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By KATHY FISHER
The Lady Braves finished second in
the National Junior College Athletic
Association Region X VoUeyball Tourna
ment and placed three players in All
Regional and one in All-Tournament.
In the three years that the Chowan
voUyball team has been in the NJCAA
this is the first time it has placed second
and sent three players to All-Regional.
These are Georgia Ross, Wanda Bacote
and Terri Tyler. Georgia Ross also
made All-Tournament.
In the first round match the Lady
and missed spikes and sets. In spite of
these problems, Mrs. Collins stated that
It was still a competitive game with
both teams equally matched.
In the semi-final match Chowan
defeated Spartanburg 15-5; 15-3. The
Braves out-served them 4 to 1 with
Tyler, Ross, Holt, Tharpe and Whalen
putting in the most serves.
Chowan also out-played them at the
net 4 to 1 with Bacote and Holt spiking.
Dinking consistently were Tharpe,
Bacote and Tyler. Whalen also put in
the most drives.
Holt was most consistent in serve
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dunks in the Tip Off final against Louisburg (at left) by Bill Williamson)
and Kim Griffin shoots over the heod of a Ferrum
Lady Brave Spikers End Season
With Best Tournament Finish
Braves Hit Century
In Season Opener
Dixon,
Cherry
Pace Win
By HARRY PICKETT
It was freshmen Sandy Dbcon and
Jennifer Cherry who powered the
Chowan College Lady Braves to an
exciting come-from-behind victory
here over St. Paul’s College November
28.
Dixon and Cherry tossed in 23 and 22
points respectively for the winners
with their winning buckets coming in
the last seven minutes of play, to lead
the young Chowan team to a 92-ao
triumph in its season’s opener.
Chowan coach Roy Winslow said he
was surprised his team trailed most of
the game. “I thought we would be more
poised” he revealed. “I expected to
better than we did, even though I knew
they (St Paul’s) had a pretty good ball
team.”
Chowan trailed at intermission 43-36
to the experienced Tigerettes, and 68-61
after Shelia Allen put her team up by
seven with a layup at 7:56 left in the
second half.
But then Winslow made a change in
lis offense. He installed 6-2 center Judy
Douglas at a low post position,and sent
6-1 forward Donnie Stephens high in an
effort to get some back-door passes
against the St. Paul’s zone.
And it worked!
But the Braves also got their offense
to work with timely steals layups and
jumpers off the fast break, led by
guards Tina Midiri, Wilhemena Wilson
and Dixon.
With Cherry netting on 12 of her 22
points and Dixon and Douglas adding
another eight apiece during the spree,
the Braves outscored st Paul’s 32-12 in
7:44.
Winslow, who started an all
freshman lineup, said he told the
youngsters to “loosen up” at halftime
and to “move the ball, rebound and get
aggressive.”
“Everybody was tight and intimidated
at the beginning, but they ran well the
last seven minutes,” he offered! '
Stephens scored 16 and Douglas
finished with 12 points and five assists.
Dixon at 5-5, was the leading reboun
der, grabbing nine boards. Midiri’s five
assists equaled Douglas’s for the Ited. ’
All Share
In Big Win
By HARRY PICKETT
Editors ' lodji
Jerry Smith didn’t have a worry in
this world.
During its game with non-conference
team N.C. Wesleyan College Monday
night, Chowan College’s basketball
team’s biggest objective was to see that
every member played-and they did-
and every player scored, except one, to
power the home team to a lop-sided 106-
69 victory over the junior varsity team.
Coach Smith’s undefeated Braves
rolled to their seventh triumph of the
season, while the Rocky Mount four-
year school dropped its season opener.
“I knew before the game,” Smith
said, “that the freshmen would get to
play. They play against a better team
every day in practice.
“I knew they (N.C. Wesleyan)
weren’t going to be that strong, and I
figured we would play 60 percent of the
game with freshman. This game helps
the freshmen, not our region rankings.”
Chowan ran away with the game
early, converting on five straight
baskets to roll up a 10-0 lead before the
visitors realized what hit them.
With 6-8 center William Barnes and 6-
7 forward Johnny Johnson doing most
of the damage underneath, the Braves
were able to overpower the visitors,
plus outquick Wesleyan with guards
Haywood Evans and Andre Cobb on the
fast breaks.
A Johnson steal and slam dunk put
the Braves up 18-4 with 16:57 remaning
in the half, and The Braves Coasted on
to a 66-44 halftime lead, with the fresh
men working the last 13 minutes.
With Chowan’s freshmen doing most
of the damage in the second stanza, the
Braves outscored Wesleyan 40-25.
“It’s hard to say we played a good
game,” Smith observed. “After the
first 10 minutes, they (Wesleyan)
weren’t in the ball game.”
