\ \ May 29, 1986 Page B1 IP IB flHUHH % ' &t*& ii%? y* ' in -j0' ^si#P^?a ^V~r- - ' ' '^1 B ijrW- ^ * ' ' * m rl Am1?? amJ Am?j% ? m rl auuwcu umjr seven IUU tuiu iwu caincu IUIU for the Pond Giants, the nation's oldest semi-pro team. "I really felt good about Mitch's going that long," said Manager Nelson Petree, whose team went 24-6 last year. "You don't want to leave a pitcher in that long on opening day, but we are short of arms right now." Petree plans to add several pitchers in the next couple of weeks, including East Ten. nessee State's David Mabe, Reynolds' Greg Cox (involved in the high school playoffs) and Lincolnton's Jim Williams. Mabe, a left-hander, was the Pond Giants' winningest pitcher last summer. "You really can't tell how good a team is going to be until about 10 games into the season," Petree added. "But if we get a cou# 1^ U w JZ&& . ~ *; __ **? $ *T ^38*[ ifl Ht jH{| ^^^L&l5&:^d?8il _ Jj / I^B ^ - -a-C' I :^JMK.: ' jjjX* .. * w* l^^K^v/ vt ? ???, 4% >m.',|i^?A ^ ' ;*k?*lai8 "^ v- .r ' .. /"' v v vh < |p|^ H ?;^jH|f<]?*^^H||^^JB?H||^BH|A Slants in Twin City Little League gar Rupert Bell last Saturday (photo by Ji Parker). V _ ' * V ^ SPOf ^^rZ&^t/p *A "Some people kindc ! forgot about us. Bu, county meet doesn't - ...I >L f?1 ! mean a wnuie iui (/ they're at home eati Hardee's while we'r winning the state championship." - Steve W Glenn Track fticky Rowell's thii finishes in the 3,200 rr the sectionals and r< were critical to the E state championship by James barker). pels Pond Giantsi pie more pitchers we will be all right. "We hit the ball pretty good for a team? that practiced no more than we did.** Petree said the Pond Giants had three practices before the opener. Winston-Salem actually scored first, in the lup Ul uic scvuiiu iiiiuug, uui noj ijuivi iui a long time. Greensboro rallied for a 2-1 lead when it scored a pair of unearned runs in the second inning. The Pond Giants made a throwing error In the third tdr a 3-1 Brewers* cushion and Greensboro built the lead to 5-1 after six innings. But Comer settled down and his teammates made their last-ditch rally to produce the successful opener. Third baseman Steve Hardister led off the ninth inning with a double off the left field wall and scored on Ken Phillips' single. Cedric Moss followed with a double to put runners at second and third. David Marotta then walked to load the bases. Sherman Brown, who played for the Winston-Salem Indians last summer, brought the Pond Giants to within 5-4 with a two-run single and Ron Jessup, who coaches at East Forsyth, bounced into a fielder's choice to tie the game. Del Long, who coaches at West Forsyth, walked to reload the bases. That set the stage for West and Browerr a I Prep Track _ Doggettdyn I By DAVID BULLA Chronicle Sports Editor RALEIGH - The second-longest dyi girls team in state high school track and |?P to an end last Friday night at North Care Greensboro Dudley closed out the Pa IKI era in fine fashion, winnins seven of iestablishing three state records and Mk second-place Greensboro Grimsley^ar Beddingfield 84-28. Doggett, the state's best female a counted for enough points herself for capture its third straight state title, the Kathy McMillan-led Hoke County woi pill row in the 1970s. She set state records in 1 300 hurdles, events in which she has the ?|1| in the nation this year. She ran on the thers' 4x400 relay team that shattered tl state record by more than eight sec I S-foot-3, 135-pound Doggett also was s long jump. Teammate Adrienne Ferguson, b Howard University on a track schola scored enough points to win the meet all r the Ferguson won the 100- and 200-meter ne at was on tw0 re**y?. Ferguson, who has i t _ ~ _ ? ? IID68 I m mc IUU* niaae up rour places to wir I relay. I "That's the best anchor leg I've evei * rrswrac m-Salem Chronicle . I sports B#qt Glenn win: . By DAVID BULLA Chronica Sports Editor RALEIGH - Swaying gently in rain, members of the Glenn track sqi pella in the stands of the North Caro last Friday night. Not too many spectators heard ?RnhrntV tinging wotita hftvr donr a pella group like the Orioles proud, t < school athletes could have used a lit There had been nothing missing before as Randy Jones managed a t the 200 meters that lifted Glenn r favorite Durham Hillside, 4443. Sic f the had another entry in the final two photo-finish victory gave the second ~ first state championship in any spor track title by a Forsyth County schc ng at won in 1972. Both Jones and Wils ? Rogers were timed in 21.30 seconds, showing Jones nosing out Rogers. "I have a feeling he's going to d 'hicker Coach William Butler said nerv< ' before the junior sprinter ran the i ^ach "He's our workhorse out there. Evt d-place hc s the team leader." leters at Coach Steve Whicker had said ea jgionals that how Jones and Hillside hurd bobcats' fared would prove which team won (photos championship. Jones fared better, \ taking second in the 100 and runni last Greensboro . rising junior at East, to put the Pond Giants ahead tostay. Hardister pitched the bottom of the ninth to earn the save. The Pond Giants open their home schedule against the Wa)nut Cove Tigers Friday night at Ernie Shore Field. Game time is 7:30. Walnut Cove owns an 8-4 record. Winston-Salem will host the Greensboro Bulls Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Greensboro features former Pond Giant and High Point College standout CfeMfc Wfltti. The Pond Giants will play a pair of games against the Indianapolis Clowns next month. The Clowns will be at Ernie Shore on June 13 at 7:30 p.m. and at Rich Park in Mocksville June 15 at 2:30 p.m. The Clowns are a barnstorming semi-pro team that feature gags and dialogue with spectators in the manner of basketball's Harlem Globetrotters. WSSU Grid Schedule Winston-Salem State's football team will open its 1986 season at home against c..