CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, N. C., TUESDAY, MARCH ?, 1995
Beaufort Wins Class A Crown
?
Happy Group of Boys.
With grim from ear to ear the
members of the State Class A
Championship Beaufort Seadogs
team smile prettily for the pho
tographer. Left to right, front row
? Ed Willis, son of Mrs. Ola Belle
Willis, Monk Pittman. son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thurman Pittman, Ray
Gillikin, son ofw. and Mrs. Luther
Gillikin, Bruce E*?ards Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Edwards Sr.;
second row ? Dick Moore, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore, George
Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Martin, Herb Mason, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mark Mason, Terry Nance,
son of Mrs. Alvah Nance; third
row ? Jimmy Potter, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Davis Potter; Gehrmann
Holland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gehr
mann Holland: Jimmy Owens, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Owens, Hen
ry Safrit, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Safrit, Jimmy Davis, son
of Mrs. L. C. Davis. With the ex
ception of Pittman who resides in
Merrimon, and Martin and W'llis
who live in Beaufort RFD, the
other members of the squad are
all residents of Beaufort.
I've Never Seen Anything Like It'
"I've never seen anything like
the. turnout th?t greeted us when
we returned from Greens'oro,"
were the first words uttered by
Coach McQuaid when interviewed
concerning the 1954-59 State Cham
pion Class A team.
He continued. "I know that no
one ever imagined that the people
of the county would come out to
the Carteret dog track to meet us
the way that they did. It made
me and the team (eel especially
proud to know that everyone in this
area was backing us the way they
'* did. The people In this area are by
far the moat generous I've ever
teen."
From Okie
Coach McQoatd. who originally
hails from Youngstown, Ohio, said
that ha knraihia waa a good place
- to be when he first arrived. As he
worded it. "I started basketball
practice whan the football season
ended my lint year here (1936)
and the boys on the squad present
ed me wiib a cigarette lighter as
a Christmas gift.
'"I knew right then and than
that the folks here are unlike those
in other places, for in all of my
experience of playing ball I've
never seen a coach presented with
git is De lore.
In regards hia team winning the
atate championship, Coach He
Quaid said, "It took a lit of good
breaks and a let of people praying
for us to win tfaesa all. We had
the beat record that has evar bean
made here In the county and I
must congratulate all of the toys
who made it poaattrie."
It marked the fourth time since
Coach McOuaid has been at Bea?
fort that the team has been in
volved in either the district or state
playoffs, and marked the secoad
state- championship by a Carteret
Connty team In three yean. New
port won the crown in 1953.
Caaak ef Year
Coach MsQaatd was selected as
' the coach of 0 w year for THC
Ceach Tm MeOaaM
NEWS-TIMES sponsored All-Con
fsNoce team, and at the tine of
tM anaoancement ?( the bo(l or be
thought the honor
to Bob King oi
With the victory not only in the
county and district tournaments,
bat with his team chalking up their
first state championship, he need
take a back ant to no one.
His career at Beaufort started
following Us graduation from New
berry College in Newberry, 8. C?
where he was a crack basketball
player. He la sarrled to the for
JBar rearl Bcaraldo of Beaufort,
aad they have s young sofvTan Jr.
In the yean that he has been at
Beaufort hia teams have maintain
ed an overall winning record, but
the best record in the county be
longs to Coach Oannon Talhert of
Meraheed City for the paat 10
he always points out Ha
so that teams coached by
Tenney have given hia dab
a good Tan for- their mooey.
Ia his coaching he stresses fun
BEAUFORT
28 Won 0 Lost
Atlantic
Dixon
Jones Central ...
Newport
Smyrna
Camp Lejeune
Richlanda
Atlantic
Pamlico County
Richlanda
Morehiad City
Swansboro ?
Smyrna ..._j
Camp Lejeune ....
lforehead City
Dixon
T
Jones Central
Newport
Pamlico
... 87-31
?... #2-43
58-24
57-50
.... 47-31
..... 77-33
.... 72-34
.... 73-42
.... 78-38
82-38
..... 82-80
.... 58-38
67-49
.... 7*48
.... 72-48
..... 89-52
..... 55-28
.... 72-54
.... 80-48
... 88-53
, . . C'Miaty Tmraey
Smyrna ....... 75-58
Morehead City ..... 77-85
DMfkl T Mi i mj
Bath J 48-48
. 59-52
Claaa A Twin
HUdebran
YooQBKiUe w.
55-83
total J. 1819
nts tottt ? - 1??
Beaufort average per fame.. 88.8
Opponents average per game 44J
For the second straight y ear
Mnwi Holland ?? U?b me
at the State Claw A Tourney. Laat
year at Aberdeen ha aeend 10
points and thil year he scored 6J
at Oreonahoro to lead his team ta
the Claaa A THIe.
Seadogs Defeat Bethel
In Low Scoring Game
By HAL SHAPIRO
They came the furthest with the mostest and therein lies
the tale of Beaufort's Class A State Championship victory.
It was their win over the Bethel Blue Demons at the
Senior High School gym in Greensboro on Saturday night,
March 19 which (rave the Seadogs the title. This was their
28th consecutive win. Not once during the season that
started last December did they taste defeat.
Playing a possession type oH
game, the Seadogs scored only 48
points in the final contest against
the Bethel Blue Demons, but the
Bethel quintet could only make 40.
and the state championship is back
in Carteret County for the second
time in three years.
