Seadogs Win 31st Straight
Down. Havelock Rams 60-31
Seadogs Cold in 1st Half;
Butch Collects 22 Points
The Beaufort Seadogs, defending state champions, came
out after a cold first half against llavelock Thursday and
shoved 26 points through the hoop in the third quarter to
win 60-31 from the Rams going away.
In the first half the Seadog attack was ragged and as a
result they were able to post only mediocre leads over
Havelock throughout the initial two periods. At the end of
the first quarter they were on top<
of their Seashore conference foes
by seven points at 12-5. They man
aged to work this to a 13-point lead
by halftime as they left the floor
?with a two-fold lead of 26-13
It was a different story in the
third quarter, however, as coach
McQuaid sent his charges into a
pressing defense that completely
bewildered the Rams. For a pe
riod of about five minutes during
the quarter, Havclock was unable
to get the ball past the ten-second
line as the alert Seadogs were in
tercepting every pass the Rams
made.
The times that a Beaufort play
er didn't get the ball, the Rams
lost possession by throwing the ball
away. Havclock managed only
seven points in the quarter to put
them behind 52-20.
McQuaid sent in his second unit
at the start of the final quarter and
the second stringers fought the
Rams on pretty even terms, scor
ing eight point? to 11 for Havclock
All-county . ager Butch Hassell
again w ar the big point-maker for
the Seadogs with a total of 22
points, which was also high for
the game. Calvin Jones had his
highest scoring night of the season
with a 12 point performance. Pud
and Ray Hassell each had 9 points
Edwards scored 16 points for the
Rams to pace his team while Coon
was garnering 11.
The Seadogs were again unim
pressive from the free throw line,
hitting 14 of 23 attempted, for a
below par shooting average of 61
per cent. Havelock could not even
manage this much as they connect
ed on only nine of 20 gift shot at
tempts for a 45 per cent average.
The win was the fourth for the
Seadogs this year and marked their
31st consecutive game without a
loss, dating back to the season's
opener last year. The game also
marked the last action of the Sea
dogs for two weeks, as they take
a Christmas holiday before return
ing to action on the first day of >
1960 against 71st high school in an
interscctional battle to be played
eo the Beaufort hardwoods.
Beaufort
Jones, C.
Janes, D.
Hassell, B.
Hassell, R.
Hassell, P.
Hassell, J.
Gillikin
Lewis
Totals
Havelock
Coon
Seaton, J.
Lupton
Laing
Edwards
Sawyer
Rouse
Seaton, D.
FG FT PF PTS
4 4 2 12
10 12
8 6 2 22
3 3 2 9
4 13 9
10 0 2
10 2 2
10 12
23 14 13 GO
FG FT PF PTS
4 3 4 11
0 0 4 0
0 2 3 2
0 12 1
7 2 1 16
0 0 0 0
0 10 1
0 0 2 0
Totals
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Director Sends
Note of Thanks
James Shine, director of the
Morehead City Midget Football
League, writes the following let
ter, thanking all those who made
the football program possible:
Dec. 18
May I take this opportunity to
say thanks to the many people who
took part in the midget football
program this year. A program of
this type takes much work and
effort on the part of many and
not a few.
I would like to thank each per
son who contributed money or
time for this program, for without
them it could have not become a
success. May I express my thanks
also to the members of the Touch
down Club and interested persons
who helped guide the policies of
the program and make it the suc
cess it was. I would like to ex
tend a special thanks to Nick (Ja
lantis, for without his help and
guidance, we would never have
raised the money to make this pro
gram possible.
I take rfiy hat off to the young
men of Morehead City who devoted
their time for the past two months
in coaching these boys. All I can
say is thanks to you.
May I wish you all a very Merry
Christmas and a most Joyous New
Year.
Sincerely yours,
James F. Shine, Director
Midget Football Program
Seadog Banquet
Postponed to Feb. 3
A new date ha> been set for the
Beaufort high school football ban
quet. It will be Wednesday, Feb.
3, according to head football coach
Curt Lancaster. Lancaster reports
that Earl Edwards, North Carolina
State football mentor, will be the
featured speaker at the banquet,
as originally announced.
Time of the banquet, to honor
the state championship Seadogs,
was changed due to Christmas ac
tivities causing too many conflicts.
The banquet was originally sched
uled for last Wednesday, Dec. 16.
Lancaster also reports that
ticket* to the fete have been re
duced in price from $3 to $2. The
banquet is to be held in the school
cafeteria under sponsorship of the
school atheletic association.
The Carteret County Wildlife
Club will meet Jan. 20 at the Sal
ter Path school instead of the Har
kers Island school, as announced
by the Wildlife Club last week.
