King, Clark And McBride
Take Top Honors In
North Brunswick Athletic Awards
Three-sports star Rhonda King and base
ball/basketball standout Tommy Clark,
along with senior baseball pitcher Chris
Mc Bride took top honors at the North
Brunswick Scorpion sports awards ceremo
ny last Monday at the Leland Middle
School cafeteria.
King, who participated in volleyball, bas
ketball and softball, and Clark were co-rc
cipicnus of the school's top sports
honor ? the United Carolina Bank Scholar
Athlete Award.
McBride, who earlier this spring signed a
baseball grant with UNC-Asheville, re
ceived the North Brunswick Booster Club
Scholarship award.
Greg Waddell received the most valuable
player award in football from head coach
Gary Baldwin. Other football awards recipi
ents included Jimmy Flamcr (most im
proved), Corey Black (coaches award),
Shcrod James (Scorpion Award), Jay Walker
(most outstanding offense), Ryan
Washington (most outstanding defense), and
Duane Gibbs (most outstanding lineman)
Reddrick Johnson and Blake Hobbs
shared the most valuable player award in ju
nior varsity football.
Volleyball coach Wanda Dunsmorc pre
sented four awards including the most valu
able player honor to both April Ganey and
Tabbatha King.
Casandra Pierce was named most im
proved while Rhonda King received the
coachcs award. Gwen Carmack look the
best server honors.
Duane Waddell was named boys' basket
ball most valuable player by head coach
Cliff Gibson and Barry Baldwin received
most improved honors.
Clark was awarded again for being the
team's leader in assists and Greg Waddell
took best defense honors.
Coach Gary Bishop presented the most
valuable player award in junior varsity bas
ketball to Demetrius Bell.
Rhonda Moore received most valuable
player honors in girls' basketball from
coach Carlie Luck.
Other girls' cage honors went to Kim
Dowe (most improved), Tosha Robbins
(best offense) and Sharon Martin (best de
fense).
Roddie Jones took the MVP honors in
wrestling from coach Mike Dumas and
Keith Bullock received the coaches award.
Crystal Williams was named the most
valuable varsity cneerleader by coach
Brcnda Bozcman and Tcnesa Waddcll re
ceived the most improved award.
Takila Hill took most valuable honors in
junior varsity cheerleading by coach Tee
Williamson. Jo Caskill was named most im
proved.
Adrian Black was named the most valu
able player in junior varsity baseball by
coach Randy Fennell.
Coach Bob Grimes presented awards in
both boys' and girls' track including most
valuable honors to Flamer and Shannon
Vaught respectively.
The most improved award went to
Frankie Mears (boys') and Valarie Smith
(girls').
George Kelly was named most valuable
player on the Scorpions' first golf team by
coach Randy Roberts. Gary Martin received
most improved honors.
Varsity baseball and softball awards were
not announced due to both teams' participa
tion in the slate playoffs.
Principal James McAdams and athletic
director Gary Baldwin organized the event
while Jim Mcdlin served as master of cere
monies.
This Week
In Brunswick Sports
THURSDAY, MAY 30
?Beaufort Post 99 at Brunswick Shores Post 445, American
Legion Baseball at West Brunswick, 7:30 p.m.
?Brunswick County Men's Church Softball League at
Waccamaw Park
Shallotte First Baptist vs. Camp Methodist, 7 p.m.
Shallotte First Baptis vs. New Britian Baptist, 8 p.m.
Ocean View Baptist vs. Supply/Mount Olive, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, MAY 31
?Brunswick County Men's Church Softball League at
Waccamaw Park
Camp Methodist vs. Shallotte First Baptist, 7 p.m.
Longwood Baptis vs. Calvary Baptist, 8 p.m.
Ocean View Baptist vs. Letties Grove Pentecostal, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1
?Brunswick Baptist Association Co-Ed Softball League at
Supply Park
Soldier Bay Baptist vs. Sunset Harbor Baptist, 1:40 p.m.
Faith Baptist vs. Antioch Baptist #1, 3:20 p.m.
Jennies Branch Baptist vs. Antioch Baptist #2, 5 p.m.
