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— Griffin Daily News Monday, March 1,1976
6-AAA runners-up
Griffin girls play
Avondale Tuesday
The Griffin girls will play
Avondale tomorrow night at
8:30 at Grady High School in
Atlanta in the opening round of
the State Triple-A Girls’
Basketball Tournament.
Avondale is the Region 7-AAA
champions and Griffin is the
runner-up team from 6-AAA.
Rockdale won the 6-AAA title
Saturday night in Thomaston,
stopping Griffin 68-37 in the
championship game.
(Rockdale and Griffin
finished 1-2 in the region a year
ago.)
Griffin’s trip to the state
tournament is their third
straight. They went once as 6-
AAA champions and twice as
runners-up.
Rockdale and Griffin were
locked in a tight duel Saturday
until the Conyers team flipped
in two field goals just before
halftime to open a five point
lead.
“They were sky-high in the
third," Coach Harvey Oglesby
said. “Everything they threw
up went in. Before we knew it
we were down by 15 and in deep
First tourney
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Sunday at the Municipal Course.
It is a two-man Ft. Lauderdale.
Hie entry fee is 312 per player or 324 per team. The
deadline for filing entry forms is 6 p.m. Friday.
The tournament is open to the first 50 teams to register.
Teams will be flighted following Saturday’s qualifying
round.
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trouble.”
Rockdale had an 11-9 first
quarter lead and was ahead 27-
22 at the half.
“Those baskets late in the
second quarter fired them up,”
Coach Oglesby said. “They
made some unbelieveable shots
Travelers
defeat
Augusta
The Griffin Boys’ Club
Travelers defeated Augusta
Boys’ Club 57-45 here Saturday.
Robert Banks was high scorer
for Griffin with 16 points. Curt
Mathews made 13.
The Travelers, made up of
boys 14 through 16-years-old,
have a 5-1 record. The team is
coached by Scott Coggins.
The Travelers will play
Shelby N.C. here Saturday at 1
p.m. at the Fairmont Gym.
Brigham Young
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (UPI) -
The strong Brigham Young golf
team has captured the Pacific
Coast Tournament by 28 shots
over New Mexico and Arizona
State.
Taking the first four individu
al spots, BYU had a team score
of 851 followed by Arizona State
and New Mexico with 879, U.S.
International with 880 and
Southern California with 886.
in the third.”
Rockdale outshot Griffin from
the free throw line in the second
half, making 17 of 25 to Griffin’s
three of five.
Jodye Newbern paced Griffin
scorers with 12 points. Retha
Daniels made 11, Claire Ann
SPORTS
Braves, Bullets
win T.T. titles
The Braves beat the Car
dinals 18-11 yesterday to win the
ABA of the Tom Thumb
Basketball League.
Bobby Crowles scored 10
points for the Braves and
Jimmy Hickman made two.
Greg Thompson and Tiger Pitts
made two for the Cardinals.
The Bullets defeated the
Hawks 17-4 Saturday to wrap up
the NBA championship.
Jerry Burford and Darrell
Dix scored four for the Bullets
and Robert Eubanks and Ray
Grizzard made two for the
Hawks.
In other games Saturday, the
Braves beat the Warriors 18-15,
the Eagles stopped the Royals
11-4, the Cardinals beat the Blue
Jays 11-8, the Bucks nipped the
Bulls 10-9 and the Blue Birds
beat the Falcons, 22-10.
In the girls’ division, the
Eaglettes edged the Topcats 8-6,
the Saints defeated the Kittens
16-3 and the Georgettes
trounced the Rockettes, 18-2.
Jimmy Hickman scored 10
points for the Braves in the
Saturday game. Bobby Crawley
made eight. Bobby McClelland
scored 13 for the Warriors and
Rodney Harris made two.
Rusty Jones and Murry Beck
scored five and three points as
the Eagles beat the Royals. Carl
Wimbush made four for the
Royals.
Lee Feltman and Tiger Pitts
made four points in the Car
dinals’ win over the Blue Jays.
James Young scored four for
the Blue Jays and Greg Marsh
made two.
Jamie Reid was high scorer
for the Bucks. Tony Martinez
made three in the victory over
the Bulls. Landy Ponder made
five for the Bulls and Hal
Ingram scored four.
John Wynne and Michael
Mathis scored 10 each as the
DiMatteo
rolls 222
Joe DiMatteo bowled a 222
game and John English had a
207 yesterday in the Mr. and
Mrs. League.
Other leading bowlers were:
Brenda English 197, Homer
Scott 194, Curt Pressly 185,
Mary Reed 184, John Adams
180, Freddy Bethune 176, Leo
Rothbauer 168, Doug Taylor 166,
George Zater 166 and Jim Reed
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Mankin five, Laßita Foster
three, Dale Martin two,
Channel Parks two and Diane
Dunaway two.
Newnan defeated Newton
County 50-45 to win the boys’ 6-
AAA championship.
Blue Birds stopped the Falcons.
