Conference Stretched Way Out As Season Begins ,
By Clint Fuller
Times Sports Editor
For those basketball fans who have
had trpuble in past years keeping up
with six or sawen schools-- 12 to 14
teams -we have a message. You aint
seen nothing yet. And if' these same
fans have been troubled because they
could not see more than a couple of
teams a week, we have another mes
sage. Get set for more trouble.
Since 1927, when the Mftklin
County League (as it was known) first
saw the light of day, Franklin County
schools have been the lone par
ticipants. This was true until last sea
son when Wakelon was made a mem
ber and Epsom and Edward Best drop
ped out. Six schools and the eleven
teams they floored (Franklinton aban
doned girls basketball) were still some
what neatly packaged in an area not
too many miles in distance. The Lea
gue had a successful season,and few, if
any, problems arose.
It is hoped that the same good fairy
will tap the newly formed Franklin
Area Conference this season. Sprawled
from Gold Sand to Apex and Epsom
to Cardinal Gibbons and Edward Best
to Oxford Orphanage even the fairy is
going to find it a problem keeping up
with all the goings-on.
There are eleven schools in the new
conference. Ten of these will field
boys and girls teams and one will floor
a boys squad only. This adds to 21
different basketball squads to keep
tabs on. Add to this a scattered JV
program in which around six of the
schools will participate and throw in a
dash of seventh-eighth grade contests
and the whole thing staggers the imagi
nation.
But let us hasten to point out that
largeness does not necessarily mean a
lightening up of top quality basketball.
Nor is it likely to lessen the intense
rivalry of the'schools -old and new. It
is likely to make impossible the task of
any one sports writer to keep any sort
of accurate record on scoring and
maybe, even, won-lost records.
Youngsville boys and girls are de
fending champions. Both are among
the favorites in the conference this
year. Cardinal Gibbon boys are ex
pected to give the Phantoms about as
much competition as any of the
squads. Nothing is known about the
Gibbons girls except thay they have
won at least one game thus far in the
season.
Franklinton boys who tied Youngs
ville as Conference co-champs are not
expected to be as strong without
Foster Brodie, Haywood Lawrence,
Charles Manson, Mac Beckham and
others, but the Rams are expected to
get son* help from the conference
champion Jayvee squad of last year.
Bunn is already off to a good 3-0
start and with most of the Bulldogs
returning are expected to be tough
competition. The Bunn girls minus
Ellen Andrews and Jean Crudup might
- not be as strong, but they too could
| be.
Edward Best and Epsom will be
rejoining the conference after a year's
absense and may have some trouble in
the early contests. Edward Best had
community type program last year
which should help their boys program
this year.
Gold Satld boys will miss Dewey
ferry but hive thus far been doing
alright, having won two and lost none.
The girts have won one and lost an
overtime stint 8-6.
Nothing is known about Apex, ex
cept that its In Wake County. What
kind of program Apex has must re
main a secret until after December 1
when they join the schedule. Oxford
Orphanage, also gets into the act in
December and without any knowledge
of the schools cage attributes, it is safe
t6 report that the Red Devils will
be -as they have always been-tough.
Well just have to wait and see about
the girls.
Louisburg lost some good boys and
the local girls might be a year or so
away. Like most of the other teams,
too little is known about them to
make any kind or quaiiried guess.
Wakelon is the same. Hie Bulldogs had .
a good squad last year and much
depends on how many piayeix were
lost on both the Wakelon squads.
If we had to pick a pile -and we're
glad we don't have Jo- we'd say
Youngsville, Cardinal Gibbons, Bunn
boys and Youngsville, Bunn and Wake
lon girls -neither, necessarily in that
order. You might add Oxford and
Apex and any other squads that turns
you on. So little is known at this stage
of the game. It would be fool hearted
indeed to try to predict.
It should be an interesting season
and with the distances involved fans
and players alike should see'a lot off
scenery going to and from the games.
Hope nobody gets lost.
Hurricanes Win Hnmeccming Tilt
Larry Pa sc ha II scored 20
points in the space of seven
minutes in the first half to
spark Louisburg to i 98-63
conquest of the Rams from
Southwood Saturday night. It
was the annual homecoming
game for the ICanes and was
played before a packed house
ih Holton Gymnasium.
Paschall tallied 24 of his
32 paints in Lhe first half
providing the spark for the
'Canes who rolled to a 51-30
hatttihie advantage, For the
game the^"?)" 'Canes' co-cap
tain hit on 11 of 22 from the
floor and 10 of 13 from the
line. Paschall has tallied 89
points in the 'Cones' four
games to date and in addition
to his scoring he has set up
numerous other field goals
with accurate passes.
Terry Davis sparked the
'Canes' scoring in the second
half when he dropped in 13 -
of his 20 points for the night - -
: TH<> K'4" taapw grabbed 19
rebounds for the game and he
blocked several shots in a
spectacular defensive effort.
Davis now has captured 54
rebounds in four games and
has scored 79 points.
