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Scorps Give Athletic Awards North Brunswick High School rcccntlv presented athletic awards for the l*>92-93 school year as follows: Football: George Beasley. coaches award. Soccer: David Mull ins. most valuable player; Melanie Marshall, coaches. Volleyball: April Ganey, MVP; Kim Gancy, coaches: Jtxli Heath, most improved player. Hoys' basketball: Dwain Waddcll, MVP; Marlon Cobb, coaches. (i iris" basketball: Tosha Robbins, MVP: Latonia Grady, coaches. .1% basketball: Torrance Shaw and Angelo McKcn/.ie, co-MVP. \\ rest ling: Keith Bullock, MVP; Roddie Jones, coitchcs. Cheerleading: Monica Riggins, MVP; I Glioma Richburg, coaches. ,|V cheerleading: Nymckia Munn, MVP: Stephanie Cralt. coachcs. baseball: Jared McGee, MVP; Demetrius Bell, coaches. ,J\ baseball: Tim Campbell, MVP. Softball: Tonya Edge, MVP; April Gancy, coaches. Golf: Scoitic Roberts, MVP; J.D. Gidley, coaches. Crosscountry: Frankie Meares, MVP. Indoor track: Keith Stroman, MVP Boys' track: Maduka Ballard. MVP; Chad Higgs, coaches. Girls' track: Valerie Smith, MVP; Lakcsia Pretty, coaches. SPORTING SCENE The Good , Bad And Ugly Of Waccamaw Realignment Realignment of the Waccamaw 2-A Conference is like a famous Clint Eastwood Hick. It's gixxl. bad and ugly for Brunswick County Schools. The N.C. High School Athletic Association plans to change the Waccamaw Conference and other leagues in the suite prior to the 1993 94 school year. Instead of a 2-A league, the pow erful Waccamaw will become a com bination 2-A/3-A conference under the current proposal. West Brunswick, South Bruns wick, North Brunswick, Whilcvillc and West Columbus will stay on board. The Waccamaw Conference will say goodbye to East Bladen, Fairmont another league. In their place will be South Columbus and East Columbus, a coupic of new 2-A high schools created by consolidation in Columbus County. Pender, a 3-A high school, will also join the league. West Brunswick and South Brunsw ick will be the other 3-A schools. Things could change between now and the approval deadline in December, but here's the way 1 see it: THE GOOD: The realignment proposal is generally a good one for West Brunswick and South Brunswick high schools. The Trojans and Cougars, moving up in classification due to growth in their districts, will continue a rivalry that has been a healthy one over the years. West Brunswick's Trojans also get to keep in touch with their good friends from Whitevillc, another big rival for two decades. At the same lime, the local high schools won't have to do any more traveling than they have in the past. The Trojans and Cougars could have been forced to play in the nearest 3-A league 100-plus miles up the coast. West and South also could have been tossed into a 3-A/4-A league with the Wilmington schools, which would have been a nightmare. With just three 3-A teams in the new conference, only one of them will probably be eligible for the state playoffs in each sport. As if the rivalry needed a boost, that will put an even greater premium on winning the annual West-South games. THE BAD ANI> THE UGLY: While West and South look like they'll emerge from realignment smelling rosy, the same thing can't be said for North Brunswick. The worst part of the NCHSAA's plan is dumping North in a confer ence with schools that cat Scorpions for breakfast. North Brunswick, with only 434 students, is the filth-smallest 2-A school in North Carolina. As members of the proposed 2-A/3-A conference. North will be taking on schools that have at least 70 more kids apiece. Pender, the largest school in the proposed combination conference, has 257 more students than North Brunswick. Numbers aren't everything in high school athletics. The team with the biggest desire can w in a lot of games. But asking North Brunswick to continue competing against the likes of West Brunswick, South Brunswick and Pender is insane. North Brunswick Athletic Director Gary Baldwin asked the NCHSAA to place the Scorps in a 1-A conference. There's one just up the road from Lciand. School officials, who have appealed the 2-A/3-A proposal, say North is a legitimate 1-A school most of the year anyway, based on enrollment. It's obvious the NCHSAA realignment committee doesn't know what's best for North Brunswick. They should at least give the Scorps a fighting chance. and South Robeson, which will join Coach Search Continues At West Brunswick High West Brunswick High School moved closer to wrapping up its search for a new head football coach after completing a series of inter views Monday. Brunswick County Schools Athletic Director Nelson Best and West Brunswick Principal Ed Le mon have interviewed nine candi dates for the post. Marshall Seay vacated the head coaching spot last month after six winning seasons to take an athletic director and head coach position in Polk County. West Brunswick did not have a recommendation to present to the Brunswick County Board of Education at its meeting Monday night. Best said Lemon didn't have time alter interviews were completed Monday afternoon to check refer ences and come up with a name for the board. "There's a lot involved and it looks like it's going to take more time than we had hoped it would," Best said T uesday. School officials want a coach by the end of June. One could be select ed as soon as today (Thursday) when the school board meets at 6:30 p.m. at the central office near South port. Best said there's been a lot of people interested in the position. The top 30 applications were nar rowed down to nine for interview purposes. "There has been more interest in this job than any other since I've been in the central office the last 1 3 years," he said. "I've never seen anything like it." All nine of the candidates inter viewed arc currently under contract with other schools. Best said, and have several years experience as head coaches. Jack Holley, a perennial winner currently under contract with Laney High School in Wilmington, was one of the applicants interviewed. Best said. East Bladen Coach Lcnnon Fisher also interviewed for the job but later withdrew his name from considera tion and decided to