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> Little League Nine
Loses First Game
The Southport Little League
baseball team opened their 1961
season at home Saturday night
against the Wilmington Fire De
partment team under the lights
at Taylor Field and lost, 12-5,
One of the largest baseball
crowds of the year braved the
chilly wind and were well re
warded for their discomfort by the
attitude and sportsmanship that
was displayed by the members of
both teams as they waged a see
saw battle that saw each man put
forth his very best effort on every
play. The quality of baseball was
not quite up to the major league
standard but no big-leaguer ever
tried harder to make every play
count than these Little Leaguers
did Saturday night. The same two
teams will play again tomorrow
(Thursday) Taylor Field, with
game time scheduled for 7:30
o’clock.
Mark Perry and Butch Mallard
shared the pitching duties for
Wilmington, striking out eleven
Southport batsmen and walking
only four. Mallard gained credit
for the win as he came on in the
third with Southport ahead 5 to
3. He pitched hitless ball in the
three innings that he worked
while his teammates scored nine
runs to take the game 12 to 5.
Roland Clark and Chip Graham
teamed up to pitch a six hit
game while fanning six. However,
they walked ten men between
them and three errors, along with
two hit batsmen, added to their
losing effort.
Southport scored all of their
five runs, and got their only two
hits, in the third inning when
Roland Clark led off with a triple
that went over the fielder’s head
in straightaway centerfield. Pat
Duffie and Gerry Clark walked
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to load the bases, bringing up
Graham who had been playing a
whale of a game at third base.
Graham slapped a sharp grounder
toward first base that Lex Aver
itt slowed down but could not
hold on to, allowing Clark and
Duffie to cross the plate. Ken
neth King, the Southport short
stop, watched two balls and a
strike go over and then leveled
off on the last ball that Mark
Perry threw in the game. The
ball landed in centerfield and roll
ed almost to the light pole before
David Thomas, the Wilmington
centerfielder, caught up with it
but by then everybody had cross
ed the plate and the score was
5 to 3 in favor of Southport.
Butch Mallard came on to pitch
for Wilmington and struck out
Jack Duffie, John Burdette and
Johnny Melton in a row to end
the uprising.
Wilmington scored the first run
of the ball game in the first in
ning when David Thomas and
Perry walked, Thomas went to
third on an error by the South
port second baseman and came
home on a fielder's choice by
Donnie Willis. They scored two
more in the third as Mallard
reached first on a fielder’s choice,
went to second on an error that
put Thomas on first base, and
both came home on a single over
second base by Willis. The fifth
was Wilmington’s big inning. The
Fire Department team scored five
runs when David Covil cleared the
walk-filled bases with a double.
Covil was followed on base by
Howard Edgerton and Chip
Browning with bases on bails and
then Mallard drove in two more
runs with a single to right field.
Wilmington's last four runs
were scored in the sixth inning
when Powell hit a pinch-hit grand
slam home run to score Willis,
Nicky McLeod and Covil ahead of
him.
A lot of credit is due George
Parker and Tebo Rogers for the
splendid coaching job they have
done with the Southport Little
League and the spirit of good
sportsmanship that they have in
stilled in each of the boys on the
team. The team has worked hard
every day during the past week
and are anxious for the second
shot they will get at the Wil
mington File Department team.
Wilmington will find a greatly
improved and hustling team fac
ing them when they take the field.
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“SAILS”
Batting Averages
AB H BA.
Dick Brendle . 8 4 .500
John Davis . 13 6 .461
Doug Watts .,. 11 6 .428
Bob McKeithan . 13 5 .385
Red Best . 19 6 .315
Bobby Spencer . 21 6 .281
Chris Holland . 15 4 .266
Gene Russ . 23 5 .217
Paul Cochran . 17 3 .176
Joe Swain . 17 3 .176
Albert Rogers . 6 1 .166
Jerry Spencer . 21 3 .142
Ronnie Hood . 21 3 .142
Gehrig Spencer .... 3 0 .000
Foxy Howard . 0 0 .000
Pitchers W L IP R Er Era
Swain ’3 0 2914 10 7 2.10
McK. 2 1 24*4 12 6 2.16
Cape Fear
League Standings
W L GB.
Southport . 5 1
South Wilmington .... 4 2 1
Leland . 3 3 2
Seagate . 3 3 2
Ogden . 3 3 2
Shallotte . 0 6 5
Service Award
To Jack Kelly
The man wno has had much to
do with the buildup of the live
stock industry in North Carolina
took one of the highest awards
made by the government Tuesday
in Washington.
A USDA Superior Servioe
award went to Jack Kelly, who
heads animal husbandry work in
North Carolina for the cooperative
extension service. Kelly is the only
Extension service employee in the
state to win the award this year.
He received a certificate, a medal
and a lapel emblem.
The award went to Kelly “for
planning, establishing and execut
ing a livestock pi’ogram in a row
crop state, giving balance to ag
riculture in North Carolina and
bringing profit to farmers.”
Kelly, 52, born and reared on a
farm at Lynn Grove, Ky., is a
graduate of the University of
Kentucky. He has been assistant
agent in Onslow and Jones coun
ties, county agent in Jones and
Extension animal husbandry spe
cialist. Since 1950, he has been in
Southport Suffers
Seasons First Loss
The Southport Sails lost their
first Cape Pear League game this
season Sunday afternoon but re
mained on top of the loop, a full
game ahead of the South Wil
mington team that defeated them
at Taylor Field by a score of 7-4.
