One-on-One
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Jed: Probably my reading
class. We have fun in that class, so
I would say that one.
Anthony: All right. What do
you think about your (Parkland)
Mustangs? They're starting to
crank it up a little bit.
Jed: (Smiles.) Yeah, 1 think
they're about to win the state
(championship). It's about to be a
repeat from my junior year.
I They've got two good running
backs, a freShman quaiteiback,
and the defense is swarming like
my defense did. I think this is our
year.
Anthony: What do you think
about Mike Davis? He's sporting
the No. 1 jersey, like you did. I'm
kind of getting you guys mixed up
now. What do you think about
him?
Jed: He's a pretty good run
ning back. He runs hard.
Anthony: What's your rela
tionship like with coach (Kermit)
Blount compared to the relation
ship you had with coach (Dee)
Bell? I know that you and coach
Bell were close.
Jed: Yeah. I was with coach
Bell longer, but it's growing into
the same relationship. They're
both father figures to me.
Anthony: What was your
favorite cartoon when you were
little?
Jed: Uh, probably Spider
Man.
Anthony: Do you remember
the first woman on TV that you
had a crush on? I know, for me, it
was Claire Huxtable. from "The
Cosby Show."
Jed: (Laughs.) Naw, I don't
even remember. (Laughs again.)
Anthony: Let's close out with
free association.
Jed: All right.
Anthony: Priest Holmes
(Kansas City running back).
Jed: The best running back.
Anthony: Parkland Mus
tangs.
Jed: The best team in the
state.
Anthony: Mike Davis (Park
land tailback).
Jed; Uh. hard runner.
Anthony: Monte Purvis (for
mer Mustang QB and future
Ram.)
Jed: The best quarterback in
the world.
Anthony: Kermit Blount.
Jed: Father figure.
Anthony: Dee Bell.
Jed: Father figure.
Anthony: Vivica Fox
(actress).
Jed: (Laughs.) Hot.
Anthony: North Carolina
Central (Saturday's opponent.)
Jed: (Pause.) I don't know.
We're gonna kill em. That's all I
can think of.
Anthony: One final question:
The game is gonna be on TV.
You're going to be in the national
spotlight. What's going through
your mind?
Jed: Mostly winning the
game first, but everybody wants
to be on BET and have a good
game. (Smiles.) I'm just trying to
go out there and do what I do.
Anthony: I hear that. Good
luck, dawg.
Jed: 'Predate it.
WFU
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three touchdowns in a game
(also at Purdue last season). He
now ranks third in the ACC in
rushing (169.4 ypg) and sec
ond in touchdowns scored (six)
on the season.
Lingruen. the Deacs' start
ing center, was named Offen
?sive Lineman of the Week. He
graded out with a team-best 92
percent. Lingruen surpassed
his knockdown goal of 10 by
recording a team-best 13 stops.
Brantley was all over the
field last Saturday at Duke en
route to earning Defensive
Back of the Week. In the first
quarter. Brantley forced a Blue
Devil fumble, which was
recovered by WFU's Eric King
and returned to the Duke I.
setting up WFU's second
touchdown of the game. In the
second quarter, Brantley
picked off a pass by QB Mike
Schneider and returned it 64
yards for a touchdown. It was
the sixth-longest interception
return in school history and the
second year in a row Brantley
has scored on an interception
return versus Duke. He fin
ished the game with six tackles
(four solo), a sack, a forced
fumble, and an Interception for
a touchdown.
These three players are all
receiving Player of the Week
for the first time in their
careers. They join four other
Deacs - Warren Braxton,
Willie Idlette. Ryan Placke
meier and Cory Randolph -
who also have been honored
this season.
Wake Forest will return to
action Saturday when the Dea
cons travels to Tallahassee,
Fla., to face sixth-ranked Flori
da State. The game, which will
kick off at 3:30 p.m.. will be
televised regionally by ABC
Sports.
Pop Warner
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the more exciting games of the day
was between the very explosive
Falcon Midgets and the gritty
Vikings.
Midget: Falcons 13, Vikings
6. The Falcons dominated the first
half as they proceeded to take it to
the Vikings every which way. The
explosive Rolando Martineze once
again rose to the occasion and had
a great game. Martineze finished
the game with 97 yards on 10 car
ries.
Robert Rouseau also tore up
the fields on his way to 44 yards on
seven carries. Some of the other
prime performers of the game
were Lamar Wilson. Dezmon
Owens and Lamont Atwater.
Albert Wright, head coach of
the Falcon Midgets, said: "We had
a number of players to play well
today, but Lamont Atwater played
a great game. He finished with 13
tackles. Darius Harvey, Patrick
Moore. Rakim Galloway. Frankie
Graham and Travis Davis also had
great games for us. That just goes
to show you that hard work in
practice translates into a better
game."
