SportsWeek
July 2. 2009
Stars stand tall in
"High Rise" league
BY C HAD ROBERTS
I HE C HRONK I I
Hansel Hent/ was at the scorer's table
roughly an hourbefore the 7: 15 p.m. tipoff ot
the Water Bombers vs. the Stars Kent/ says
he means to lead by example. and as the direc
tor of the Winston Lake Family YMCA's
"High Kise Summer Hoop Challenge."- he'v
serious about being punctual.
"I start on time, and I end on time." Hent/
said.-. ?* V . \ i ? ; ? - ..
With the exception of one of the referees
who showed up minutes before the game was
scheduled to start, everyone involved in thc
Water Bombers - Stars matchup seemed to be
following Hentz' example.
Water. Bombers starting point guard
Darnell "Scooter" Wallace w as one of the first
to enter the gym. Wallace and some of his
teammates are employees of the city water
department, hence the name.
"We work 'everyday. jobs and still come
out here and play." Wallace said as other play
ers trickled in.
He added that discipline is a part of the
league. .' - ? ...s
"It's not the kind of league where you can
do "what you want and.. say ; what you want."
Wallace said. ..r5
Wallace and the Water Bombers were fac
ing a tall order against the Stars, w ho featured
6'9" Tremaine King , and 6'A" Andy. Snow, in
the low post.
Though it is a competition. Hent/ said it's
just as important that the games maintain a
positive atmosphere for the players and the
people in the bleachers
"1 want families to sit down and enjoy
themselves," Hent?. said.
Family and friends of the yellow-clad
? ^ : , Photo bv ChaJ'B^bi.MK
The Siari huddle. * ' :
Stars had an en joyable game to watch,
? The Stars raced out to a 25-4 load in the
first hali ^itui w ere up 37- 13 at- halttinie.
It the Water Bombers .".faithful fails
weren't enjoying, the action on the court, the
game still prov ided an opportunity for fellow
ship. j
Heritz emphasized that point more than, the
score, adding that giving youths an example
of sportsmanship and positive role models' is
what motivates: him to serve as league direc
See 1. 1'ilgue on BIO
Family honors loved one with golf tourney
. . . . :? ? ' l*holo b\ (. bad Krrtvrty
hi a Peoples and Kim Peoples-Jones.
BY CHAD ROBERTS
I'HI- ("HKONKI.H. j
The No. 4 hole at the Third Annual Jonathan Skinner Memorial
Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament was the one that the fundrais
er's organizers were keeping their eye on.
Literally.
Two volunteers came hack to the Bermuda Run West clubhouse
around 4:30 on Saturday afternoon and reported that no one had
made a hole-in-one yet. While they were reporting back to Isaiah
"Ike" Black, the event director, another team of two volunteers had
already been dispatched to keep the vigil going.
"We've been watching that hole." Black said.
If a golfer made a hole-in-one on No. 4. Southern Community
Bank & Trust, one of several tournament sponsors, would donate
S2.5(X> to the individual and another $2. 500 to the Jonathan
Skinner Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Now in its third year, the golf tournament is held in honor of
Winston-Salem native Jonathan Skinner, who was gunned down in
Durham in . The case remains an unsolved homicide.
The tournament has continued to grow since its first year in
2007. Black said there were 13 teams of golfers in its First year.
This year, there were 16 teams and 60 golfers.
Several of Skinner's family, friends and relatives also came for
the weekend, which now includes a Friday kickoff and a Sunday
serv ice at Carver School Road Church of Christ. Black said,
"Each year, we're bringing in new people," Black said.
Two sisters. Kia Peoples and Kim Pebples-Jones. were some
what new to the course for 2009. With their family, the sisters
sponsored a hole in 2(X)8. Family was also the reason that the sis
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Former Yellowjacket Porsche Jones.
Bailey, Jones
land new
Carver jobs
CHRt IN It I 1 M AI I RKPORT - " ?
Aaron Bailey < has been named athletic
director at Carver High School and Porsche
J ones has been' named head girls basketball
coach. Both appointments were nude last ?
week. . ; .
Bailey, graduated from Mount Tabor High
School in 1997 and later received an athletic
scholarship to attend Saint Paul's College,
where he vya.s a tour-year basketball'player in
I he I lA'A. He returned
ti> Winston-Salem in
2001 and remained
active in sports. He has
been an assistant coach
with various local
teams and programs,
while he earned his
master's jn spoils
administration from
High Point University.
Bailey has been a
teacher and coach at
Bailey
carver it>j sevtiai yeais anu servcu a.i assis
tant AD under the former athletic director, the
legendary Alfred Poe.
"I'm very grateful to God lor the opportu
nity to be a part of such a rich tradition," he
said. "The tradition of winning and assisting
student-athletes in athletic scholarship will
continue to he a top priority at Carver."
Jones graduated from Carver High School
in 2001 and received a basketball scholarship
to attend Wake Forest University, where she
had a stellar career as a Demon Deacon point
guard.
At Carver, Jones was an All-City /County.
AH -Conference and All-Northwest selection
all four years of her high school career. She
was named the Northwest Player of the Year
as a junior and won the 2001 Mary Garber
Award as the top player in the Northwest
region. Jones was a three-year member of the
all-regional and all-sectional teams and led the
Yellow jackets to the state championship as a
junior, earning tournament MVP honors.
Jones is very active in the community and
enjoys helping young ladies develop their tal
ents in the sport of basketball.
HBCU Sports Briefs
St. Aug. standout lands in
top 10
Joe Kindred of St.
Augustine's College finished
rrtnth in the men's high jump
at the 2009 USA Outdoor
Track & Field National
Championships on Sunday at
the University of Oregon.
Kindred, the only college
student to place in the top 10
at the meet, is the reigning
NCAA Division II Indoor and
Outdoor field athlete of the
year.
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The newly-released Raws football poster and computer
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WOODS
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Cheyenne Woods,
the niece of golf star
Tiger Woods and a
sophomore at Wake
Forest, acknowl
edges the crowd at
last week 's
Wegmans LPGA
Golf Tournament at
Locust Hill Country
Club in Rochester,
N.Y. The event was
her pro golf debut.
Unfortunately, she
missed the cut,
shooting 2-over 74
in the second round.
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