8 - Morrisviile and Preston Progress, Thursday, March 27,1997
Adults back in the game, this time less pain
By Mary Beth Phiilips
For Morrisviile resident Linnel
Baldwin, 16, a Cary High School
football player, the flag football
tournament on Saturday was
"weird," but more fun than tackle
football.
"Usually, you've got definite
linemen, the line contains the
quarterback. Here, it’s not
organized," Baldwin explained.
The major benefit was "obvious
ly, no pain," he said, but also, "you
get to run more freely."
"When you-put on pads, you’ve
got to be serious," he added, refer
ring to playing tackle football for
his school.
Four teams played Saturday in
Morrisviile Parks and Recreation’s
first flag football tournament.
Director Alan Carroll hopes to start
a league in the fall. Signups will
begin in July.
"It’s the up and coming municipal
program," Carroll said.
The weather Saturday was per
fect, in the upper 70s with a slight
Baldwin’s team, the Remis
Raiders, was in the playoff game,
but lost to "Pack Attack" a team of
N.C. State University graduates
who had played intramural flag
football there a few years ago, and
had gone to the nationals in New
Orleans in 1994.
Randy Bechtoidt, assistant in-
iramur^ sports director at N.C.
State, helped organize the event.
He knows both Carroll and As
sistant Recreation Director Jimmy
Huggins from the days when they
attended graduate school at State.
Bechtoidt advised them about rules
and scoring.
Another one of the teams. Guts &
Glory, was made up of N.C. State
students and recent graduates.
The Remis Raiders was set up by
Billy Thomas, a Morrisviile resi
dent who also works part time at
the Morrisviile Community Center.
Only two of the players on the
fourth team, the Temple Dawgs,
had ever played flag football be
fore.
"It’s different than I expected,"
said Mitchell Bowyer of the
Temple Dawgs. "You can rush
right away. You can’t knee the op
ponent or physically contact them."
He also noted that the other teams
seemed to have organized plays.
"We just kind of say, 'you go this
way, you do this...’”
The tournament Saturday was a
Round Robin format - each team
played three games.
The championship game was
played before the consolation
game. The Raiders were obviously
proud to be in the championship
game. "We old men put on a gal
lant effort," John York said after
losing the game 28-0. "We beat
some young puppies earlier."
Huggins said most of the players
who are attracted to flag football
had played football in their high
school or college days. "After so
many years, you just don’t want to
put those pads back on," Huggins
said.
Kirkland Henson, 24, of Guts &
Glory, said he prefers tackle, but
the advantage to flag football is "a
lot more action in terms of scor
ing." Also, flag football tends to in
volve everyone in the plays.
"There’s not as much blocking, the
plays are more distributed across
the team."
IN ACTION-Billy Thomas of Morrisviile, a
player for the Remis Raiders, reaches for a pass
CaiToU said he received a lot of
inquiries from other Morrisviile
residents and companies, including
some that play in the adult softball
league, but that only four teams
fin^y signed up.
He added that he is pleased with
the working relationship that has
during a flag football tournament put on Satur
day to create interest in a league,
developed with the Capital Area for the opportunity to use Cedar
Soccer League. Morrisviile has Fork Park off Aviation Parkway for
traded practice time at Lumley Park some games.
Easter dance, pool party among April’s P&R calendar
By Mary Beth Phillips
The spring season is gearing up at
the Morrisviile Parks and Recrea
tion and Cultural Resources De
partment, with a variety of events
from an Easter Dance to youth out-
doOT basketball.
Residents may also begin pur
chasing season passes for the out
door swimming and wading pools,
which will open May 17.
A pool party featuring games will
be held May 17 from noon until 6
p.m. to kick off the 16-week swim
ming season.
Residents may swim at a cost of
$1.50 per person, or buy a season
membership for $45. Non-residents
pay $3 per day or $90 for the sea
son. A family membership is $75
for residents and $150 for non
residents.
Registration begins May 13 for
swim lessons, to be coached by the
Cary Family YMCA. Non-residents
may register beginning May 20.
The eight-lesson package is $30 for
residents and $43 for non-residents
at the preschool age, and $32 for
residents and $45 for non-resident
school-age children.
Die Easter Dance will be held
April 12 from 7 to 10 p.m. Kenny
Godwin wiU be the disc jockey for
the event, which draws people of
all ages, but mostly youth, accord
ing to Alan Carroll, director of
Paries and Recreation.
Tickets are $1.50 for residents
and $3 for non-residents.
Registration is going on now for
ArtsTogether camps to be held in
late April. Fees are $140 for resi
dents and $175 for non-residents.
The half-day sessions last two
we^s.
Youth outdoor basketball for
boys and girls age 9 to 12 will be
held for the first time this summer.
Registration is May 19-June 8. The
six-week season begins the week of
July 7. Registration is $15 for resi
dents and $25 for non-residents.
Registration is also going on now
for soccer camps and baseball
camps.
The soccer camps run July 7-11
and July 14-18. The resident rate is
$120 for the week of instruction.
The baseball camps run July 21-25,
and July 28-Aug.l. The camps will
run from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Registration is always ongoing
for Country and Western Line
Dance lessons, Goju Karate, and
Bodyworks step aerobics.
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