Over 35 Basketball
Week
By Chronicle Staff
The staius quo remained the
same daring Week Four in ihc Over
35 Baskeiball League lasi Saturday at
the Winston Lake Family YMCA.
J.a.C. came out the winner in their
game against the Winston Lake
YMCA to stay undefeated, while the
Rams look care of the Seniors and the
City Stars toppled Ben-Gay.
The Rams' and the Stars' victo
ries kept them tied for second place in
the league standings, one game
behind J.A.C.
Winston Lake and Ben-Gay have
lost three of their first four games and
the Seniors arc still winless.
Here's a recap of lasi weekend's
-action:
J.A.C. takes over
The Little brothers combined for
41 points in pacing J.A.C. to a 78-66
win ever Winston l.akr YMf A
Melvin was the top gunner with 26
points and brother Rob followed up
with 15.
Winston Lake started the-game in
grand fashion, taking a 42-35 lead at
the half. But they were unable to sus
tain their efforts as J.A.C. surged to
take the lead for good midway
through the final half of play.
Aside from the Little brothers,
J.A.C. got 15 points from Clyde
Reynolds and Rob Perry added 14.
For Winston Lake, Harry Davis
Over 35 Standings
J.A.C. 4-0
Rams 3-1
City Stars 3-1 <*
Winston Lake YMCA 1-3
Ben-Gay 1-3
Seniors 0-4
Saturday's Games
Seniors vs. City Stars 2 p.m.
J.A.C. vs. Rams 3:15 p.m.
Ben-Gay vs. Winston Lake YMCA 4:30 p.m.
led the offense with 14 points, while
Lonnie Booker and Norm Joynernai=~
lied 10 points each.
Rams prevail
Waldo Hauser poured in 30
points to lead the Rams to an 86-73
victory over the Seniors.
The winners Were never really
pressed during the contest as they
breezed to a 41-33 margin at halftime.
Joining Hauser in double figures scor
ing for the Rams were Harold Martin
with 16 points, Jack Jackson 14
points, and Lonnie Sharpe, 11 points.
The Seniors didn't exactly lay
down for the Rams. Rod Hardin made
sure of that by scoring 30 points to
lead his team in a losing effort. Willie
Cokcr added 17 and Mike Smith
?chippcdmwtth 14 points. ?
Stars blast B-G
^ The City Stars cruised to a 20
point halftime lead en route to a 76
41 thumping uf Ben-Gay.
The Stars jumped on B-G early
as they controlled all phases of the
game, building a 38-18 cushion at the
half. Willie Griffin was the high scor
er for the Stars with 17 points. He
was followed by Jerry Gillespie and
Bernard Flynt who scored 10 points
apiece.
Ben-Gay didn't.generate as much
offense as they had hoped for. Walt
Hutchinson was their high scorer with
nine points. Charles Robinson fin
ished the game with eight points.
Youth basketball league
set for Saturday start
By Chronicle Staff that if they would have had enough old age group has five teams, and
available floor space and more the 9-11 years old division has
The Winston Lake YMCA Youth coaches, the league could have fielded six teams. Four teams make
Basketball I .cagiic-4ttatt&-anodic*?addceHrtore-tcams than itndnMtar up the 6-8 years old Jiv1sion7~
season with a full round of games this season.
scheduled for Satur
day, beginning at 9
a.m.
Registration for
this season increased
dramatically and that
"more teams being
involved in the league
this year, according to
Paul Stoney, league
coordinator. "Our vol
unteers arc geared up
and ready to go," said
Ql "W/a1* n \ r\
big increase in the
number of kids who
6*8 Year filria Division
Hornets vs. Lakers 9 a.m.
Pistons vs. Bulls 10:15 a.m.
-9-11 Year OldsDivision
Tar Heels vs. Hoyas 9 a.m.
Panthers vs. Blue Devils 10:15 a.m.
Deacons vs. Wolfpack 11:30 a.m.
12-15 Year Olds Division
Rams vs. Golden Bulls 11.30 a.m.-^
Runnin' Rebels vs. Aggies 12:30 p.m.