> c. tir\ ... u guna jioic u ui ouwiuoii vji ay Stadium. The Rams' other games include Hampton University (Sept. 27), Fayetteville State (Oct. Please see page B4 asty ends; Whitte high school anchor," Dudley Coa said. "Adrienne just blew by the iasty by a " s proves we could win field came Adrienne alone scored enough t< >lina Sute. ho". ^ Pam is- but we Uke m Doggett credit. 16 events, ?ne of bi? ?ideli?hts ?< outscorina recruiting. While Ferguson ha id Wilson Howard, the chase for Doggett long time, she has wanted to go to Tennessee, which inexplicably was thlete, ac- her a full ride as recently as a few Dudley to Vols said her times just weren't most since take that kind of risk. So Dogget i five in a historically black Tennessee State he; 100 and Then the multi-talented Dog best times event is the collegiate heptathlon, Lady Pan- her times in the hurdles, primary ic previous undergone a successful operation onds. The compartment syndrome in ho ;ixth in the while Tennessee has warmed 1 times became the best in the natio >ound for State apparently has been high rship, also Sources close to Doggett say tha Wt> kavaalC Vl^OI T nfta* loet ITri/4aif'(i uj iisiNii* luwcuu nvuw at in iwi i uuaj a dashes and "She hasn't made a decision un an 11.9 Doggett, Pam's mother. "She's i the 4x100 narrowing the list and she's doi nessee, N.C. State and the Unive r seen by a Mrs. Doggett said her daught / Roundups, columns and Drofiles. v. s behind Jones, Scott I cats' winning 4x200-meter relay team. Ellis won the ?? 300 hurdles, but he finished third in the 100 hurdles. a light spring Whicker said Jones benefited from being in lane uad sang a cap* two in the 200. lina State track MHe could see his competition there, especially coming out of the curve," Whicker said. "He knew them. But the where he stood and just let it go. If he had been in f?mnm n rap- lane five or six, he might have run too fast early in hough the high the race and not had time to recoup. ttte more bass. "He's been in meets like this before and that exonly moments perience was the key difference."^ stunning win in Last summer, Jones won the 100 and 200 in the past pre-meet TAC age-group national championships in Seattle. ice neither Jones improves with age. His time last week was events, Jones' nearly a second better than what he had run in Seatl-year school its de. r- Arid the first f'Coming off the curvet I think I was in third," >ol since Atkins *&id Jones, named the state meet's outstanding on Fike's Jerry male track athlete. 'The guys from Asheboro , with the photo (Chuckie Simmons) and North Meek (Donald Colson) were pulling ahead of me, so I just kicked it in. I told mvself'You sot to do it for vourself and the o it," Assistant , ' Simmons, who earlier had won the 100 by tying .. . . , C* the meet record, took third on a full stomach. He ilk though he s a . . ... . * had eaten a quarter-pound hamburger only minutes before the race. Coison finished fourth. rlier in the week "We had something to prove," Jones added. ller Elbert Ellis "At the beginning of the season, everybody else in ild win the state the county was laughing at Glenn." vinning the 200, Yet, Whicker was confident he had the right ing on the Bob- Please see page B10 ^ i ^^fll Nelson Petree takes in the action as his Pond Giants begin their 72nd season with an 8-5 win over Greensboro (photo by James Parker). n signs with Georgia Tech ich Lonnie Phifer decision in early June. field.'* West Forsyth's Tomika Whitten, a two-time state r without Pam. cross country champion, turned in the best finish by > win. We know a Forsyth County female. Whitten, a senior, finishto give everyone ed third in the 3,200 meters behind first-place Cissy Hudson of East Burke and second-place Staci p this meet was Watkins of Greensboro Orimsley. That threesome s committed to had been the top three in the state cross country continues. For a championship last November. the University of West Coach Penny Craver said Whitten had been n't willing to give sick in the regionals, which had the same order of ?<*/> Tka A.1.L *1 iiivuum ??w. m ire iinisn as inc suuc mcci. good enough to "We couldn't train too much this week," Craver t was considering said. "That's not to make excuses. Cissy and Staci are good. They're both underclassmen and will Kett, whose best dominate distance running in this state the next coustarted to reduce pie of years." i because she had The only other female from Forsyth County to to eliminate pain- plac* in the top six was Carver sprinter Yolanda r legs. Shepherd. She was sixth in the 100. to Doggett as her With Dudley dominating almost half of the n, North Carolina events, there wasn't much room for other teams, on her all along. Still, Phifer seemed relieved to be finished with this X she was leaning season. state meet. "We bad a lot of pressure this year because . yet," said Diana everybody knew we should win it," the Dudley and in the process of North Carolina AAT State alumnus said. "I didn't *n to three: Ten- want to blow it. raity of Georgia." ??i need not have worried because they did :er would make a Please see page B2 ' i X* v ^