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W-S Chief of Police Hat N orris takes time to pose with one of the P.O.S.Y league teams over the weekend. Pholo% by Jurtia Dupnri Twin City P.OJSf.Y. league begins play CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT According to Twin City representatives, more than 400 , were at the Twin City ; Complex to see Twin City P.O.N Y's "First Pitch" cere ? mony last Friday. The special ceremony officially opened ; the leagues 2007 season. The celebration featured City Council member. Vivian H. Burke. Rep. Larry Womblc and Winston-Salem chief of police. Patricia D. Norris. All i three played a helpful role in starting the P.O.N.Y. league and season off right. Burke shared the field history of Twin City to listeners. Womblc showed off his athlet ic skills when he wound up and threw out the "first pitch" for the Twin City P.O.N.Y. f boys. Norris also displayed her athletic skills by throwing i' out the "first pitch" to offi cially begin the season for TWin City's first girl's Softball ! team. Rep. lutrry Womhle greets some of the young athletes before a taint- . Some of the other enter tainment included the singing of Vonda Flynt. who sang the Star Spangle Banner. The Jazzy Jumpers from Winston Lake YMCA showed off their jump rope skills. Other enter tainment included a musical showcase, featuring the Winston Lake Boss Drummers and an instrumen lal performance by William Price and Albert "Champ" Lindsey. Rev. Richard Miller from Holy Trinity Full Gospel Baptist Church rendered the opening and closing Prayer. The "First Pitch" ceremo ny for Twin City P.O.N.Y. should be a memorable for the people involved. All of the players-, ranging from 5 to 15 years old. had their names announced in front of a large crown. The league is made u p of nine baseball and softhall teams. Baseball and softhall games began last Saturday. The Lady Cheetahs opened the season against the Walkertown Red Revels. Twin City Tee-Ball teams: the Astros, Twins and Red Sox played a doubleheader. Twin City Orioles played against the Twin City Padres. The Twin City Athletics and Twin City Dodgers both played the High Point Reds in their per spective division in High Point. Twin City Mcts played an exhibition double-header against the Cardinals from Surry County. League officials invite the Winston-Salem community to come out and support Twin City P.O.N .Y Baseball/ Softball league. The Twin City Complex is located at 2801 New Walkertown Road. St. Aug's captures CIAA Outdoor track and field titles CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT ! Saint Augustine's College claimed ! both men's and women's 2007 CIAA ; Outdoor Track and Field titles at the cam pus of Virginia State University over the ! weekend. The CIAA outdoor championships were the 1 0th straight for the Falcons and ! 10th out of last 1 1 seasons for the Lady Falcons, who regained the crown after J finishing second to Bowie State last year. ; Overall, Saint Augustine's has won 28 men's and 22 women's CIAA outdoor ' track and field championships on record. The men's competition developed ? into a two-team race between the Falcons and North Carolina Central. The Falcons Ferguson standings. The Lady scoreu Z4-+ points to outlast the Eagles, who fin ished second with 221 points. Virginia State placed third with 35 points. The Lady Falcons and North Carolina Central also placed one two, respectively, in the women's Falcons scored 216 points and the Lady Eagles scored 170 points. Bowie State finished third with 122 points. Both Saint Augustine's College and North Carolina Central dominated the individual awards. Omar Wiggan of Saint Augustine's College was named men's track most valuable performer and Mark Davis of North Carolina Central was selected men's field MVP. Johnsie Liles of Saint Augustine's College and Desinia Johnson of North Carolina Central were co-winners of the women's track MVP and Kwonya Ferguson of Saint Augustine's College was chosen women's field MVP. Couple from page Bl 5 dies, and set a record in the 300-meter hurdles ? fin , ishing with a time of 45.64. J Other events they both par ? t ici pate in are the 4x200 ? meter relay and 4x400-meter I hurdles. | "Breaking a few city/ ; county records were goals i that both of us set for our } selves this year." Rolle said. ; "We also want to beat a few ? national times and go to a college w ith great academics J and hurdle program." ? Jones added: "I definitely ? want to go to a college with a 1 good academic program. I Some of the other goals we ? set were to qualify for Penn ? Relays for an individual t event and show everyone that J we are the best team in ' Winston-Salem." So far. there's no ques l tioning the couples spot J amongst the top prep student ? athletes in the city. Both arc > definitely excelling on the I track. They are also doing ? well in the classroom, where ? they both take AP classes. J "I try to help him with the ? AP classes that wc have 'together," Jones said. "Last I night. I helped him with a J term paper at my house." > The two also help each t other improve on the track. ? It's not rare to catch the J young, talented couple racing ? each other ? while leaping ' hurdles on the track at Hancs 5 Park on a given day. j "She may edge me at the > beginning of the workout...," 5 said Rolle. "...because she'll ; race from the 100-meter spot. > and I'll race from 1 10. I usu ? ally get her after I get I warmed up." ' When the two happen to I not have a good race they [don't have to worry about s annoying or aggravating > questions from each other. I Photo by Charlie Pfafl Here, Rolle lakes off during a long jump event at a recent track meet. "We have an understand ing of each other," Jones said. "When he has a bad race I don't really talk to him about it. If I have a bad race he doesn't really ask me about it either. But we're both excited for each other when we have a good race. Our relationship is very interesting. We get into SQme conflicts sometimes. But we always help each other through it." Rolle added: "I agree. But we're still different Trom most couples." Rolle and Jones, who met at the end of their ninth grade year, definitely seem to differ from most ideal couples in high school. Most high school couples seem to spend time taking countless trips to the movies, mall and out to various eateries. "If we do anything it's on the track," Rolle said with a smile. "II we go out then