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|g THE CAROLINIAN ‘ , » RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1971 Norfolk Trims Shaw Bears In Finds Os CIA A Tournament WE’RE NUMBER ONE-Members of the Norfolk State trinket Ball nm hold up one finger indicating they were number one in the Cl AA. The Spartans defeated Shaw University, 74-68 in the finals ot the tournam nit to win the coufe">vice tournament championship. EARL MASON’S SPORTS VIDEO 26TH CIA A TOURNAMENT A SUCCESS GREENSBORO-Well, it is all history now. The 26th annual CIAA has been completed and the question going through the minds of many basketball fans around the conference is “How will the CIAA Tournament lie next season now that six schools are leaving the conference?” It is the opinion of this bureau that the CIAA will forever live in tire hearts of the basketball fans regardless of what happens. The tournament has three more years remaining on a 10-year contract in Greensboro and it is certain the tournament will bo just as big in years to come even though A&T and North Caro lina Central will no longer be affiliated with the CIAA anymore after this season. Records are made to be broken and that is exactly what hap pened to the attendance figures each night. 11,407 turned out for the semifinal round Friday night and this figure was topped by the Saturday night championship crowd of 13,881. With these new attendance marks established, the tournament must be get ting bigger and better every year. Is there any consolation in winning a consolation game? This is the question the officials of the CIAA need to ask when think ing in terms of eliminating the consolation game played on Sat urday evening. It is hard on the players and the coaches to get in the right frame of mind for a game which, actually means nothing more than win or loss on the regular season record. Af ter playing for all the marbles on Friday night and losing, the players have nothing to gain by playing the jayvee game on Saturday night. Some say this game is played to increase the attendance. This statement is doubtful because fans do not flock to the Coliseum to see the preliminary game no Saturday. Unless you are either a great basketball fan or an alurnns of one of the two schools competing in the championship game, you do not rush to get to the consolation game. This bureau would like to see the consolation game done a way with. It won’t hurt the attendance figures in the least. Sug gestion? Move the championship game up to 8 o’clock with no consolation game and then have the award ceremonies immediate after the championship game. This will mean getting away from the game sooner than 11 p.m. With the extra hour gained from not having a consolation game, the many spectators can get home quicker, or get to the parties that have been planned in the ci ty. The CIAA Tournament is a reunion affair anyway. The specta tors will continue to turn out at this three-day affair if it is for nothing more to make acquaintances and enjoy the fine fel lowship exemplified by the city of Greensboro, ah lilt? peupit; coming to Greensboro for the tournament do not come to see the basketball games anyway. Some come for different purposes and among these are to see the fashions, meet old classmates and friends and enjoy all the social activities in and around the neighboring cities. New attendance records were set at this year’s tournament even though Winston-Salem wa- ot in the tournament and A&T lost out in the semifinals. Those are the two neighboring schools as far as the tournament is concerned. But still a new attendance record was set every night. CIAA Tournament officials can rest assure the CIAA is here to stay at least for the next three years. RANDOM COMMENTS FROM THE CIAA TOURNAMENT Norfolk State has to be one of the most religious teams in the conference. All the players and the coaches of the Spar tans bow at the foul circle of the goal they will be shooting at before the start of every game and also before the start of the second half to say a prayer. Maybe this is the reason all players wear knee pads for Norfolk State. It was said a long press row that maybe Norfolk State said a third prayer in the first game of the tournament against North Carolina Central. The Spartans were behind by one point with five sec onds to go when Bob Smith called timeout. No play was set up on the bench during the timeout. Instead, Smith had a word of prayer with, his players. The results -Norfolk won by one point and went on to win the tournament. So maybe prayer is the key, even in athletics. (Continued on P. 19) j tv*'. '.'• S'V> ,j"u.' , ■ v,;:. ■ :; ■ . ' . : ■~ .