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Winston-Salem Rams Upend Norfolk State, 87-80, For Title SHAW’S MITCHELL, OTHERS HONORED AT CIAA TOURNEY - Greensboro; Shaw Univer sity’s Ira Mitchell accepts his All-CIAA award and congratulations here from Bobby Vaughan, president of the CIAA Basketball Coaches Association, during the 21st annual CIAA tournament at Greensboro. Mitchell was naim 1 tic. ill-conference -quad by vote of the conference coaches along with nine other out standi, dormers. The All-CIAA squad from left to right, are: Tom Cunningham, Sonr; Ridgiil an !j .■ Monroe, all of Winston-Salem State; A1 Rue, Delaware State; Mitchell, Dick Todd, Elizabeth City State; Ted Manning, North Carolina College; and Richard Stubbins of Elizabeth City State, Traveling CIAA Tourney Circuit BY JOHN HOLLEY The greatest shocker of the 21st Annual CIA A Basketball Tournament was the opening round romping Howard Uni versity hai i third se< A&T College, a team which came into the tourney with the league’s best defensive record. The Bisons, making their first tournament appear ance since the days of John Syphax in 1057-08, soundly trounced the Aggies 81-66,,. The Bisons very nearly did not make the three-day cage extravaganza. To win a spot,, they had to capture three games in the final week of regular season play. Jin. Thompson's charges toppled Morgan State, Maryland State and Virginia State in succes sion to finish sixth in the loop with a 9-5 CIA A slate md a 12-9 overall record. To add another twist of irony to the Bisons’ amazing feat, their coach, Jim Thompson,’ is only with them part-time, having severed his coaching reigns to accept a post with the District of Columbia pub lic schools at tilt' !>•.-ginning of the season. He coaches part-time and on trips which he does not make the club is handled Uy Tillman Seas-., th< school’s enpabb 1 o e ! ’•:: 11 coach... Cal Irvin, the Agios’ coach, places the blame of hist-: . :’s loss on the defense. ' Wo lost because v.c were not ag gressive enough on de’o.e,, Your Scribe saw the game .is one where “all the loose bails (quite often reset - ed to ty. U • ballplayers ‘as garbage’) IV-- longed to Howard.” They simply outhustled and nut ,e --bounded a taller and stronger club... Lois of new faces were evi denced in the Cl A.A Tourney’s officiating ranks. The only familiar face over the last five years was that of James Cat - ter of Washington, T). C. Tin newest personality among o - ranks was that of Lawrence “Stringbean” Harrison, who was a star performer at Win ston-Salem State in the late ‘so’s. He now calls tin- shots in the Vi a shioeton-Baltii;. . area where he is employed by the Baltin to City School System... While on the subject of of ficiating a total ot 195 per sonal fouls wore called in Thursday’s opening round. Wow! \ lot ol fouls, huh! A high oi 5-1 wese called In the A&T - Howard contest. A total of 17 players fouled out in the four games. I would, bet that’s a record, who would like f•• chalk- ye that? One of the most unfortunate things associated «■ ith this year’s tournament w is the ab sence of the CIAA SIDs from the press row. According to reliable sources the Tourna ment Committee ’elegatedthe “very people” who make the CIAA Tournament w! at it is today loan “unreserved” sec tion of the grandstands. What was the reason for this? The only one that Your Scribe can visibly see is to make space for the Tourna ment Committee to “strut their stuff” along press row and boast of their hard-earned tornney checks. This is unfortunate because were it not for the truly de dicated efforts oi the CIAA Sports Information Directors in daily “feeding” the news media data and releases on the conference’s top teams, the affair would very probably not be where it is today. A truly typical example of the need for the SIDs along press rev came following