They Led Cheers for Seadogs
The Beaufort Seadogs were given ample vocal support by this bevy of cheerleaders during their
climb to the state football championship. Posing during halftime of the Andrews game are, front row,
left to right: Claudia Taylor, Joyce Herbert, Judy Fulcher, and Mary June Merrill. In the back row,
left to right, are Nancy Huntley, Lilly Grace Herbert, Joanne Allen, Sophia Dickinson, Mimi Gilchrist and
Cheryl Peterson. Little Jean Huntley, kneeling in front, puts the finishing touch on the cheerleading
group.
SPA Requests Bids
On Warehouses
The State Ports Authority will
receive, until 2:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Jan. 12, at its offices in Raleigh,
bids on storage warehouses at the
ports at Morehead City and Wil
mington.
Planned for construction at Wil
mington is a warehouse of 96,500
square feet of floor space and at
Morehead City a warehouse of
90,000 square feet.
Separate bids are to be submitted
on electrical works and automatic
sprinkler systems.
Complete plans and specifica
tions may be seen at the ports of
fices in Morehead City and Wil
mington.
2.15 Inches Rain
Come Down Friday
Rain poured down yesterday but
not in the quantity it poured Fri
day. E. Stamey Davis, weather
observer, said Friday's rainfall,
which lasted all day and most of
the night, totaled 2.1S inches.
Temperatures and wind direc
tions Thursday through Sunday
follow :
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High Low Wind
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64 54 ENE
62 40 NE
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Remember When?
Our prize for the best sports fan in the area goes to
anyone who can answer this question within five sec
onds: When was the last time the Beaufort Seadogs lost
a regular season basketball game? Give up?
I'll admit it would take a pretty good memory to re
call the last Seadog loss since they romped through 27
games undefeated last year and have added four to this
total so far this year.
The last regular season contest that the Seadogs lost
was the next-to-last game of the 1957-58 season when
they went down before the Morehead City Eagles 68-56.
The game was the second played between the two
schools during the season. Beaufort won the first con
test 78-64 but was upended by the Eagles in the return
match.
During the regular season of 1957-58 the Seadogs
compiled an overall mark of 14 wins and four losses.
Their other losses were to New Bern, 74-60, and to
Swansboro twice, 75-54 and 44-43.
After the regular season came the county tournament
which the Seadogs won with a 52-37 win over Newport
and a 65-57 decision over Morehead City in the finals.
Following the county tournament came the district play
offs and the Seadogs won their opening assignment,
downing Burgaw 55-41. In second round play the Sea
dogs were eliminated from competition by Mt. Olive
55-43. Including their tournament play, Beaufort fin
ished the season with a 17-5 mark.
Then came the state championship team of last year
that rolled over everything in sight. Their undefeated
season attested to their supremacy. This year the Sea
dogs have been given no real test to date. They have
played four games and in each contest it was apparent
that the Big Green could have won any of the games by
just about as large a margin as they wanted.
The New Bern Sun-Journal, reporting the first Sea
dog win over the Bears, quoted the New Bern coach,
Bob Lewis, as saying, "The Beaufort team seen here was
the strongest squad I have ever seen in Class A basket
ball."
The New Bern mentor believes that Beaufort could
move all the way up the rating ladder from Class A to
Class 4-A and still maintain its effectiveness on the bas
ketball court.
Lewis called Beaufort star Butch Hassell the best high
school player he had ever seen in Class A ball. The Sun
Jouraal said, "The percentage of shots made by the
Beaufort team, as well as that of all individuals figuring
in the scoring, rivaled those seen in professional basket
ball." Those who saw the game couldn't help but agree.
In the Havelock contest Thursday night the Seadogs
had a ragged first half but looked like state champions
in the third quarter as they were bombing the basket
from all angles.
The loss of Sammy Merrill, Alan Autry and Leon
Thomas was supposed to have hurt the Seadogs, but
master-magician McQuaid seems to have pulled the re
placement* for this trio out of his hat. It's too early to
say yet just how far this year's team will go. From what
we've seen already it's easy to understand why Beau
fort had a hard time getting any teams to play them this
year.
Newport Splits One-Point
Decisions With Jasper
Beaufort Girls
Down All-Stars;
Frys Win 86-55
In a special basketball attraction
at the Beafort gym Friday night
the Beaufort high school girls
downed a team of Beaufort All
Stars 56-39 and the Fry Raiders
downed the Maola Dairy team
86-55.
In the preliminary game the scor
ing trio of Pat Lupton, Lynda Chad
wick and Lynn Peterson proved too
much for the All-Stars in the last
half. The trio accounted for 54 of
Beaufort's 56 points with Chad
wick leading the way with 21. Lup
ton had 17 for the evening and
Peterson finished with 16.
