswick-South Brunswick clash.
In any event, I'll miss having Martie at West Not only was she a good
tennis coach who truly cared about her athletes, she always went out of her
way to accommodate the press and was an inexhaustible source of juicy gos
sip.
On? Mart' s Opinion
Everett Lee of H olden Beach had a letter published in the July 25 issue
of Sports Illustrated.
It was one of six letters published in response to a recent article compar
ing the National Basketball Association to the National Hockey League. SI
portrayed the NHL as the "hotter" league.
Lee's opinion: "If there's one thing hurting the NBA, it's that the play
ers have become too big for the court. The defense can overwhelm the of
fense because the court is too small for today's players."
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With two weeks of practice under
its belt the West Brunswick football
team will travel to Pikeville on
Saturday for a pre-season scrim
mage against C.B. Ay cock High
School.
The contest starts at 7 p.m. at the
Golden Falcons' stadium north of
Goldsboro. It will be the first of two
practice games for West Brunswick
prior to its season opener Aug. 26 at
South Brunswick.
First-year head coach Yogi Hick
man said he'll evaluate individual
talent Saturday and see how the
team is grasping his offensive sys
tem, which is vasUy different than
the one the Trojans ran the last two
years.
"We'll evaluate our players more
than anything." Hickman said of the
scrimmage. "As far as the outcome,
that's for the birds. You work on gel
ting better and that's what we're go
ing to do."
West's coaching staff may have
gotten a sneak preview of Saturday
night's contest on Monday, when se
nior fullback James Morgan broke
loose for SO yards on the first play
of an intra-squad scrimmage.
"You can see the kids are starting
to believe in what we're teaching
them," Hickman said. "Right now
we're at a level where I'm glad we
don't have a regular season football
game, but we're ready to scrim
mage."
Since football practice started
July 30, Hickman said most of the
time has been devoted to teaching
the new offense. The Trojans will
use the same defense as last season.
Hickman said about half of his of
fensive schemes had been installed
as of Monday.
The kids have (kmc a real good
job, especially the last four days.
They're starting to get confidence in
the I-formation," he said.
Hickman said his main focus
Saturday night will be offense, and
most of the returning starters from
last season will not see much action
on defense.
"Philosophically it never has
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WEST BRUNSWICK RUNNING BACK Jimmy Vaught (19) cuts through the defense during a recent
practice.
made much of a difference to me if
we give up one touchdown or six or
eight," he said. "We're not going to
stick a bunch of starters out there
and make them play all night long."
Hickman's concern about low
turnout the first few days of practice
has all but vanished. With the num
ber of kids out now. West should be
able to carry close to 30 on the var
sity squad.
"We had 47 in uniform this morn
ing. That's varsity and JV," Hick
man said. "Things are looking much
better with the number situation.
We've got enough to practice and
play with."
C.B. Ay cock competes in the East
Central 2A Conference against the
likes of Clinton, James Kenan and
Wallace-Rose Hill. The Falcons
were 2-3 in the league and 6-4 over
all last season.
C.B. Aycock Coach Mike Goyne
said he's looking forward to the
practice game against West Bruns
wick, which won the state 2A cham
pionship in 1992 and the 3A title
last year.
"In my scrimmages I try to play
the best I can play so my guys know
what to expect if they want to get in
the playoffs," Goyne said. "West
Brunswick is one of the best teams
in the state in any classification."
"We may look really bad, but at
least we'll know what we need to
work on," Goyne added.
To get to C.B. Aycock, take U.S.
17 north to Wilmington and 1-40 west
to the Mount CHive exit Follow U.S.
117 north through Goldsboro into
Pikeville. The school is on the right
about a quarter-mile past Hardee's.
West Brunswick will play its final
pre-season contest next Friday, Aug.
19. The Trojans will square off
against Wallace-Rose Hill in the
UCB Football Jamboree at Wilm
ington's Legion Stadium.
The jamboree, which begins at 6
p.m. with a cheerleading competi
tion, is a series of four, 24-minute
scrimmages. Other matchups are
New Hanover versus Whiteville,
Hoggard against South Brunswick
and Laney versus South Columbus.
Tickets to the jamboree are on
sale at UCB branches in Shallotte,
Southport, Whiteville, Wilmington,
Wallace, Rose Hill an<i_ Tabor City.
Tickets cost S3 in advance and $4 at
the gate.
Stevenson Grabs Starting Spot At Elon
BY DOUG RUTTER
Shawn Stevenson, a two-way
starter on West Brunswick High
School's state championship football
team of 1992, will be starting at de
fensive end this Ml at Eton College.
A red-shirt freshman, Stevenson
earned the starting position with an
outstanding showing in spring prac
tice, said Elon Head Coach Leon
Hart.
"He had the most impressive
spring of any of our kids. He was
extremely impressive in spring
drills. He made more plays than
anyone out there. He came out of
spring drills as a starter at defensive
end," Hart said.
Recruited as an inside linebacker,
Stevenson has moved to the defen
sive front because Elon has four in
side linebackers returning from last
season but doesn't have much depth
at end.
"We had a need for some players
to try defensive end because we
were hit by graduation there," Hart
said. "Shawn stepped in and was ap
prehensive at first but then he started
making some piays."
"We're expecting big things from
him," Hart added. "We re very
pleased with how quickly he adapt
ed to the position and how well he
performed throughout spring prac
tice."
Hart said it's usual to start a fresh
man, even a red-shirt freshman, but
Stevenson has been that strong.
"We haven't had to start a fresh
man in the last couple of years,"
Hart said. "It's a combination of us
graduating a couple players at the
position, and he has developed so
quickly."
"We recruited him because he
could run so well. He leap-frogged
over a couple people in a hurry."
Hart said. "He's got good athletic
skills, but his intensity is what
makes the difference."
Stevenson, the son of VWereeta
Grant, played at 6-foot-2, 210
pounds in high school.
Hart said Stevenson has gained
about 10 to IS pounds in the past
year. "He's going to be a big person
before he gets done playing college
football," he said.
Stevenson, who played three
years of football at West Brunswick,
suited at middle linebacker and
tight end for the Trojans' state 2A
championship team in 1992. He
made 128 tackles as a senior for an
average of 9.1 per game.
Stevenson's coach his final year
at West Brunswick, Jim Brett, said
Stevenson was the finest middle
linebacker he had coached in 19
years as a high school head football
coach.
Eloc is a private, liberal arts col
lege near Greensboro. The Fighting
Christians, winners of NAIA nation
al football championships in 1980
and 1981, now compete on the
NCAA Division II level in the Sooth
Atlantic Conference.
Eton is coming off an 8-3 season
and is picked to finish second in the
SAC this fell.
"Hopefully we can improve on
that pie-season pick," Hart said.
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Sept. 17 Concord
Sept. 24 Carson-Newman
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Oct. 8 .at Mars Hill
Oct. 15 Presbyterian
Oct. 29 Gardner- Webb
Nov. 5 Wofford
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