Freddy Ray went the distance
for South Wilmington, giving up
eleven hits while striking out
twelve and walking only four.
Southport left runners on base
and committed four errors. The
Sails mound duties were shared
by Joe Swain and Bobby Leon
McKeithan. The latter came on
in the sixth with the bases loaded
and no outs but he forced Ray
Musselman to hit into a fielder’s
choice that cut Ray down at home
plate. Henry Saunders popped out
to Paul Cochran at first base, and
Shunney Potter failed to swing at
a called third strike to end the
inning without a score.
Swain allowed three runs on
seven hits in the five innings that
he pitched. He struck out three
and walked one man during his
tenure on the mound. McKeithan
took the loss when he allowed
three runs in the eighth inning.
He fanned four and walked one
in the four innings that he pitch
ed.
McKeithan was the leading hit
ter for Southport with a perfect
two for two, both singles. The
only other Sail to get more than
one hit was John Carr Davis with
two singles for five trips to the
plate. Ray, with four bingles for
five times at bat, and Saunders
with a double, the only extra base |
■hit of the game, were the leading
hitters for South Wilmington.
charge of animal husbandry ex-1
tension work at State College. i
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly live at 625 \
Woodburn Road in Raleigh.
However, every batter in the i
Southport line-up, with the excep
i tion of Ronnie Hood who retired
in favor of McKeithan in- the
fifth, got at least one hit.
South Wilmington scored the
winning runs in the eighth inning
after Jimmy Nelson flew out to
Jerry Spencer in rightfield and
Musselman fanned for the second
out. Saunders doubled to center
and Potter drew a base on balls.
Jerry Stokley hit a long fly into
right-center that Spencer made a
brilliant effort to haul in, but
l the ball glanced off his glove as
he made a desperate leap for it.
Saunders and Potter scored and
Stokley perched on third. Stokley
scored a few minutes later on the
only pitched ball that got by Doug
Watts, the Southport catcher, all
afternoon. Ellis Casteen struck
out to end the inning and the
scoring.
The Sails’ next game will be
against Leland there Sunday af
ternoon. However, efforts are be
ing made to have the game play
ed under the lights at Taylor
Field on Friday night. Leland is
currently in third place in the
Cape Fear Loop with three wins
and three losses.
Fifty-three of the 65 men list
ed on the North Carolina State
Spring sports rosters are from
the state of North Carolina. The
track team has seven of the 12
out-of-staters on its roster, in
cluding Hank Hoomani who is
from Teheran, Iran. Mushtaq
Saigal, number one ranked play
er on the tennis team, is the
only other foreign athlete out this
year on the varsity rosters. Saigal
is from Karachi, Pakistan.
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State’s MVPs
Of Year Honored
By FRANK WE ED ON
RALEIGH — North Carolina
State's Monogram Club honored
the most valuable player in each
varsity sport for the 1960-61
athletic year, with the players on
each team voting their selections.
Chosen by their teammates and
presented trophies by the Mono
gram Club were:
BASEBALL- (tie) Pitcher Joel
Gibson, Gastonia senior who had
the best earned run average
(1.34) in the ACC and who com
piled a 7-2 record while pitching
his way to the all-ACC team;
and
Infielder Vernon Strickland,
Oxford junior, and who was the
second leading batter in the ACC
with a .371 average.
BASKETBALL—Bob DiStefano,
Philadelphia senior, who led tha
team in scoring (330) for the
second straight year. CROSS
country Frank Green, sopho
more from Durham.
FOOTBALL — Alex Gilleskie,
senior guard from Heidelberg,
Pa., who gained all-ACC honors
while co-captaining the team,
most valuable lineman; Roman
Gabriel, all-America quarterback
and "player of the year" in the
ACC, was named the most val
uable back on the squad.
GOLF—Bob Smith, Asheville
senior, and John Isenhour, Salis
bury senior. SOCCER—Gunter
Hafer, senior from Laurinburg,
captain and goalie. SWIMMING—
Edwin Spencer, sophomore from
Wallingford, Pa., who was named
to the NCAA all-America swim
team after setting new ACC and
Eastern Intercollegiate swimming
record in the butterfly events.
TENNIS—Phil Jacobs, Free
port, N. Y., senior, who had
a
10-5 record while playing the
number two singles position in
the Wolfpack’s 11-4 season. He
was 9-3 in doubles competition.
TRACK -George Vollmar, Tren
ton, N. J., senior, who scored the
most points for the Pack this
year while competing in the shot
and discus events.
WRESTLING — Paul Iaeger,
sophomore from Reading, Pa.,
who had a winning dual meet re
cord as a heavyweight, and who
was runnerup for the Carolinas
AAU 191-pound title, having to
forfeit in the finals due to an
injury.
The FRESHMAN AWARD
went to halfback Carson Bosher,
Chester, Va., who led the Wolf
lets in scoring with 44 points dur
ing an undefeated five-game sche
dule.
Guard Kenny Rchloff’s 306
points is the most points scored
by a State sophomore guard
since Vic Molodet, who later went
on to all-America honors, hit for
482 points in the 1953-54 season.
Molodet played in 35 games, while
Rohloff played in 25 contests this
year. The all-time State high for
a first-year varsity performer is
544, set by center Ronnie Shavlik
in 1954.
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