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THE BLACXBIRD
Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1967
Birds Take First Victory,
Revenge Booker T. Lions
The RMSH varsity cage
squad reaked revenge on the
Booker T. Wasibington High
School Ldons in the Booker T.
gym December 8, 61-41, for the
defeat handed to them the Fri
day before.
The Blackbirds took their
first victory of the season after
two losses to Booker T. and
Northern Nash High Schools.
The Rocky Mount five out
shined the host squad in al
most every aspect o® the game.
The opening stanza showed
the Birds trailing 18-12, but the
RMSH varsity took advantage
of the Booker T. mistakes in
fouling and ball handling to
take the lead and keep it th§
rest of the game.
Junior center Victor Knight
who starred in the first game
against Booker T., made a bril
liant scoring performance.
Knig'ht popped in bucket after
bucket for 21 points and pull
ed down 10 rebounds.
Senior forward Stephen Battle
took advantage of many chances
at the diarity line to add 10
points with free throws and he
made good' two field goals for
a total of 14 points.
Other scorers of the night
were Ken Thompson and Denny
Allen, each making eight points,
Ben Alford with six points, and
Dickie Berry and Phil Johnson,
each with two points.
Allen captured the most re
bounds for the Birds witlh 12
captures while Knight pulled in
ten.
In the second stanza just as
the Rocky Mount varsity be
came sparked, the Lions could
do nothing right. The Blackbirds
led 26-22 at intermission. Mtich
of the scoring came from the
charity strip as Booker T. com-
mitted‘ 32 fouls compared to
13 for the Birds.
The third period showed
Rocky Mount pushing their cus
hion higher. The RMSH varsity
scored 22 points in the third
stanza while thei Lions added
a scant seven.
The final quarter still found
Rocky Mount with a substantial
lead brought on by a three-
point scoring of Knight, Battle
and AUen.
SOPHOMORE DENNY ALLEN (32) fakes out a Knight eager
and' takes a shot in the game against Northern Nash here.
(Sports Photos by Killehrew)
Power Poof Poses Problem
With four seconds left in tlie
junior varsity game with Nor
thern Nash, and with a crowd
gatliering outside for the var
sity game, the lights suddenly
decided to go out.
Now this wouldn’t have been
so bad if I hadn’^t been outside
in the cold, and if I weren’t so
short. When the lights first
went off, I didn’t worry. I felt
sure that they would be on in
just a minute, but they didn’t
come on. The longer the lights
stayed off, the closer the crowd'
pushed to the door. Boy, did I
get mashed!
I don’t know why everyone
was pushing so much. They
couldn’t get in. The police
wouldn’t let them in. They also
made the people inside remain
seated and stay quiet, so they
wouldn’t fall and hurt them
selves.
No one knoew what had gone
wrong. Coach Lundy later sta
ted that the blackout was caus
ed by the circuits overheating,
which tripped the main switch
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After about thirty minutes of
my being shoved, stepped on,
elbowed and crowded, the lights
flickered on — then off — then
on — tihen off again. Finally,
they came on and this time
they stayed; on.
This was the sign for a gene
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Some people have no considera
tion for people who are smialler
than they are. I started out near
the front of the line; but when
he lights came on, I found that
I had been pushed far back in
the line. This made me mad,
so I started slowly elbowing
my way forward. Tiien this real
nice man said, “You people are
mashing this little girl up here.
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so she can get er ticket?”
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Blackbirds Suffer
Second Loss Here
To Northern Nash
The Blackbirds took their sec
ond loss of the season on De
cember 5, at the hands; of the
Northern Nash Knights, 55-40.
A full house was on hand: to
witness the Birds launch ahead
in the first period' 9-6, and. the
margin widened to as much as
12-4 in the second stanza. A full-
court press helped to slow the
Knighits in the opening half
with the score standing at a
15'point deadlock, but the visi
tors moved past the Birds in
the final half ending with a 15-
point margin.
Allen Gets 13
The Birds seemed to do a re-
peat-performance of their pre
vious game with poor shooitiug,
but sophomore Denny Allen was
brought from the bench to do an
outsitandig job to head the
Blackbird scoring with 13 points.
Senior Ben Alford and junior
Phil Johnson each added six
points and senior Mike Brown,
senior Stephen Battle and ju
nior Ken Thompson each added
four points. Victor Knight put
up three points to finish the
Birds’ score for the evening.
Second Half
The final half saw the Birds
trying to regain their previous
lead, but the Knigihts; began
sinking bucket after bucket to
push ahead. Northern Nash
started a scoring streak which
ran 11 points before Allen hit
two charity shots. The sopho
more took two more foul shots
before the Birds sparkled and
narrowed the scoring margin.
The Knights cushion was sihor-
tened' to as few as six points
but they were revived' to top
the Birds by a 15-point margin.
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