-■■•••. ' ''' ' ' jplfft ' SOCK IT TO THEM-Shaw University cheerleaders give the 13,881 spectators something to look at during a timeout of the championship game 01 the 26th annual CIAA Tournament held in Greensboro. All during the tournament, the Shaw cheerleaders received loud rounds of applause from the fans for their outstanding performances. ’€ - 4' ! V J®r C/44 Observations BY ALEXANDER lURNES As we gathered for the play ing of the 26th CIAA Basket ball Tournament, in Greens boro’s rebuilt Coliseum last week, it was quite evident tl at the affair would not be the same, due to the fact that. Ellis F. Corbett would not be there. It was reported that lie was hos pitalized in the L. Richardson Hospital. Many of us went to see him and found him, as usual, this time of the year, en thused over the game. He not only had all the newspaper re ports, but had both the radio and television tuned to the sta tions that were talking about the tournament. There was also the fact that there were only three of us pre sent who covered the 1926 game: Art Carter, v ..<• represented The Afro-American then and now; Eric Roberts, who rep resented The Pittsburgh Couri er then and the Public Informa tion Office, Howard Universi ty now, and Alexander Barnes then publisher of the Washing ton Tribune and now a member of the staff of The CARO LINIAN. There was also a dearth of black newspaper rep resentatives. There were many there, but they represented a gencies that have sprung up since 1946. In those days. The Amster dam News, The Philadelphia Tribune, The Philadelphia In dependent, The Chicago Defend er, The Journal & Guide, The Washington Lost, The Phil adelphia Bulletin a. d The Was!.-’ lngton Star had • lack repi • son tation. We settled for the first game. There was no feeling that the spunky five from Shaw Univer sity would take the measure of Howard’s cock', team. Its re cord showed, 12-5, while How ard sported 12-4. 7 ie Baptist boys went so work and when the last whistle blew, the boys from Howard were read;, to make the trek back to the banks of the Potomac. There was not ’rmc! a "hi about Bobby Vaug! a .’s boys taking the measure of Virginia State, which had not shown any muscle since 1963, when it was defeated by Winston-Salem, in the finals. It "was prett: well felt that A&T’s 12-4 record against the 10-6 record of Maryland’s East ern Shore, augured well for the Aggies, in the first night game. And it did. The final game of the elimi nation was the thriller. No one had any idea that “Choke” Ed munds* Eagles, even though he had been chosen the ‘Coach of the Year”, in ids first year, would give the undefeated Nor folk State Spartans the dogged Shaw's Cinderella Quintet Bows In Title Game, 14-68 BY EARL MASON GREENSBORO-The Shaw University Bears [ought the tournament favorite Norfolk State Spartans down to the wire lye fore falling, 84- 7 " in the finals of the 26th annual CIAA Tourna ment played in the Greensboro Coliseum before t record breaking crowd of 13,881 spectators. T. • loss was a disappoint ing so: Coach Ira Mitchell’s cay s from the Capitol City wore trying to complete t . j ii third straight giant kill ing in as many days. The Bears L"! for almost 30 minutes in the {• iw.sl.ip game before Nor folk was able to tie the game at 76-56 with 9;56 remaining in the 'itular contest. It as the clutch free throw s: ootmp by Norfolk’s Morrell Jan es that gave the Spartans their 24th win of the season against only three losses. j,,!i os, who was voted the Most V.. Liable Player in the tourna ment sank for charity tosses in the last 39 seconds to seal the victor: for the cagers from the Tidewater area of Virginia. Shaw, which finished the sea son wit; an 18-7 record, was the Cinderella team of the ’ tournament gaining wins over 1 Howard and Elizabeth City in t e first two rounds. The Bears led by one, 34-33 at intermis sion and stayed close to Nor folk in the second half. The Spartans, with their run and shoot offense, where expected to “blow” Shaw off the floor, but the unherald quintet from Raleigh refused to give way to the tournament favorite and Northern Division cham pions. In the consolation game for third place, A&T hung on to an 81-78 win over Elizabeth City. Elmer Austin scored 26 points for the winners while William Harris and Don Blackmon each collected 16 for the Aggies. First Round Action \\ GR he: NS BOR O-Shaw Univer sity, Elizabeth City. A&T and Norfolk State won first games on Thursday but not before the record-breaking crowd of ip,169 saw some topflight basketball. The first found saw no upsets as such but the crowd was thril led with many excited moments in the first game of the opening round matching Shaw and How ard and the last game of the evening between North Carolina Central and tournament favorite Norfolk State. Shaw came on late in the game and held on for an 88-84 decision over Howard in the first game. Elizabeth City led lesson of basketball play that It did. The Eagles played