October 22, 1982
HIGH LIFE
Page 7
Cross Country
Undefeated
By Bill Newnam
The Grimsley Cross Country team continues to br
ing prominence to Whirlie athletics.
Head Coach Richard Smith has received numerous
comments on the reputation his team has attained, in
cluding a comment made by a coach from Athens,
Georgia. “I knew Grimsley swimming had a great
tradition, and now I cross country does, too,” he said.
The Whirlies had an impressive victory at McAlpine
Green way in Charlotte on Saturday, September 25,
over three defending state champions. They were Irmo
High School from South Carolina, Dobyns-Bennet
High from Tennessee, and Chapel Hill High from
North Carolina.
Tim Fry led the Whirlies to a five-point victory over
Chapel Hill by finishing third out of 142 runners.lThis
was the first time Fry has ever triumphed over his
team-mate Allen Ford. Ford finished fifth.)
Mike Moses, Andy Reed, and Jim Leone finished
tenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth respectively.
The Whirlies will begin their quest for a state title in
the conference meet on October 22. The meet will be
held here at Grimsley because the Whirlies are the
defending champions. In all six years in the Central
State Conference, the Grimsley cross country team has
Whirlie Netters 8-®
Team Nears Sectionals
By Chuck Tutterow
Grimsley’s girls tennis team
begins to look ahead to another
conference championship as it
stands at 6-0 with four conference
matches left.
After going 1-4 outside the Cen
tral State 4-A (with two losses each
to Page and High Point Central),
the netters have rebounded to
down Dudley, Parkland, Andrews,
West Forsyth, and South Stokes
twice, to raise their record to 7-4
overall and 6-0 in the conference.
The Whirlies wiU advance looth
the top two singles and doubles
Grimsley’s b'^^i Bulla prepares for upcoming secaonals toteh^d^
tober 27 and 28. (Rob Cheshire Photo)
October Youth
Of The Month
Carl-Henry Greschwind
Carl-Henry Geschwind has been chosen
as one of October's Youths of the Month.
Carl-Henry's academic accomplishments
are excellent. He has had special
achievements in the field of Math.
Carl-Henry has attended the Governor's
School and has taken part in the Mayor's
Youth Conference. He has held positions of
leadership each of his years at Grimsley.
This year he is serving as President of the
Senior Class.
McDonald's congratulates Carl Henry
Geschwind and has awarded him a $100
scholarship.
BENCHWARMER
Who Needs The NFL?
Mike Moses runs away from the pack. (Whirligig Photo)
never been set back by a conference rival. If they are
triumphant in the conference meet, they will go on to
the sectionals on October 29 from which the top two
teams will advance to the State Meet on November 5.
Smith feels that Chapel Hill and undefeated
Grimsley are “head and shoulders” above the rest of
the cross country teams in the state, and “whoever
wants it the most” on November 5, will win it.
* » *
The girls cross country team is doing well also, with
a fourth-place finish in Charlotte. Out of about 150
girls, Wendy McLees finished seventh, and Stephanie
Ingram finished eight.
teams to the Sectional matches Oc
tober 27, 28. From there, top eight
singles and doubles teams will ad
vance to the regiohals in
Goldsboro. The regional winners
will then advance to the state
playoffs October 10 and 11.
The tennis team has vyon the con
ference title every year since the
conference was formed, going
undefeated each year except one.
Head coach Lynda Tamblin ad
mits that the Central State is not
primarily a tennis conference,
however, she adds that the teams
are quickly improving and West
Forsyth and South Stokes have
given the Whirlies some competi
tion.
Despite the four early season
losses, Tamblyn notes that the
“conference record shows that the
girls did not get
discouraged. . .their attitudes
made the victories possible, and
they’ve worked as a team.”
Gilliam's
Florist
29900371
By Chuck Tutterow
With the onset of the NFL
strike, the Sunday Spectators have
been at a loss for a sport of
violence. Since farqueling is out of
season, I found myself writing off
the top of my head (a very difficult
position indeed) in order to come up
with a substitution. But then it hit
me, this Falls premier sport is none
other than, you guessed it, Molda
vian biffing.
