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Norfolk State Wins I'l»J■ ■wpPpßjßW^^^^^^^B a - j * s |S B 1•I « - I^WLjE^K HEAD COACH Jack MClairen was smiling approval, displays the SIAC Champion Tourna ment Trophy and the SIAC Conference Champion Trophy BK «K AWAY Wl OO Elizabeth City's spunky guard Freddie Lewis (14) does soaring takeoff Earl Monroe Heads for NBA Rookie Award Earl Monroe first made his bid for Rookie-of-the-Year honors last June at the Baltimore Juniiir Col lege field house when the 1967 Bul lets rookie crop opened n week of camp to display their talents to the Baltimore coaching staff. It was around ten o'clock oir a Tuesday morning when close to two hundred spectators joined the local press to see those rookies they'd been reading about, especially the "kid" from Wiaston-Salem who had broken the collegiate scoring rec ord. The small field house was quiet and comfortable on that spring morning as the rooks warmed up with a variety of lay-ups, jumpers and muscle-stretching stuff shots. After an hour or so of running, shooting drills and much talk by the coach, the baby Bullets split into unite of five for a quick scrim mage. It was at that moment Earl Monroe fully left the campus of Winston Salem College and became the Pearl in Maryland's sports oys ter. He brought the ball up court, shuffling over the ten-second line, then broke for the top of the key. At the foul line the tall became a blur, whipping around his body, He moved hi* slight frame in un countable fakes then shot toward the hoop and Vernon Earl Monroe bad scored his first two points as i§ncc that day in June, Earl's following ha* Increased each time ho picks up a basketball. The two hundred that fUst morning grew to five Umet that many by the end of the week./ At the annual intra- Muad gam*, five thouaand turned St to see II Earl Monroe really did exist won by his Bethune-Cookman College Wildcats recently. The Wildcats with an 11 to 1 con ference record were declared Co-champion with Lane College without ball in CIAA Tourna ment game against Johnson C. Smith last weekend. Watching i(- It L Bfl isMl 5 h ■ EARL MONROE (33) . . . the National Basket ball Association's No. One contender for rookie of the year honors in action against the St. I-«ouis Hawks Jo* Caldwell. of Jackson, Tennessee, who had an identical record. Then sweeping the SIAC Tournament at Tuskegee, Alabama with de feat over Lemoyne College, play are Smith's Junior Moore (25) and Vikings' Mike Gale (12). Alabama State College and de fending champion Florida A.& M. Players shown from left to right: McClairen, Johnnie Allen, Otis Fells and Carl Fuller. Spring Workout Begins for Shaw Baseball Team RALEIGH-The Shaw Bears began making preparations for the 1968 baseball season as they started early Spring prac tice on Monday, February 19. This first week of practice in volves only the pitchers and catchers. Present at the initial work out were four veteran pitchers from last year's second-place CIAA team with a 12-5 won lost record. Included among the pit chers is the CIAA's premier hurler, Robert Garrison, who posted a 6-1 record and a 2.17 earned run average. Co-Cap tain Randolph Bazemore, .with a 1-0 record, Jim White and Thomas Morton, who also dou bles as first baseman, also looked good. Veteran Head Coach James E. Lytle also had six first year pitchers out, trying to earn starting berths. Vaughn Harris and Robert Long led in the catching de partment, along with outfield er-catcher William Brown. Future practice will consist of rigorous conditioning and getting the meundsmen fami- NCC Trackmen Finish Second In Big Seven ■. Lionel Urgan scored 11V4 points to take individual scor ing honors and lead the North Carolina College track team to a second place finish behind the University of North Caro lina in the, Big Seven indoor meet held in Chapel Hill last Saturday. Urgan won the 60-yard dash In a winning time of :06.2, captured the broad jump title with a leap of 22 feet 10% in. and led off the winning mile relay Warn which crossed the line in a time of 3:25.8. UNC walked off with the team tlUe for the second straight year by scoring 53 points. NCC was second with 34 points. Other team scores were Duke University 18, North Carolina State 11, East Carottna University 10, Wake Foren 5 and Davidson 1. Terry Cole, who won the high jump with a 6'4" Jump was the only other first place flnisher for the Eagles. James Stevenson tied UNCs Terry Sellars In the 600-yard dash, Carl Reed fourth in the 600- yard run and Ronald Draper was second In the 60-yard hurdles. The Eagles winning mile re lay unit finished third. Bob Brooker Stars as Aggies Lose Playoff Ahead by 11 points at halftime, Norfolk SUte looked ai though it was headed toward* an easy vic tory. However, the Aggies' James Staggs and Bob Brooker, both for mer Philadelphia- schoolboy stars, IK) an uphill battle that enabled the Aggies to knot the count at 100-100 at the end of regulation Jlay. 9 Capitalizing on the deadly (hooting of Richard Kirkland, Robert Dandhdge, Johnny Mc- Kinney and Chick Bonaparte, Norfolk was able to squeak by the Aggies in a foul infested game. In fact foul line shooting was the deciding factor. Both teams accounted for 49 field goals, but the Soartans converted J6 of 47 foul attempts while the Aggies were J4 for 53. Il l FOR YEAR The win gave top-seeded Nor folk State a sweep in conference basketball play. The Spartans had earlier won the visitation (regular season) crown with a re cord of 21-1. In the third overtime Kirkland put Norfolk State ahead with the first of three straight Spartan buckets. His first came at 4:43, making