Keith Beeland made seven for
the Falcons and Luke Welty
made two.
Linda Moore scored four
points and Putnam made two in
the Eaglettes’ win over the
Topcats. Tracy Harper made
six for the Topcats.
Karen Turner and Sharon
Savage scored six each in the
Saints’ win over the Kittens.
Ann Wallace made two for the
Kittens and Kelley Wynn scored
one.
Stephanie Morris and Krista
Cardell made eight points for
the Georgettes. Amanda
Whitaker scored the Rockettes’
two points.
Gators
win ABA
The Gators beat the Bears 26-
15 Sunday in a Rick Barry
League playoff game. The win
gave the Gators the ABA title.
Ricky Tucker scored 18 points
for the Gators and Jo Jo Ward
made four.
Gary Schenk made nine for
the Bears and Tommy Barrett
made three.
Allison’s
condition
satisfactory
PINEHURST, N.C. (UPI) -
Bobby Allison, who was injured
in an eight-car pileup in
Sunday’s Carolina 500 stock car
race, was listed in satisfactory
condition today in Moore
Memorial Hospital.
Hospital officials said Allison
was in the intensive care unit
for observations of chest
contusions.
Allison was in second place
on the 323rd lap of the 492-lap
event, when he hit Cale
Yarborough’s Chevrolet, and
his car flipped through the air.
He cleared one car, but landed
on the front of Richard
Childress’ automobile.
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Eventual victor Richard Petty (43) passes the wreckages
of cars that were driven by Cale Yarborough (1) and
Bobby Allison (r) during caution lap after a spectacular
wreck in which they were involved during running of
Carolina 500 Sunday. Allison was taken to a local hospital
for treatment of injuries be suffered. (UPI)
Petty
wins
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. (UPI)
— Richard Petty was con
cerned abot keeping a two-lap
lead. The other drivers felt they
were lucky to finish Sunday’s
Carolina 500 stock car race.
Petty, sporting a Bicentennial
beard and curly hair, pulled
ahead of the pack at the
midway point and locked up the
victory when most of the top
contenders collided on the
backstretch of the North
Carolina Motor Speedway with
about 125 miles to go.
“I knew I couldn’t catch
Richard,” said Darrell Waltrip,
who put his Chevrolet in second
place two laps behind Petty’s
Dodge. “The longer it gets into
the race, the harder he is to
beat. I was lucky I didn’t get
tangled up in that mess on the
backstretch. It sure was an
ugly mess.”
The “ugly mess” was a
spectacular crash on lap 373 of
the 492-lap event in which
Bobby Allison’s Mercury was
sent flipping through the air
several hundred yards, ending
up as a tangled mass of metal.
“All of a sudden, I saw
Allison’s Mercury flying
through the air coming right at
me,” said Richard Childress. “I
caught the full impact of his
car right on the hood of my
car.”
Allison, who was running
second at the time, was to be
kept overnight at Moore
Memorial Hospital in Southern
Pines, but apparently sustained
no serious injuries.
He had just passed Cale
Yarborough on the backstretch
but had apparently not cleared
Yarborough’s car when he
pulled over.
“When he cut back over, my
front end hit his rear and
turned him sideways,” said
Yarborough, who finished third.
“That’s when he rammed the
wall head-on. When he did that,
his front end dug into the wall
and he started flipping.”
Petty was breezing along in
front of the field at the time
and finished with a two-lap
victory, his first of the season.
He pocketed $19,915 and closed
to within 32 points of David
Pearson in the Winston Cup
standings.
Pearson, winner of the first
two events of the 1976 NASCAR
season, was never in contention
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after the early going and
dropped out after 200 miles
because of an oil leak.
Petty said he is always
concerned when there is a
serious wreck, but said a driver
cannot let a mishap take his
mind off what he’s doing.
“It didn’t shock me near as
bad as that Daytona (wreck)
did,” said the Randleman
driver, in reference to a last
lap crash that cost him the
Daytona 500 victory Feb. 15.
“I guess you just sort of
realize you’ve got your job to
do and you just keep trucking
along,” Petty said.
That’s exactly what he did.
He led 362 laps, including the
final 220.
Petty had moved out to a
multiple-lap lead several times
in the race, only to lose ground
because of cut tires.
"It’s really frustrating,”
Petty said. “We figured we lost
about four different laps to the
second place man. But still if
your car’s working good, you
know you’ve got a good chance
to make it up. What’s really
bad is when you lose laps and
your car’s not working good.”
Dave Marcis, who started on
the pole position, fell back in
the pack in the early going, but
edged his way up to the
number two slot shortly before
he blew an engine at about the
midway point.
A.J. Foyt, expected to be a
contender coming into the race,
was sidelined after 57 laps
because of a grease seal
problem.
The race was being run at a
record speed until the big
crash, but the lengthy caution
flag slowed Petty’s finishing
speed to 113.655 miles per hour,
far short of the record.
Petty said his car was
handling like a baby on the one
mile high-banked track.
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