the explosive offensive show in the Norfolk Siate-Maryland state contest. The Spartans of Ernie Fears massacred the Hawks 125-100. Immediately after this, one scribe asked if this was some kind of a record? The nearest answer he could get was that the Spartans had fallen six points shy of break ing the record of 130 points A ; 7 scored against Morgan State ir. 1962. However, the combined score of this game as not the existing record. In ; acking up 225 points in the op. using round contest, the tv.o teams established an all tins mark, hut broke the ex isting mark of 209 points set in 1961 by Winston-Salem and Johnson C. Smith. Remembei that tiirilloi and the exploits oi Clco Hill, Jan e Hester and Freddie Neal? The rumor oil - , mating the Tourney beat ha* to do with Floyd Bio • \s departure as sketball coach a t Nor t h C mviina coll eve. Few fans :! -, .iv ire that r-M u.ly is Brown a renown coach, but holds a law ckgree from NCC . . i- considered an astute lawyer. Word has it that Brown i- accepting a post : ! .La ■ yer’s Association in G -, Indiana at the con cbi.iho: the present school v i.A.V a Oct (; 105* cl l 0 al.-v us ing ti ,- perennial “power house” Norfolk State coach, Ernie Umars, is gathering at tv Ti •water, Virginia sovoi!. With only three S'-r --iors or this year’s club, a. d ml, “Big Pop” Pitts a pro .uii. is figure among that trio, th,‘ seasons ahead looms bright for Norfolk followers. Most impressive oi a l l was ■: nammoth ncruUment job F -ars at ■ ihisa- sistant, Willie it ti, s! v. List year, bringing iu three of the top scholastic capers in the Virginia-Caro -1 ini. area. They plucked riglst from tinder the Carolina coaches’ noses Hillside's sup er slar of a year ago, Tom Long, and cornered two of Vit cinia’s h,esf in Charles Bonaurrte and Robert Dan oi' no wns t-'\6 most hi; --o’ .jol 'tournament last ,‘c . h ■ been tabbed as a ‘■ fairr, :..t:<r” by Tears. A p,.i eu, unassuming kid, the so, ner Hillside star, is- tic ket- • : tor stalling .status next Your Scribe tips his hat to Dcpsi-Cola Company and Gulf Oi! Company for the two very fine affairs they hosted dur- \ . tiataiHGtm «f Wtostan Salem State taps In one that started the Rams on their second half spurt that sent back in lead for an 87-80 upset win ovei Norfolk State College to. annex their sixth CIA A tournament since 1073. Richard Pitts, (-10) and Clarence Burney of Norfolk State close in on the Rams’ sharpshooter. ing the 21st annual derby. Both occasions lend to quality of what is developing into an attraction in the “Tobacco Road” area of the CIAA. For many alumni, this is their homecoming, a time to see old friends and “break bread” with classmates of years past... That record three -game tournament performance by- Ernie Garrett in 1954, now a physician, looms bigger and bigger each tourney.. Although many great stars have come since this season, the record si ill stands, and it is a safe bet that this rec-nul will stand for a lew years to come. Fitts, Jim Grant, Earl Mon roe and Al Rue all come near that mark, but the pressure of tourney play make it near ly impossible to come up with three such hot nights as Gar ret, the former Morgan State star, had. To come up with 111 points or bettor, player would have to average a fan tastic 37 points a game... Two of the league’s great est shooters, NCC’s Ted Manning and Shaw’s Ira Mit chell, missed being “show cased” in the league’s pre mier affair. Neither Shaw nor NCC qualified for the tourney, making it the second yea: ir, a row that Manning has been on the sidelines. A pity too because he is un~ doubt ably this league’s most outstanding pro prospect.., A basket interference call sent the semi-finals’ clash be tween Wins; ,u - Salem and Howard into overtime. Al though the shot was about five feet short of the basket, the trailing official called bas koi interference on Winston- SaP >: , sending th game Into an exti.i jvriod at 79-a11... Moni oe ear ».