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Prep Basketball Rebirth Highlights '90 Sports Year In Brunswick HY JOIINNY CRAIG The resurgence of basketball on the prep hardwood in Brunswick County highlighted the local soon lo-bc-complcicd sports year. The rebirth of the cage game at South and West Brunswick is the stuff sports trivia questions are made from. Earlier this year West Brunswick won a share of its first conference basketball championship in five years and South Brunswick capped its best record in school history. And the West girls' team of 1989 90 also had its best record in possi bly a decade. Basketball continues to be on the upswing in the new season as the year draws to a close. Both West boys' and girls' teams have com bined to win 15 of 16 games while the Trojans won the school's 3(XHh cagc victory just last week. The South boys (5-1) appear headed for even bigger things in the 1990-91 season. Led by fifth-year coach Gene Doanc, the Cougars gave the veteran mentor his 500th career win in January. There were other highlights of the sports year?Robert FHythe's state 300-meter hurdle champi onship in state-record time, another undefeated season for the West Brunswick junior high football team, new coaches and athletic di rectors among the three county schools and yet more golf courses added to the simply superb and su perior links selection that Bruns wick has to offer. L.ook back at 1990 and relive the top sports stories of the first year of the decade. January The month began with South Brunswick boys' basketball coach Gene Doanc winning his 500th ca reer game in the Cougars 5/-34 tri umph over North Brunswick. Doanc, who was in his fourth season at South, hail coached 26 sea sons in the Washington, x D.C. metro area jL m Pnor 10 coming 4K f to Boiling k Spring Lakes. The West ? Brunswick DOANE boys won their first four Waccamaw 2-A Confer ence basketball games before losing to host East Bladen 68-66 late in the month. The Trojans would avenge the loss in February and take the lead in a hot league race only to finish tied for the WC crown with East Bladen on the final week of the regular sea son. The West boys won the first of three meetings with South Bruns wick on Jan. 26, 59-54 in overtime in front of the largest Trojan home crowd in perhaps the last half decade. February During ihc first week of the month West Brunswick's Ricky Daniels scored 44 points in a win over Fairmont to set a boys' single game scoring record. Daniels eclipsed the five-year record set by Robert Thompson by seven points. The West Brunswick boys took over sole possession of the Wacca maw 2-A Conference basketball race the next week with an 81-73 win over East Bladen. The stand ing-room-only crowd was one of several at the Trojans' gym during the final weeks of the season. The two teams eventually finish ed as WC co-champions with iden tical 12-2 loop records. For the Trojans, it was their first league tide since the 1984-85 season when West gained a share of the Three Rivers 3-A Conference champi onship. West finished with a 16-9 record after advancing to the second round of the state playoffs. The South Brunswick boys did even belter extending its season to mid-March before falling in the Sectional III finals in Graham. The Cougars finished 20-7, their best record in school history. Trojan football standout Brian Hill signed a grant-in-aid to play at Wingate College late in the month. Bulldog assistant coach Rodney Borders was on hand for the signing and spoke highly of the 6-fool-2, 220-pound offensive lineman. March Daniels and South Brunswick's Tessa Lee were named county bas ketball players of the year highlight ing the annual All-Brunswick County cagc teams. Daniels, a 6-5 junior guard, fin ished the season averaging 26 points per game while Lee, a 5-10 junior center, averaged 24.9 points per contest in helping the Lady Cougars to a 6-15 record. Sea Trail Plantation near Sunset Beach opened a new golf course, clubhouse and conference center the same week. The new Jones course (named after course designer Rees Jones) joined the original Sea Trail coursc that opened in 19X5. April ITiroc West Brunswick Trojans headlined the All-Waccamaw Con ference basketball selections in ear ly April including Daniels, Timmy Farmer and Jeff Bernard. Trojan coach Billy Minis shared WC coach of the year honors with East Bladen's Sam Bogcr. West Brunswick's Rebecca Buff kin also received AII-WC honors af ter helping lead the Lady Trojans (11-9) to their best record in a dec ade under first-year coach Brenda Council. South Brunswick's Gene Doanc was listed among North Carolina's winningest prep boys* basketball coachcs with a 34-year career record of 513-141. The release from the North Caro lina High School Athletic Associa tion listed Doanc as the sixth-win ningest boys' coach in the state. In mid-April a pair of North Brunswick football standouts?Tigc Munn and Anthony Mosley?both signed grid grant-in-aids with Win gate College. The Scorpion pair