Page Four
HIGH LIFE SPORTS SECTION
March 17, 1961
4-A STUDDED WITH
TENSION, TEARS, BEAUTY
After all the smoke had cleared,
and the excitement and tension
were dissolved, the Wildcats of
the port city came out on top of
a heap of struggling teams and
determined young men to cop the
state 4-A conference champion
ship of 1960-61.
The tournament was featured by
two southern belles, Miss Ann
Herring, Miss North Carolina of
1960-61, and the queen of the
tournament, Virginia Harmon plus,
as Greensboro Whirlie coach Bob
Jamieson put it, “one of the best
balanced tournaments to have
been held at Senior in a long
while.”
As for the fans of the “Big
Blue,” all and any hopes of see
ing their Whirlies in the final
action were completely demolish
ed as the host team acted like
real southern gentlemen for they
helped open the tournament with
a 54-48 loss to their visiting broth
ers from East Mecklenburg. The
Meyers Park Tops
Reynolds 57-55
BY BOB WHITE
Highly favored Winston-Salem
Reynolds, with their 19 game win
ning streak, went down in defeat
57-55 to Charlotte’s Myers Park
in the 4-A playoffs Thursday
night. With the opening of the
game Myers Park won the jump
and scored the first two points
of the game.
Winston-Salem, starting cold,
was trailing 12 to 16 at the close
of the first quarter. When the
half rolled around Myers Park
still had a lead of 27 to 20, with
Winston’s Reynolds getting hotter
all the time.
Winston - Salem was getting
closer by the end of the third
quarter with a score of 41-36.
With seconds remaining in the
game, Winston was looking sad,
but they came through with two
foul shots that equaled the 49
score. The game ran into an over
time with both teams scoring
equally. The game ran into a sud
den death with Myers Park scor
ing and walking off with a victor
ious 57 to the new defeated Win
ston-Salem’s 55.
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Senior quint lost this game at the
charity stripe as the Eagles hit
20 for 28 and the Gate City five
were only allowed eleven tries, of
which they sunk six. This defeat
could well have been a big factor
in the decrease of attendance since
the Whirlies were eliminated at
first and did not reach the finals
or the semi-finals as in the past
years. Wilmington had earlier
romped easily over the weaker
Yellow Jackets of Salisbury.
Thursday night probably afford
ed the most excitement and thrills
for both contests went into dou
ble-overtimes. In the first game
Gastonia defeated Durham to
clinch a berth in the semi-finals.
The surprise, however, was in
the second match when an always
rough Myers Park squad edged
the heavily favored unbeaten
Black Demons of Winston-Salem
Reynolds.
In the Friday eve action, the
hot Wildcats conquered East Meck
lenburg 49-38, and Myers Park
slipped by Gastonia in a 46-43
victory to match the two squads
in the final contest. The Brogden-
coached team .came through for the
fifth time in the six years in their
66-54 win over the Ponies. Wil
mington was not as strong this
year as in the past, but, said
Coach Jamieson, “They had a lot
of poise.” East Mecklenburg won
East Mecklenburg Downs
Whirlies In 4-A Tourney
East Mecklenburg defeated the
Greensboro Senior High Whirlies
54 to 48 in the State 4-A Cham
pionship March 8.
The Whirlies controUed the
jump and scored the first point
of the game on a foul. From here
on the lead went back and forth,
with Mecklenberg keeping up on
several Whirlie fouls. The first
quarter ended with the Whirlies
having 16 points and Mecklen
berg, 11.
The second quarter went about
the same as the first with steady
play. The halftime score stood
Greensboro 23 and Mecklenburg
22.
Early in the third stanza, the
score evened up 27 to 27. The
Jayvee Team Finishes
With Spotless Record
The Senior High Junior Var
sity basketball team has completed
its regular season play with a
spotless 20-0 record.,
Coach John Gordy gave the
names of the outstanding players.
They were John Brown, forward;
Van Gunther, forward; Chuck
Hughes, guard, and Amos John
son.
When asked the purpose of
J.V.’s, he said, “The purpose of
the club is to develop players
that will strengthen our varsity.”
He also added, “All of these boys
hustled and liked to play."
Other boys who participated on
the squad were John Barnes, Bill
Reese, Butch Burchette, and Mike
Ephland.
the consolation contest in the 69-
58 defeat of Gastonia.
It was a good clean tournament,
but for the losers sophomore cen
ter Skeeter Powell summed it up
with “That’s the breaks.”
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lead shifted back and forth until
about three minutes in the third
quarter when Mecklenburg took
the lead, which it retained until
the end of the quarter. The per
iod ended with Mecklenburg, 38
and Whirlies, 36.
Early in the last quarter
Greensboro tied the game 38 all.
Then, with five minutes left In
the game, the Whirlies hit a cold
streak and East Mecklenburg,
bringing down a large percentage
of the rebounds, pulled ahead to
walk victorious.
The main factor in the game
was East Mecklenburg’s superior
rebounding. The Whirlies also
committed a disastrous amount of
fouls. Ralph Lowe was high scor
er for the Whirlies with 14 points.
James Team and Sonny Odom
scored 10 points each. The Whir
lies outshot East Mecklenburg in
field goals but bowed to Mecklen
burg’s 20-28 foul shot record com
pared to their own 6-11.
Joddy Peer Breaks
Swimming Record
Joddy Peer, senior, broke the
200-yard individual record at the
State swimming meet at Wake
Forest on Satur
day, March 4.
Joddy swam the
distance in a
blistering 2:22.6,
breaking the old
record held by
Robert Gullett
by one tenth of
a second.
In order to break this record,
he had to swim the butterfly
stroke, backstroke, breast stroke
and the free-style.
Joddy has been swimming at
Senior since he was a sophomore.
He has always shown he is a
great athlete, but this was by far
his greatest performance.
Other tankmen who placed at
the meet were Skipper Burwell,
second in the 400-yard free-style
and Jim Petty, second in the 50
yard free-style. The relay team
also came in second in the 400
yard relay.
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