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12 -and- under Carolina Hornets
Hornets Qualify for National AAU Tourney
A Extinguish Flames 62-27 to earn trip to Salt Lake City
By JEROME RICHARD
Chronicle Sports Editor
The 12-and-under Carolina
Hornets qualified for the Nation
al AAU Basketball Tournament
with a 62-27 rout of the Newton
Flames last weekend in the state
qualifying tournament in Con
cord.
The Hornets, who will head
to Salt Lake City for the national
championship to be played this
summer, finished third in the 18
team qualifying field by extin
guishing the Flames for the last
qualifying spot from North Car
olina.
The Hornets were led in
scoring by Lance Searcy with 1 0
points and C. J. Paul with nine.
All 13 players on t>he Hornets'
roster broke into the scoring col
umn against the Flames.
The Hornets, who are spon
sored, in part, by the Central
YMCA, opened the tournament
with a 78-39 romp of Kings
Mountain as Ronnie Carmichael
led the way with 12 points.
Michael Russell added 1 1 .
The Hornets made it two
victories in row by beating the
High Point Hurricanes 54-46
behind Russell's 17 points and
11 from Dovonte Edwards. The
Winston-Salem team suffered its
first defeat when Gamer Road of
Raleigh posted a 58-55 victory in
the third round despite Russell's
20 points and Searcy's 1 1 .
The Hornets, who were
based in Hickory last year but
have moved to Winston-Salem
for this season, got back on the
winning track with a 57-48 win
over the Hurricanes in the fourth
round. Searcy and Edwards each
scored 1 1 points for the winners'.
Soccei
The Hornets started a string
of lopsided victories in the fifth
game by pummeling the Surry
Stars 79-54 as Travis Pritchard
buried 16 points and RusselH4~
The Hornets, who have players
from as far away as Morganton
and Chapel Hill on their roster,
shot down the Concord Stars 67
51 in the sixth game behind
Edwards' 14 points and Searcy's
eight. The Hornets ended the
three-game reign of routs with
the 62-27 win over the Flames.
The Hornets, who are
coached by Charles E. Paul Sr.
and David T. Russell Sr., are in
the midst of raising funds to
attend the national tournament in
Salt Lake City. Tax deductible
donations may be sent to the
Central YMCA, 777 West End
Blvd., Winston-Salem, Atten
tion: Marc Pruitt.
Photo by Melissa Vaquera
Two North Forsyth junior varsity soccer players celebrate a goal against Parkland April 18.
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First-Inning Scoring Explosion Paces North Forsyth
By JEROME RICHARD
Chronicle Sports Editor
North Forsyth erupted for 1 2
runs in the first inning behind six
consecutive hits, including two
RBI singles from Misty Sellers
and Abby Craven, to crush Carv
er 15-1 April 20 in varsity soft
ball at Carver.
Leading 5-0 with the bases
loaded and one out, the Lady
Vikings looped, blooped, dinked,
and otherwise put the ball where
the Yellow Jackets weren't as
they moved players around the
bases with the regularity of a
metronome.
"There was a lot of luck
involved in that/' North Forsyth
coach Mike Muse chuckled
when asked if the ball placement
was luck or skill. "But it's not
luck when Trish Sargent hits a
home run and Misty Sellers hits
the ball hard. And we got a great
performance from our pitcher
Rebecca Kleen. It was a total
team effort."
Sargent, a UNC recruit who
averages a home run a game,
kept her average intact with a
two-run dinger in the fourth that
increased North Forsyth's lead to
14-0.
Carver avoided a shutout
with its lone run in the fifth on
an RBI single by Megan Smith,
who will join Sargent next year
at UNC on a softball scholarship.
Sargent accounted for the
game's final run with a sixth
inning single to drive in Sellers,
who opened the frame with a sin
gle and advanced to third on an
error on the relay. Sellars is
being recruited by UNC-Wilm
ington.
"We showed up to play
today," said Muse, whose club
improved to 9-4 with the victory.
"We haven't been playing well in
the last three or four games and
we had a lot of doubts coming
into this game.
"We needed this game going
into the conference tournament."
Emotional games with dif
ferent outcomes played a part in
both team's performance,
according to Muse.
"Carver had an emotional
win over Glenn yesterday and
were probably flat," the Viking
coach said. "We had an emotion
al loss (11-5 to Surry Central)
yesterday, but we came ready to
play today. We came out flat
against Surry Central and gave
them a seven-run lead before
cutting it to 7-5. But we couldn't
get back in it. I told the team that
they had to play with hustle and
enthusiasm or I would find
someone that would.
"When we come to play, we
are good. When we don't, we
aren't very good"
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