SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1968 THE CAROLINA TIMES?
HOT EAGLES WIN TWO MORE CIAA GAMESNorth Carolina College ClawsVirginia State Trojans Monday
Le
B*»£^BW JBI r » J
BiV JV
B W V"' H
V , ?\u25a0"
B1 B B
ISPORTSI PETERSBURG, Va.?Virginia
State jumped off to an early
'ead but North Carolina Col-lege came back with a strong
second-half performance tocarve out a 78-37 CIAA deci-sion over the Trojans hereMonday night
The victory ran North Caro-lina College's league record tot4-4 and its over-all mark to15-8. Virginia State is now 8-12in the CIAA and 7-14 for theseason.
1..,- Eagles took a 37-30 leadat halftime and built Up theirbiggest lead, the final 21-pointmargin.
Davis drilled in 17 points tolead NCC while Joe Pridgencollected 18 and McCrimmonadded 10. For Virginia State,
Rodney Looney's 17 points were
tops while Roach had 10.The big difference was under
the backboards where the Ea-gles held a commanding 51-27bulge. Pridgen and Davis con-tributed 17.
From the field, North Caro-lina College connected on 35 of73 attempts for a creditable47.9 per cent while Virginia
State hit on 25 of 68 tries for
36.7 per cent.Charles Carter, a starter for
the Trojans, was injured during
the first half and did not compete in the final 20 minutes of
action.The Eagles play host to Shaw
University at 8 p.m. Saturday
night.
Virginia State jumped off toan early 7-2 lead as AlonzoBumbry scored all his team'spoints but Lee Davis' goal at9:17 tied the contest for thefirst time at 21-21.
Ronald McCrimmon's shotpushed the Eagles ahead at 23-
21 with 7:21 showing, but theTrojans tied it again on Reg-
inald Roach's goal. Bully Rose's
field goal then put North Caro-lina College ahead by 27-25 at4:14 and the Eagles nevertrailed again.,
Locals lighten 3rd Place Hold;Tuifi Back Smith's Golden Bulls
North Carolina College's Ea-gles tightened their hold onthird place in the CIAA stand-ings by turning back a deter-mined Johnson C. Smith Uni-versitv quintet, 65-58 hereSiturday night.
The Eagles, who saw a 20-point lead erased by the visi-
tors late in the second half,
capitalized on some clutch free
throw shooting by L«e Davisand Ronald McCrimmon In the
last three minutes to preserve
the win.NCC increased its league
record to 13-4 and its over-allmark to 14-8. The Golden Bulls
are now 10-5 for the season.
After shooting 54 percent in
the first half and building upj, ,36-22 lead, Coach FloydjßroFP>«uwa 4 JttPk.In the second 20 minutes to In-crease their lead to 20-points
at 40-29 with 14:20 left in the
contest. $During the n«t six minutes,
Johnson C. Smith poured in 19points while NCC m«de only
two free throws by Davis and
Steve Humphrey and the scorestood 51-48, with exactly eight
minutes remaining.
The Golden Bulls fell be-hind by seven points as reserveClarence Beauford fed ParisLenon under the goal for alay-up and hit a jump shot fromthe top of the circle to give the
homestanders a 55-48 cushion.J. C. Smith managed to cut
the lead to two points at 56-54with four minutes left?beforeMcCrimmon cashed in on four
charity tosses and Davis three
to ice the victory for NCC.
Davis led the scoring for theEagles with 22 points. Prid-gen added 13 markers, Lenon11, and Billy Rose 10. Davisgrabbed 12 rebounds 'or thewinners.
DETERMINED BULL (Char-lotte)?Johnson C. Smith's Reg-
inald "Baghdad" Randolph
nulifies the defensive effortsof Shaw University defenders
Greg Davis (55) and Eddie Ham-ilton and sinks two points tohelp the Golden Bulls in their108-76 victory over the Raleigh
quintet. Randolph, an All-CIAA
forward, pulled down 15 re-
bounds and added 10 points to
the cause to aid the Bulls stayin the thick of the CIAA race.
Reginald Randolph sparked
the Bulls' attack with 15 pointsand 13 rebounds. Albert Davisaafj Hubert Davis fach scored10 points. Albert Davis was thekey to the second half come-back by the visitors as he
scored all of his points afterintermission.
NCC made 42.3 percent of itsfield goals while Johnson C.Smith shot 31.4 percent from
the floor. The Eagles grabbed41 individual rebounds to 39 for
Golden Bulls.