Barnes and Johnson both netted 12
points for the winners, while grabbing
13 and six rebounds respectively.
Freshmen Elton Mosley, Larry
Canady, Andre Cobb and Chuck Maness
each cWpped in 10. Mosley dished off,
also, for a game high five assists, and
Canady snatched nine rebounds. Fresh
man Mark Hunter added nine and
Douglas Stevenson pulled 11 boards.
Barnes Leads
Led by William Barnes’ 17 points and
15 rebounds, undefeated Chowan
College picked up its sixth victory of the
season November 30 in a sloppily
played game here, 63-50, over Smith-
deal Massey.
Chowan took a 42-28 advantage at the
half, after having at one point, a 20-
point lead (42-22) with 3:51 left. Smith-
deal outscored the Braves in the second
half 22-21. Both teams shot below the
.500 mark in the second stanza.
Andre Cobb netted 14 points for the
evening from his guard position.
Johnny Johnson followed with 11 points
and 14 rebounds.
By HARRY PICKETT
Johnny Johnson had his best game as
a Chowan College Brave basketball
player November 26, as the muscular 6-
7 forward powered the Braves to a 99-76
victory over Ferrum College.
The leaping sophomore from Tarboro
dominated board play, hauling in a
career-high 26 rebound, 24 points and
five assists to lead Coach Jerry Smith’s
defending Eastern Tarheel Conference
champs to their fifth straight victory
this season without a loss
“Johnny played a super, super
game,” Smith reflected following the
team’s victory. “He made a few
mistakes out there, but he realizes the
ones he made.”
Johnson added, “I made a couple of
mistakes, but I’ll look over them and
work on them at practice.” Johnson
noted that because rival Ferrum was
Chowan’s opponent Monday, it gave
him and his teammates the extra in
centive to crush the smaller Panthers.
“I was just ready for them.”
Johnson’s play wasn’t the only bright
spot for the Chowan team. Freshman
guard Mark Moore of Halifax, Va,
continued to impress the Chowan
partisans with his surprising offensive
prowess. The 6-3 reserve knocked in 22
points and took over team leadership in
scoring, averaging a respectable 13.3.
Moore, who yanked six rebounds on
the evening, said he felt better on the
court Monday night than he had all
season “especially since it was
Ferrum.”
Smith says emphatically of his young
team: “If we aren't the best team in the
region, we’re close.”
“If we keep our poise, and don’t fold,
we’re going to beat a lot of people.”
Other impressive performers for
Chowan included freshman forward
Larry Canady of Kinston, who netted
for a season-high nine points and
snatched an identical number of
rebounds.
William Barnes, sophomore center out
of Greenville, scored nine points and
grabbed seven boards. Sophmores Jean
Earl Williams of Lewiston and Mark
Murdock of China Grove each scored
nine, while Tarboro’s Haywood Evans
dished out five assists.
the second. Spiking well were Bacote
and Ross.
Making good defensive plays were
Tharpe, Tyler and Ross. Serve recep
tion was the Braves major problem in
this match along with illegal hits.
Mrs. Collins explained that the game
was very competitive especially the se
cond game when Chowan cut down on
errors and improved the playing at the
net.
The Chowan volleyball team will lose
sophmores Cathie Pickens, Susan
Whalen and Georgia Ross. There will
be eight returning players next year-
four of whom were starters.
Mrs. Collins belives that, assuming
the freshmen return, the team will be in
good shape next year. She would like to
see the addition of five more players:
one setter, one defensive player and
three hitters.
By HARRY PICKETT
Admist the fervent yelling, scream
ing and chanting of “We want a hun
dred”, freshman guard Elton Mosley
calmly sank a pair of free throws with
three seconds left, giving the Chowan
Braves basketball team a 100-87 deci
sion over Smithdeal Massey Business
School here Friday, November 16.
The victory was the first for Chowan,
coming in two-day doubleheader ac
tion. Chowan’s debut triumph .came
after Craven Community College clip
ped Newport News Apprentice School,
67-52 in the first game.
On Saturday night, playing before a
packed house, the Braves thought of
capturing another 100-point per
formance was stymied by Craven’s
stall. It took a little gas out of the
Chowan offense, but the Braves gave
the Panthers some of their own
medicine, installing its own “Cat and
Mouse Game,” and clinging on to a
42-38 victory.
Smithdeal Massey bounced Newport
News around in the first game of Satur
day night’s action, 79-52.
Smithdeal gave the Braves some
trouble in the first halt after being down
by as much as 13 (48-36), and coming on
the last minute to reel off three straight
baskets, cutting the halftime margin to
49-42.
Chowan coach Jerry Smith felt his
team could have blown the Richmond
school off the court early: “We were on
the verge of putting them away- but we
kept passing it to them. ”
“I don’t think it was the passing as
much as the mental mistakes, though.”
