Saturday, June 26,2010 -Thomasville Times - B5
SPORTS
Davis taken 13th by Raptors
BY BRIANA GORMAN
Durham Herald Sun
Ed Davis became North
Carolina’s 40th first-
round draft pick when
the Toronto Raptors took
him 13th overall, while
the 2010 national champi
ons, Duke, had no players
selected during Thurs
day’s NBA Draft.
Davis, a 6-10, 225-pound
forward, averaged 9.2
points and 7.7 rebounds
in two seasons in Cha
pel Hill. He was the Tar
Heels’ leading rebounder
(9.6 per game) and sec
ond leading scorer (13.4
per game) last year, de
spite missing the final
13 games with a broken
bone in his left wrist.
Davis, who was the 97th
Tar Heel to be drafted, is
known primarily for his
defense and shot block
ing skills as he finished
his collegiate career with
129 blocked shots.
Davis was in Madison
Square Garden in New
York for the NBA Draft
and was all smiles when
NBA commissioner
David Stern called his
name.
“My favorite player,
Chris Bosh, went [to To
ronto] so they’re a young
team, they play fast... so
I think it’s a good fit,” he
told ESPN Davis after be
ing drafted.
Davis’ father, Terry,
who spent 10 seasons
in the NBA, also was in
New York and told ESPN
he needed to update his
passport so he could go
see his son play.
“Like I told him, just
enjoy your moment, work
hard and God will take
care of the rest,” Terry
said.
Two other ACC play
ers were drafted before
Davis, as Georgia Tech’s
Derrick Favors was se
lected No. 3 overall by
the New Jersey Nets, and
Wake Forest’s Al-Farouq
Aminu was taken by the
Los Angeles Clippers
with the eighth pick.
The Portland Trail
Blazers took former
Duke player Elliot Wil
liams, who transferred to
Memphis after the 2008-09
season to be closer to his
fil mother, with the No. 22
pick.
Clemson’s Trevor Book
er was the first senior
drafted — it was the lat
est a senior has ever gone
— when the Minnesota
Timberwolves took him
23rd overall. The Wolves
then traded the rights to
Booker to the Wizards for
Washington’s 30th and
35th picks.
ACC player of the year
Greivis Vasquez saw
his decision to return to
Maryland for the 2009-10
season after testing the
NBA waters a year ago
pay off as he was the
fifth and final ACC player
taken in the first round
when the Memphis Griz
zlies took him with the
28th pick.
“This is a great oppor
tunity for me, and Mem
phis wiU be great for
me,” Vasquez told ESPN
after giving Stern a big
hug after his name was
announced. “I just can’t
wait to get to training
camp and work hard.”
Just three ACC players
were taken in the second
round. Georgia Tech’s
Gani Lawal was taken
46th overall by the Phoe
nix Sims, and the Dallas
Mavericks took Florida
State’s Solomon Alabi
with the 50th pick. Alabi
was later traded to the
Raptors, where he wiU
join Davis. The Indiana
Pacers took the Semi-
noles’ Ryan Reid with the
57th selection.
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rose to occasion, as the
crafty left-hander struck
out the next three he
would face to escape fur
ther damage.
Baughman would give
up one more home run to
Fiiltz in the eighth, but
other than the two mis
takes, he was dazzling
striking out nine and
giving up five hits.
“He is their ace and
I knew we were gonna
have to make big adjust
ments from last night to
tonight,” said Shore. “He
threw a lot of off-speed
stuff and hit his spots.”
Post 45 had scored
four more in the eighth
to blow the game wide
open. In the ninth. Post
87 grabbed a run on the
Randolph bullpen, but
had no significant push
in them to climb back.
The Junior HiToms
have a huge game at Bur
lington-Graham today, a
team that is in a virtual
tie with Post 87 at 9-4 in
the league. A win in that
game could still give
High Point the league
title with 3-10 Winston-
Salem the only other
team remaining on the
schedule.
“It (league) is still in
our hands — we just
need to go win on Sat
urday,” Shore said. “We
have never won a regu
lar season title before,
and that is very impor
tant to me as a coach and
I hope that is important
to them.”
