Madison's JVs Win 2-A Conference Championship
By TAMM1E YOUNG
Madison High School's Junior Var
sity football squad has made history.
The 1987 version of the JV Patriots
finished as regular season champions
in the Western Highlands Conference
2-A division - the first time a Madison
junior varsity football team has won
that honor.
The JV Patriots, who lost only one
game on the year, went down to the
wire to do so, edging Sylva-Webster
7-6 in a season-ending game last
week.
Sylva was the fourth of the
Patriots' four conference games.
The team's goal at the beginning of
the season was to win all its con
ference games, said head JV Coach
Jeff Treadway. With last week's win
over Sylva-Webster, the Madison JVs
achieved that goal.
Madison also beat Mountain
Heritage 21-0, Avery 28-0 and Mitchell
47'U to outscore conference op
ponents 108-18
Treadway said he is extremely
"This is by far the best season we
have ever had. I attribute our success
to the talent and dedication of the
players," he said.
"We had an exceptional group of
young men who were willing to work
together instead of gain glory for
themselves personally," Traadway
said.
The JV coaches are so committed
to that philosophy that they did not
keep individual player statistics dur
ing the season - so don't ask them
how many yards a certain player
might have gained or how many
tackles your son might have made.
"We felt that if one person did well,
the whole team did well," Treadway
said. "We are proud of our 103-18 total
score for the conference."
Treadway Hid be dM not change
hi. coaching habits during the Just
completed tea son - except for
"It's easy to be motivated when you
win," he said.
Treadway said he especially ap
preciated the support and help of
assistant coaches Clayton Willis and
Ricky Flynn
Willis has volunteered his time for
at least the past three years to work
with Madison's JV team.
Woody Ammons, varsity football
coach at Madison, must be licking his
chops at the thought of some of the
players he'U bebringing up from the
JV ranks next season.
"The whole objective for the JV
program is to prepare them for varsi
ty ball, so they'll be ready," Tread
rway said. _ _ j
Allan Fisher, quarterback rfthe Madison
High School Junior Varsity Patrtets, huh
for yardage against Mitchell enroote to Ma
disoa'a conference championship.
Cheering Champions
Two cheerleading squads from Madison
County were named Western North Carolina
champions during cheerleading competition
Saturday at the WNC Youth Football League
Conference Championship held at Pisgah
High School. Madison's Termite squad
(second-, third- and fourth-graders) out
cheered Brevard to win in its division, while
judges gave Madison's Mites (fifth- and sixth
graders) a higher ranking than Bethel.
Members of the Termites (above) are, front
row from left to right: Magen Caldwell,
Tiphanie Shelton (mascot), Christie Ball. Se
cond row: Kim Ward (captain), Lisa Cole (co
captain), Nan Franklin, Jennifer Caldwell,
Kelly West, Chastity Shelton, Jessica West.
Third row: Rachel Harriger and Pumpkin
GosneH. Members of the Mites (below) are,
first row: McKenzie Steen, Tanya Roberts
(mascot), Melanie Cole (co-captain). Second
row: Heather Hyatt, Christie Bailey, Lorena
King, Stacey Hunter, Christie Ledford. Third
row: Jessica Miller, Amanda Grooms,
Tifanie Nix. Fourth row: Robbie Sams (cap
tain).
WNC Champs
The Midgets of the Madison County Youth
Football League won their division crown
Saturday at the Western North Carolina
Youth Football Conference championship
game played at Pisgah High School. It took
three overtime periods for the undefeated
Madison Midgets to take a 40-34 win over West
Asheville in an excitement-filled ballgame.
Going into Saturday's championship game,
the team of seventh- and eighth-graders had
held all nine of its opponents scoreless in
regular season play. Another area team also
won its division title - also in a triple over
time battle. North Buncombe's Termites
(second-, third- and fourth-graders) defeated
Brevard to win the Termite championship.
Mars Hill Basketball Season To Begin
The Mars Hill Lions and Lady Lions
will get cranked up for basketball
starting Monday as they begin a hec
tic first week of play.
The men's team will open play on
Monday at Tusculum, the first of 29
games for the Lions for the season.
Their first week of action will take
them to Central Wesleyan, S.C., next
Thursday. The Lions will open their
home season on Saturday, Nov. 21, at
7:30 p.m. when they entertain High
Point College.
The Lady Lions will tip off Monday
at Tusculum in a doubleheader for
the teams. The Lady Lions will begin
their home schedule on Wednesday
when they host Milligan and will be at
home again on Friday, Nov. 20, when
they entertain Guilford College.
The Milligan game gets under way
at 6:30 p.m.
3 Make V-BaU Tourney Team
The Mars Hill Lady Lions placed
three members on the 1987 All
Tournament team this weekend at
Catawba in the District 26 volleyball
tournament.
Junior Melanie Wright and
freshmen Dede Head and Suzanna
May berry was selected for the team
as voted by the coaches. The Lady
Lions finished tied for third in the
tournament and closed out their
Runner Takes Honors
Joy Ponder, a sophomore at
Madison High School received in
dividual honors in recent Wdlometer
road races.
Ponder took third place in her age
group in both the Smith-McDowell on
Sept. 12 and University of North
Carolina at Asheville Run in the
Garden Oct. 10.
She received first place in the
French Broad River road race, Oct.
M.
season at 18-16.
Earlier, it was announced that
senior Cindy Hodge had been voted to
the 1987 All-District team, her third
straight selection to the team.
Sincere Thanks
to those who
supported my
candidacy
for alderman,
Iverson Bradley