November 8, 2001
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~ Great games,
great memories,
great champions
Reynolds Coliseum was one
of the four corners of the uni-
verse years ago, or at least in
the college basketball universe.
During the glory days of Big
Four Basketball Reynolds:
Coliseum was a gathering place
for some
great mens’
college bas-
ketball.
In the ear-
ly years of
the building,
a man from
Indiana
named
Everette SH Be
Case daz- 4
zled crowds Steff Writer
with his Wolfpack Basketball
teams. A now defunct tourna-
ment named the Dixie Classic
also took root there.
Reynolds was a stop on
Tobacco Road, which consisted
of four schools in the triangle -
area - Duke, NC State, UNC-
Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest.
But over the years since the
glory days of Case’s Wolfpack
teams, things were rougher at
NC State.
The basketball team went
through two scandals under
Norm Sloan in the 1970s and
the late Jim Valvano in the late
1980s.
But while most of the team's
‘latest trouble has revolved
around getting back to the
NCAA tournament, it has left
its house on campus for the
new Entertainment and Sports
Arena, near the fairgrounds and
Carter-Finley Stadium.
But although there were no
basketball o college rivalries in
Reynolds on Saturday, the high
school volleyball teams proved
they were strong as well.
Saturday's state champi-
onship volleyball games, which
were played consecutively,
a
Ben Ledbetter
were like a trip down memory
lane, back when Reynolds
would fill to capacity to watch
Case's Wolfpack teams face
“Bones” McKinney's Demon
Deacon squad from elsewhere
in Wake County, Al McGuire's
teams from Chapel Hill, and
teams from Duke.
Reynolds Coliseum was the
home to a different brand of
basketball, a brand that saw no
players leave early for the draft
of the NBA, a brand that was
made of players who were nev-
er presented expensive gifts
from shady athletics boosters -
often the student athletes were
just happy to be there.
Saturday’s volleyball matches
had something in common with
the glory days of college basket-
ball in North Carolina.
No scouts hovered around
the star players at the end of the
game promising fame and for-
tune if they only signed the dot-
ted line. The only people I saw
surrounding players from
Kings Mountain were proud
friends and parents who made
the trip to Raleigh and congrat-
ulated an elated volleyball team
after winning.
Instead of.a new car and
huge discounts on designer
clothes as possible gifts - dinner
at a Raleigh restaurant was the
order of the night.
Although it may not seem
like it now, a new car will be-
come old, designer clothes on
the racks today will be on the
sale rack tomorrow, boosters
will leave a promising athlete at
the first sign of trouble, but the
memories of a state chamipi-
onship never leaves.
It becomes documented with
the events of the day in the
newspaper, part of the video
with the evening news, and the
topic of sportswriters every
year when playoff time comes.
VOLLEYBALL
from page 1B
shown it all year.” 1
East Chapel Hill Coach
Michelle Wood said her team,
which has made four straight
trips to the state championship,
had a chance to come back in
the second game when Allison
Harn blocked Cole.
“Our blocking hadn’t been
that great previous to that,”
Wood said. “When she blocked
her single I thought that kind of
sparked us and we went on a
roll.”
While Kings Mountain made
numerous blacks on East
Chapel Hill, Wood said her
team had trouble making hits
count.
“I think we got some hits, we
just couldn't put our hits away,”
Wood said.
Although it has yet to win a
title, Wood said her team’s con-
secutive trips to the title match
will'lead to a ‘win’ later on.
“We'lost six seniors last year,
‘and four starters and we came
back again,” Wood said. “I
think we sort of set a tradition
that we play hard all the time.”
NOTES: All four matches
Saturday featured a school from
the Durham area...The only
match out of the four played
Saturday that was not a sweep,
Durham School of the Arts
upset four-time defending
champion Hendersonville...The
Mountaineers made their 15th
appearance in the state playoffs
with an overall post-season
record of 19-13 before
Saturday... All three
Mountaineer losses were to
Newton Fred T. Foard this sea-
son, but Kings Mountain defeat-
ed Foard in the state quarterfi-
nals...Prior to Saturday's game,
Brinkley averaged 8.5 assists
per game and Cole had a 57.5
kill percentage...East Chapel
Hill's playoff record before
Saturday's game was 16-4.
The Kings Mountain Herald
Kings Mountain's Ashely Leigh knocks the ball over the net as
East Chapel Hill's Laurel Dreher attempts to block it.
bok
Kristin Hardin watches the ball after spiking it as a couple of
East Chapel Hill players prepare to make a block.
Clockwise, from left, Kristin Hardin, Carrie Brinkley, and
Courtney Osteen watch for the ball from the East Chapel side
which came from an earlier Mountaineer hit Saturday during the
state championship volleyball game.
Photos by Ben Ledbetter
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Lindsay Hamrick, gets ready to put the ball over the net amid
two East Chapel Hill blockers Saturday during the state volley-
yr
Carrie Brinkley, named MVP for the state championship game,
sets the ball as Pam Parker and other Mountaineers look on.
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