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High Schoolers Getting Kick Out ?r iHHKi K UTTER Brunswick County high school student athletes arc getting their kicks and using their heads like never before. The introduction of soccer into die high school sports scene this fall has met with great success, accord ing to coaches and school officials. "There seems to be a lot of ex citement among the students and parents," said Brunswick County Schools Athletic Director Nelson Best. "I'm seeing a lot of positive reactions in the stands." Although it started two years ago in the middle schools, this is the first season for soccer in the high schools. South hosted North in the county's first high school soccer game Sept. 19. For the inaugural season, each county high school scheduled four games against each of the other two schools. Since the high schools don't have soccer fields, the teams have been playing all of their games off cam pus. West plays its home games at Shallottc Middle School, South plays at Smithficld Park and North plays at Northwest Park. Best said each of the high schools is fortunate to have good, quality coaching, including North Brunswick's Keith Moore, who also coaches baseball. Kevin Jones, who played soccer for 17 years and has five years ex perience coaching in recreation leagues, is leading the West Brunswick Trojans. Jones said the West players have about four years experience on av erage. Some students who moved to the Shallottc area from other places have played eight or 10 years. "For a first-year program it's go ing real well," he said. "I've seen incredible improvement in our team. 1 think it's going very well." Jones said the 22-man roster in cludes a lot of ninth- and 10th gradcrs, meaning West Brunswick should only improve in the years to come. Steve Rice, a science and math teacher at South Brunswick, is coaching a Cougar team that in cludes eight freshman who played soccer in middle school. "The kids arc real excited about it and they're doing really well," Rice said. "They're improving all the time." Rice, who couched high school socccr for four years in Knoxvillc, Tenn., said he's noticed steady im provement in all three teams during the season. "Everybody's on a par here, and the games arc extremely competi tive. You could loss a coin to pre dict who will win each game." The Cougar coach said the news seems to be spreading about the new soccer program, because he's seeing more and more fans at each game. Best said socccr was introduced in the middle schools two years ago because those students needed a spring sport, and the county already had a strong youth baseball pro gram. "1 expected that interest to carry over into the high schools and that's just what has happened," he said of middle school socccr. Best and a committee of parents, principals and school officials de cided to expand socccr into the high schools, and the school board gave cach school S2,(XX) to get started. The socccr program allows stu dents who aren't interested in play ing football a chance to be part of a competitive high school team. Best said. A lot of parents and fans arc learning about socccr at the games. "It's a real demanding sport physi cally and requires a lot of agility," Best said. With interest in socccr "spiral ing" across the nation. Best said lo cal students deserve the same op portunity as kids in other pans of the country. The three local high schools arc the only ones in the Waccamaw Conference with socccr teams, and the other member schools aren't in terested in starting a program now. Best said that could create scheduling problems over the next few years, bceausc Topsail, Dixon and Clinton arc the closest 1-A and 2-A schools with socccr programs. Wilmington's public schools have socccr teams, but they arc probably too competitive for the local schools at this point. South Brunswick's Rice thinks it will take a few years lor the Brunswick County program to "catch up" with the New Hanover County schools. But he and others arc optimistic about the future. "We don't need to jump in and play those 4-A schools yet," Best added. "Maybe in three years we'll be ready." J A MIE BKUNhR of South Brunswick High School boots a penal ty kick against West Brunswick. Trojans Split With North And South In Soccer Wesi Brunswick divided a pair of Waccamaw 2-A Confcrcncc soccer matches with Soulh and North Brunswick last week. The Trojans got two goals each from Matt Shreve and Chris Payne to edge South Brunswick 4-1 before dropping a 1-0 loss to North Brunswick. Trojan goalie Jerome Marlow made two key saves on South Brunswick penalty shots. Casey McBride scored the only goal for the Scorpions and goalie Steve Brigman recorded 16 saves to lead North Brunswick. Both West and North Brunswick have identical 3-3 records while South Brunswick is 2-4. / 1 MYRTLE BEACH GUN SHOW ?GUNS 'KNIVES ?RELATED ITEMS SAT., OCT. 26 AND SUN. OCT. 27 MYRTLE BEACH CONVENTION CENTER 9-5 SAT. & 10-5 SUN. Of Soccer Program Mill ftr ? ? ? 11 WEST BRUNSWICK SOCCER COACH Kevin Jones (center) rounds up the troops for a halftime pep talk during a recent match against South Brunswick. Cheerleaders Win At Fair Cheer- Off The varsity chcerlcading icams at South and West Brunswick high schools finished first and second respectively in the New Hanover County Fair Cheer-Off Oct. 14. The local squads were among four varsity chccrleading Icams that competed in a five-minute cheer/ dance routine, said West Brunswick Chccrleading Coach Kathy Bryant. Teams were judged on spirit, cheer movement and crowd appeal. Mrs. Bryant said the winning teams received trophies and a cash award. Whiteville Romps Past Scorpions 49-0 Tailback Dennis Smith anil full back Dennis Gillispic scorcd three touchdowns each to lead Whiteville past host North Brunswick 49-0 last Friday in Waccamaw 2-A Confer ence football play. Smith also ran for 160 yards on 16 carries and Gillispic added another 124 yards on 13 carries to lead the Wolfpack offense which ground out 354 total yards. The win for Whiteville was its 15th consecutive decision over North Brunswick which has never defeated the Wolfpack. The loss was North Brunswick's sixth straight and the Scorpions' third shutout in their last four games. Whiteville (3-1, 5-2) continues league play Friday hosting West Columbus while North Brunswick (0-4, 1-6) visits West Brunswick. Both games begin at 7:30 p.m. South Brunswick Tops Mustangs For Third Straight Win South Brunswick extended its longest winning streak of the prep football season to three games with last Friday's 22-14 win over South Robeson in Waccamaw 2-A Conference play. The visiting Cougars took an ear ly 14-0 lead on a pair of touchdown passes by quarterback Todd Vice. South Brunswick (3-1, 4-3) con tinues league play Friday hosting Fairmont while South Robeson (1 3, 1-6) entertains East Bladen. Both games begin at 7:30 p.m. VOTE WALLY AUSLEY T" YOUR MAYOR HOLDEN BEACH The Shallotte Electric Stores Three great stores serving all facets of our growing area from contractors to the general public. "Leaders in progress for the South Brunswick Islands" MILLIKEN'S HOME CENTER Eliminate Smelly Water With Our Chemical Injection Feed Pumps & Accelerator Why Lease When You Can Own Your Own? 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