the score 122 120. Carl Hubbard tied it at 122-all but Kirkland canned another jumper. After Robert Brooker pumped the confs, the Spartan playmakcr hit for the third buc ket. This made the score 126-124 and the Virginians were never to be headed with 3:24 to play. -But it was Charles Bonaparte who put the game out of reach for the host Aggies. The 6-2 Spar tan made a sweep of a one-and one at 2:33, following a foul by George Mack. This made the score 128-125. Although Brooker pulled A&T within two with his pair from the line, it wasn't enough as the sprinted to four, then six as Bon aparte canned a pair. The second from the floor at 51 seconds put the score at 132-126—and out of A&T's reach. Art set the pace the first two extra periods. Each time the Ag gies made the first basket. In the first overtime it was James Staggs' score and the last time it was another demonstration of clutch play by Soapy Adams. In the first overtime Kirkland hit the first on a one-and-one to tie the count at 109-109 and it was Kirkland again in the second ex tra inning. This time he sank both on a two-shot foul situation. The Aggies had their best op portunity to wrap the game up in the second overtime. With 1:48 to play Hubbard hit on the second of two' free throws to put A&T up by six at 117-111. At one point in the contest, it looked as If the Aggies would be ,out of the game long before the regulation buzzer was to sound. A&T took the initiative in the early going and had as much as a 10-point lead after the first five minutes of play in the opening half. Brooker hit two-in-a-row for the Aggies to vault A&T into a 17-7 margin with 15:14 to play. At this point the tide started to turn in Norfolk's favor and for the last 10 minutes in the half, the Spartans literally bombed the eyes out of the basket. Dandridge and McKinney led the assault for that 10-minutc span, but Dandridge was the big one and he accounted for 22 of his 26 first half scoring total during that period, hitting 10 of 16 from the floor. Just when it looked like A&T was out of the running, the Ag gies came back on the shooting of Staggs, Brooker and Adams. And the Aggies did it with their backboard muscle Ted Campbell sitting on the bench because of foul problems. Campbell bowed out with 8:45 to go in the last half. FREE THROWS A total of four former Philadelphia school boy dribblers were listed on the North Carolina A&T Aggies' ros ter. 5 OUTSTANDING SERVICES At Mutual Savings & Loan INSURED SAVINGS I TRAVELERS CHECKS SAVE BY MARCH 11 ' , lorn a Full Month in Dividend* ______ 1 MONEY ORDERS ————— Issued through the Federal Home Loon Bank LONG TERM r G, "" sb °'° HOME FINANCING •* 1 MUTUAL SAVINGS HOME IMPROVEMENT & LOAN ASSOCIATION LOANS 112 w ' Parri,h Street ■ "Where You Sove Does Male a Dittfnc*" .. s . r ■ . + *"' , w IS PORT SI /7 / Tf Rv / //jflßSjf jH \>S -'■Hjßi^^B^n^V HEADING FOR OUTER SPACE ing the wrong way except —Everybody seems to be look- AScVs Jimmy Staggs (24) who is concentrating on scoring two Two National League Teams Schedule Games in Nassau NASAU, Bahamas—U. S. Ma jor League baseball comes to Nassau for the first time with the appearances of two Nation al League teams. The Los Ange les Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pi rates will play two exhibition games for charity here March 23-24 at the Oakes Field Sports Centre. Historically this vacation re sort, with its British heritage, has cricket as its national game but in recent years American sports have been building greater following than either cricket or English football. While there is a large follow ing there is also keen partici pation. The Bahamas Baseball Association has spawned 13 professionals, among t hem Pi rates infielder Andre Rodgers who was born in Nassau. All profits from the two game series will go to the Ho- SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1968 THE CAROLINA TIMES— points against Winston-Salem in 23rd annual CIAA Tournament held in Greensboro, last week end. Faked out of position are Rams' William English (43), tary Club of Nassau charities. Promoter Paul McCann is a member of the Nassau Rotary Club. He also is sales manager of Gulf Oil's Nassau-based com pany, and the promotion is un derwritten by his company at $30,000. Premier L. O. Pindlipg will throw out the first ball for the Mar. 23 game. In a statement, he said that "baseball has a tremendous following in the Bahamas so I hope that the precedent set by the Dodgers and Pirates will be followed by other Major League teams in the future." If he can't sell his product, a poet has no more right to complain, than a manufacturer. We all have about the same experiences, but we come to widely different conclusions. 7A and AicTs Verri Walker (40) and Ted Campbell (52). A&T beat the Rams. (Photo by Curtis Peters) Lyceum Series of FSC To Bring National Players FAYETTEVTLLE "Much Ado About Nothing" will be featured in Fayetteville State College's lyceum series Tues day, March 12. The play will be presented in Seabrook Audi torium and will commence at 8 p.m. Staged by the National Play ers, "Much Ado About Noth ing" has a curious and curious ly unexplained, stage history of great success in certain pe riods and no productions what ever in other periods. The present production has been arranged from the nomi nal five acts to an easier three. Because the play is one of wit and word rather than physical activity and locale, a formalized single setting has been used, permitting the action to flow more rapidly, and accenting the verbal elegance of the play's style. (Continued on page 8A)
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