Chowan played most of the contest
without its big lettermen, 6-7 forward
Johnny Johnson and 6-8- center
William Barnes, who were in foul trou
ble. Freshmen forward Larry Canady
and center Douglas Stevenson filled the
sophmores’ shoes without much trou
ble.
Canady scored 6 points and grabbed
12 rebounds in the reserve role, and
Stevenson scored 7 points and snared 5
rebounds. “I thought Larry and Doug
did a good job,” Smith reflected. “We
played 40 percent of the game without
Barnes and Johnson.”
Chowan’s largest lead of the game
was 22 after freshman forward Mark
Hunter laid one in with 1:29 left to
give the Braves a 98-76 margin. “We
want a hundred!” The crowd chanted.
and the Braves rushed to get thel
magic number for their fans, but, in
the process, gave Smithdeal 11
unanswered points (98-87), before
Mosley filled the cords.
“We were in too big of a hurry,”
Smith confessed. “We’re going to be
better once we learn.”
Johnson scored a team-high 16 points
to lead the Braves. Barnes and Kim
Griffin each netted for 10. Mark Moore
collected 9.
Craven went into its stall-type offense
with 4:50 remaining in the half Satur
day night and wound up with a surpris
ing tie at intermission with the defen
ding Eastern Tarheel champions, 25-25.
The slow-down offense was a tactic us
ed by Craven coach Si Seymour to keep
Chowan from running up the score.
After the score was knotted three
times in the second half, with freshman
center Douglas Stevenson doing most of
the damage underneath for Chowan,
Smith decided to go with his stall with
9:10 left, and the score at 38-all.
Chowan proceeded to run the clock
down to 3:55, where William Bames
was fouled. Barnes then hit both ends of
the 1-and-l, putting the Braves ahead,
40-38.
And then it was “Keep the ball from
Chowan Time” again. Craven went
back into its stall, looking for one last
shot to tie it with over three minutes
left. But it wasn’t until with 12 seconds
left in the game that Craven made its
move the basket, and then they were
called for a traveling violation with
three ticks left.
Haywood Evans sank two freethrows,
after being fouled before a roaring
crowd with one second left, tallying the
final score at 42-38.
“The difference between this game
and Friday night’s game is that we
played their (Craven) gave, and last
night (Friday) we played our game,”
Smith Explained.
Haywood Evans dropped 8 points to
lead the Braves in the low-scoring con
test. Barnes had 7 and Kim Griffin
followed with 6.
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Lady Brave Spikers End Se
With Best Tournament Fin
By KATHY FISHER
The Lady Braves finished second in
the National Junior College Athletic
Association Region X VoUeyball Tourna
ment and placed three players in All
Regional and one in All-Tournament.
In the three years that the Chowan
voUyball team has been in the NJCAA
this is the first time it has placed second
and sent three players to AU-Regional.
These are Georgia Ross, Wanda Bacote
and Terri Tyler. Georgia Ross also
made All-Tournament.
In the first round match the Lady
Braves faced Spartanburg and lost
15-17; 11-15. Spartanburg out-served
Chowan 7 to 5. Putting over the most
serves for Chowan were Susan Whalen,
Terri Tyler and Ross.
At the net Chowan out-played Spar
tanburg 7 to 1. Belva Tharpe, Ross,
Tyler and Bacote made the most spikes
and Ross and Tharpe, the most dinks.
Whalen made made six drives.
Good defensive plays were made by
Ross, Tyler and Tharpe. Heather Holt
and Bacote were outstanding in serve
reception.
The Braves problems in the
areAs '6T'sfet‘verlt«c*i5Bo/i,- iUegar hits-
and missed spikes and sets. In spite of
these problems, Mrs. CoUins stated that
it was stiU a competitive game with
both teams equaUy matched.
In the semi-final match Chowan
defeated Spartanburg 15-5; 15-3. The
Braves out-served them 4 to 1 with
Tyler, Ross, Holt, Tharpe and Whalen
putting in the most serves.
Chowan also out-played them at the
net 4 to 1 with Bacote and Holt spiking.
Dinking consistently were Tharpe,
Bacote and Tyler. Whalen also put in
the most drives.
Holt was most consistent in serve
reception. Ross, Tyler and Tharpe
made the most defensive plays. The
Braves encountered problems with
their serving. Mrs. CoUins said, “It was
a beautiful match as far as Chowan
making a comeback to beat this team
solidly.”
In the finals Chowan faced Louisburg
and lost 7 to 15 : 11-15. Chowan was
outserved 7 to 4 with Tharpe, Ross,
Bacote and Holt being the most consis-
tant servers. According to Mrs. CoUins
there was an excellent team effort on
service.
At the net Chowan was out-played 6 to
’ 4 inihe first game and played evenly iif
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