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Newsday Crossword
SATURDAY STUMPER by Barry C, Silk
Edited by Stanley Newman
www.stanxwords.com
ACROSS
1 Contents of
some music
boxes
10 Drives
15 Discouraged
16 “Too bad!”
17 Grounds
18 Radial kin
19 years
20 A student’s
pride
21 Pledge
22 Whole
23 Aesthetes, often
25 1099 datum:
Abbr.
26 Calyx segment
28 Chk. alternative
29 Beagle “born”
in 1978
30 Semester
abroad sub],,
perhaps
31 Square
32 Half of a
matched set
33 Dinosaur hunter,
by definition
38 Fictional
insincere teen
39 Charter 54 Down
member
40 Latin lover’s
word
41 Repeated
phrase in
“Let’s Call the
Whole Thing OfT
42 Mortar carrier
43 Revolt on the
Nile author
46 The Damask
Drum, The
Well Cradle, etc.
47 Plated
49 Indication of
nobility
51 Brown shade
53 Sweater letters
54 Shamus of
kiddie lit
55 Lose it
56 Ifs often
draining
58 Abandon
59 Some public
displays
60 Minute
61 They have
many knots
1
DOWN
Beehive
relatives
2 Zeus’
grandfather
3 Finish a
sentence
4 Victory chant
5 “Art is my life
and my life is
art” speaker
6 Western prop
7 Fit
8 Radial
measurement
9 GPS readout
10 Portrait on
a 1990s
10 Deutsche
Mark note
11 Parliament
members
12 Mass
movement
13 Formal opening
14 Collected to the
extreme
21 Memoir set in
Limerick City
23 Gone
24 Triple medalist
at the
Vancouver
Olympics
27 Sparkling
29 Film with the line
“So help me Me”
33 Violinist’s need
34 URL part
35 “Whatever you
say"
36 Close (in)
37 The Wire
character
44 All-time highest
grossing
American film
45 For the full time
47 Permit to move
ahead
48 Sweet prefix
50 Informal refusal
52 Made up
54 Its first leader
was Lord Ismay,
1952-1957
56 Mathematical
degs.
57 Like 56 Across
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From pageBl
June 23. And June 24.
StiU, it’s safe to say that
most of us felt some
sense of outrage at
the poor officiating we
have seen in the World
Cup, then that swell of
patriotism when the
U.S. team came back
and won anyway, and
when a tennis match that
broke every imaginable
record was won by a guy
from Greensboro, N.C.
And just to add a little
more icing to an already
tasty cake. Lord Stanley’s
Cup is currently living
in Chicago rather than
somewhere in Canada.
Still, when you think
of all-American sports,
it’s hard to find a better
example than NASCAR.
Former President of
the United States Lyndon
Johnson once described
the state of the union as
“free and restless, grow
ing and full of hope.”
When you think about
it, it isn’t too much of
a stretch to apply these
same phrases to race
teams. There is a certain
degree of restlessness
inherent in any NASCAR
garage, where the search
for that extra thousandth
of a second, that addi
tional quarter inch of
distance, never ceases.
The sport is constantly
growing, geographically
and technologically, as
well as in popularity.
That perpetual rest
lessness and growth.
combined with the
freedom to experi
ment (within certain
limits, of course!) and
the final ingredient
— hope — paints a pretty
representative picture
of a NASCAR team.
Like the place of its
birth, NASCAR is an up
start, a rough-and-tum
ble contest made up of
equal parts determina
tion, talent and pure grit.
Mechanics, sponsors,
crew members, equip
ment and a lone driver
are melded together into
a large group that some
how functions efficiently,
and sometimes even bril
liantly, as a single unit.
Oh, they’ll fight and
bicker and publicly
snipe at one another,
but let Jeff Gordon need
help — real help — and
aU those guys he basi
cally ran over at Infineon
Raceway on June 20 wfil
queue up right along
with everybody else to
offer their assistance.
NASCAR’s individual
states may have their
little border skirmishes
from time to time, but
don’t even think for
a second they aren’t
united, because they are.
Where this is unity,
there is always victory,
and in the sports arena,
stock car racing con
tinues to be a proven
winner, in every cat
egory you can think of.
In NASCAR’s case,
freedom not only
rings — it roars.
Contact Elliott at cathy-
elliott@hotmail.com.
tvillesports@yahoo.com
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