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By DAVID BULLA
O^ontcle Sports Editor ?
The Winston-Salem Pond Giants opened
their season with a giant last-inning rally that
provided the difference in a win over the
Greensboro Brewers.
David West drew a bases-loaded walk to
drive in the winning run and Cameron
Brower added a two-run double to provide
insurance in the game at Guilford College's
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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#
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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
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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
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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
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Glenn win:
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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
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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
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The Rams' other games include Hampton
University (Sept. 27), Fayetteville State (Oct.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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