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Jackson Named All Conference Hoke High placed a player on the Southeastern 4-A Girl's All Con ference Basketball team for 1975 76. Tondea Jackson, senior, was named to the squad last week and ?as the only Hoke player to make the team. The members of the team were chosen by coaches in the con ference. Coaches could not vote for a player on their own team., Jackson averaged 15.5 points per game for the season and scored a total of 326 points for the year. She served as co-captain of the team both her junior and senior year and made all conference last year. Jackson, who plans to attend East Carolina University in the fall, scored 24 points against Sanford for her season high. Upchurch Teams Win by Pat Scott The Upchurch Eagles' baseball and Softball teams posted wins last week. The Eagles' baseball team down ed Maxton and Elizabethtown here last week for their first two wins of the season, while the girl's softball team posted their second win without a loss against a tough Wicker team. The baseball Eagles were led by i. the pitching of David Blue and Perry Worley, who combined for 16 strikeouts in the 9-5 win over Maxton. ? Worley fanned 13 batters for the Eagles in their 18-5 win over Elizabethtown and was aided by the hitting of D. Lomack, M. Hurst, and M. McDonald, who were 2-3, and D. Blue 3-5. The softball team went into extra innings against Wicker and finally defeated them by a 10-7 score here Monday. The Eagles had a 5-0 lead until the bottom of the sixth inning, when they allowed five runs to start a new game. The Eagles grabbed three runs in the eigth to cap the victory for Upchurch. The leading hitters for the Eagles were Brenda Graham 2-5, Sharon McMillan 2-5, and Marion Monroe 2-4. Both Upchurch teams travel to Maxton today (Thursday). If you go to Jerusalem today, they will snow where it is believed that Jesus stood with Pilate before the crowd. Called "The Pave ment," it is the place where people of the Holy City made a fateful choice for Barabbas in place of Jesus. I have stood on that spot and closed my eyes so that in my imagination, 1 might see those sights and hear those sounds. I have reassured myself that 1 would not have been found among those who rejected the kingship of Jesus and bestowed pardon on a murder er and robber! Yet, who knows what one would do in certain circumstances? It is so easy to make the right choice after almost two thousand years of hindsight! The picture we get of Pilate is a familar one. He might be a public official today. He has an obvious sympathy for Jesus and seems desirous of letting him go, but he is too much the politician to let himself be guided by these inclina tions. He is reluctant to make a choice and shifts it over on to the crowd. Without realizing it, Pilate makes a choice for Barabbas: instead of letting his sense of right and wrong guide him, he "plays it safe" and puts Jesus' life in the hands of the emotional crowd. Pilate's behavior is not so different from the actions of people in our world today. They are inclined to do the right things, but they are too fearful or too ambitious to make the right choices. They make the choice that (is likely to do them the most good or cause them the least trouble. Thus, the Barabbas choice is often the choice we make to save our own skins at the expense of out souls. It is the choice of the opportunist, the coward, and the man who "didn't mean any harm." So Pilate makes his Barabbas choice and so does the crowd. And their choice is somewhat different from Pilate's. They must choose between the man who taught that love is the measure of all things and a man who feverently believed that only armed insurrection could meet their needs. In retrospect it seems to us an easy choice-it usually is in rctro ?pect! But today when we are faced with that choice, we are as likely to choose wrongly as they did. In church on a Sunday morning we read this incident and are incredu lous, but throughout the remainder of the week as we are confronted with choices for either Christ or Barabbas, we approach them with the same insensitivity that influenc ed the crowd that day in Jerusalem. We choose violence and coercion, injustice and political gain, preju dice and cynicism, little realizing that in doing so we are rejecting the kingship of Christ and choosing Barabbas instead. IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY - Audrey Long, coach of the Hoke High girl's Softball team, looks on as her team tckes on Scotland County in a conference Softball game here last Friday. The Bucks lost the game by a 15-8 score. THAT'S GOT TO BE A STRIKE - Hoke High Softball pitcher Elizabeth Baldwin releases a pitch to a Scotland batter during their game here Friday. Scotland won the game by a 15-8 score. The Bucks are now 2-4 in league play. Merchant Bowling Oakwood Wraps It Up Bj Larry Long Oakwood Laundry wrapped up the Raeford Merchant Bowling Championship last Thursday night by taking three games from the National Guard. Read Acts 17:10-15 Open my eyes, that I may contemplate the wonders of Thy law. (Psalm 119:18, Berkeley) Some Christians feel that being open to the Bible means doing no thinking when reading it--as if the Lord had asked that the mind be thrown away when He asked for the allegiance of the heart. On the contrary, our brainpower and willpower are required during the reading of the scriptures. It is the open Bible read by open minds that sets the stage for beautiful and meaningful lives in every age. The early Christians in the city of Thessalonica set a good pattern. Each day they searched the scrip tures. They applied searching minds to the contents of the written word of God. We would do well to follow their example. This practice will assure us vistas of learning and fellowship that will be both exciting and rewarding. We will learn much about our Creator and His provisions and plans for us. We will also learn many things about ourselves. PRAYER: Lord, pierce through our dull and sometimes stunted mind. Enter in, O Spirit of truth, to revive ancTillumine our entire lives. Amen. i THOUGHT FOR THE DAY With an open mind, we will seek the truths God has for us in the scriptures. The Moose Lodge split four games with the Barbers. There remains a battle for the 3rd spot in the league standings between Webb's Tire, Hunt's Bonding. Webb's Tire lost three games last week to Gentry's Tire, Kennerty's stopped Hunt's Bonding three games to one and Earl's Electric and McNeill's split their four games. The high 200 last week went to Harry Walters for Webb's a 210, and also the high series, a 547. Ohters hitting the 200 mark in cluded Bill Hendrix a 209, George Hendrix a 205, and John Canady a 204. STANDINGS Won Lost Oakwood Laundry 79 37 Moose Lodge 72 44 Webb's Tire 65 51 Hunt's Bonding 63 53 Hollingsworth 56 60 Earl's Electric 55 61 Kennerty's 54 62 McNeill's 52 64 Gentry's Tire 50 66 National Guard 34 82 In the final round of action this week. Hunt's meets Earl's, Webb's Tire tangles with McNeill's, Oak wood vs Kennerty's, Gentry's Tire vs the Moose Lodge, and Hollings worth battles the National Guard. The Bowler's award dinner will be April 24 at the Southern Res taurant in Raeford. Make plans to attend now. TOP TEN BOWLERS Jesse Taylor 178 Mackie Carter 175 Leo Schulenburg 172 Ted Pulhamus 172 Harold Campbell 172 Bob Canady 171 John Canady 170 James Gay 170 Thad Marks 169 James Nixon 169 Charlie Smith 169 Bill Hendrix 169 Howard Hendrix 169 Everett Bowen 169 #MjSaviii(js Ciato ^ / T for^sprimg! "Now Through Easter" WOW! Yellow, Green, While, Camel, Black Patent. R"? 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