THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1958
THE BLACKBIRD, ROCKY MOUNT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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Haywood Evans,
groing: up for two
points in the win
against Fayetteville,
shows the form he
wlil be using- against
Wilmington tomor
row night. Roland
Parker i s seen
blocking his man
out.
Locals Win Two; Lose One
To Durham in Conference
Durham Bulldogs, guests in the
locals opening conference game,
stomped the Birds 58-40 as Hay
wood Evans, forward, led the
scoring with points, January 3.
Bulldogs, who usually play a
zone, pulled a surprise by press
ing from the opening whistle.
Score at the half was 28-12.
Birds Thrash Goldsboro
Birds traveled to Goldsboro for
their second conference game of
the season and thrashed the
Earthquakes 80:54, as six play
ers hit in double figures for the
locals, January 7.
Quakes, trying to hold Evans
who still collected 18 points)
down, forgot about the other
cagers as Roland Parker hit 15,
Bob Moore 12, Russ Clack 11, Jim
mie Parker 10, and Ed Dunn 10.
RM Stomps Fayetteville
Locals stomped Fayetteville’s
Bulldogs to the tune of 50-26 as
Evans again led the Black and
Gold scoring with 22 points in the
third conference game of the sea
son for the cagers. January 10.
Blackbirds were never headed.
They showed an air-tight defense
and and offense that sparkled on
occasion.
Greenville, Henderson Edged
RM edged Greenville 55-52 for
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Bird scoring here, December 17.
A fired-up Henderson squad
lost a thriller to the Birds, 48-46,
in a game which went into over
time. This was the last non-con
ference game of the season.
Paul Eilers Makes
FB All-Prep Team
Paul Eilers, senior tackle, has
been notified of his selection to
the National All-Prep football
team.
Eilers made the All-State team
as a guard in 1956 but failed to
attain it this year as a tackle
because, some say, the won-lost
record of the Birds was not out
standing.
East-West all-star football
game will put Eilers into action
this summer. He was presented
the Center Theater’s “Most Valu
able Player Award”, after a vote
of his teammates, by Mr. Martin
Street, manager of the theater.
When asked what his future
plans are, Paul said, “I hope to
first go to Stanton Prep School
and then to Carolina.”
Cagers Go to Wilmington
For AAA Tilt Tomorrow
Ending the first half of conference play, local cagers travel to the
Port City of Wilmington tomorrow to play the Wildcats in an important
AAA tilt.
Coach Leon Brogden of Wilmington usually possesses a powerhouse
as is shown by his teams coming out as State Champions in the past
two seasons. With eight returning seniors they haven’t lost a game
this year and have beaten, among others, the South Carolina cham
pions, Camden, 78-42, and Durham, 40-37.
In the last six games of this
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Haywood Evans
Reaches Spot 3
In League Race
That RM’s star forward, Hay
wood Evans, with a 20.3 average
is in third place in the race for
scoring honors in the Eastern A-
AA Conference was announced by
the Eastern AAA Conference
Sportswriters Association.
Roman Gabriel of Wilmington
leads the league with a torrid
26.5 average, althougli Evans has
scored the most points, 61. Evans
also leads in free throws taken
and made with 27 of 39 and is se
cond in rebounding with 32, only
two behind Gabriel.
The Sportswriters Association
is made up of sports writers in the
conference cities.
Figures given are thi'ough the
week ending January 10. Two RM
games, Wilson and Raleigh, are
not included.
Durham, with speed and height,
looms as the team to beat this
year. (The same can be said of
Wilmington.) Although the Birds
lost to the Bulldogs by eighteen
points, most of the squad think
they can beat Durham if they
have a good night. . .
Big John Key, Durham’s 6-7
center, blocked about 20 RM
points. Our boys just couldn’t get
used to the towering All-State
candidate.
Credit is due to the “unknown”
men in the Blackbird cage pic
ture, the managers and the statis
tician. The managers are sopho
mores Eugene Cherry, Ronnie
Weaver, and Jimmy Wheeler.
Without them the squad would be
lost. They are the boys who do
all the “little things” for the
squad. They have the same hours
and work as hard as the team.
Senior Dan Robbins is the team
statistician. This is his second
year of sitting on the bench at
games and busily, writing down all
the errors the squad makes. His
experienced eyes see and chart
down such things as bad passes,
fumbles, traveling violations, per
sonal fouls, double dribbles, and
three — second violations. For
this reason he is a helpful and
needed member of the team.
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which gives two points for passes
and runs and the regular one
point for kicks, will certainly
make the game wide open.
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series RM has won only^ two, with
the last coming in the i 955-56 sea
son when Harold Gilbert, Don
Stallings, and Company slid thr-
c’jgh with a 58-53 victory. The
other Bird win came in the pre
ceding season when RM played
possession ball and finally came
out on top, 25-19.
Wilmington, playing against
Camden and Charleston, S. C.,
used a three-platoon system with
the fh'st team starting, the senior
subs coming in, and then the
junior subs playing. The Cats will
probably have their two big men.
Bill Slack and Roman Gabriel,
playing posts with three guards
working patterns off them.
Pi'obable starting line-ups.
R M Wilmington
Bob Moore, c Roman Gabriel, c
Haywood Evans, f Bill Slack, f
Jimmie Parker, f Jackie Bullard, f
Bobby Ayers, g Ronnie White,, g
Russ Clack, g Larry Edens, g
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