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. OFFICIAL.The new 4A Conferences in our area
have names...The South Mecklenburg Sabres, East
Mecklenburg Eagles, Independence Patriots, Garinger .
Wildcats, Myers Park Mustangs, Gastonia Hunter Huss
Huskies and Gastonia Ashbrook Green Wave will com
pose the Southwestern 4A Conference.
The Olympic Trojans, North Mecklenburg Vikings, West
Charlotte Lions, West Mecklenburg Indians, Harding
Rams, East Gaston Warriors and Shelby Crest Chargers
will compose the Tri-County 4A Conference.
WHAT A SHAME....We have four teams in the Western
Regionals of the state playoffs and the fans in our area
had to travel to a little hole in the wall called Icard, North
Carolina, to watch them play. The East Burke gym,
although beautiful, is far from a populous area. Re
member the great debate a few years ago when James
Worthy was a junior and West Charlotte was playing
Ashbrook in the first round of the state playoffs? Well, the
game was moved to the Coliseum because the West.
Charlotte gym was deemed too small to handle the crowd.
The result, 10,000plus fans. That is still the state record for
a high school game. Tell me I am not dreaming. I believe
; that 7,000 plus fans would easily fill the Coliseum for the
Western Regionals. It is a comiortable building and can
accommodate the press. The North Carolina High School
Athletic Association should seriously think about Char
lotte as a good and logical site for the Western Re
gionals in the future. There will be 14 4A schools in our
area and all the other schools in the region are within two
hours’ drive. It is a shame that Roxboro Person ha« to
travel to Icard, which is five hours away.
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*. ..Outstanding track performances are being turned in
already. Rodney Huntley of Myers Park threw the shot
51.3 and the discus 125-1.
Dale Williams of Myers Park high-jumped 6-4.
John White of West Mecklenburg high-jumped at 6-7 and
long-jumped at 20-3.
Daron Davis of West ran 110 hurdles in 15.1 seconds.
: Michael Cureton of West Charlotte wins the 1985 Char
I lotte Post ‘‘Mr. Hustle” award.
, The one comment made by many coaches was that he
: was “the one player in the league whoTeaUy knows how to
go after the ball.”
Michael averaged nine points and eight rebounds per
game.
His best game this season was 21 points when West
; Charlotte beat Independence, 66-64, and 19 in a 68-58 loss to
•- Olympic’s Trajan*
^tattle playoffs, Michael scored 32 against Greensboro
SOUTHWESTERN 4A BASKETBALL SUPERLATIVES:
BEST CHEERLEADERS: West Charlotte. Honorable
Mention: Olympic.
BEST STUDENT SHOW OF SUPPORT: Olympic’s
Flashers. Honorable Mention: West Charlotte.
BEST SHOW OF COLORS: Myer’s Park; Green Men.
Honqrable Mention: West Charlotte. * ,
BEST IN THE CLUTCH: Dee Pritchett, Myers Park.
Honorable Mention: Terry Massey, Myers Park.
MOST EXCITING NEWCOMER: Lee Rozier, Inde
pendence. Honorable Mention: Terry Massey, Myers
? SMOOTHEST PLAYER: Letura Stitt, North; Antonio
Howard, Olympic.
i BEST TENTH GRADER: Terry Massey, Myers Park;
Bobby Moore, North. „
BEST AT FOLLOWING SHOTS TO THE BASKET: Paul
: , Oner, Myers Park; Donald Simmons, Olympic.
BEST FUTURE TWIN TOWERS: Elliott Dunlap and
Ronald Hargett, Olympic.
ALWAYS 100 PERCENT PLAYER: Roman Phifer,
South; Mike Cureton, West Charlotte.
West Mecklenburg’s softball team looks like a power
house. The Indians scalped Olympic, 20-1, recently as
Dawn Williams and Cathy Farrar had two and three hits,
respectively. Kathy Gibbs added two.
Congratulations to Eric Boyd of N. C. A&T State. Boyd
was an outstanding football quarterback and basketball
forward for Independence High.