Yettowjackets are idle this weekend
/xnoincr cnange
involving YMCA youth
basketball is added
playing tinie for the
games. This season, the
12-15 ye'ar old age
yronp will play on Fri
days. .
K\citin? season
Stones and his stall
are looking forward to
another exciting season
with youngsters learning
Uk- Umdame-ma-U-ol' the
caine while also learn
jmi; uk' v;nuc 01 team
will be participating. This year we'll The league has added tour teams work and havitm fun at the same
have over 300 kids playing in the f?r season. The original goal time.
league, which is about 100 more was to add six teams.
than we had last season." 12-15 group increases The Winston take YMCA cor
Stoney feels that the increase For lhis season, the largest ciially invites the public to come out
shows the need for the YMCA's increase has been in the o>dcr age the games and lend us support to
youth basketball program. He says group divisions. The 12-15 years {^c league and Its pliSvers.
Forsyth Tech prepares for
tip-off vs. Guilford Tech
By Chronicle Staff were tall and big," said the Tech
coach. "We didn't get that many
Forsyth Tech Community Col- rebounds and we didn't play our
lege tips-off its season tonight in a man-to-man defense as well as we
road game against Guilford Tech did last year."?
Community College in Lexington at "Most teams that we face this
7- season, will more than likely have a
effort. They knew thai if they didn't
do better than they hail been on the
defensive end, they would wind up
sitting next to me on the bench."
During the second half of pktyr
the Techsters followed their coach's
advice. They were able to do a bet
ter job of applying pressure, which
produced more steals and created
turnover problems for the WSSU
intramural team.
"In the end. 1 believe that condi
tioning was the main factor that
helped us win," said O'Pharrow. "In
a lot of ways, it was just like last
year. We just wear teams down in
the last half."
Caesar leads the offense
Offensively, Tech was led by
Winzo Caesar's 17 points. Guard
George Richardson added 11 points
and Henry Kennedy contributed 10
points to the cause.
Richardson and. Kennedy are
two of the new faces on this sea
son's FTCC roster. Richardson will
most likely be one of the starting
guards to team up with Monte
Odom.
Kennedy, a ^-2 forward, has
been a plousaru surprise lor O'Phar
row. "He's short for the position that
he-lias to plav." the coach said. "But
t 1
he kept telling me that he could
play. So he's proved his point. He's
really a battler on the boards."
Entering this season, Forsyth
Tech hasn't guide any major
changes in terms of their playing
style. O'Pharrow will continue to
employ an up-tempo game which is
based on applying full-court, man
to-man defensive pressure. He'll
also continue to shuffle 1ns players
in and out of the gajnej^hich will
enable his team to maintain a furi
ous pacc designed to wear down the
opposition as the game progresses.
Whether or not Tech can dupli
cate or surpass last year's 25-2 mark
is an open quest ion. However, they
do appear to be in goiul enough
shape Ho contend tor their confer
ence title and win at least 15 games.
FTCC Coach Richard O'Pharrow
FTCC coach Richard O'Pharrow
will finally get to see his team per
form under real game conditions so
he can make an assessment of what
his team will really be like this sca
sonT
Scrimmage game
0'Phar*pw has mixed feelings
about how His team is developing
during prc-scason work-outs. They
won a close, 82-79 scrimmage
game against a Winston-Salem
State intramural team that gave the
Tcchstcrs all they could handle for
40 minutes. ,
Even though FTCC won,
O'Pharrow was concerned that his
team took a heating on the boards,
primarily because they lack si/c
along their front line.,
I hes (WSSIJ intramural team)
size advantage over us," the coach
added. "We'll be small, but we
should also be much quicker."
Defense is key ingredient
Defense js the prime weapon for
FTCC fn OTh arrow's s cTTeme.
Their full court pressure is what
enabled them to unleash their fast
break and eventually wear teams
down in the second half. That
approach helped Tech forge a 25-4
record and win both the City Indus
trial League and North Carolina
Community CoHegc Conference
championships last spring.
"I wasn't too pleased with how
we played defense during the first
half of our scrimmage game," said
O'Pharrow. "So 1 had a long talk
with the team during halltime and
told them that wc needed a heller
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