For these of you knaves un
familiar with biffing, here’s a quick
review. Two teams, 34‘/a players
each, one team tries to advance a
round rock, called the “donut," into
the opponent’s territory and stuff
it into that teams cooler of
Gatorade. The offensive team must
pass the donut by head-butting
(biffing) it to another player every
three steps. One point for each
dunked donut and two points for
each broken bone or chipped tooth
in the scoring drive (?). Well, so
much for the review!!!
Traditionally, biffing begins with
the “diven.” This is where the
referee (usually bribed) throws the
donut into a mass of players huddl
ed at midfield and the biffers dive
in after it. Many players use the
divan as an excuse to lunge at ex
posed limbs. This is called “fractur
ing” the diven and is the source of
most biffing injuries. After the
diven, pla^ continues unstopped
until the players collapse from ex-
austion, thus bringing about
“halftime”.
For the past 6 to 9 seasons, biff
ing has been dominated by the
Keeook Maulers, known to the
locals as “Muldavia’s team”. We
talked to the Keeook coach outside
his residence during a bomb threat.
High Life: Coach Burrisko, you
have a virtual biffing dynasty,
what’s the key to your success?
K. Burrisko: Uh, we won a lot,
that usually helps.
High Life: Yes, but what is dif
ferent about this year?
A. Burrisko: We acquired some
good players in the off season
trades and this has given us extreme
depth, about twenty fathoms.
High Life: I thought all trading
was illegal.
T. Burrisko: That’s true, but we
payed off the commissioners as
usual.
High Life: What offense will you
run in the upcoming match?
H. Burrisko: Well, Chuck, we
hope to dazzle the crowd with our
butt-bombs and the ad-option as
well as the wish-biff formation.
High Life: I understand that the
Crushers are pretty big.
R. Burrisko: And ugly. too. To
combat their size, we have conceiv
ed a new strategy. We will gang up
on one of their players and beat him
senseless with the donut. We call
this the Krispy Kreme.
High Life; What is your game
plan this v/eek?
Y. Burrisko: Basically, we will at
tempt to out-biff the Crushers and
if that doesn’t work we will cheat.
High Life: How do you plan to
cheat?
N. Burrisko: We will susbsitute
Extra Strength Tylenol in place of
their salt tablets. Later!!!
Thus our study of Moldavian bif
fing was complete and seeing how
our forged passports were
discovered, we were asked to leave
Keeook (at gunpoint). For those in
terested, tickets for Keeook’s up
coming match against cross-town
rival Leictenstein will be on sale in
room 868 for $41.09. All proceeds
will be pocketed.
Attention'!! Mike “Grizzley”
Baer was seriously injured in a
fight over an undisclosed amount
of small change last Tuesday. It
was not a fair fight, however, the
old lady did use her cane as a
weapon.
***Paul Stanfield - the 31st is
coming up quickly, you know what
that means, pumpkin head.
Sports In Review
By Jeff Sural and Steve Vehom hopeless for Grimsley and at the
Varsity Football
Despite a difficult season thus
far, Grimsley varisty football team
continues its schedule with. high
hopes.
After an exciting , win over,
Reynolds the team lost to Smith
9-6, at Smith, in a very hard hitting
game. The team, although losing 2
of their games already,' started
preparing for the big game against
Page, at the beginning of the game
it looked like a good one, but by the
end of the first half it looked
end of the game Page had beatend
Grimsley 34-0. Then came the Cen
tral game, the turning point of the
Whirle’s season, or that’s how it
worked last year. The Whirles had
the same record as last years team
at this point, but the Whirles
couldn’t pull it off and lost to High
Point Central 14-0.
Grimsley’s record in their con
ference was 0-1 after this game and
they need to win the rest of their
games to recieve a playoff spot.
(Continued on Page 8)
Happy
Halloween
(From A Friend)