At AAT, he was named as the Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference “Player of the Year” in 1984-85. He was named
as the MEAC’s “Outstanding Tournament Player” in 1982,
1984, and 1985. - ,
He is averaging 16.9 points and 9.1 rebounds per game
while shooting 43 percent from the field and 74 percent
from the line.
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Congratulations to West Mecklenburg’s John White. He
high-jumped six feet and eight inches to set a school record
in a recent track meet.
FINAL SOUTHWESTERN 4A RANKINGS:
• 2 West Charlotte, 3. Independence, 4.
North Mecklenburg, 5. Olympic, 8. Harding, 7. Garingef, 8.
South, 9. East, and 10. West ^
STATE TOURNAMENT NOTE8
••The *tate lost a lot of money at the Western Re
gionalrGranted, the facilities may have been free but the
first night’s crowd was probably about 2,000 at the most,
llie Anal crowd was about the same. Multiply this by 4,000
tickets sold by the $3 price of admission and you get
’ $12,000).
J. Imagine two nights of 5,000 in the Charlotte Coliseum.
1 This is a low estimate.
With 10,000 fans we are talking about $30,000 or more
than $18,000 more than was made at I card.
With North, Myers Park, West Charlotte, and Hunter
- ,Hu“ }t8 more likely figure of 8,000 per game is more
logical.
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That's 16,000 tickets sold multiplied by the $3 price of
$48,000. The Coliseum couldn’t coat more
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The Harlem Globetrotters, the
team that made ballhandling their
trademark and comedy their call
ing card, will make a special visit to
Charlotte on Friday, March 33.
The Globetrotters have presented
their unique form of comedy bas
ketball to more than 100 million
people in 101 countries since the
team was founded in 1027.
Th team’s legendary ballhandling
skills evolved over a period of years,
starting with the team’s early days
when they would barnstorm across
the country taking on all comers.
At that time the Trotters played
“serious” basketball with little, if
any, comedy.
When they would take a lead over
their opposition, the Trotters would
dazzle the crowd with hsllhanHUng
tricks and other feats of basketball
legerdemain. Hie Globetrotters
realized that the fans enjoyed the
tricks more than the straight bas
ketball.
The team continued to recruit the
finest basketball players in the
country, and year ih and year out
proved themselves to be among the
elite of the nation’s basketball
teams, but comedy became more
and more a part of every Globe
trotter game.
Today’s Trotters roster include
some of the nation’s finest recent
college ball players, providing fans
around the world with a spectacular
display of high-flying
and razzle basketball wizardry.
Leading the Trotter squad is
Hubert “Geese” Ausbie, the un
questioned “Clown Prince of Bas
ketball.” He is joined by a stellar
lineup that includes former Houston
All-American “SWeetLou" Dunbar,
Clyde “The Glide” Austin, dribbling
star Larry “Gator” Rivers, seven'
footer Robert “Baby Face” Paige
RING AROUND THE GIOBETROTTER - Harlem Globetrotter HareM
Hubbard, left, and Freddy “Curly” Neal go from fast breaks to square
dicing daring a recent Globetrotter game. Can break dancing be far
and former Minnesota hack court
ace Osbourne Lockhart.
Ticket* are W and $8 and are on
sale now at the Coliseum box office.
Ticket reservations are available at
all area Sears Stores, Cone Cento at
SX. State Displays Passing
Attack In Spring Football lilt
Orangeburg - South Carolina
State, which has thrived on a strong
running game, displayed a potent
passing attack last Thursday night
(March 14) as the Blue team raced
to a 34-0 win over the Garnet team in
the Bulldogs’ annual spring football
game.
Rising junior quarterback Charles
Glaze passed for three touchdowns
and directed two other scoring
drives to. spark thb Blue team.
