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^ Mark Oliver returns one from h court - the baseline. Passing s junior tennis circuit (photo by Jj Winston Li By DAVID BULLA Chronicle Sports Writer A* , North Carolina is building a reputation as a rising Amateur Athletic Union power and last weekend's Summer Invitational Tournament at Winston Lake Family YMCA did not do anything to dispel that notion. Only the programs of Thdlfcna? and Washington, D.C., produced better records than those of North Carolina in last year's national competition. The upset-minded Charlotte ?Stringers, who capfiired the State AAU 13-and-under title in May, beat one of the big boys Sunday, edging the Kingman Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Club of Washington, D.C., 77-73 in the 14-and-under championship game. The Stringers rode the 33-point performance of _ 6-foot-41/2, 225-pound Shawn Smith in the final. Charlotte's win was especially significant because the Stringers lost in the 12-and-under national title game last year to another Washington team and because Kingman will carry the No. 1 seed into next month's nationals in Syracuse, N.Y. "This was important because the Washington representative won the 13-and-under national W-S AII-SU win in Pro By RANDY PETTITT Chronicle Sports Editor CHARLOTTE - It was the "A1 Show", as Alexander Hooper and J Combined for 65 points to lead the Chronicle All-Stars past Greensboi pro-am of Charlotte last Saturday. The Greensboro 'Barnstormin' A team fell behind early by 12, anc points from Hooper and 31 frorc Chronicle All-Stars never trailed. 4'We just took it to them from th said go," said Winston-Salem heac ... Funderburk. "We outhustled them on ever balls, steals, rebounding, shooting these guys did it today," he said of i has established quite a reputation i fast break. "Our transition game is what real though. We got more lay-ups and d did against Boston," Funderburk j< Aside from keeping themselves in the post-season tournament, the team was playing for pride as w Greensboro team chocked full of Forest players. Namely Delaney Rudd. He buste three-point shots and a game-high i Zr 7?nfl(i9i : in ^n^g H^HpFv ^ . v ? -JH^(Pp|PwPPi$? s.-. , x -,>v .. t* & is favorite place on the tennis hots are his cup of tea on ttie ames Parker). 3IVC MMU IU championship last year, so this Washington team gets the top seeding this year," Charlotte Coach Jim Stegall said. "We will |>e seeded third*?' Stegall said Sunday's game had a national championship atmosphere to it. "This was a great game," the Charlotte coach said. "We had a big lead in the first half, then they blew us out for a couple of _ minutes near the end of the half. We countered with a threepointer to end the half and then had a chance to get blown out in the third quarter, but we kepLour composure and turned it around." Norm Joyner, the executive director of the Winston Lake YMf A anH tniirnomAnt Hiror?tr*r A T MUM VX/Ml I1UI1IVIU UI1VVIV1 | said it may have been a Pyrrhic victory for Charlotte. "It was such a good game that you would have to think Washington will have more incentive if the two teams meet in the nationals,* Joyner said. "They can make adjustments and get some folks healthy by then." The Washington team was missing its starting point guard, who had a conflict and did not make the trip to Winston-Salem, and another starter was playing hurt. 'or its awesome Alexahder Hoof two in the NE lly won it for us former WSSU si unks than L.A. the All-Stars la 3l<ed- Parker), i contention for Winston-Salem despite the outsid 'ell ? facing a points from A former Wake Greensboro team points. d loose for five "Every time th 38 points. But Pie Spc Odd < Thompkins a like family or By RANDY PETTITT Chronicle Sports Editor David Thompkins and Mark Oliver aren't brothers, but perhaps the next best thing tait -doubles partners. A 1 1M _ ^ /\na nice any normal family, the two have their differences. Oliver prefers to stay at the baseline and wait for the passing shot, while Thompkins is pure serve and volley. ? But despite a broken leg suffered by Oliver that separated the two for over a year, the odd couple of the local tennis world has survived. Every good comedian needs a straightman - and so it goes in ? tennis. It has been the different styles of Oliver and Thompson that has made them so successful. If the serve and volley of Thompkins fails, the ?ver-reliable baseline play of Oliver is seemingly always there to bail them >urney shoJ . .V v. " jBt? iy ^oSt ^ Hn< 9fl v* "* |v .^Bp' - -hNM R?MQk|M^^^3 M Jfc JaByK^..- *^B 2*? I Hk&JI County Player of the Year, Ke reverse jam in the Winston L Basketball Tournament held I Parker). i jSrotwJBrvl UJB KSpNPHBL ^Br Jf^^L w ^Rr^Htu . ' a )er muscles his way inside for IA Pro-Am of Charlotte. The tar racked up 34 points to lead st Saturday (photo by James c shooting of Rudd and 26 inside Ivis Rogers, the Wake-cloned could never pull closer than four ley got close fcnough to make us ase see page b2 >rts _ ~ Douple HI nd Oliver ing sophomores at Carver High School both grew up learning the game together. The duo was Oliver came from a tennis family and began his lessons S?iyK|M while Lash was teaching his Thompkins, who lives with his grandparents Sam and Geraldine HHHHHHii Cary, chose the tennis route hMrilWii^uii, because it was safer than most Despite the differences in their- I backgrounds, the two shared a Prior to Oliver's broken leg, the twosome won the 14 and I under state