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Page 6 Smoke Signals, Friday, October 23, 1981
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Braves Ride Myers' Toe
To Homecoming Win
The snap! The spot! The kick! They were all good during the
homecoming game. Keith Myers of Palmyra, New Jersey booted a
school record four field goals and added three points in the Brave win
over Lees- McRae. "Sugar-foot" puts another one on the way out on
the hold of Jim Fisher (5). (Photo by David Winstead)
By ROBIN BRINKLEY
Special To Smoke Signals
Keith Myers kicked a school record
four field goals Saturday, rallying
Chowan to a 33-27 junior football victory
over Lees-McRae.
Myers hit on all four of his attempts
from 43, 27, 38, dnd 35 yards. He also
kicked three extra points.
It took a sustained, game-ending
drive, however, for the Braves to clinch
their fourth straight victory and fifth in
six games.
The Bobcats had trimmed and 18-
paint lead deficit (30-12) to the final
margin when Chowan took over with
3:56 left to play. The Braves marched
52 yards in 10 plays, picking up three
first downs along the way, to run out the
clock.
Lees-McRae (2-3) burst to a 12-0 lead
on its first two possessions of the game,
confirming Chowan coach Jim Garri-
sion‘s hunch that his team might ex
perience a let down. The Braves upset
then second-ranked Femim, 14-10, for
the second year in a row last week.
“I talked about a let down all week,”
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Chowan’s Jeff Ritenour (18) clamps onto the leg of a Lees-McRae runner in the homecoming game as
Jeff Knox (23) closes in for the tackle assist. At this point, Brave fans thought it was beginning to look
like a long afternoon, as the scoreboard indicates. Head Linesman Joe Edwards moves in on the play.
(Photo by David Winstead)
The 1961 Football Team may be gone, but they weren't forgotten homecoming weekend as they once
again heard the roar from the crowd as they were introduced at halftime. The team that year (5-3-2)
turned out Junior College All-American, Bobby Gray, third from right. (Staff photo)
Braves Upset Ferrum
By FRANK GEE
The Chowan Braves posted their big
gest victory of the season beating their
rivals Ferrum 14-10 at Ferrum in Vir
ginia. Ferrum ranked third best in the
nation had not lost at home since 1975
and had not lost at home to Chowan in
18 years. Chowan now boasts a modest
two game winning streak against their
rivals; the Braves beat Ferrum last
year 20-7 at homecoming.
Chowan is in second place in the con
ference with a 4-1 record behind un
defeated Nassau (from Long Island,
N. Y.) 4-0 and ahead of Ferrum which is
also 4-1.
The 14-10 score does not truly indicate
how well Chowan dominated the Fer
rum Panthers. The Braves had advanc
ed to the Panthers one-yard line and 10-
yard line but were stopped by penalties.
Two chip-shot field goals of 27 and 37
yards just went wide. Fullback Isaah
Hill’s 49-yard run down to the two-yard
line was brought back on a penalty and
Fred Banks 54-yard flanker-pass was
dropped in the endzone.
Chowan opened the scoring late in the
first quarter. With 29 seconds left, tight
end Curtis Bond of the “Ahoskie Con
nection” caught a 43-yard bomb from
quarterback Perry Agee and Keight
Myers kicked the extra point to take an
early 7-0 lead. The drive covered 63
yards in six plays; Bonds reception was
one of three on the day and is now tied
with Flanker Fred Banks tor the team
lead.
Ferrum tied the game in the second
quarter on Monzell Jefferson’s 40-yard
run. The drive began at Chowan’s 45-
yard line due to a Brave fumble. The
Panthers went ahead 10-7 with only 11
seconds left. Rocky Martin kicked a 33-
yard field goal for the Panthers.
Rocky’s field goal was his sixth con
secutive field goal for Ferrum,
The third quarter was a battle of de
fenses as neither team could achieve a
sustained drive. The only highlight of
the quarter came in the last couple of
seconds when Chowan’s defensive end
Robert Williams intercepted a Panther
toss which set up Chowans’ go ahead
touchdown.
After Williams’ interception Perry
Agee hit Fred Banks with passes of 14
and 12 to bring the ball to Femims 4-
yard line. The next play Isaiah Hill bull
ed his way in for the winning score at
the 14 minute mark. Myers kicked his
second extra point and that was all she
wrote for the Ferrum Panthers. The
said Garrision, “and then we came out
flat.”
A defensive adjustment slowed down
the Bobcats, however, and Chowan’s of
fense responded with four straight scor
ing drives.
An imaginative attack produced 419
yards total offense, 226 yards rushing
193 passing.
The Braves had to drive only seven
yards, however, to score their fist
touchdown. A fumble recovery set up
Chowan at the Lees-McRae‘s seven,
and after the running play lost three
yards on first down, wingback Fred
Banks raced 10 yards on a reverse to
make 12-6.
The Bobcats couldn't touch Banks,
despits having 12 men on the field.
Chowan's next offense series was
highlighted by 46-^ard pqss from
quarterback Perry Agee to tight end
Greg Harrell. The first of Mayers* four
field goals trimmed the deficit to 12-10.
The Braves continued to roll, and
finally moved in front with 2hi minutes
left in the half on a 51-yard flea flicker
pass from Banks to Curtis Bond.
A converted quarterback, Banks
bedeviled the Bobcats all day. He rush
ed nine times for 66 yards to lead
Chowan. He gained most of his yardage
on reverses.
