SPORTS
Soccer team looks forward to season
BY ROBBIE LAUGHTON
Correspondent
The 2001 ACES Boys Soccer
Team is loaded with excite
ment and exciting players.
There is a new Head Coach, a
20 game season, and a great
mix of experienced players and
young talent. Led by four Se
niors and six Juniors, the
ACES will add eleven Sopho
mores and Freshmen to field a
squad of aggressive, quick and
determined athletes.
First year Head Coach, Mark
Bates, will work to mold a team
that is exciting to watch and
plays hard until the final
whistle. He will use his 35 years
of playing and coaching expe
rience to get the most out of
each player.
Missing the play-offs on the
final game of the regular sea
son last year has given this
year 's team perfect motivation.
EspeciaUy when the team that
knocked the ACES out of the
play-offs is this year's first op
ponent. The ACES will kick
off its 2001 schedule with a 7:00
p.m. match against the Ply
mouth Vikings this Thursday,
August 16 at the Purser Soccer
Complex.
This year's ACES are:
Seniors - Kevin Knox.
Timmy Ratzlaff. Patrick Sell
irs and Joel Williams.
Juniors - Aiex Bean, Robert
3rucia, Brett Laughton, Stuart
doctor, William Pruden and
lerrod Satterfield.
Sophomores - Nathan Bass,
L,uke Copeland, Michael
McLaughlin, Daniel Phillips
md Eric Sliva.
Freshmen - Stewart Bean,
Jraham Elmore, George
^arrish, Rob Perry, Brian
Ward and Will White.
The 2001 Lady Aces VotteybaH team opens ptay this week against Perquimans County High Schoo). Lenny Ptummer (!eft) and Rock
Hutnet) (right) wit) be directing the team for their second season together.
J.A. Holmes volleyball a double hit;
Plummer and Hutnell leading team
BY MARY SAWYER
. Correspondent
Lots of people consider
themselves volleyball play
ers. Anyone who slaps a vol
leyball around in the back
yard with a few aunts, uncles,
and cousins every 4th of July
can lay claim to that title,
right? Wrong. At least not if
you are comparing yourself
to the 21 athletes who make
up the junior varsity and var
sity volleyball teams at John
A. Holmes High School. They
play the bump-set-spike kind
of volleyball were defensive
success is measured in digs
and offensive success is mea
sured in kills.
Returning spikers Tiffany
Gray and Heather Regulski
are expected to put down a
few of those kills this season
for the varsity squad. But
that wiii happen only if they
receive good sets froth team
mates like returning setters
Angela Brothers and Sarah
Leggett. (Look up the word
teamwork in the dictionary
and you'll find the word vol
leyball.) Regulski is the only
senior in that foursome and
one of only two on the team.
Shaneetha Holley is the other
senior and she is also ex
pected to see a lot of court
time.
New this year to volleyball
in this area is the addition of
ajunior varsity squad. Lenny
Plummer and Rock Hudnall
coach both teams and prac
tice them together since
freshman and sophomords
who make up the JV-team are
also allowed to play in var
sity matches. (With a com
bined total of only seven jun
iors and seniors, the coaches
expect they will be taking ad
vantage of that rule often.)
"It's a little tough right now
practicing with 21 players,
and only 10 of those are re
turning, but once we get it all
sorted out we should have a
couple of pretty good teams,"
says assistant coach Hudnall.
The junior varsity team
has the same schedule as the
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rarsity, with their matches
;cheduled for 4:00 followed by
he varsity at 5:00. The JV
earn plays the best of three
^ames while the varsity plays
he best of five.
The next home matches
rre on Thursday, Sept. 6
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Head Coach Mark Bates
Aces welcome their
new soccer coach
BY ROBBiE LAUGHTON
Correspondent
For one week in the sum
mer of 2000, Mark Bates and
two other British soccer play
ers led a youth soccer camp
for the Edenton-Chowan Rec
reation Department. Mark
was impressed enough with
what he saw and experienced
that he decided to bring his
British Challenger Soccer
Camp back to Edenton for
another week this past sum
mer. Approximately 90 boys
and girls ages 4-15 attended
the instructional camp three
weeks ago and were glad he
did. In fact, it was such a
. great experience that the Rec
reation Department ap
proached the formal profes
sional soccer player about re
turning during the season
and continuing to develop the
young talent in the many
leagues the Department of
fers in the Fall. A second
motive was to ask if some as
sistance could be given to the
varsity boys soccer team at
John A. Holmes High School
who were without a Head
Coach after the departure of
last year's coach, Sandy
Davis. Without hesitation,
Coach Bates agreed to come
back for the Fall soccer sea
son and help out wherever he
could.
With 35 years of playing
and coaching experience,
Mark Bates says his first love
is teaching the game of soc
cer to kids, then watching
them improve and helping
them develop into higher
level players. Mark has led
numerous camps for all ages
of beginners through semi
professional players. He has
also played professional soc
cer in England. He has de
cided to remain in the States
and open his own soccer or
ganization called MB Soccer.
Mark says, "I see my experi
ence in Edenton as an oppor
tunity to help a small com
munity while gaining valu
able contacts to grow my new
business. I believe it will be a
win-win situation for every
one".
One thing for sure, the area
youth will have an exposure
to one of the best soccer play
ers they will see and an op
portunity to listen and train
with a fantastic teacher of the
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