The Rams got a good scor
ing effort from Teddy Tucker
who finished with 31 points.
The 'Canes' defense throttled
I the Rams' big scorers as they
J held high scoring Brooks
. Bradshaw, E. J. Wilder, and
; Jesse Preddy to a total of 12
| points. Bradshaw and Preddy
were averaging well over 20
points per game for four
games and Wilder had averag
ed Hhptr game. In the pro
cess of stopping this two the
'Canes allowed Tucker to hit
8 of 1 5 from the floor and he
converted 15 of 18 free
throws.
The 'Canes clearly domi
nated play in the first half
but in the sgcond half South
wood held on doggedly until
the 7:00 mark as they cut the
'CSnes' lead to 71-55. At this
point Terry Davis and George
Bowden led a Louisburg surge
that netted 13 points in the
space of 3 minutes while the
Rams could manage only 4
points.
The 'Canes travel to Kit
treil tonight and put their 4-0
record on the line against the
team that pushed the locals
to the limit before bowing
89-80 in the 'Canes' opener.
Louisburg: Davis 20, Wil
son 4, Richardson 9, Bowden
8, Paschail 32, Frazier 4, Mo
ran 5, English 2, Spence 5,
Webb 2, Rawlings 5, Alford
2, Grant, Snead. Southwood:
Justice 2, Preddy 3, Tucker
31, Wilder 6, Bradshaw 3,
Bass 11, Dutton 4, Ennis 2,
Rackley 1, -Wright, Domorski,
C. Davis.
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I I* Oun, Opl*M)H> 1
By CUNT FULLER
Manteo smothered Weldon in the semifinals of Class A
championship play last Friday night, 36-0. The game was
played at .Eden ton. The Redskins will now travel across the
entirfefefete to play Robbinsville Friday night at Robbinsville
for the state title. The Black Knights downed previously
jndefeated St. Pauls, 32-26 in a game played at Morganton last
Friday.
At least a couple of former Louisburg players are making a
name for themselves on the gridiron. "Crow" Patterson, who
played end here from 1963 to 1966 was chosen Linesman of
the Week for his performance with the Ferrum Panthers. (See
article elsewhere on this page). And Parker Lumpkin, who
played his freshman year here continues to aid Virginia
Episcopal School in its undefeated season this year. Parker a
linesman and a giant is seeing his team enjoy a 9-0 season. Last
Saturday VES downed ?t. Christopher's, 57-15.
The basketball season has hardly gotten underway and
already some of the cagers are pumping them in like scoring
might be going out of style. Unless and until the coaches send
in rosters and game reports, our statistics will of necessity, be '
sketchy and incomplete. But what we have been able to
muster shows the scorers something like this:
SWEENEY WRIGHT of Gold Sand in two games is
averaging 23 points; GLENN STEED of Epsom hit 22 points
in the Youngsville game (reported, incidentally by Youngsville,
the visiting team); MORRIS CATLETT of Youngsville-TOUR
NAMENT'S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER last year -is averag
ing 16 points for two games and GLENN CONE of Bunn is
aver,> >g 16.5 for four games.
? UV GHT JOHNSON of Cardinal Gibbons has a 15.5
8' i for the only two games we have (C-G has played four);
J H HOUSE of Gibbons is averaging 14 for two of the foui
y ie: reported and KIP TERRELL also of Gibbons hit 15
against Youngsville Saturday nij^it.
On the prettier side of the conference, VICKIE ROGERS
TOURNAMENT'S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER last year
and HARRIET PEARCE both of Youngsville hit 25 points
against Epsom. JEAN HAGWOOO of Bunn averages 14.7
points a game for four games.
Lin Green, who played basketball at Youngsville in the
mid-sixties, ending in 1965, is a member of this year's East
Carolina Pirate squad. Coach Tom Quinn says the 6'4" senior
"came to us right out of the student body and ml^it develop
into a swing man for us. A guard, he could help our depth
situation a great deal".
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Bunn Boys
Reported by Fred Tharrington
The Bunn girls nailed the
Gold Sand girls, 12-8 Friday
night and the visiting Bull
dogs added more misery as
they edged the homestanding
Blue Devils, 46-44. It was the
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TUESDAY
Bunn at Edward Best
LJC at KittHI
Wednesday
Cardinal Gibbons at
Sand
Friday
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Epsom at Bunn
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Holiday Tournament
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Takes Two
Led by the double digit
scoring of four players,
Youngsville s Phantom* rolled
to their third consecutive
triumph MOttlay night by
blasting Gold Sand, 81-60, in
a Franklin Area' conference
game
Phantom star Morrti Cat
lett led the winning team
with 19 points. Bobby. Rag
land. the only Gold Sand
player to score in double fig
ure*. led all players with 24
points.
Score by quarters:
Gold Sand 7 8 16 20 50
Younpvttle 21 16 21 23 81
Gold Sand: Ragland 24,
Hale 2. Wright 9. Evan 8,
Alston 2, Thomas, Foster S,
Thompson. Denton 2, Leo
nard.