“The reverse were planned and they
never really got used to them,” said
Banks. “Lees-McRae was pursuing so
well,” said Garrison, “that we felt we
needed to install some misdirection
(thus, the reverses). We tried the flea
flicker last week, but the receiveer
dropped the ball on the five-yard line.”
Chowan got the ball back once more
in the first half and Myers kicked his 27-
yard field goal with one second left to
make it 20-12.
“This was my best day by far,” said
Myers, the Palmsra, N.J., kicker.
“Everything went perfectly, punting
and placekicking. ’ ’
Myers’ 29-yard punt, which went out
of bounds at the Lees-McRae one-yard
line, indirectly led to Chowan’s first
touchdown of the second half.
The team’s leading scorer with 33
points, Myers confessed to a dismal
practice session before the game. His
confidence had already been shaken
last week when he missed two short
field goal attempts at Ferrum.
But Garrison and some of his major
college counterparts think Myers
deserves a shot at the big time.
“Keith did today what he’s capable of
doing every time he steps on the field,”
said Garrison. Myers added that he’s
been contacted by Temple and received
a recruiting letter from the University
of Pittsburgh Saturday before the
game.
The second half began in much the
same manner as th« first half had
ended. Agee tossed an eightyard
touchdown pass to Ray Byrd with 6:49
left in the third quarter and then 65
seconds later Myers concluded
Chowan's 30-point salvo with a 38-yard
field goal.
That’s when Lees-McP5ae starting
coming back.The Bobcats drove 77-
yards in nine plays to make it 30-20 with
1:09 left in the third quarter.
Myers’ fourth field goal at 11:22 of the
fourth quarter stemmed the Bobcats’
momentum, just long enough, as it
turned out, for the Braves to hang on
and win.
Chowan is undefeated in the Coastal
Conference with two games both at
home left to go.
Cheer for Chowan
McCray
Basnight
Burke Quintet Preps
By JOE McGARKITY
With practice set to start officially on
October 1, Coach Bob Burke’s men’s
basketball team appears to be strong
once again.
The defending Eastern -Tarheel
regular season and tournament cham
pions will be returning six sophomores
with a good nucleus of freshmen com
ing in to pick up the slack.
The Braves finished with a school
record of 27 wins and 6 defeats in their
first year of playing home games in the
beautiful Jesse Helms Athletic Center
under then first year Coach Burke.
“I know what to expect from our con
ference this year,” declared Burke,
who took on the head coaching job on
August 1,1980.
This is one of the reasons why the
Braves will be playing in such facilities
as the spacious Cameron Indoor
Stadium at Duke University; Minges
Coliseum, home of the East Carolina
Pirates; Raleigh Civic Center in
Raleigh; and the beautiful Robins
Center, home of the University of Rich
mond Spiders.
Getting a chance to play in these
pia ces will be some familiar faces as
well i's some new ones.
The Braves lost three valuable
starters - including All-Conference, All-
ToumaiUent and All-Region X Larry
Canady, who also received honorable
mention for All-American - from last
year’s great 27-6 team, but the current
squad wiU be much bigger.
Canady joins former Brave Coach
Jerry Smith at Campbell University
this year. The other lost starters are
Elton Mosley, now at Atlantic Chris
tian, and Mark Moore, now at Ap
palachian State University. Reserve
Mark Hunter is at North Carolina
Wesleyan and Jimmy Deans, who back
ed up Mosley at point guard as a
freshman, has transferred to Roanoke
College.
All Easten-Tarheel Conference guard
Winfred Basnight (6’2”) heads the list
of returnees. Basnight averaged 14
points a game last year in the Braves’
will-balanced attack.
Also back are 6’6” forward Melvin
McCray, a starter last year. He will be
depended on heavily this year for board
strength. Part-timer Ray Witiak, 6’7” is
also back, along with 6’ guard Kenny
Capel; 6’2” super-sub Vance Marsh,
and 6’5” forward Greg Exum, who
Burke calls “the best leaper on the
team.”
Looking to replace Mosley, last
year’s star point guard, are a quartet of
gifted freshmen.
Matt White (6’2”), 5’11” Thomas Um-
phrey, 6’ Andre McGee, and lightning-
quick 6’ Jimmy Spencer, who, says
Burke,“ can play defense all day and
all night.”
Burke also recruited four freshmen
who are vying for a spot “down low.”
They are, 6’6” Jeff Ervin, 6’8” Tracy
Myles, 6’5” Robert Riddick and 6’5”
Jimmy Thomas. Junior college
transfer Tim Hubert (6’3”) will swing
from guard to forward, as will 6’3”
Greg McKenzie.
“Our goal is to make the playoffs, and
take it from there - possibly a national
JUCO championship.”
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Robertson was effective in the first
half completing four of nine for 49
yards; Roberston also completed all six
of his passes in the second half, but five
of them went to the Braves secondary
defensemen.
Safety Jeff Ritenour intercepted two
(he has four interceptions in his last
ti^ee games); Curtis Schofield, Scott
Finch, and Williams had one each. Wil
liams had a great all around game with
eight tackles, a recovered fumble, and
knocked down a pass to go with his in
terception. Chowan’s All-American
candidate at defensive end Kevin
“Killer” Banks was the standout on
defense with a game high 15 tackles and
two sacks. There were many defensive
stars in the game. Linebackers David
Wood and Curtis Schofield had 13
tackles apiece and Carl Johnson added
12 tackles and two more sacks. The
Braves defensive tackle tandom of
Lynn Smith and Joey Edwards stacked
up the middle on Ferrum. Between the
two of them they accounted for
tackles.
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