?Brunswick Shores Post 445 at Warsaw Post 127, American
Legion Baseball, 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, JUNE 2
?Brunswick County Literacy Council Golf Tournament at
Carolina Shores Golf Club, Calabash
MONDAY, JUNE 3
?Brunswick Shores Post 445 at Bladenboro Post 268,
American Legion Baseball, 7:30 p.m.
?Brunswick County Men's Church Softball League at
Waccamaw Park
Ocean View Baptist vs. Longwood Baptist, 7 p.m.
New Britian Baptist vs. Zion Baptist, 8 p.m.
Supply/Mount Olive Baptist vs. Friendship, 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5,
?Brunswick County Post 68 at Brunswick Shores Post 445,
American Legion Baseball at South Brunswick, 7:30 p.m.
This week's listings include events reported to the Beacon. To list your
sporting contest call or write the Beacon with schedules and details.
West Columbus Ousts Lady
Scorps From Softball Playoffs
Waccamaw 2-A Conference
champion West Columbus eliminat
ed North Brunswick from the state
softball playoffs last Thursday with
an 8-6 win over the Lady Scorpions
in second-round action.
League runncrup North Bruns
wick had opened postseason play
last Wednesday with a 12-10, eight
inning edging of host Pamlico
County.
Tonya Edge went 3-for-4 at the
plate with a triple and solo home
run to lead North Brunswick against
Pamlico, while Beth Edwards,
Tabby King and Kim Ganey all had
two hits each for the Lady Scorps.
Rhonda King hurled the win for
North Brunswick while Emily
Pyland took the loss.
Nikki Small led the Lady
Hurricanes at the plate going 3-for
4 with a two-run triple and Daron
Voliva also had two hits.
Tabby King's run-scoring single
and a Pamlico error led to North
Brunswick's winning runs in the
eighth inning.
The Lady Scorpions took a 7-4
lead through four innings but
Pamlico rallied for three runs each
in the fifth and sixth frames.
King and Gancy both had two hits
each to lead North Brunswick in the
loss to West Columbus while Edge
added a sixth-inning home run.
Patricia Hasty led West Co
lumbus with a two-run double to
spark a four-run third inning. Win
ning pitcher Melissa Hardin also
had two hits for the Lady Vikings.
West Columbus opened postsea
son play with a 9-3 win over Bunn,
the third-place team from the
Capital Area Conference.
In other first-round games last
week. South Brunswick, the third
place finishers in the WC, fell to
Louisburg 10-7. The loss ended the
Lady Cougars' season at 10-7.
Louisburg finished the regular sea
son second in the CAC.
Also, Whiteville dropped its
playoff opener to South Granville
19-2. The powerful Lady Viking
team, champions of the Capital
Area Conference, has captured three
state 2-A Softball titles in the last
four years.
First-Round Results
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Clayton, Aycock
BY JOHNNY CRAIG
West Brunswick advanced to the
final eight of the state 2-A baseball
playoffs for only the second time in
school history last week with a pair
of post-season wins over Clayton
and C.B. Aycock.
The Trojans opened the playoffs
last Wednesday with a 3-1, eight-in
ning road edging of Capital Area
Conference champion Clayton and
followed up with a 5-4 home win
Friday over Eastern Plains
Conference runncrup C.B. Aycock.
West Brunswick, now 13-9-1,
was to have faced unbeaten
Whitevillc, the Waccamaw
Conference champion, on Tuesday
in an eastern semifinal contest.
The Trojans, fourth-place finish
ers in the WC, had lost both regular
season meetings to the Wolfpack
earlier this season, 3-2 in 10 innings
on April 25 and 6- 1 on March 22.
C.B. Aycock
West Brunswick jumped out to a
4-0 lead against the Golden Falcons
and then held on for a 5-4 win in the
second-round playoff contest that
almost wasn't.
The light rain that soaked the
Trojan field last Friday forced the
game's starting time back over an
hour before the decision was finally
made to play.
West Brunswick wasted no time
in taking control of the contcst scor
ing single runs in the first two in
nings and then pushing across two
more in the fourth.
Aycock, runnersup in the Eastern
Plains Conference, rallied for three
runs in the fifth inning and tied the
game 4-4 with a solo run in the top
of the sixth.