the Spar tans as if they were from Athens and had the Trojan Horse. Five seconds toward victory, showed the Eagles ahead, hut Robert Smith, with possession of the ball, called time. When play re sumed, the Eagles were boxed in and at the last second, the greatest basket of the tourney was made and the Spartans won by one point. Shaw, with a motivation that had them keyed for Bobby Vaughan’s Vikings, showed that they came after the marbles Friday night and took them in the opener. This left the two “bad boys,” A&T and Norfolk State to battle for the right to meet the Bears in the final game. The Aggies huffed and puffed, bu/ could not blow the “State House” down, As a re sult, the Norfolk boys won the right to play the Bears, in the final. From here, I will turn the play-by-play over to Earl Mason, who covered for The CAROLINIAN. The most impressive feature of the tourney was the fact that the promoters of the Model Ci ty of High Point made it possible for 300 youths to attend the game. The “Furniture City's” Board of City Council, appro priated $6,385 to send the youths of both races, to the tournament. The Community Service Unit of the city police department planned the three day event, as part of Its cadet training program. There have been many changes in the CIAA since its beginning. We have seen Lincoln Universi ty, Blufield State, West Virginia , State and others pull out, pull back and even some de-em phasize one or more of the sports that theCIAA engages in. Comes now another innova tion within the ranks, A&T, North Carolina Central, Morgan State, Delaware State, Howard, Maryland State and South Caro lina State have formed a new combine, which will be known as the Mid-Eastern Atlantic Conference. No one knows what the future holds. It was made certain that the CIAA Basket ball Tournament would still be held in Greensboro. This seems to be the only certainty about the greatest sports classic, pro moted by black colleges, a long the Atlantic Seaboard. We all are waiting to see what the future holds. Mike Gale was high for the Vik ings with 26 points in a losing cause. Norfolk State jumped off a quick 10-2 lead" but Mitchell called time out and got his forces together. Before seven minutes had elasped in the game, the Bears had cut the margin to two, 11-9. Shaw tied the game four times in the next four minutes and a jumper by Jackie Smith gave the Bears a 21-19 cushion. After the Spartans rallied to tie the game at 21-21, Shaw ex ploded for six straight points to take a 27-21 advantage. Nor folk caught up again and went ahead at 29-27 on a basket by Leroy Jones but a field goal by Kelly Utley with nine seconds remaining gave the Bears a 34- 33 lead at halftime. Shaw was able to stay ahead for the first 10 minutes of the second half before Norfolk State tied the game with a little less than 10 minutes to go and went ahead on field goal by Ru dolph Peele for good. Shaw stayed with in striking distance but the clutch free throw shoot ing by James going the stretch was the final difference in the championship encounter. Five players scored in double figures for the Bears with Ray Haskins, Bobby Moore and Smith and Lester Mobley all getting 14 points while Utley added 11 points. Leading the scoring for Norfolk was James with 23 points, 19 in the seconds half, while Jones had 15 anijs Ronald Wilson 14 for the Spar’s tans. I \ all the way enroute a. 94 -r?3 victory over Virginia State irt the second game of the after r noon session. In a display of offensive bas ketball In the first game of the night session, the Aggies o< A&T romped to a 117-105 win l over the Maryland State Hawkfc.! Saving the best for last, Nor folk State was extended to the very last seconds before edg ing North Carolina Central, 83- 82 in the night cap. Ray Haskins was the hero of the hour for the Bears who jumped off to a quick 10-point lead in the opening half only to fall behind by as many points late In the second half, Haskins hit a freee throw which broke the game’s last tie of 84-all, with 42 seconds left in the game, and then the 5-10 All-CIAA backcourt performer tied How ard’s Robert Lewis up and con trolled the tap with 16 seconds remaining to conceal the win for the Bears. Kelly Utley, the other half of the Shaw all - conference backcourt duo, led the scoring for the Bears with 26 points. Haskins chipped in with 20 and Bobby Moore added 18 and Jackie Smith 12. Larry Eatowas the big man for The Bisons with 22 points, The Vikings of Elizabeth Ci ty never trailed in the sec ond game of the afternoon. Eliz abeth City scored the first three points and led by at least six points the rest of the half. The top seeded team In the South ern Division led 49-37 at the Intermission and slowly In creased this lead in the second half. With All-American candidate Mike Gale in foul