• into the Tour ney as the league's most her d-led car,., but attic known ! (i tie T ~ ior, a slightly pud gy 6-iovter from Howard Uui vcvsitv, . irtuaUy stole his ' Wander, >J 15 and 33 points respectively. Against the Rams, he matched Monroe basket for basket, and the two ~'imost came to blows so com petitively was their duel... Bennie George, Delaware State’s personable coach, de oerves an applause for the Earl Monroe Vot ed 'Most Outstanding' BY JOHN HOLLEY GREENSBORO - Winston-Sa lem State’s jackrabbit Rams zoomed into- orbit using astro naut Earl Monroe as their roc ket to capture the school’s sixth CIAA Tournament since 1953. Refusing to buckle to a re lentless assault by Norfolk State College, the Rams upset the highly regarded and top-seeded Spartans 87-80 here at the Greensboro Coliseum before a capacity crowd of 7,851. Utilizing the hothand of Mon roe, a junior from Philadel phia, Pa., the Rams jumped off to a 19-6 advantage with their star scoring 11 of those points in that spree. Before fouling out with 1:17 left in the game, Monroe rung up a total of 42 points, three shy of the exist ing single game mark of 45 set by Marv Trotman in 1959. Beaten by the Spartans three times this season (89-79, 111- 102, and 115-91), the Winston- Salern five reverted to ball con trol this time in gaining their 20th win of the season against four setbacks. Twice in tour ney, Ernie Fears’ highly rated Spartans, winners of the CIAA visitation, had scored over the century mark in advancing to finals over Maryland State, 125- 100, and Delaware State, 116- 90. However, Clarence “Big house” Gaines had his Rams weaving, passing and dribbling, looking for the good shot with a disciplined pattern offense. With Monrow taking most of the shots - the good ones when they presented themselves - Win ston-Salem was able to slow the tempo of the game and Norfolk State could never get it high powered “racehorse” attack in gear. Flooring a lineup with four long cannons - Louis Graham, Jim Grant, Clarence Burney and Essex Thompson - Norfolk refused to fold to the Rains’ attack and bounced from as much as 14 points back to come within three at halftime, 46- 41. Thompson was the chief fire in this spurt and at the open ing of the second twenty minutes of play as Norfolk bounced back with 14 points ir, the first eight minutes to take the lead 62- 60 with 11:16 to play. With Monroe on the prowl once again, Winston-Salem look the lead 68-65 with four straight baskets. Monroe scored on a steal and 35 seconds later pop ped in a hook from the top of th£ key. Cunningham (Tom) countered with a tap-in and seconds later the Rams were back on the offensive as Mon ro#, as yon might grow, S*>sh- 3k Ai^SLi WILT POPS IN TWO POINTS - New York: Ail eyes are on Philadelphia 76’ers’ big Wilt Chamberlain (13) as he pops bail in basket for two points during game with Detroit Pistons at Madison Square Gardens here Feb. 22nd, Others, identifiable in photo are: Chet Walker (25) of the 76’ers, and Tom Van Aradale (5) of the Pistons. Chamberlain and teammate Hal Greei combined for 61 points to pace the 76‘ers to a 117- 112 victory . (DPI PHOTO). High Schooi Cage Tourney Set At St. Paul’s College LAWRENCEVTLLE, Yu. -- Eight of the ten high schools in the Southern District, Group one, of the Virginia Inter scho tremendous coaching job in bringing his team into the tourney. The CIAA coaches acknowledged this b\ naming him the most outstanding coach... In closing, Your Scribe would like to leave two sug gestions which merit the CIAA’s consideration for the coming season. First, for players named to All-CIAA recognition, while not gold en graved watches. These are the guys who make the tour ney possible and draw in the big draws. Let’s show them that we’re aware of