However, the Trojans struck once
more in the bottom of the frame for
the winning run that pushed the
West Brunswick record to 13-9-1
for the season.
Blake Bradley's two-out walk, an
Aycock error on relief pitcher Jeff
Booth and Aldwin Lance's double
to left provided the winning margin.
A final Aycock rally in the sev
enth foiled after cleanup hitter
Ashley Alford led off with a walk
before Brian Alderson, the third
Trojan pitcher, came in to get the fi
nal three outs and end the game.
"Everybody really pulled togeth
er. We had some mistakes early and
didn't want to have to use as many
pitchers as we did," said West
Brunswick coach Mike Alderson.
"Lee Miller was on the nose tonight
with two big hits and Aaron Butler
also had a good hit for us."
"Blake Bradley's squeeze bunt
that scored Miller for the Trojans*
second run was also a big play. We
were just able to do similar kinds of
things that produced runs," added
Alderson, who shaved off his mus
tache following the win on a bet
with the team prior to the game.
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"I've had it (the mustache) since
being in service after high school
but advancing in the state playoffs
certainly makes shaving it off worth
while," laughed Alderson. "We all
made a bet before the game that 1
would shave it off if we won
tonight."
The Trojans managed just a sin
gle run in the first inning after an
unusual beginning to West
Brunswick's turn at bat.
Lance led off the game with a
single to left but was picked off at
first base by Aycock starling pitcher
David Pamish.
Brian Alderson then walked and,
like Lance, was thrown out at first
by Parnish, only the third left-hand
ed pitcher the Trojans have faced all
season.
"Pamish didn't have a lot of ve
locity but it was tough to adjust to
his style after having faced a hard
throwing, right-hander against
Clayton in the playoff opener," said
Mike Alderson.
With two outs in the inning,
Gregg Mott walked, went to second
on a wild pitch and scored on Bryan
Fleming's double to right field.
Miller led off the sccond inning
with the first of two straight hits to
left, went to sccond on Butler's sac
rifice and later scored on Bradley's
squeeze.
Miller's second hit, along with
two Aycock errors and a walk to
Lance keyed a two-run Trojan
fourth inning. Miller and Butler
both scored to give West
Brunswick's its 4-0 advantage.
Aycock managed only a run-scor
ing single by Brad Matthews in the
fifth inning but used four walks,
three wild pilches and a Trojan error
to pull within 4-3.
Falcon catcher Charles Person
scored to tie the game in the sixth
after a leadoff walk, back-to-back
singles by Booth and Stephen
Aycock loaded the bases with no
outs. Wayne Moore's fly out to cen
ter field and two straight strike outs
by freshman reliever Scott Gore
ended the big Aycock scoring op
portunity.
The Trojans also turned in two
fine defensive plays that spoiled a
pair of Aycock scoring opportuni
ties.
West first baseman Gregg Mott
made an unassisted double play in
the fourth inning on Pamish's line
drive to the bag.
Fleming also tagged out Alford at
the plate as the Falcon center fielder
came charging home on Person's
missed suicide squeeze in the sec
ond inning.
Adam Johnson started the game
on the mound for the Trojans throw
ing four innings, giving up only two
hits while striking out five and
walking seven.
Gore came in to hurl two innings
and yielded three hits, two runs,
struck out two and walked three.
Lance went a perfect 2-for-2 for
the Trojans while also walking
twice. Fleming also had two hits in
cluding a double for West
Brunswick.
Aycock went 2-for-2 and drew a
walk to lead the Falcons who ended
their season at 11-9-1.
The last time a Trojan baseball
team advanced past the second
round of the state playoffs came in
1974 when West Brunswick ad
vanced to the eastern semifinals be
fore losing to Oxford-Webb.
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West Brunswick's playoff venture
began last Wednesday with the
Trojans' 3-1 edging of Clayton.
Fleming provided the winning
runs with a two-out, two-run double
in the eighth inning.
West Brunswick trailed 1-0 in the
seventh frame when Miller belted
an RBI-triple to send the game into
extra innings.
Alderson (6-3) was the winning
pitcher giving up four hits and strik
ing out five.
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All Carolina fans are invited to come hear former Carolina basketball
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