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Rams turn in best of season Freshman Irene Jeptolo makes WSSU history with time CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT All seven Lady Ram cross country runners turned in sea son bests last Saturday morn ing at the Hagen Stone Cross Country Classic in Greens boro, as WSSU was led by Irene Jeptolo, who placed fifth overall with a time of 19:12, leading J the Lady Jeptolo Rams to a sev enth-place finish in the event. Jeptolo, a freshman from Kapsabet, Kenya, raced her way to a WSSU-record fifth place finish as she completed the course behind only four other runners, all of whom are members of the Duke University women's cross country team. With a time of 19:12, Jeptolo recorded the fastest women's cross country time in the history of the Lady Ram program. She was not the only Lady Ram to turn in an impressive showing as Tomi ta Ferguson completed the course in 21:40 en route to her season-best time and a 41st-place finish. Sandy Har rison (24:02 - 83rd), Vernae McDonald (23:53 - 79th) and Gerri White (27:36 - 135th) rounded out the scoring for the Lady Rams as WSSU earned a seventh-place finish in the NCAA Division II por tion of the meet. With 153 team points, the Lady Rams finished in the seventh slot, six positions behind event-champion Queens College, yet ahead of five other teams. ^The Lady Rams will return to action on Oct. 14 when they compete in the N.C. Collegiate Invitational at Tanglewood Park in Clem mons. Phou> by Anthony Hill LaQuisha Stone , 12, is the first girl to ever play for the Tiny Indians. Forget the pompoms Stone doing well on the football field BY ANTHONY HILL THE CHRONICLE Some girls develop a love ror sports at a young age. That love is usually directed toward basketball, softball, track and a select group of other sports . Football is rarely brought into tne equation unless ; cheerleading is **' involved. Well, football has taken the forefront in the interest of LaQuisha Stone. Stone, 12, is a wide out and linebacker for the Tiny Indians Junior Midget squad, which has only lost one game. She said thai she loves playing football and the contact the sport offers. Stone also said that she wanted to prove that girls are tough too. "A lot of boys thought that I was scared," Stone said. "Boys think they re tougher. I just want ed to prove them wrong and show them that girls can play football too. See Ston# on B3 Photo by Charlie Pfaff A Titan running back looks for running room during a 20-0 win over the Forsyth County Broncos over the weekend. Weekend is full of close finishes on gridiron CHRONICLI s I Al l REPORT The game between the Gray hounds and Panthers featured two very talented Midget squads. All season long, the Gray hounds Midgets have been led by a stiff defense. Last weekend was no different as the Grayhounds Several teams win games in overtime defense led to a 12-o overtime victory over the South Fork Pan thers. "The defense shut the Pan thers out," said Grayhounds coach Derrick Sharpe. "It was our offense that committed the turnover to allow the Panthers to tie the ballgame in regulation. Overall, all of our guys played well. We just have to execute offensively and put more points on the board." The Grayhounds committed four turnovers, which consisted of three lost fumbles and one interception return for a Panther touchdown. @ The defense was led by Sean Adams, Josh Triplett. and Ralph Saunders. The offense was led by Rashaad Dean, who had several big nins. including a 35-yard touchdown reception from Myk wan Truesdale. Chris Minton pro vided the winning touchdown in overtime on a 10-yard run. The defense stopped the Panthers by causing a fumble and recovering Sec Pop Warner on B2 Under Construction Reagan High hopes to build program BY ANTHONY HILL THE CHRONICLE The following story is the ninth and final story of a series on the high school foot ball teams in- Forsyth County. The fans will get a look at what's going on with their favorite teams. Starting a new football program is never easy. Greg King, Reagan High's head varsity football coach, already knew things were going to be challenging when he was hired, but he had no idea how much of a challenge his first year as the head of the Raiders would present. "It's been a very difficult process to get the whole thing rolling." King said. "There was no way to prepare for all the obstacles, and I actually got this job kind of late. So. it has really been challenging this year. At the same time. Photo by Charlie Pfaff Reagan High junior running back Rajeem Moor* hat emerged at one of the leaders for the Raiders this season. it's getting very exciting. There's certainly never a dull moment." There may not be many dull moments in Raider camp, but they're certainly a variety of challenging moments for the team. After all. it seems difficult for any group of com petitors to be able to deal with Sec Reagan on B4 Things people say about coaches FROM THE HUDOUS Anthony Hill since I've gotten so many responses about my column I wrote last week. Mason Linker (of the Win ston-Salem Journal) asked me if I had gotten a lot of hate mail when I saw him at the Mt. Tabor game on Friday night. I told him that I've gotten a lot of the opposite. I've received numer I had every intention of let ting what I wrote about Chip Petree die off this ous e-mails and calls ol support of my column. I mean, I had no idea so many people week. I planned on simply writing my column about him and then move on to other issues, like how good Mt. Tabor is, or ask readers what they thought about Wake's Cory Randnlnh. I definitely Bro planned on writing about Mt. Tabor's Joe "Jokey" Brown. Well, I'm still going to talk about him a little later in this column. But I had to touch Chip a little more this week didn t like Chip. I mean, it seems like no one in the commu nity likes this guy. (I'm smiling as I type . this.) Of course, I did receive some e-mails from coaches who have coached with him before, or simply like him for one rea son or another. ONE other guy called in support of Chip. That's fine; you're sup posed to go to bat for your boy. But most of them tried to S? Hill on B5 fOtt SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL (336) 722-B624 - MASTtRCARD, VISA ANO
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