The Midget Falcons will be
seeing the Vikings again on Satur
day. The two will meet in the first
round of the playoffs at Northwest
Middle School.
"They (Falcons) want to play
the best team in the Senior
Midgets," said Wright, "but first
we must take care of the Vikings.
We are not taking any team likely.
We're just getting ready for Satur
day, and staying focused."
Peewee: Falcons 18, Vikings
0. The Vikings couldn't seem to'
get anything going against the
stingy Falcon Peewee team. The
Falcons attacked every visible
weak spot on the Vikings team.
They were doing everything from
drawing the team offsides to sim
ply out-hitting the Vikings on their
way to the 18-point win.
"The main thing we wanted to
do was execute well on defense,"
said Falcon coach Chuck
Rousseau. "We just wanted to put
up enough points on the board to
win the game, and we did what we
came to out here to do. We had a
good victory."
Several players had
respectable games for the Vikings,
though, including Darius Higgins,
Antonio Scales, Kadeem Thomas.
Andre Hale. Brandon Rousseau.
Shalil Wilson and Anthony Lyons.
The entire Falcon squad played
great.
Junior Midget: Falcons 25,
Vikings 0. Another game brought
another Falcon victory. The Fal
cons' Junior Midget team may
have the most exciting running
back in all of Pop Warner in
Jashawn Gary. Two weeks ago. he
dashed 86 yards for a game-win
ning touchdown against the Tiny
Indians. Gary broke a 68-yard
touchdown ran against the Vikings
last Saturday that looked a lot sim
ilar to the play that broke him free
two weeks ago.
Gary finished the game with
127 yards on more than 10 carries.
Other prime performers for the
Falcons were Dana Stanback, Ter
rin Dillard. Bryan Moseley. Darryl
Miller. Devon Buie. Creshawn
Carpenter and Desmond Parker.
Flag: Tiny Indians 13, Gray
hounds 12. Anthony Fahngon led
the Tiny Indians' offense in the
one-point win. Brandon McCray
also made some plays for the
offense. Robert Thomas. Eric
Stewart, Anthony Tucker and Jaki
er Austin led the defense.
"It was an outstanding year
with a 6-2 record," said Tiny Indi
an coach Stephon Shell. "I am
very proud of the team."
Mitey Mite: Tiny Indians 28,
Grayhounds 0. The "slaughter"
rule was definitely in effect when
the Tiny Indians smashed the
Grayhounds 28-0 at Ray Agnew
Field last Saturday. Jalen Forrest
once again led the charge for the
explosive Tiny Indians. Brandon
Ford, Damien Booe, Daesean
Lockhart, George Cherry, Jamon
Crawford and Khyan Vance all
played major roles in the win.
"This was a great season, both
on offense and defense," said
Mike Curry, assistant coach of the
Tiny Indians. "Two years unde
feated, and back-to-back champi
ons is what it's all about."
Junior Peewee: Tiny Indian
13, Grayhounds 0. The Tiny Indi
ans had to win this game to make
it to post-season play. Mission
accomplished. Carlos Gregory,
Shaquan Wallace, Reggie Jones.
Phillip Williamson and DelRay
Anthony played major roles in the
victory.
Peewee: Tiny Indians 26,
Grayhounds 0. Rashone Lee, the
talented Ricky Wardlow. Travis
Floyd, Walter Jones and Ahman
Boyd all played great games to
lead the Tiny Indians to the win.
Junior Midget: Tiny Indians
28, Grayhounds 0. Can you say
another slaughter? Well, that's
exactly what the Grayhounds got
when the Tiny Indian Junior
Midgets took it to them. Many
players had great games for the
Tiny Indians, including Tomario
Stewart, Barshard Williams,
Danard Jones, Treshaud Rousseau,
Chris Douglas, the explosive
Rashaun Brown, Fredrick Flem
ming and Demetrius Banks.
Midget: Tiny Indians 14,
Grayhounds 6. The Tiny Indi
ans were led by David Mclntyre.
Michael Dawkins, sure-handed
Jordan Minor, Lenard Williams,
Jeremy Galloway. Dedrick Carter
and the elusive Juan Haney.
On Saturday, the Junior Pee
wee Indians will play the Packers
on their field at 9 a.m., while the
Peewee and Junior Midget Indians
will play the Grayhounds again.
The Peewee game will be at 11
a.m., and the Midget game will
start at 3 p.m. The Junior Midget
Indians will face a very talented
Falcon team at Grayhound Field.
That game will begin at 1 p.m.