Wells Starts Scoring
Worth Wells scored his team's
fir^t four points and the Seadogs
were down 0 4 at 5:43 of the first
quarter. Herb Mason hit on one
of his patented jump shots at 5:21
and when Gehrmann Holland hit
on a driving layup at 5:04 the score
was all knotted at 4.
Dean Reece put his team back in
the lead with a pair of buckets and
then Holland. Mason, and Reece all
scored points for their respective
teams in the first quarter. At the
end of the quarter the Seadogs
trailed 9-10.
Only four boys on both teams
hit the scoring columns in the first
quarter with Weils hitting 4, and
Reece 6, for the Blue Demons and
Holland 4, and Mason 9, for the
Seadogs.
In the second quarter the boys
of both teams started scoring in
earnest with the game being dead
locked five times at 14, 16, 18, 20,
and 22.
Capps Hlti
Phil Capps, 6 foot 3 inch center
of the Blue Demons, was the bis
scorer in the second quarter as he
popped the nets for 10 points, mak
ing four baskets and two free
throw conversions.
Hub Mason gave the Seadofs an
11-10 advantage at 7:84 of the sec
ond quarter when he hit on a pair
of free throws, and the lead was
taken over by the Blue Demons at
6:23 when Capp* hit on a Jump
shot. Jimmy Davis put Beaufort
back in the lead at 0:11 when he
hit on a Jump shot, but ooce more
a Blue Demon, Wells, hit on a lay
up at 3:98, and the Seadogs trailed
13-14.
Holland hit on his first of two
free throws and Henry Safrit
tapped In the second attempt in
put the Beaufort team in the lead
16-14 at 9:20.
Game 8ee-Saws
The game was a see-saw affair
until there was approximately a
minute to play- At 1:01 Holland
hit on a jump shot to give Beaufort
a 24-22 lead and with 31 seconds
left Monk Pittman made good ?
jump abet from the key. The score
at the half read Beaufort It,
Bethel 22.
Capps started the aeconJ half
and third quarter of the game with
a push shot at 7:43 and the aeon
was tightened to M-M. At 6:44
Reece bucketed a jump shot and
the score was knotted once man
at 26. The score was tied ? second
time in the canto at 28 with the
scoreboard dock showing 4:28.
Monk Pittman wis the hot man
in the quarter for the Baadop wttb
? points as his set shot at J: IS gave
che Beaafort five a 1048 bad.
Prom that poia( until the end flf
the game It waa all Beaufort.
Mason followed up PttUsan's
score at 2:38 snd the Seadogs lad
1248. Jack Phillips M Bethel con
verted a free threw at 2:18 and
then Pittman converted a free
throw, Saint fallowed with a pair
ef free throws, and Pittman made
another at the free threw line.
The aeert sited at 18-28 with M
seconds left, and when Dean Reece
missed his free throw attempt at
the buzzer, the third quarter ended
with Beaufort well out in front.
Seadogs Extend Lead
The Seadogs extended their lead
to 11 points at 6:20 of the final
quarter after buckets by Holland
and Pittman, and then the Blue
Demons started to chop at the lead.
At 3:32 with the Seadogs leading
40-32, Jimmy Davis, who played
one of his outstanding games of
the season insofar as rebounding is
concerned, hit on a layup and the
Seadogs kept a 10-point margin.
At ?05 the Seadogs enjoyed a
narrow lead of 44-38, but the Blue
Demons' inability to hit at the free
throw line kept the game on ice for
the Seadogs, and when the final
buzzer was sounding Monk Pittman
was fouled. He sank the two free
throws and gave Beaufort its well
deserved 48-40 win.
Capps Hi*h Scorer
Phil Capps of Bethel took high
?coring honors for the game with
10 points. Runner-up honors in the
contest went to Gehrmann Holland
with 13 points.
Monk Pittman and Henry Safrit
also hit in double figures for Beau
fort with 12 and 10 points respec
tively. Worth Wells nude 11 poinU
far the losing Bethel five.
Though the game was a slow one
in comparison to others played by
the Seadogs this season It proved
that the Beaufort boys could win
with the pressure on.
All Played Goad Game
Every member of the first live
played an Important role in the vic
tory and all should be congratu
lated not only for bringing the
championship back to the county,
but also for maintaining their un
defeated record, a record which ex
tended through 28 consecutive
games hi regular season play, coun
ty playoffs, district playoffs, and
finally the State Championship
tourney.
Gehrmann Holland, tor the sec
ond straight year, was the high
scorer in the tournament with 63
points. Ha and Monk Pittman were
both selected for the All-Tourna
ment team at the conclusion at
Play.
The bo* score:
Ittatet: PC Fta Ftm Pta
Safrit, ? 4 2 2 10
Davis, I 11-04
Holland, c 8 4 3 13
Pittman, g - 4 ? 4 IS
Mason, g 3 4 3 t
Totals... IS 17 11 41
Bethel: TO Pta Ra P?
Walls, I ? ? 1 U
Stamey. f 12 2 4
Capps, e 8 4 4 14
Reece, g 4 4 0 ?
Phillips, g 0 4 11
Queen 0 0 0 0
Total* 1* 20 1 40
The SCOT* by quarters
Beaufort ? W 10 11
Bethel W U 1 U? ??
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to walcoase the
hack to Carteret
had wan the Claas A