SHAW UNIVERSITYBEARS LOSE TO
ST. AUGUSTINE'S AND UNION UNIV.RALEIGH?The Shaw Bears,
playing a tight schedule be-cause of postponement, lost twogames Thursday and Friday
evenings. On Thursday, the St.Augustine's College Falconsavenged an earlier loss at Rey-
nolds Coliseum by beating theBears, 93-74. Friday night sawthe Bears lose to the Panthers
of Virginia Union University,
86-82.
In the St. Augustine's game,the Bears lost the game on
their lack of rebounding and
? their Inability to connect onshots. Hie Falcons, behind Ray
Gilmore, were more like the
upper division teams than they
were when a strongly motivat-ed Bear team beat them Febru-ary 2.
The Panthers were lea Dy theCIAA's leading scorer, MikeDavis, in their victory overShaw. Davis scored 46 pointsby hitting on 15 jump shots and
SWO \u25a0" H| H^H
\u25a0 ]#9BBPHHM"MISS HOMECOMING" AT DBC?Miss Mary Kinard, Clinton,S.C. is being crowned "MissHomecoming" of Durham Busi-ness College. William Harris,Co-Captain, "is Shown as he
does the crowning honors dur-ing half-time activities at thecollege's recent Homecominggame between DBC and S. C.Area Trade. DBC won 73-71.
: Queen attendants, Juanita Jack-
son, Richmond, Va. and EmmaThompson, Heath Spring, S. C.look on with Courtland Man-gum, Co-Captain, and LinwoodHobbs.
(Photo by Purefoy)
ipfl
fl
|kfl m
SMILES OF VICTORY FORDBC as SCAT Coach E. L. Gad-dy, left, congratulates coach L.
H. McDonald of Durham Busi-ness College at the close ofDBCs recent Homecoming tilt.
Members of both teams look on.
(Photo by Purefoy)
A&T TramplesFAYETTEXILLE A 4 T
ripped the nets at almost fan-tastic speed here last Wednes-day in racing to what is be-lieved to be a record-breaking
159-90 win over Fayetteville
State. r* - ,
The Aggies may have shat-tered all A&J single-game
scoring marks as well as those
of the State and CIAA Thecombined score of 246 points
for one night of basketball Li
also probably a new high fora collegiate game in the Tar
Heel State.
Associated Press records in-
dicate that Duke University,scored 136 points against Vir-
ginia a few years ago. The Ag-
gies bettered the NAIA mark of
154 points made by Lakeland(Wis.) against Judson (111.) last
season.'A&Ts total did not surpass
the NCAA mark of 169 points
made by Stillman against Miles
on Feb. 17, 1966.
"I don't know what hap-
pened," said A&T Coach Cal
Irvin. "They got hot and I Justlet them run." The Aggiei, now
14-3 for the season and 10-3
in conference, filled the bucketwith 68 field goals, almost
twice as many ai FayettevlUeState put In.
The Aggies, off to a blazing
dart «t the very beginning,soared to a commanding 87-36
lead by halftlme. leading the
first half barrage was seniorSoapy Adams, a smooth strid-ing guard from New York City.
Soapy bad 22 points by In-
termission and finished the tilt
with 24 points. Frertimaa Jto-my Staggs, the Aggies' Itadfag
scorer this season, was right
behind with »1 P°lnt», 1« «
them scored In the second half.The other Aggies who »cored
Fayetteville St. Broncos 159-90in the double figures werefreshman Bobby Brooker with19, Ted Campbell, 18, George
Mack, 17 and Carl Hubbard 11.A&T also smothered the
Broncos in the rebounding de-partment, making 82 grabs toFayetteville State'! 39. Camp-
bell led A&T with 21 rebounds.Walt Anderson added eight.
The Brancos were led in scor-ing by Roy McNeil with 28points and Oscar Phillips with25.
The Aggies conclude theirregular season with road games
at Kentucky Wesleyan and
Akron Feb. 22 and 24 respect-
ively.
Shaw Head Coach Announces19-Game Baseball Schedule
RALEIGH Veteran Head
Baseball Coach, James E. Lytle,
this week announced s 19-gameschedule for the Shaw Univer-sity Bears, including four dou-bleheaders, two of which willbe played at Chavis Park here.
ix>cal games include: April
Long range
bomb boonto Vaughn
13, N. C. A4T State University,
douMeheader; 15, Morris Har-
vey College; 24, Morris College;
May 1, Voohees College; 4, St.Augustine's College, double-header; 8, Fayetteville St.; 10.South Carolina Area TradeSchool; and IS, Winston-SalemState College.