Ruby Peterson paced an All-Star
attack in the second quarter that
allowed them to gain an 18-18 tie
at the end of the first half. Peter
son's total of 19 points for the game
was high for the All Stars.
The high school girls scored 22
points in the third quarter while
holding the All-Stars to only eight
to give them a comfortable lead.
All-Star coach Frank Langdale
started a sextet of Jerry Beveridge,
Bitsy Dudley and Peggy Langdale
in the back court and Ruby Peter
son, Nell Gainey and Jean Pope at
the forward posts. Joyce Byroade
also saw action for the All-Stars.
Guards for Jim Fodrie's girls
were Shiela Willis, Jeanette Ran
som and Freda Gamer. Also play
ing were Jill Williams, Sue Simp
son, Margaret Merrill, Lois Pigott
and Brenda Dyess.
In the feature game the Fry
Raiders had little trouble in dis
posing of Maola 86-55. The Raiders
built an early lead of 21-8 at the
end of the first quarter and had in
creased this to 61-30 at the halfway
mark.
Jim Fodrie, with 39 points
grabbed high scoring honors for the
game. Adams had 16 for Maola and
former UNC player Gehrmann Hol
land bagged 15 for the Raiders.
The next game for the Raiders
will pit them against a Morehead
City and Newport team tomorrow
night in a game to be played at
Newport. Featured on the team
will be Morehead City cagers
Wayne Cheek, Jimmy Parker, Kent
Brown and Denny Lawrence. Billy
Widgeon heads a group of former
Newport players on the squad that
includes Gilbert Garner, Larry Wal
lace and Berlyn Temple.
Lost Youngster Confuses
Officers with Talking
Birmingham (AP) ? Mark James
Wiederhold, 5, knew his name, of
course, but he couldn't spell it. So
when he turned up lost in front of
an aircraft plant, and didn't know
his address, plant guards took him
to the police station.
Officers were combing through
the telephone book, looking up vari
ations of Mark's pronounciation of
Wiederhold, when his parents ar
rived to report him lost.
55-54 Boys' Win Follows
70-69 Hawkette Defeat
The Newport Hawks, without the services of their All
County scoring ace, Johnny Turpin, were played right
down to the wire Thursday at Newport by Jasper high
school before the Hawks managed a narrow 56-54 win.
Newport had beaten the same team by 28 points in their
season's opener.
The game wu dose throughout but really got close in
the fourth quarter when an alM
court press allowed Jasper to tie)
the score at 51-51 with a minute
and 20 seconds left to play.
The Hawks managed to post
leads at all of the quarter marks
but only by the narrowest of mar
gins. The end of the first quarter
saw them ahead by three at 9-6.
Jasper rallied in the second quar
ter to close the gap to one point
as they left the floor at halftime
trailing 23-22.
The biggest lead Newport could
manage at the three quarter mark
was two points at 36-34 as a bevy
of jump shots by Jasper sharp
shooter Adams kept the visitors
right on the heels of the Hawks. j
Newport had only ten players
suited up for the game. Starter
and scoring leader Johnny Turpin
was forced to sit out the contest
with an infected leg and Clifton !
Nance was benched with an eye
injury suffered in a scrimmage
session last week with the Coast
Guard.
Both teams scored the same
number of field goals in the con
test? 23. Newport had 23 of 48 at
tempts for a respectable shooting
average of 47.9 per cent. Jasper's
23 field goals came on 67 attempts
to make their average for the eve
ning from the floor 34.3 per cent.
From the free throw line the
two teams were about equal in ac
curacy as Newport finished with
a 60 per cent figure that came on
nine of 15 attempts while Jasper
was making eight of 14 for 57 per
cent.
Adams, with 27 points, paced the
Jasper attack that almost upset
the Hawks and his total was also
high for the game. Larry Kirk
proved to be the big gun in the
Newport lineup as he hit for 19
points. Zirm and Gillikin followed
Kirk with 15 and 14 points respec
tively.
The Hawks now have f 7-5 record
for the season. Their next action
won't be until after the holidays
when they meet the Morehead City
Eagles Jan. 5 on the Eagle floor.
The crowd was treated to anoth
er one-point thriller in the prelim
inary game that saw the Jasper
girls edge the Hawkettes 70-69 be
hind the 54-point performance of
Rita Harris.
The game, a rough and tumble
affair all the way, saw no less than
seven girls leave the game with
five personals as a total of 63 fouls
were called in the 32 minutes of
play. Thirty of them were called
against the Hawkettes and 33
against Jasper.