it's to the track. We really don't have a lot of free time. We both work. We both run track, and that's just the way things have worked out. We have fun, though." Note: Both student ath letes have narrowed their choices of potential colleges down. Rolle.'s final three are the University of Tennessee. UNC-Charlotte and UNC Chapel Hill. Jones has' nar rowed her choices down to UNC-Charlotte and UNC Chapel Hill. Hill from paft HI use any kids Some part-ills halt! things twisted too I don't have any luds so I hesitate to say too much about patents. Then again i'm not referring to every parent w hen I spout out I have a problem with some parents doing too much coaching on the sideline You see it a lot during Pop Warner and youth basketball games A parent will be leaning all over the fence during football games, or jacked over side lines and bleachers during basketball games to give orders to their kid or yell at the coach . That definitely isn't cool. There are people in the stands that wish you would cut it out too. You can just imagine what the coach may want to respond with, especially most high school coaches thai deal with that nonsense. If you don't like the way things are going down, or if you think you're child shoyld receive more playing time then put him or her on another team. High school is a little different because certain kids have to attend certain schools, based on where they reside. But there's ways around that if there's really a problem. The major problem seems to be a misunderstanding with how things work in athletics. OK. with most youth sports a child has to receive a certain amount of playing time or whatever. Not in high school or AAU. If a coach thinks other players give his or her team a better chance of winning then that coach will probably go with that group. It shouldn't be personal. If it is then take your child Out of that situation. Don't simply cuss people out at sporting events. You'd be surprised with some of the things you may hear a parent tell a coach w hen they gel mad w ith their child's lack of playing time or something. 1 remember com ing up. playing youth sports All my mom did was sign me up and checr me on when I got into the game. She didn't worry my coach with ques tions. or ask newspapers to write ahoul me My mother believed in me. my coaches, and teachers ? for that mat ter. I'm not going to sit here and say that all coaches are > right. Some coaches deserve to get that stem cussing out during games. But not as many as I sec during a year. Come on now. What kind of example are you setting for your very own kids after behaving like that? Talk to the coach after practice, or some other time besides gameday. I'm going (6 talk about this a little more later. It was fresh on my mind this week, so I had to say a httle something. It's 'Springs' weather UNC-Charlotte sopho more Pat Springs bested her career-long mark in the long jump with a result of 6.26m and a third-place finish at a meet in Auburn, Ala., last weekend. Her finish was tops among college performers. Pat was only 2 cm from the UNC-Charlotte school record. She also ran a 14.10 second time in the 100m hur dle preliminaries. Did I men tion that Pat is also ranked 1 2th in the nation, und fifth in the East Region. That's not bad for an athlete that wasn't considered extremely fast in high school. It used to be all about the jumps with Springs. Not anymore. Anthony Hill is the sports editor for The Chronicle. He can he reached at 722-8624 (ext. Ill) or ahill@wschroni cle.cOm. NOTICE OF INTENT TO PREPARE A MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOR TIP No. U-4909 WIDEN SR 2643 (UNION CROSS ROAD) IN FORSYTH COUNTY. NC The above-referenced project is subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. as amended, ami implement ed by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's regulations for com pliance codified as 36 GFR Part 800 Section 106 requires Federal Agencies to take into account the effects of their undertakings on historic properties. In 2005. the North Carolina Department of Transportation f NCDOT) con ducted a survey of the historic architecture within the project area and con cluded that the Smith-Tucker Farms Rural Historic District was eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places: The Smith-Tucker Farms Rural Historic District is significant for its association with the history of agriculture in Forsyth County and for the design and construction of the buildings within the district. The district's fields and outbuilding complex es illustrate the rural, agrarian character of nineteenth and early twentieth century Forsyth County while the district's farmhouses represent typical rural architecture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After con sultation with the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (HPO), it was determined that the proposed widening project would have an adverse effect on Smith-Tucker Farms Rural Historic District. In discussions between NCDOT and HPO, both parlies agreed that as part of the planning of the road widening. NCDOT will develop stipulations to mitigate the adverse effects of the transportation improvement project on the historic district. Prior to construction. NCDOT shall record the existing condition of the historic district in accordance with an Historic Structures and landscape Recordation Plan. Accordingly, the North Carolina Department of Transportation is currently developing a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) which states the above findings and proposed resolution of the adverse effect as specified in 36 CFR Part 800. A map setting forth the loca tion and a copy of the draft MOA are available for public review at the United States Post Offioc. Kcrnersville Officc. 325 W. Mountain Street. Kernersville. NC, 27284 and at the Kernersville Branch of the Forsyth County Public Library. 130 E. Mountain Street. Kernersville. NC. 27284. Anyone desiring additional information concerning the MOA or who wish es to provide comments on resolving the adverse effect* of the proposed project should contact Drew Joyner by mail at 1548 Mail Service Center. Raleigh. NC 27699-1548, by telephone at 919-733-7844 c>t. 268. by fax at 919-733-9794. or by entail at d joy ner<? dot. state. nc. us Comments are due on or before May 7. 2007. The Chronicle April 5. 12, /V and 26. 2(M)7 imagine... 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