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MIKE SPEARS ...Qvkk and alert STAN BROWN ...AU-round player ED ROPEIl ...Team leader GUARD EDDIE LATTA ' ..."Post’s Player of The Year” CALVIN JOHNSON ...Turns It on % Latta, Brown, Spears, Johnson, Roper Named To “All County” Team jaiiira v umuniMMi Post Staff Writer He comes from a basketball minded family. His brother Gary plays college basketball and his brother Charles was reputed to be one of the best guards in the city in 1965. although he never played high school ball. ..And he’s carrying on the family tradition so well that as the Charlotte Post 1974-7S "Cager of the Year”, he heads a starting five that could beat ' any high school team in the state, and probably do well against many collegiate var sity teams. .. He has been scouted by Wake Forest, VMI, Western Carolina, Davidson, South Carolina State, and Belmont Abbey and has assured his team of a berth among the in top 4-A teams at the State Tournament in Greensboro. ..Eddie Latta, 6’4”’ Senior ( Guard for the Harding Rams, is averaging 22 points per game. When this tall guard moves, you’d better look out. He wheels and deals with the | best of them and is always on his toes in clutch situations. At the Rams’ season finale against second-place finisher Olympic. Eddie’s long bomhs shook the Olympic team so • much that at the end of the first quarter the Trojans were facing a 17 to 4 deficit. ..He has had highs of 27 a gainst West. 24 against Myers Park and 22 against Olympic. These teams were the top four finishers in the Southwestern 4-A Conference’s Division to. Latta rises to the occasion for the Rams and the tighter the situation is the more relaxed Latta is and the more points find their way through the • . hoop. ..He is a team leader, a good outside shooter, just an all-around player, and very, smart on the court.” said his Coach. Pete Campbell. SECOND TEAM: Raeford Caldwell, Garinger, 6’4” Forward, Sr. Jimmy Crawford, Catholic, 6’6” Center, Sr. Reginald Nance, Olympic, 5’10” Guard, Sr. Kevin Staley, West, 6’2” Guarc Don Smith, Olympic, 6 0” For .. H. Sr. HONORABLE MENTION: Dwight Allen, Olympic Senior; Jeff Anthony, Olympic Senior; Russell Caldwell, Garinger Senior; Steve Cassell, West Senior; Bobby Ed wards. Myers Park Senior; Gene Harris, Olym pic Junior; Reggie Irby, Garinger Senior; Larry. Long, North Mecklenburg Senior; Jerome Mob ley, South Mecklenburg Sophomore. Another clutch player has non a berth on the All-C ounty rirst team. Olympic Senior Forward Stan Brown stands S’ I and although listed as a orward spends most of his ime playing guard. .Brown's success this season s the reason the Trojans re ersed last year’s 2-21 record ind have presently set a re ord at Olympic for the best eason ever with a 18-6 record, 'oach Vernon Hedrick calls lim a terrific shooter. Scouted >y C'lemson, Fast Tennessee itate and Davidson. Brown is iresently averaging 20 points ter game. He is the only (layer in the county who can natch l.atta's shooting. This »ng bomber is also a clutch (layer. Two more reasons Harding las a chance to go far in the state playoffs this year are 6'5 Senior C.'enter Mike Spears md 6’3" Senior Forward Cal ein Johnson. They have com bined with Latta to lead Hard ing to a 19 and 4 record.. ..Mike Spears is quick and alert around the basket. He passes the ball well, is a good rebounder, and very unselfish. “He doesn't take as many shots as he should. ” said Coach Pete Campbell. His highs this season, in which he has been plagued by a knee injury, have been 26 points and 23 rebounds against West Charlotte, and 22 points against Olympic. With Mike Spears in the center and Cal vin Johnson under the basket Harding controls the boards. . .Six Foot Three Inch Harding Senior Forward Calvin John son usually gets off to a slow start every year, but when the man turns it on. you’d better watch out. .. He really hustles. High point games have been 30 against Myers Park, 27 and 22 against Olympic, and 20 against inter divisional rival. West Char lotte. ..Although his team faltered to a 9 and 11 regular season record. Ed Roper of the Inde pendence Patriots scored 28 points and pulled down 16 rebounds to lead his sixth rated team to a 64 to 52 opening round tournament up set victory over Hickory. .. The Red Tornadoes of Hickory High School bring out the best in Ed. Earlier in the season, he scored his season’s high of 38 points in Hickory resulting in a 65 to 62 Patriot victory. Without his scoring and rebounding, the Patriots would never have made it to the Division semifinals. Next Weekend ME AC Tournament Records In Jeopardy ..Baltimore, -several of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Confer ence (MEAC) Tournament in dividual and team records may be eclipsed during the fourth annual MEAC Basket ball Tournament which will be ~lreld 'Tiexr weekend—at- the Baltimore Civic Center. ..Last year 26 of the individ ual and team records were broken or tied during the three-day extravaganza. All of the individual single game re cords were broken including five on the first day of the 1973 tourney. .. Last year Achilles Carroll of Howard wrote his name In the MEAC Tournament record book when he scored 36 points against Delaware State in the opening round to lead Howard to an overtime victory. Carroll broke the mark of 34 points held by teammate Robert Lewis set in 1972. . .Freshman Harry Nickens of South Carolina State, swing man James Sparrow of A & T and Robert Little of North Carolina Central stand a good chance of erasing this mark. Nickens scored 34 points this season while Sparrow dropped in 36 points against Howard recently and Robert Little has consistently scored in the high 20-point bracket. .. Seven-foot All-American Marvin Webster of Morgan State can also be listed as a possible successor to this re cord. Even though Webster has not scored points in a great abundance this season the "MEAC Player of the Year" still has the potential to score more than 36 points on any given night. .. In setting his 36-point tournament record last year, Carroll converted IS field goals for a new field-goal tourney record. Sparrow and Nickens both have scored IS or more field goals this season. South Carolina State’s Alex Barron hit 14 of 17 free throw attempts in S. C. State's 81-71 defeat at the hands of Morgan last year in the first round of the tournament. Barron set tournament records for free throws made and free throws attempted. The junior sharp shooter has been the busiesf ' free throw shooter in the lea gue this season going to the line 154 times and converting —110 of the charity tosses and may recite his name in the .tournament record book in the 4th annual MEAC Tourna ment. . .Webster tied his tournament individual game rebound twice last season. Me tied his 1973 record by pulling down 23 rebounds against S. C. State in the first round and getting 23 rebounds the next night against North Carolina A & T. For the Tournament last year Webster collected 60 rebounds in three games. M Morgan plays three games in the tournament this season. Web ster stands a chance of break ing the Individual game re bound and also the three game individual record. 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