their ac complishments... Secondly, a press card, similar to the CIA A. pass, for the ClAA's SIDs that will ad mit them to the games around the conference. It’s embaras sing not to be recognized when you’re trying to do a job to keep the loop in the public eye... ed - a 40-footer through the net* to give the Rams a three point advantage.' At this point Gaines, match ing strategy with Fears, called timeout, spread his Rams out into what looked like a “come and get me” offense. Hunger ing for their second succes sive tourney title, the Spartans went out after the ball leaving the middle unprotected and Win ston-Salem, working Cunning ham, Monroe and Bennett (Wil lis), took advantage of this as Cunningham scored twice up the middle and Monroe popped one from the top of the key. Open ing up a 10-point advantage, 79-69, the Winston-Salem par tisans began thundering toward the playing area shouting, “Hey, hey, Red and White, you look so good to me.” A smaller club, the Rams gave the Spartans the outside shot and shut off their inside game, limiting Richard “Pop” Pitts, the Spartans’ 240-pound 6-5 center who had been av eraging better than 30 points in the two earlier contests, to just 18 points. Pitts managed only eight shots in the game from the floor. Selected as tire tourney’s most outstanding player, Mon roe hit on 17 of 34 shots from the floor and 8 of 10 from the charity line. His performance in the final gave him a total of 109 points in the three games, just two shy of the record 111 points set by Morgan State’s Ernie Garrett in 1934. The win by the Rams sends them into the NCAA South Cen tral Regionals in Durham at North Carolina College’s Mc- Dougal Gymnasium March 4-5. Gaines’ Rams will meet Ogle thorpe College in the opening round match. Monroe was namedto the All- Tournament team along with Pitts and Thompson of Norfolk State, Eddie Taylor, Howard’s long-range bomber and Al Rue of Delaware State. Both Howard Ridgiil and Bennett of Winston- Salem were named to the second team along with Grant. For his superl: coaching job in the league’s 21st annual tour ney, Howard Uni v ■ rsit y*s James Thompson was acclaim ed the most outstanding coach. The Bisons edged Delaware State 99-91 in the consolation game for third place. They were also winners of the team deco rum award. Rue, Delaware State’s sharp shooter, vied with Monroe for the tourney ’s top scoring hon ors. The 6-1 senior from Rox bury, Mass, scored 36, 33 and 39 point s for a three-game total of i©*. lastlc Association will send boys’ and girls’ basketball teams here to the district’s seventh annual tournament set for March 2-5, inclusive. Host to the tourney will be St. Paul's College, All games will be played in the college’s new §300,000 gymnasium, open ed for use only last December 2. There will be two games on Wednesday, starting at 7 p.m.; three on Thursday, starting at 6 p. m.; three on Friday, also starting at six; and four on Sat urday. Two oi the games will begin at 3;30 p. m. The con solation game is set for seven o’clock, with tiie boys’ champ ionship tussle to follov.. The visitation championship in the district has already been settled, with that honor going to West End High School of Clarksville. Russell High of Lawrenc&ville is second in the season standings, East End of South Hill and Central of Sus sex are tied for third, Luther H. Foster of Blackstone is fifth, and Wyatt of Emporia is sixth. Depending on final scheduled or re-scheduled games, two other teams will be selected EARL MONROE IN •> TIG A uniforin) of Wins* , M- . -e r -a Me Ac Thompson fto bus re , : Mi Rams’ guard lilt a h ■ i of 42 . m ’ ,M ; Greet si- nr, Veiisoim . Unm : mm - AM ' r , ■ North Can,) •: t ). lecti-:;!e •: . p . ■ ■ basket ball qua.; last w- Selected by the league •• -.. ~.*sßc K.. * ; 8- sk. - t , 2 | . ,1% >: . ' V ; - OMEraLIIM X X wWixte,' -»v s ' A it ytfSJVf * ' , Vry ' • •?"