tennis championships two years ago and were virtually unbeatable on the local circuit. Not surprisingly, it didn't take HHHHH the two very long to recover from the setback. _ David Thompk -v Oliver waits in Please see page B5 usually gets th wcases talent in Hill was confi He said that hi . piaying up to lti he said it mnall jvin Tnompson, completes the the second hJf" .ake AAU Summer Invitational charlotte hoi ast weekend (photo by James ideas The s'trin( after Barry Cai Rams football t< By DAVID BULLA Chronicle Sports Writer ' Winston-Salem is tentatively scheduled to appear in back-to-back telecasts of Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association football in October. The Rams, four-time defending Southern Division champions, will be shown in games with Norfolk State Oct. 10 and North Carolina Central Oct. 17. The Norfolk State game will be at Foreman Field in Norfolk, Va., at 1:30 p.m., while the Central game will be played in Winston-Salem's Bowman Grav Stadium at 7:30 n.m. WSSlTs appearance on television will be part of a first-ever conference-wide package put together by Anderson Productions of Charlotte and Tempo Television of Tulsa, Okla. Tempo is a cable network that reaches approximately 12.5 million homes in 48 states. Several local cable companies offer Tempo in North Carolina and Virginia, including Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, Burlington, Newport News and Petersburg. The major corporate sponsor of the football package is Miller Lite. The Miller Brewing Company has sponsored three of the four black conferences - the CIAA, Mid-Eastern Athletic Con-' ference and Southwestern Athletic Conference throughout most of this decade. The package will include up to 10 regular-season games and the CIAA Championship Game, according to Ricky demons, marketing communications supervisor for Miller Brewing. "We hope to show as many as 10, but realistically v ?-- -V % ^'I % ??. ?,' ' y. -kAw,.;, -- ,*, * &}.._ ta? ??rv xfWll M>X? ^ . *,.>.? . , *, * | ? C" ins moves to the net as doubles partner Mark the background If he misses but Thompklns e point across (photo by James Parker). Tarheel stale ' ir (starting auvs three-nointer at th<? halftim* 4 or 15 points a buzzer to cut Washington's lead m Coach Ed Hill to 42-38. They tied the score in ith our usual pro- the first minute of the second half Id have won, but with back-to-back base-line >le oi* guys who jumpers by Canty. ir. One guy even Canty put put Charlotte ahead and another guy at 48-46, but Brown led an 11-4 ito the flow." spurt that propelled Washington kgton had three back into the lead by five. ble figures with "We didn't put them away ; Brown leading right there and that was critical," 9 points. Center said Hill, the sports information ?d 17 and forward director at Howard University s chipped in 14. and a former reporter for the -iill's team trailed Chronicle. "We had a chance to \ left in the half expand on that five-point lead rewer's steal and and made a couple of poor decirlotte, the game sions." ingman's to win With that reprieve, Smith got n that only took into the flow for the Stringers. i 50 seconds. The Charlotte center scored 15 of group of 13-year- his game-high 33 in the last 10 down to eight up minutes of action. rt pressure on the good with 4:43 left on a Smith inle likes of which side move. Washington made onfwhere in basket- ly one of four free throws in the ays except at last two minutes, while ike and Indiana. Charlotte's Nick Harding, who ident at halftime. played the entire second half with is team was not four fouls, hit four straight from > usual level, but the stripe, including two on a uny plays better in timely technical against Hill with 30 seconds left. Hill said his ivever, had other players were trying to get a jers trailed 42-38 timeout after Brown made a ity canned that Please see page B2 d be televised we know with the history of televising black college athletics that we may only do five," Clemons said. "W at \/f 11 l#?r f ool ...Jll 1 " -v ? ? ivaiiivi i vvi Will IVIWKll 11115 Will UC SUCa cessful because of the overwhelming support of ; CIAA football." J] Clemons said the package would be aired over J. Tempo's cable network and would be sold to in- ? dividual stations in the CIAA geographic area. f "If we can get stations in Tidewater, Richmond, Durham, Winston-Salem and Charlotte, we will be hitting a large share of the CIAA fans," he said. Larry Anderson, head of Anderson Productions, said the entire package would be sold to individual stations. "To make this a successful venture, we need for stations to take the whole package so the advertisers can make their money," he said. All of the game will be aired live. Anderson said some games will also be both live and repeated later the same day, a practice once employed by WTBS, which telecasts the Atlanta RravAt KoeoUoll ..... . mi ht v<> uujvuan twcuii. "The rebroadcast will be a bonanza for adver- - * tisers," Anderson said, "because the second showing will be free." Clemons, who has a long-time interest in black college sports after serving as sports information director at Howard University, said Miller had made an investment of six figures in sponsoring the C1AA grid package. He said Miller has been looking for a collegiate sports hookup because it is shut out of the other cable networks, BET and ESPN, both of whom are sponsored by Anheuser Busch, Please see page B3 j I
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