Sports
Hoke's Toni Rheams tries for afield goal as teammates Jean McCormick Sabrina Barnes (44) and Sharon McNeill nvtch
with 71st.
The action is in the game
Rheames , McKinnon 1
As Top Hoke Athletes
The Hoke High coaching staff
has named Orlando McKinnon as
Male Athlete of the Week and
Toni Rheames as Female Athlete
of the Week for the week of
January 3-7.
Orlando, a junior, wrestles for
the Bucks in the 169 pound weight
class. He was nominated for his
performances in the Bucks' mat
ches against 71st and Lee County.
In the 7lst match, a squeaker
which Hoke lost 37-26, Orlando
pinned his opponent in 3 minutes
and 18 seconds. In the Lee County
match on Friday night, which
Hoke won by a score of 34-23,
Orlando defeated his opponent by
a major decision 12-1.
Orlando has been involved in
sports throughout his high school
career. He has played football as
defensive end during his freshmen
and junior year. He ran the hurdles
for the Bucks' track team in both
his freshman and sophomore
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Orlando is active in other extra
curricular activities besides sports.
He is a member of the VIC A Club,
the Monogram Club and the
Spanish Club.
Orlando, upon completion of
his high school career, plans to at
tend A & T University and major
in some area dealing with elec
tronics.
Orlando is active in his church.
Silver Grove Baptist Church,
where he serves as an usher. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie J.
McKinnon of Route 3, Raeford.
Toni Rheames, a 5*8" freshman
forward on the girl's Varsity
Basketball Team was nominated
for her performance in the games
against 71st and Union Pines.
In the 71st game, which Hoke
won 47-38, Toni did not score any
points but played an extremely ag
gressive defensive game and pulled
down four rebounds. In the Union
Pines game Friday Night, which
Hoke won 47-45. Toni scored 15
points and recorded eight re
bounds.
This is Toni's first year playing
basketball, but with her skills.
Coach Audrey Long chose her to
round out her varsity squad. She
was active in softball in both her
seventh and eighth grade years as
catcher and infielder on the junior
high softball team.
Among her activities outside
school, Toni is active in the
Freedom Chapel AME Zion
Church where she is a member of
the choir and serves as secretary of
the Missionary Youth Group. She
also enjoys skating and swimming.
Toni is the daughter of Ms. Lilly
A. Rheames of Rt. 3, Raeford.
Hoke Boys, Girls Win
Hoke County High School's boys'
and girts* varsity basketball sauads
started the new year and prefaced
the start of their Southeastern!!
Conference play by scoring wins
last week.
They played Terry Sanford.at
Hoke High Tuesday night in the
conference opener.
The results were not available in
time for publication in this week's
edition of The News-Journal.
Greg Hollingsworth gave the
Bucks the winning margin over 71st
on the Hoke court on January 7 by
making a good a one- and -one free
throw setup in the final seconds,
tying the score, then providing the
winning point in the 55-54 contest.
The following Friday. Hollings
worth scored 31 points in leading
Hoke to an 81-67 victory over
Union Pines at Union Pines and the
Hoke girls squeezed by the Union
Pines girls 46-45.
The week's results brought the
Hoke boys' record for the season
going into Tuesday night's game to
7-3. and the girls' mark to 7-1.
The Hoke girls took a 47-38
decision from 71st. with Sabrina
Barnes leading the Hoke scoring
with 21 points and Dina Robbins
topping the losers with 23.
The other Hoke scorers in the
contest were Sharon McNeill 10,
Tony Rheames 2, Jean McCor
mick 4, Greta Johnson 6. and
Delia Prxtgen 4. , i
In the boys' game, the Hoke
scorers besides Hollingsworth were
McLaurin 2. Tony McRae 10.
Thomas 6. Freddie McLean 12.
Pickett 2. and Easterling 2. Mc
Duffie and Peguese also saw action.
Robert Johnson of 71st led the
individual scoring with 22 points.
I
In the Union Pines game, the -
other Hoke boys' scorers were
McLaurin 6, McRae 9. Thomas 10.
McLean 13, Easterling 8 and
Galberth 4.
Rheames led the Hoke girls with
14 points. McNeill scored 13.
Barries 5. McCormick 2, Johnson
4. and Pridgen 8. The other Hoke
placers were Thompson. Morrison. <
Graham, Southerland. McKov.
Leggett. and Legrande.
McCrimmon led Union Pines
with 13.
The Hoke teams play Scotland's
squads Friday night at the Scotland
gym.
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A Hoke wrestler pinning his opponent in helping the Bucks to ? 34-23 win Friday night over previously unbeaten
Lee County. The next Hoke match will be held Friday night when the Bucks meet Scotland on the Hoke High
mat.
Grapplers Lose To 71st ,
Pin Unbeaten Lee County
The Hoke High Wrestling team
came up with a split decision as
they won one match and lost one
last week.
In the match on Tuesday night a
stubborn Buck team refused to ad
mit or accept defeat and came
close to knocking off powerhouse
Seventy- First.
Unlike earlier matches Hokes'
lightweights did not score and this
allowed 71st to amass a 17-0 lead
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before Richard McLaughlin pinn
ed his opponent with only 25
seconds left in the match in the 128
pound weight class.
Hoke would not score again un
til the 10th match when Orlando
McKinnon, in the 169 pound
weight class, would pin his oppo
nent to make the score 37-12 in
71st's favor. Hoke then began an
uphill battle against 71st.
Darrell Kelly, in the 187 pound
division outscored his opponent to
win a decision.
Robert Moody scored a pin with
only 16 seconds left in the match to
run his season mark to 9-1 in the
197 pound division.
Charles Matthews then closed
out the match by pinning his oppo
nent in the heavy-weight class to
make the final score 37-26.
Fortune smiled on the improving
Buck squad on Friday night as they
knocked off previously unbeaten
Lee County by a score of 34-23.
In this match the Bucks were
back to form as the lightweights
and heavyweights scored nearly all
of Hoke's points.
The lightweights built an early
lead for Hoke which they never
relinquished throughout the
match.
Billy Locklear, now 7-3 for the
year, started the match by pinning
his opponent in the 100 pound
division. Don Woods then out
pointed his opposite number from
Lee County to win a decision.
Marvin Pequese, in the 121
pound division, pinned his oppo
nent to give Hoke a 21-6 lead.
The Lee County team then claw
ed back by winning the mid
dleweight divisions to close the
score to 21-17.
Hoke's heavyweights came right
back to salt away the victory by
winning three of the last four
matches.
In the 169 pound division,
Orlando McKinnon outpointed his
opponent to score a major deci
sion.
Darrell Kelly won his second
match of the week when he out
pointed his opposite number to
win a decision in the 187 pound
weight class.
Robert Moody received a forfeit
in the 197 pound division on the
way to the final score of 34-23.
The Bucks will host Scotland on
Friday, January 14 in the Hoke
gym.
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