stay in Elizabeth town. Best said West Brunswick's three assistant coaches, Mike Aldcrson, David Arrowood and Joe Noble, did not apply for the position. CONRAD'S ALL-SPORTS CARD SHOP Baseball-Football-Basketball RACING BUY-TRADE-SELL Located next to Shallotte Glass & Mirror Co. Hwy 17 & Red Bug Road Mon -Fri. 12-6, Sat. 10-3 754-8227 ? KS ? Twin Towers Visit Camp STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG lUTIEl 1 Sammy and Simeon Haley, two 7 -foolers from Myrtle Heach High School, visited basketball camp Monday at Shallotte Middle School. Camp co-director Kay Wilson (with ball) demonstrates a low post move. Also pictured (from left) are campers Kelly Mintz, Chris Orrock, Kenata I tonkins. Gray Cheek, Jenny Trest and Brandon Orrock. Football and cheerleading camp will be held next week, and soccer is of fered the following week. North's Ballard Bound For Major Track Meets 15 V DOUG RUTTKR North Brunswick's Nladuka Bal lard will compclc in two of the na tion's most prestigious high school track and field meets over the next two weeks. The recent grad uate travels to Sac ramento, Calif., this week, and Elmhurst, 111., next week to show ofl his high jumping talents. Ballard will BALLARD compclc in the Great Western Prep Track & Field Invitational June 13 and the Kcebler International Prep Track & Field Invitational June 20. Earlier this year, Ballard set a reg ular-season state high school record in the high jump when he cleared 7 feet, 2 inches, during a conference meet at North Brunswick. In only his second year on the Scorpion track team, Ballard went on to win the Brunswick County, Waccamaw Conference and Mideast Regional high jump tides. He fin ished second at the state champi onships May 23. North Brunswick Track Coach Bob Grimes, who will accompany Ballard on his two trips, said he planned to resume practices with the high jumper following last week's graduation. After setting the state record in early April, Grimes said Ballard was inconsistent the rest of the high school season, jumping anywhere between 6 feet, 4 inches, to 6 feet, 10 inches. Grimes said high expectations af ter the record jump caused Ballard to try too hard during conference meets and the stale championship meet. "He had a lot of attention and lost focus for a while," the coach said. Ocean View Wins Two Games Ocean Vi :w Baptist has won a pair of games in the past week to improve to 10-3 in the Brunswick County Men's Church Softball Lea gue. Ocean View topped New Britton 13-7 Monday night after pounding Letties Grove 28-9 last Friday. In other games Monday, Jennies Branch blasted Soldier Bay 27-7 and Supply Baptist got past Seaside Methcxlist 23-15. Last Friday, Calvary Baptist im proved to 8-2 with an 18-6 victor)' over Friendship Baptist. Zion Bap tist was a 1 2-7 winner over Camp Methodist. The three games that were rained out last Thursday will be resched uled for a later date. Church Men's Softball League Standings As Of June 2 NORTH DIVISION Team Wins Losses Calvary Baptist 8 2 Mount Olive 8 3 Shallottc First 7 4 Supply Baptist 6 6 Camp Methodist 5 7 Lcttics Grove 2 8 Seaside Methodist 1 13 SOUTH DIVISION Team Wins Losses Friendship 10 2 Jennies Branch 8 2 Ocean View 10 3 Emanual Outreach 6 5 Zion Baptist 6 7 New Britton 2 9 Soldier Bay 1 9 Scorps Plan Basketball Camp NIr.nl. D,.. .:..U 1 1 ? A r> ? l ? .1 ? ii ? ? ? *? ? ? ? North Brunswick Head Basketball Coach Cliff Gibson will hold his summer basketball camp June 15-17 on the Leland campus. The camp is for boys and girls ages 9 to 18. Participants will re ceive instruction three hours each day, from 9 a.m. until noon. Camp costs S20 per person. Each participant will receive a T-shirt. Refreshments, trophies and door prizes also will be provided. "I bring a lot of experience to my camp," Gibson said. "The kids will get good instruction in the funda mentals." The 1 1th annual camp is the old est high school basketball camp in Brunswick County and one of the oldest in the state, Gibson said. The North Brunswick coach plans to take 1 1 varsity basketball team members to camp at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington June 21-25. Hichard C. Glenn PO Box 2865 Shallotte, NC 28459 (919)754-6771 SECURITIES AMERICA, INC. 1 8 Resort Plaza Shallotte Member NASD/SIPC "Everybody was giving him sugges tions and ideas, and he was jusl try ing to do too many things. The hard er he tried the worse it got for him." The coach said Ballard has great natural ability and jumped very well in practice throughout the spring. It was his lack of experience that hurt him in some of the bigger track meets. "It's still there," Grimes said last week. "It's jusl a matter of pulling it back together again. We're just go ing to focus more on his form." Grimes hopes for good perfor mances out of Ballard in the upcom ing meets bccausc he won't have any pressure on him. "If he just re laxes and has fun ihe resi will lake care of itself," he said. The North Brunswick coach said St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, which has a strong track program, is interested in giving Ballard a schol arship. Grimes said other schools haven't really talked to Ballard because he hadn't taken the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Ballard took the test for the first time Saturday. In both of the upcoming meets, Grimes said Ballard will be compet ing against some of the top high school track and field stars in the country. Over the past 21 years, many fa mous athletes have made their final prep appearances at the Kccblcr invitational, including Carl Lewis and Renaldo Nchcmiah. More than 30 participants in that high school meet have gone on to win Olympic medals. USA Network will televise the meet Saturday, July 4, starting at 1 1 a.m. Stop by and see Harvey Gaskins at Jones Ford in Shallotte. We have a large selection of new and used cars and trucks ready for immediate delivery. Jones Ford Hwy. 17, North Shallotte 754-4341 MPAVTMMT ITOM . IV with great reductions on gifts for Dad ' A A All Sperry-Topsider and L.A. Gear Shoes I All Men's Knit Shirts (including J.J. 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