Youngsville: Roberta IS,
Cat lett 19, Hart 12, Mitchell
10. Bailey 6. Black 8, Davis,
Oonyers. Wood lief 9, Wiggins
4. O'Neal
Girta' game: Younpville
63. Gold Sand 19.
V,
Gold
Best
Bunn girls, their first in con
ference. The Bunn boys have
now won three and lost one
to Lucama. Gold Sand girls
have lost all three outings but
this was the first loss for the
boys.
Jean Hagwood led the win
ning girls with 10 points and
Betty Boone paced Gold
Sand with five. Sweeney
Wright was high scorer in the
game as the Blue Devil hit for
22 points. John Wheless led
the Bulldogs with 17.
Gold Sand played at
Youngsville last night and will
host Cardinal Gibbons Wed
nesday night. Both are Frank
tin Area Conference tilts.
Gold Sand Girts: Collins 2.
Boone 5, Lovin 1, Alston,
Ragland, Stallings. Evans.
Bunn: Winstead, Hagwood
10, Chamblee, Bowden 2,
Pearce, Crudup, Cheves.
Gold Sand Boys: Ragland
7, Hale 4, Wright 22, Bowers
4, Alston 2, Evans 4. Bunn:
W. Horton 8, Cone 9, J.
Horton 9, Whetess 17, Thorne
5, Pace.
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WED.-THURS.
THANKSGIVING
ATTRACTION!
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Paschall
32 Points
i Catlette High As
Youngsville Taps Gibbons
Reported by Glenn Evans
The Phantoms of Youngs
vile defeated the Cardinal
Gibbons Crusaders 70-49 at
Dorton Arena Saturday night.
Leading Voungsville to vic
tory was Morris Catlett with
18 points. Following close
behind wis Buddy Mitchell
with 15. Rodney Roberts
added 11 points and Mike
Hart added 10
Cardinal Gibbons was led
by Kerry Terrell with 15
points and Dwight Johnson
with 14.
Following this game, the
Los Angeles Stars battled the
Carolina Cougars to a
r
120-117 victory in an ABA]
game requiring an overtime*
period.
Scoring by quarters:
Youngsville 10 21 19 14 70
C. Gibbons 17 7 14 11 49
Youngsville: Roberts 11,
Catlett 18, Hart 10, Mitchell
IS, Wiggins 8, Bailey 6.
O'Neal 2, Woodllef, Conyers,
Davis, Black, Carter.
C. Gibbons: Terrell IS,
Johnson 14, J. House S, J.
Mark 7, B. House S, Hutzler,
Nemmers, Olsen, Whitten,
Carbone, R. Mark 2, Ziverink
1.
Woodlief Leads
Phantom Win
Reported by Glenn Evans
The Youngsville Phantoms
started their basketball season
with a 97-47 victory over
Epsom Friday night, and the
Phantomettes defeated the
Epsom girls 90-13.
Mark Woodlief led
Youngsville with 16 points.
Also scoring in double figures
were Morris Catlett, Buddy
Mitchell, Douglas Carter and
Dwight Black. Glenn Steed
led Epsom with 22 points.
Allen Edwards scored 13
points.
Forty of the Youngsville
girl's points came in the
fourth quarter. Leading the
Phantomettes were Vickie
Rogers and Harriett Pearce,
both with 25 points. Katie
Ann Lindsey followed with
20 points.
High scorers for Epsom
were Mary Roland and Geor
gia Russell, both with 4
points.
Boys score by quarters:
Youngsville 34 16 25 22 97
Epsom 11 11 15 10 47
Youngsville: Roberts 8,
Catlett 14, Hart 7, Mitchell
14, Bailey 4, Carter 12, Black
11, Davis 6, Conyers 1,
Woodlief 16, Wiggins 3,
O'Neal 1. Epsom: Steed 22,
Brown, Spencer 3, Wynne 7,
A. Edwards 13, Neal, South
erland, Alston, Soloman 2,
Collins, M. Edwards.
Girls score by quarters:
Youngsville 26 15 9 40 90
Epsom 0 1 10 2 13
Youngsville: V. Rogers 25,
H. Pearce 25. Paschall 9, Cat
lett 3, D. Rogers 3, J. Pearce,
Lindaey 20, Strickland 2, D.
Woodlief 2, Jeffreys 1, Rich
ardson, Glenn. Finch, Hack
ney. Epsom: Jessup 3, Ro
land 4, Wynne 2, Russell 4,
Purdue, Smith, G. Blacknall,
Falkner, N. Foster, Alston,
Fuller, Overton, M. Foster, P.
Blacknall
Epsom
Falls To
C.G., 93-55
Raleigh - Center John
House poured in 21 paints
and grabbed 20 rebounds as
Cardinal Gibbons whipped
Epsom, 93-55, in a Franklin
Area cage tilt here Monday
night.
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