Glaze, who had scoring tosses of 38,
60 and five yards, finished the
evening with six completions in 11
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lWie'M|lfP-pa.M went to
former high school teammate David
LeeNormatt during « 20-point third
quarter explosion. Norman who
wiped out Charlie Brown’s single
season receiving mark with 30
receptions last year, caught a 60
WtJef from Glaze h»Mway the third
period for a 27-0 Blub lead, then
made it 34-0 leas than five mime—
later when ha took a five yard
scoring pass from Glaze. Glaze
connected with Edwin Glass from 38
yards away for his other scoring
strike. ... '... • .
Despite, the aerial show, the
Bulldogs did not neglect lheir
running game which chalked up 388
yards on the ground. Rising senior
Gerald Toggle was the Blue’s top
rusher with 83 yards, and opened the
scoring with a three-yard blast with
4:46 left in the first quarter. Glaze
added 47 yards rushing and rising
sophomore Mike Summers 41.
The Garnet team, which was
directed by Roacoe Darnell, like
Glaze a rising junior, rolled up 134
yards on the ground and added 67 vis
the airways. Darnel} completed
eight of 12 passes for 81 yards but
suffered two interceptions, one of
which Tim Norris returned 18
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yards for a score. Dirndl was also
his team’s top ground gainer with 22
yards.
Despite the lopsided score,
Bulldog head coach Bill Davis said
he saw some positive things on both
sides of the football. “I thought we
showed a lot of spark on offense,”
said Davis. “Things got a little
ragged at times bat overall we
pl#e4 tough defense, tackled well
and demonstrated poise on offense.
“The score might indicate the
game was onesided," continued
Da*s*2M*w didn’t see it that way
. at all. We wanted to divide the teams
equally but that la sometimes hard
to •. We had nine offensive starters
on the Blue team but the Garnet
squad bad moat of the starting
defensive linemen and defensive
Davis, who is in his seventh season
at S.C. State, said he was pleased
with the attitude of his nUyars and
praised his coaches for afine Job of
preparing the playen for the game.
“We can’t make a true evaluation
of the performance of the playen
until we review the film,” Davis
noted “but we made a commitment
to improving our passing game and
getting back to winning. I think we
have made that first step.”
Lake Looks To NFL
..Dover, Del. - The odyssey sf
All-American fullback Gene i-afce
appears near an end with word last
week that the 26 year old Milford,
Dei., native has been ruled eligible
for the April 30 National Football
League draft. ■ .
“It’s really a relief to me, I fad
like all my worrying la over now,”
said Lake. With hit expressed In
terest in the senior NFL, Lake now
a warts the league’s April 30 draft.
UNCC, Statesville Travel, Belk
(Monroe), TAS in Albemarle and Ja
Jo’s in Gastonia.
Mail orders are accepted when
accompanied by a self-addressed,
stamped envelope. Blake checks
payable to Harlem Globetrotters i
and send mail orders to: Charlotte ,
Coliseum, 2700 Independence Blvd.,
Charlotte, N.C. 28206.,
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\UVjJ ITlCK
Myers Park at South
Harding at North
Independence. West at Olympic
West Charlotte, East at Garinger
BASEBALL
West at .East )£
Garinger at West Charlotte
I Harding at South
» Olympic at Independence
, North at Myers Park
MONDAY,
MARCH 25
Golf
1 East at Myers Park
> South at Garinger
, Independence at North
Olympic at Harding
West Charlotte at West
SOFTBALL
1 East at North, 4 p.m.
West at Garinger, 4 p.m.
West Charlotte at Harding, 4. p.m.
Myers Park at Olympic, 4p.m.
Independence at South, 4 p.m.
TUE8DAY.
MARCH 26
Boys Track
East at South 1
Myers Park, West Charlotte (
at West-Harding at Garinger <
BASEBALL I
East at North ivv I
West Charlotte at Harding I
West at Garinger
Independence at South
Myers Park at Olympic '
THURSDAY, i
MARCH 28 j
Girls’ Track
South at Independence
West, North at Myers Park
Harding at Garinger <
West Charlotte, East at Olympic i
SOFTBALL; j
East at Garinger i
Harding at West
Independence at West Charlotte
North at Olympic ‘
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