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to go in the half. The Eagles
scored again when Corak con
nected with C.J. Greene for a
37-yard touchdown with 5:48 to
go in the first half. The Eagles
took the seven-point lead into
the locker room at half time.
"I think we made some
good adjustments in the second
half," Wade said. "We played
more physical football. In the
first half East just took it to us,
but I felt like we were a play or
two away from breaking the
game open."
Some of the things that
stopped North Forsyth .^ere
penalties and bad calls at the
wrong tifne. The Vikings had
two penalties called on them
where the officials even
changed their minds and
reversed penalties against the
Vikings, which resulted in
Eagle scores.
"The thing about football is
that it's a human game." Wade
said. "You have to learn how to
deal with adversity. I don't real
ly want to point fingers at one
or two plays. We made some
mistakes throughout the game
* that caused us the game. If you
missed a block here, then you
miss a chance for Rucker to go
the distance. If we missed a
tackle here, then that's a chance
to keep the drive going for
them."
The Vikings did indeed turn
it up a notch in the second half,
especially Rucker. He finished
with 98 of his 161 yards in the
final half of play. He scored his
second touchdown of the night
when he slid off the left side of
the line and rammed his way
into the end zone with 5:32 to
go in the third quarter
But East's Tyler Bauguss
was able to connect with a 23
yard field goal on the Eagles'
next possession, and that
proved to be the game winner.
The Vikings had another
shot at victory late in the game,
after one of the Vikings seem
ingly recovered an Eagle fum
ble with under 2:00 remaining.
But officials said the East play
er was ruled down before he
fumbled.
"That's the breaks of the
game," Wade concluded, "but I
can't take anything from East.
They're doing some good
things at East. This program is
improving, and I saw some
things out of East that haven't
been there in the past years.
We've got two games left.
We've got Grimsley and Mt.
Tabor. I'm a Mt. Tabor grad. so
I'd love to beat them. But if we
play hard, and play our brand of
football, then we should win
both games."
Photo by Anthony Hill
One of the many good coaches in Pop Warner gives his troops final orders before heading
back on the field.
Hill
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run the right way. great tech
nique on a tackle and other
things that I once thought were
the basics of the game. I'm not
saying that I was a perfect Pop
Warner player on a perfect Pop
Warner team, but I was close.
I'm just kidding. I seriously
don't recall how great I
blocked, but 1 do recall having
coaches who taught us more
fundamental skills than trick
plays. Sure, the trick plays are
more exciting for fans to
watch, but how many times do
those plays actually work?
I remember my Midget
coach, Paul Snider. He taught
me how to play football. He
taught me how to block, run
low, keep my feet moving,
catch, and how to run through
players when I tackled them.
He also gave me lifelong les
sons about life, and how to use
football as a guide on how to
live. He was great. He wasn't
as great as my middle school
and varsity high school coach
es, but he gave me a great
ground on which to begin my
journey.
That's my point. Kids today
don't seem to be learning the
most important element of
football: the fundamentals of
the game. I'm sure there are
some great Pop Warner coach
es out there, but not enough.
And it's unfair to blame them
for the lack of fundamentals
kids have these days. It's really
the Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County School System's fault
for not making middle school
football available for these
kids and the ones to follow
them. I even heard that they're
going to do away with the mid
dle school basketball programs
next. That's just dumb.
Most of the coaches of the
Pop Warner teams and recre
ation center basketball teams
aren't certified coaches or
teachers. Some of them were
probably not even good players
when they played. Heck, some
of them probably didn't even
play ball. They were just on the
team. But now those are the
ones the city is leaving the
huge responsibility of teaching
sports to.
I do commend all the men
and women who give their time
to help coach the kids, but
sometimes the kids need more
than just a proud parent out,'
there.
And what about the" kids
who might be a little too heavy
to play Pop Warner? Those are
the ones who are hurt the most
by not getting to play middle
school football. That's sad
because they're going to be
some of the first guys to
receive letters from colleges
when the time is right. And
they'll have the least amount of"
experience under their belt
when the time comes. How
good can a lineman be after
playing only four years of
competitive football? And
most linemen start out playing
junior varsity. How are those
kids going to be able to adjuM
to the super-quick big men in
college, and even later on in
the professional ranks? The
bigger kids need experience
too.
It's just unfair to me that
things are like that. To all the
coaches who are doing a great
job TEACHING the kids, I'd
like to commend you and
encourage you to continue
coaching. But. seriously, we
need middle school football,
and we need to keep middle
school basketball
Anthony Hill is the sports
editor for The Chronicle. He
can be reached at 722-8624
(ext. Ill) or ahill@wschroni
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