be came the second and third Bruns wick County players to ink with the NAIA Division I Bulldogs. Jill Snyder of Calabash won a gold medal in the U.S. Gymnastic Federation's South Carolina meet at Charleston, S.C., in the 12-and-over age division. The 13-year-old also won four medals in compulsory events enroutc to the gold. May The sccond annual Brunswick County Special Olympics drew a field of 100 local handicapped resi dents at South Brunswick High School. Also in early May, former South Brunswick baseball standout Scott Gales was tearing up the diamond at Southeastern Community College. Gales, a freshman, led Region X of the Independent Junior College Conference in batting with a .390 average through games played of April 15. It marked the third straight week the former Cougar had led the region in hitting. He was also named Region X player of the week on three different occasions. In June, Gales ended the season leading SCC in hitting (.388), home runs (6) and runs batted in (27). Joining Gales on the SCC team was former West Brunswick stand out Dino Daniels. Daniels was one of the top Ram pitchers while also playing in the outfield. West Brunswick's Raymond Howard and North Brunswick's Mary-Anna Hale and Jamie Medlin were named scholar athletes of the year at their respective schools' year end athletic banquets in late May. The West Brunswick golf team, despite an improved score from that of 1989, finished eighth in the slate championship tournament in Chapel Hill. The Troians actually finished 23 strokes better than the year be fore when they took fourth place. South Brunswick's Robert Flythe captured the 1-A?2-A state 300 meter intermediate hurdle champi onship at N.C. State University just before the end of the school year. Flythe not only won the event but set a new prep state record with a 38.4 finish. The Cougar senior also finished third in the 110-meter high hurdles. June North Brunswick junior David McDowell was named county base ball player of the year after helping the Scorpions to their best diamond season in live years. The Scorpions finished 13-9 over all, tied with East Bladen for sccond place in the Waccamaw Conference and advanced to the second round of the state playoffs. Second-year Scorp coach Keith Moore was named Brunswick Coun ty baseball coach of the year for his elforts in returning success back to the North diamond program. In news that shocked the entire Waccamaw Conference, Whiteville head football coach and athletic di rector Bill Heweti resigned to take the same position at South Bruns wick. Hewett replaced six-year veteran Cougar grid coach Glenn Sasser. North Brunswick Softball coach Jim Steed received Waccamaw Conference coach of the year hon ors after his Lady Scorpion team captured the league championship and finished 15-2 overall. In early July, Steed followed the lead of Hewett by resigning as head football coach at North to take the same position at nearby Hallsboro. Scorpion athletic director and football assistant Gary Baldwin was immediately named as Steed's suc cessor by North principal James Mc Adams. Brunswick County male and fe male athlete of the year as well as coach of the year honors were an nounced in late June. West Brunswick's Raymond Howard and South Brunswick's Fl; the shared the male award while rut PHOTOS TOP COUNTY CAGERS?South Brunswick's Tessa Ue and West lirunswick's Ricky Daniels were named county basketball players of the year in March following the 1989-90 season. The pair of juniors averaged in double-figure scoring and rebounding. Daniels set a new West Brunswick single-game scoring record with 44 points against Fairmont in February. FOOTBALL HONORS?West Brunswick's co-player of the year Aldwin lMrtce (left) and South Brunswick's Bill Hewett, coach of the year, congratulate each other following the prep football sea son in November. Ixince, a running back, shared player of the year honors with South Brunswick quarterback Todd Vice. Kristi Lewis, also of West, claimed Waccamaw Conference victory over the female honor. Fairmont. The Cougars also opened with two straight wins and then lost two straight. South got its first league win in a 42-0 blanking of North Brunswick. The 42-0 thrashing the Scorpions received from South was an indica tion of things to come at North Brunswick. The Scorps went on to complete a winlcss 0-10 campaign while scoring only 31 points during the Do are was named county coach season. North Brunswick suffered of the year after leading the South six shutouts as its grid losing streak Brunswick boys' basketball team to reached 16 games by the end of the a school-record, 20-9 finish. season dating back to 1989. HOWARD July In a slow month for sports, West Brunswick basketball standouts Ricky Daniels and Lonnie Mitchell both participated in the prestigious Prep Stars Camp at UNC-Charlotte. The annual summer camp invites only the top high schooi basketball talent in the southeastern U.S. to participate. Daniels was listed among the top three