Despite the amazing scoring
show put on by Rita Harris, the
Hawkettes matched Jasper point -
for-point throughout the game as
scoring leader Margaret Lilly
pumped in 30 points and the Hawk
ettes' slick ball handler, Jenny
Lynn Garner, added 23, her high
est total for the season. Dump
Warren had 16 points for the losers.
The game was all tied up at 17
17 after one quarter of play and
halftime found Jasper enjoying
their largest lead of the evening
at 35-31. The llawkettes managed
to pull up even again at 51-51 in
the third quarter.
The Newport back court trio was
hurt considerably when two of the
starting three fouled out of the
contest. Drawing five personals
were Nancy Allen and Jo Ann Hohl.
Bettie Green, the other starting
guard, drew four fouls in the first
quarter and had to play a cautious
game. Other guards seeing action
in the tight contest were Dottie
Whitley, Paula Mann and Jane
BOX SCORE
Newport
Gillikin
Small
Edwards
Kirk
Zirm
Totals
Jasper
Adams
Daly
Slutton
Harris
Hodnett
Totals
FG FT PF PTS
6 2 3 14
112 3
2 0 0 4
8 3 3 19
6 3 2 15
23 9 10 55
FG FT PF PTS
12 3 3 27
2 2 16
0 12 1
6 1 0 13
3 14 7
23 8 10 54
Holiday Throws Garbage
Collections Off Schedule
No garbage will be collected in
Morehead City Christmas day.
No garbage will be collected in
Beaufort the day before Christmas
or Christmas day. The crew will
try to make up the lost time Sat
urday, but probably will not catch
up with the back work until Mon
day or Tuesday.
Beaufort citizens are asked to be
patient, since the garbage crew is
under-staffed and deemed worthy
of at least two days off for Christ
mas.
Players Invited
Theatre manager O. J. Morrow
has invited all players of the More
head City Midget Football League
to a free movie Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. Players are ask
ed to assemble at the Busy Bee
Cafe at 9:50 to enter the theatre in
a group.
Butch Hassell Heads Prep Scorers;
Smyrna Tops Offensive Averages
As the county basketball teams
take a two-week breather for the
Christmas holidays, scoring statis
tics compiled show All - County
eager Butch Hassell back at his
familiar spot as the leading scorer
in average points per game.
Butch has scored 93 points in four
games for the defending state
champion Seadogs to give him an
average of 23.2 points. Johnny Tur
pin of Newport holds down second
place in the scoring parade with
his average of 17.9 points per game.
Turpin, who has played eleven
games to date, leads the county
scorers in total points with his ag
gregate of 197.
Next to Turpin comes Atlantic's
sharpshooter Bobby Nelson who is
bombarding the basket at a 17.7
clip for seven games. Nelson had
the second highest single game out
put this year when he scored 30
points against Morehead City.
Following Nelson in scoring aver
ages is the Smyrna Blue Devil duo
of Curt Nelson and Dale Lewis.
Nelson has 149 points in nine games4
for a mark of 16.6 per game while
Lewis has tossed in 142 in the same
number of games for an average
of 15.8.
The Blue Devils have played ten
games to date but statistics on the
Atlantic contest, played Friday
night, were not available at press
time.
In team performances the Smyr
na Blue Devils lead the county in
scoring, having garnered 613 points
in their nine games for an aver
age of 68.1 points per contest. Beau
fort is the closest to this figure with
their 258 points in four games,
which comes out as an average of
64.8 points per game.
The Seadogs are far ahead of the
rest of the teams in team defense.
Opponents have been able to score
only 37.1 points per contest on
them. Second in team defense is
the Blue Devils who have held op
ponents to an average of 49.6 points
per game.
Scoring leaders, as of Dec. 17
were as follows:
Name, School Games Total Pts. Avg.
Butch Hassell, Beaufort 4 93 23.2
Johnny Turpin, Newport U 197 17.9
Bobby Nelson, Atlantic f, 124 17.7
Curt Nelson, Smyrna , _ 9 149 16.6
Dale Lewis, Smyrna 9 142 15.8
Larry Kirk, Newport 12 171 14.3
John Phillips, Morehead City S 70 14.0
Ray Hassell, Beaufort 4 52 13.0
Pud Hassell, Beaufort 4 51 12.7
Braxton Pincr, Smyrna 9 108 12.0
TEAM STATISTICS
Points Points Offensive Defensive
Team Games Scored Allowed Avrrife Average
Newport 12 ?71 653 559 54.4
Smyrna ? 613 447 6S.1 49.6
Atlantic 7 298 453 426 64.7
Morehead City ..... ? 270 252 54.0 50.4
Beaufort 4 258 14* 84.8 37.1
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