> M %:•§' C'-v ‘ : ss - . * ■’ ***%*s§& A I v 4? Ac * T . iron.. ~ ',n:H • I Cl.a, . fliOp. H - AS -r { ; . j - enr . ir or -M c : : . Uot’-ef, Jama: . holds record : a leap of ana is -i U-. irigs in tin best lev ■ i - , Ho hoi* • i ■•i ’, i v ... • nuiiii or mm. ■ i Plor Big CHICAGO (NPI) plans ui read forth- TMI, the United Go!!' : ■ convent ion Met r!, Pick-Congr, ■ - Heightening intei • • ■ fin r- e.C “I*: -e ■: over the Dim tertairmioz: iu h hiu' he ..di--! 1 t; cv. 'c • Gol .<n : !. sponsors of rv.t;. s is the app. ;u lington and his >n • ••... from the follow in . c•:’• :• , Courtlarid; Sout! Din hi dle; Lunenburg. Victoria-, Moton, Farm iii . As in other VI ■. oisucct i mr nameuts being played th*. . mo weekend, two to -.jus fro.; Hu- Southern District -ill go (<> t!ie VIA State Tournamen* > held at Hampton Institute- on March 11 and 12. The visitation champion will automatically compete . H - state competition. If do tation champion, West En 1, emerges iotoi in the F'iMrict contest, thi second team topi.i.- at Hampton will be the runner up here. 1 THE CAHOUNIAJf RAI FiGH, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 5. 1968 ketK'dl ci . ••••-, the teem is composed of 10-n:'*n, six 5"; the front court and few in to ek cimrt Ike - • 1 -ctton ■ re announced bv r loyd Brown, sec rets t y»*tro:isu! ci’ - i t i * B ball .Coaci:-.’; Ar e< L.;v ■■ -a - ing the annua! Pepsi-Cola »os Luncheon, donor. ; ■ ioague’e >1 , 1 Sl'on ; , tO.< ' O ! B:g mar!:, v,.. me i --..ft -a a. dly evert ballot as -nag and Nci :■ k, m.j< i k ' •: d o-pop” Pitts. Nam (1 in the backcouri %>ng •. «h Monroe were Ira MitetuiV Straw Uni versity’s sharpshooie: fAI Rue of Delav.-d! ■■ Ntru,> a:ai Gary Stubbing a k . 1 •. , Slate College. 1 oanimid:' with .aka: ra.. .it'd Pitts up i;ont wr-t ocs ■k' ' a Howard “Sonny" ftidgtli, Win ston • : Stare, hi;: dat'd Todd, Elinuboth fit. ; .3i and Torn Cunningham o; ka. - Salem St .-.to. The tean- represented -right different states, ! ■ i k com ing Iron. North Carolina .mo South Carolina and om each from Maryland, Nov Voi To- ‘l A( > jghton ,N WHISKY MwWUCiIITOX I t"A \A WHISKY 8 1 ... . f* 3 PROOF • ©SCHOIUT IKWWTS CO.. ttX H*. OutdmrTtmk Meet Set SyNCC DURHAM -- North Carolina College will open its outdoor track season in hosting a Quad rangular Track Meet on its cm pus March 19. Thu remainder of the season is as follows: April 2, Winston Relays, Win ston -Salt m; April 6, NCC Tri angular, Durham; April 9, Quant ice, Va.; April IC, South Carolina Relays, Orangeburg, S. C.; April 23, Virginia State College Relays, Petersburg; A pril 29 -30, Penn Relays, Phila delphia, Pa. May 6-7, Quantico Relays, Quant ico, Va.; May 13-14, CI- A . Championships, Baltimore; May 20-21, North Carolina State Championships, Durham; May 23, r ilifornia Relay s, Modesto, Ca 11.!.; June 4-5, NAIA Champ ion ships, Sioux Falls, S. D.; ate Athletic Association Championships (site to be nam ed); June 10-18, NCAA Col lege Li ision Championships, ■Philadelphia, Pa.; and June AAU Championships, New York CHy, '’l m ■ <\ * i i SKIRLED SV JkDSMAN - P:r.l V. r: j ns, a fresh- An -fine's College, ■ >i. rp his sabre ■ com-, to fcneing. V skill -.woi-dsman, Williams ‘ • : te ■ im self - d ;>. •VI tn* ’s by winning tlm 19C6 rolina State Sabr* 1 aFi \ opener at North Car si .te University at Ra il ; . Before coming to St, line’s, he attended the ; hom.i- Kdison High School i«c. s in Philadelphia, Pa, attending F ii-on, he won and . >O7 in : state Sabre .•:;[.!!inship In p. insylvania. -n f. , ’ n ii ia, ': ssachusetts i and Pennsylvania. ■ ,f .. .le mention recogni- Rob. :t Saunders kiiinei, A&T Col - i 1 Mi a, Delaware e< ; Harr Br adl ey, St. ol 1 - • mr.-in Bonner, Hamp r iit .| , and Ibcrt Con iv-r an. Una College, 15
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