players at the camp. August Former South Brunswick multi sports standout Quentin McCrackcn began his third year as a football starter at Duke University. Mc Cracken started at the right corner back position as a freshman while also handling the kickoff return du ties. West Brunswick kicked off the new prep football season with a school-record, fourth consecutive season-opening win. The Trojans topped North Myrtle Beach, S.C., 26-7. Later in the week the Trojans pre sented forme*" assistant coach Fred Bradley with the game ball. Bradley, the former Trojan defen sive coordinator, began treatment for cancer earlier in the year and at tended a number of West grid games during the season. September West and South Brunswick had almost identical results in the first full month of the prep football sea son. The Trojans won their first two then dropped a pair before snapping the losing streak with their first October Wesi Brunswick celebrated home coming in mid-October with an 18-6 football win over West Columbus. The Oyster Festival Run at Hold en Beach hosted The Athletics Con gress North Carolina 5-Kilometer stale championship for the first ume as pan of the annual event. North Brunswick track suindout Craig Holdcn captured the state 5-K title with a 17:38 finish. The football season began to take a turn for the worse at West Brunswick after the Trojans put to gether a four-game winning streak near mid-season. Following their 2-2 start. West defeated Fairmont, South Robeson, West Columbus and North Bruns wick, to gain a share of first place in the Waccamaw Conference with East Bladen, Whiteville and South Robeson. However, the Trojans (6-4) clos ed the season with consecutive loss es to East Bladen and South Bruns wick to end hopes of gaining a spot in state playoffs for a school-record third straight year. November South Brunswick, wiih its 21-14 win over West Brunswick in the team's regular-season finale, ad vanced to the stale football playoffs for only the second time in schcxtl history in early November. The Cougars (6-5) were bounced from the opening round by defending 2-A champion Clayton, 20-7. The West Brunswick junior high grid team completed us second straight undefeated season and capped an unscored-upon year with a 44-0 blanking of West Columbus. In early December the learn (drawing players from both Shallot le Middle and Waccamaw Schools) were honored at a banquet. Timmy Daniels was named the team's most valuable player. Later tn the month. West Bruns wick's Aldwin Lance and South Brunswick's Ttxld Vice were named county players of the year to high light the annual All-Brunswick County football tcum. South s Bill Hewett was named coach of the year after leading the Cougars into the state playoffs in his first year on the job. In addition to the opening of the prep basketball season, West Bruns wick fielded a wrestling team for the first time in school history. Under the direction of new coach Joe Noble, the Trojan grapplcrs joined both North and South Bruns wick as all three county schools now complete in the sport. December As the basketball season began to prepare for a Christmas holiday break, both West and South Bruns wick boys' teams along with the West Brunswick girls' squad were off to their best start in many, many years. The Trojan boys (8-0) ran off eight straight wins while also recor ding the school's 300th male cage victory in game number 7 against Williams Township last week. Not since the 1980-81 season when the Trojans roared out to an 11-0 start has West Brunswick been so successful so early on the hard court. South Brunswick sports a 5-1 record after opening with four straight wins while the West Bruns wick girls (7-1) have lost only once in eight games. Former South Brunswick football star Nick DiFoggio was honored at the Wingatc College gridiron ban quet. DiFoggio, a senior, was named the Bulldog's top defensive back after ended his career as the school's ca reer pass interception leader with 12. In addition, DiFoggio was one of four Wingatc players named as hon Fly the Shares Athlete of Year Honors?South Brunswick's Robert Fly the, along with West Brunswick's Raymond Howard were co-county male athletes of the year in 1990. Flythe was a standout on the Cougar basketball team while also capturing the I-A?2-A state 300-meter hurdles cham pionship in state-record time. orary captain. Earlier this month he received All-South Atlantic Confer ence. second-team honors. STATEMENT SAVINGS 7.00% 7.25% ANNUAL YIELD RATE ?$100.00 Minimum Balance ?Unlimited Withdrawals ?Interest Posted Quarterly ?Interest Compounded Daily ^s. First Ez -E Investors J=) Business Hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 AM-5 PM LENDER Zf SAVINGS BANK Fri. 9 AM-6 PVI Drive-In Opens Coastal Plaza (1at? ^0AM Shallotte. NC 28459 rB0M3^?<iEraN 754-5400 UfesaverA/W 40.000MIu Limited Treadlife Warranty. Tires Serving Brunswick County Since 194 1 * Main St.. Shallotte. 754-6333
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