The Bears' contests away arewith St. Augustine's on April
3, here; 8, Morris College, Sum-ter, S. C.\ », South Carolina
Area Tract* School, Denmark;
10, Vo<fi*iees College, Denmark;
17, Fayetteville State College,
Fayette ville, doubleheader; 20,Winston-Salem State College,
Winston-Salem, doubleheader;and April 27, N. C. AAT StateUniversity, Greensboro.
Assisting Coach Lytle, whose
teams have held several CIAAchampionship trophies, includ-ing three in the IBWs, will beIra Mitchell, (Miner Shaw stu-dent baseball star and now headbasketball mentor at Shaw.
Fred J. poofc. senior secondbaseman, U team captain, whilelUndolph Baaemore, also a senlor, who is « pitcher, ia co-captain. Joe Bell is team man-ager.
Chlco Vaughn has takena short cut to stardom inthe American BasketballAssociation.
Vaughn, a sharp-shootingguard who got lost in theshuffle during five seasonshi the National BasketballAssociation, has built a re-putat lon on the ABA'ithree-point field goal ruleand now ranks among thetop scorers in the first-yearleague.
In the ABA, basketsmade from 25 feet or overcarry a bonus point on thenormal field goal's twopoints.
r IHI
K mHE :
?? ? Title Bout TraineeBuster Mathis, who fractures the scales at about 14#
pounds, skips rope during training for hla heavjrwalfht»
(what else?) bout with Joe Frailer at the new MadisoaSquare Garden March 4. ,
The Mathis-Fraxier bout will be for the 1title?New Yoik and Massachusetts version.
Norfolk State Remains Leader in CIAA RaceGREENSBORO?A basketball
always take some funny boun-cies in the rugged CIAA, and
this year's scramble for theeight berths in the conference
tournament could go down
the final day.
With the three-day CIAA
Tournament coming up nextThursday, here are still a lot"ifs" which could affect theall-important pairings, t
Even top spot, generallyexpected to go to undefeated
Norfolk State, won't set until
the Spartans finish an impor-
tant game at Winston-Salem,and two contests against St.Paul's.
season against Norfolk State ina game that should be a hum-dinger.
The Eagles have remaining
games with Shaw and a road
contest at Virginia State. TheGolden Bulls must face arch
riVals St. Augustine's and Wins-ton-Salem, both teams whichare scrambling for tournamentberths.
The Rams, defending NCAAcollege-division champs, haveonly a 7-6 Season record. More-over, Winston-Salem faces itstoughest week with games slat-ed against St. Augustine's, J.C. Smith and Norfolk State, allteams that beat them the firsttime around.
With Maryland State not eli-gible to participate in the play-
offs this year, the other posi-tions could go to any combina-
tion of the Falcons, VirginiaUnion, Hampton Institute, orHoward.
As the scramble heightens,
tournament officials announced
last week that advance ticketsales indicate the tournamentwill be a complete sellout.
hot-shoAting Spartanshave raced through 17 gamesunscratched, and if they winthe tourney, it will be thefirst team to sweep both crownssince A&T did it back in 1964.
The Aggies, (13-3) are just a
whisper behind Norfolk Stateaccording to the Dickinson Rat-ing System. A&T must winthem all to sew up even secondplace or to be In the driver'sseat should Norfolk State fal-ter.
10 free throws. The Bears lostthis game from the foul linefor they outshoV Uqion, 81 to29. Union scored 28 points fromthe free throw line.
The Aggies' remaining league
contest is against ElizabethCity, a team that upset themway back' in December. TheAggies will come into the tour-nament from a midwest roadtrip to Akron and nationally-
.ranked Kentucky Wesleyan.
The Vikings, much improved
North Carolina College, or er-ratic Johnson C. Smith could
end up with the third-placespot. Elizabeth City ends its
Gilmore led the Falcons scor-ing with 28 points followed by
Leo McKie with 20. BernardWilkes led Shaw with 21, fol-lowed by Bobby Moore with 18points, to the Union game,Davis led with 46 while GalenSmalls had 20 for the Panth-
ers. Greg Davis and Bobby
Moore with 24 and 16 points,respectivly, led the Bears.
BOURBON |f||s9soDELUXE JMCnn
S4OOTHE BOURBON DE LUXE DISTILLERY COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 86 PROOF. CONTAINS 49% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS.
7A