trouble, Eliza beth City carried Its game in side with Walter Carter and Bowie Totten doing most of the damage. Carter finished the game with 27 points while Tot ten had 16. Alexander Easley led the scoring and rebounding for the Trojans with 27 points and 17 rebounds. Al Carter and Elmer Austin led a double barrel assault for the Aggies in the first game of the night. Carter scored 20 points in the first half to lead A&T to a 53-45 margin the Gate City quintet poured it on in the second 20 minutes. Carter finished with 29 points and Austin 24 for the Aggies. Melvin Fowles and Calvin Skin ner tallied 20 and 19 points re spectively for the Hawks of Maryland State. It took a jump shot by fresh man Peter Mitchell with two seconds left that lifted the Spartans from a near brink of disaster. It was Mitchell’s two points 12 seconds earlier'that pulled the Spartans within one point of the underdog Eagles who had came from 17 points behind in the second half. Morrell James was the top scorer for Norfolk State with 19 points. Lloyd Smith had 17 points and Leroy Jones 16 for the visitation championships of the Northern Division. Ron Phillips, Redden Leggett and William Slade were the top scorers for NCCU with 19, 18 and 18 points respectively. |WHftc % “ ■ P \ £V/ h i } SECOND PLACE PLAQUE-L. B. Smith, acting commissioner for CIAA, presents the runner-up trophy to Ira Mitchell and his Shaw Univer - sity team for their second place finish in the 26th annual CIAA i'ouvno ment. The Bears lost to Norfolk State in the finals, 74-68. "BaglT.. m I I®!fF p¥ % MMB mm : §% ’wv* CHAMPIONSHIP ACTION-Ray Haskins of Shaw University goes after a lose ball in the ! championship game against Norfolk State last i Saturday in Greensboro. Putting up his hands in defense for the Spartans is Gerald Smith (15). Also watching the action for the Bears is Jackie Smith (52). (PHOTO BY J. D. HINTON). j| THIS IS IT, FELLOWS-Shaw’s Coach Ira Mit chell huddles with his team after taking a time out in the championship game against Norfolk State last Saturday. Norfolk jumped off to a 10-2 lead in the championship game before Mitchell called this time out to get his team together. wmmmmmmm •ssp^gpg DECORUM TROPHY-Members of the Shaw University basketball team and the student body are shown holding the trophy for being named the team with the best sportmanship demonstrated during the 26th annual CIAA Tournament held in Greensboro. Cleon F. Thompson, Provost of Shaw, makes the presentation. • Semifinal .Results Shaw broke Elix.ak-t, , i ’>. | basketball jinx in the s v .- if : round of the CIAA by | past the Vikings, BC-x4 r • first game, andfavorit. v folk State warmed up in : e .■>:■•<■ half and went on defe; t v- T, 100-84 in the secor ! c ut.st <■ gain the finals of the t orna ment. Lester Mobley’s tap in oi a missed Kelly Utley field al attempt with six seconds left was the difference in ‘be ip and contest which was tu-d 16 times and the lead excl anger; hands 15 times. The tip by Mobk. gave the Bears a ono-point marz.b ir > Ray Haskins stole tin- L.Ji f. Elizabeth CH ’s Hu ■ j Moorer after he crossed ; i | court and was fouled v ith >- L one second remaining. Husks hit the second of the two •’ attempt for the final or diffe: ■ ence for Shaw. Neither team was able •• •: .in. more than a five poi • b ad c tb game. Elizabeth City b i 7- ;y with 4:55 remaining but : : Bears came charghn heck ; ; scored six straight ■ oii.ts - gain the lead at 80-79. Bobby ‘Pap’ Moore” throw with 40 seconds kb the Bears an 83-8! mis’ ■ All-American ca. ■ iidat< Gale’s three-point pin;, k onds later gave the VH.w lead at 84-83. Shaw came down tin fk ; ui. a jumper by'Haskins.! m high in the game and K*‘l! ' rebounded and tried again. Li shot was off but Moblc: eat high into the air to tip the tall back in for Shaw’s v. inning! .isl - et. Haskins was the leading m-. 0, er for the Bears who won their eight straight game with 20 points. Paul Kelly collected 16, Moore 16, and Utley and Mo! by 14 each. Gale wasihetop scorer for the Vikings with 27 points. All -CIAA front court perfor mer Rudolph Peele poured in 25 points In the second half to lead the Spartans from behind in the second game. Peele fin ished the evening with 32 points but. it was his shooting in the second half that brought the Spartans from behind. A&T led at halftime, 47-43 hut Norfolk caught fire in tie second half and went on to put the game out of reach. Tin- Northern Division champion.- gained the lead at 55-53 and quickly increased their lead to as much as 15 points in the sec - ond half. Elmer Austin was the top scorer for the Aggies with 24 points while Williai Harms scored 15 and Bobby larks k for A&T. Besides Peele, .Mor rell James scored 20pointsand Leroy Jones 18 for the Spartans.
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