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THE GRYPHON
Friday, April 30, 1971
JAMES RAY MITCHELL COMES IN FIRST IN GREENVILLE TRACK MEET.
Gryphons Second In Divisional
Wilson Drops Thinclads Twice
Gryphon Netmen Sweep
Four Straight Victories
7-5, 6-3; Doubles—Hayes-Tay-
The Rocky Mount track
team’s hopes of going undefeat
ed In 4-A competition were
dashed on Monday, March 19,
by the Wilson Fike Titans. The
Titans, who narrowly edged the
RMSH squad last year to take
divisional honors, netted ten
first place finishes.
Overall, however, theGryphs
have been pleased by their per
formances to date. ■ They stand
6-2 in District 2 competition,
having beaten Goldsboro on
three separate occasions, as
well as Kinston and the hapless
New Bern bears.
In a triangular meet held the
Rocky Mount track RMSH wal
loped Goldsboro and Kinston by
a lopsided 85/53/21 score,
Dennis Jones was the star
performer for the Gryphs at
that meet, netting two wins in
the 100 yard and 220 yard dash
es and also running an excel
lent leg of the 880 relay. Walt
Sherrod was narrowly edged
out by Goldsboro’s Myrick, but
took the high hurdles as usual.
Deacon Jones took a third in the
lows and a second spot in the
highs. While the sprinters were
having their fun, the field events
were also giving RMSH an add
ed margin of comfort. Behind
the efforts of Thorne, Long,
Capps, Mercer, Barnhill, Kim
ble, and Dantzler, the “heavi
es” of the squad pulled in 21
points. The distance men all
enjoyed good performances, as
Lanier and Johnson added 7
points to the tally. Steve
Thomas took a second in the
grueling two mile event, while
Freddy Joyner edged closer to
the five minute barrier with a
5:10:4, RMSH did not enjoy Its
usual superiority in the quar-
ter-mile department and the
lone point-getter was James
Ray Mitchell.
Surprising Freddy Joyner
turned in a 4:55 mile to take a'
third In that event, and Thomas
pulled a second out of the fire
with a blazing sprint finish to
take the long-distance event.
Fike enjoyed aclearsuperiority
in field events, but Dantzler,
Battle, Mercer, and Capps still
placed and added 5 points to the
losing cause, Gary Knight and
Mitchell both took places in the
quarter mile run, and teamed
up with Eric Lanier and Bill
Daughtridge to run a second-
best mile relay.
The Gryphs were looking for
revenge last Thursday, but Wil
son continued their 4 year reign
over RMSH track squads with a
70 1/2 / 47 1/2 / 41 decision
over the number two Gryphs
and last place New Bern,
Dennis Jones ran for 10 points
in the super springs and Sher
rod once again trounced every
one as he gathered 10 in the
barrier races. Sophomore
Alviz Battle managed to place
third in the broad jump, and
Capps took a fourth in the shot.
Surprising Jimbo Long earned
2 points with a discus toss of
116’ 10 1/2”. Lanier once again
fell to Quinn. The half mile
relay once again proved itself
unbeatable, and it swept to a 20
jfard win over New Bern. Fike’s
Smith, an outstanding cross
country runner for Fike this
fall, took first in the mile,
with Thomas behind.
Winning tennis is returning
to RMSH this spring in a big
way. Since the last edition of
the newspaper, the Gryphon net
men have swept to 4 straight
victories, three of them district
wins, making them 6-3 in the re
gular season, and 3-0 in the dis
trict. The team is coached this
season by Mr. George Ramey
who was a tennis star at At
lantic Christian College.
Leading the netmen this year
is senior Lewis Hardy, who has
a record of 7-2, winning his last
4 matches. The number 2 po
sition has been alternated be
tween Woody Riddick (3-4)^
Mike Long (4-5), and Reid Rho
des (6-3). Filling out the start
ing line up are Frank Avent,
Steven Bennett, and JohnWors-
ley.
Rocky Mount -5 Hoggard -4,
Singles—Hardy (Rm) d Priede-
more (H) 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; Rid
dick (RM) d Taylor 6-1, 6-3;
Newton (H) d Long 2-6, 6-3,
6-0; Rhodes (RM) d Meshaw (H)
3-6, 6-2, 6-4; Hayes (H) d
Avent (RM) 6-2, 6-4; T.
Priedlemore (H) d Bennett 3-6,
Everyone has heard of Joan-
ie Weston the “Blond Ama
zon” roller Derby star, or of
Billy Jean King, one of the
top women tennis players in the
world. For years, women have
been competing with each oth
er for titles, but not until re
cently have women started com
peting with men in sports. So
you say that you haven’t heard
of any girls participating in
boys sports activities—just
look around, these girls aren’t
hard to find.
To tiegin with, the New York
Regent’s Board has passed a law
that states that girls will be al-
lor (H) d Riddick-Long (RM)
10-8; Hardy-Rhodes (RM) d
Priedlemore-Meshaw (H) 8-4;
Lee-Worsley (RM) d Allen-O’-
Brien 8-3.
Rocky Mount-9 Greenville-0.
Singles—Hardy (RM) dWinn(G)
6-0, 6-0; Riddick (RM) d Sny
der (G) 6-0, 6-0; Long (RM)
d Faser (G) 6-0, 6-0; Rhodes
(RM) d James (G) 6-0, 6-2;
Avent (RM) d Stevenson (G)
6-3, 6-2; Bennett (RM)d Lupton
(G) 6-0, 6-1; Doubles—Wors-
ley-Lee (RM) dWinn-Stevenson
(G) 10-8; Weeks-Jones (RM)
d Lupton-James (G) 8-2; Sum-
ner-Lea (RM) d Snyder-Faser
(G) 8-6.
Rocky Mount-5 New Bern-2.
Singles—Hardy (RM) d Parham
6-0, 6-2; Rhodes (RM)d Hudson
(NB) 6-3, 6-3; Long (RM) d
Gassoway (NB) 6-4, 6-1; Avent
(RM) d Skinner (NB) 6-8, 6-2,
6-3; Beiuiett (RM) d Hudson
(NB) 6-0, 1-6, 6-3; Doubles—
Hardy-Rhodes (RM) d Hudson-
Parham (NB) 8-5; Gassoway-
Baker (NB) d Jones-Lee (RM)
8-4:
lowed to participate in any
sports with boys in which there
is no physical contact. Two
girls in New Jersey filed case
In a district court because they
claimed that their constitut
ional rights had been abridged
by being denied a position on
their school’s tennis team.
The fought the case and won.
Now these girls play on their
school tennis team. Another
girl became the announcer of
her college’s basketball games.
Last year a woman played on a
football team in Florida. One
woman helps coach a Mid-wes
tern school’s swimming team.
Coming closer to home, in
Fayetteville, two girls entered
the soap box derby. Locally,
some of the city schools have
had girl score keepers. Lat
year, several of the Little Lea
gue baseball teams were coach
ed by women. Women part
icipate In city tennis tourna
ments with men.
Like it or not boys. It’s a
fact that girls are becoming
much more interested in sports.
H they don’t participate, at
least they take the role of
spectators. This form of wo
men’s lib has hit the Gryphon
really hard. For this issue of
the newspaper, Nancy Ward and
I have taken the traditionally
male job of being sports edi-‘
tors.
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