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Danny
Foster
Rec Director
Otwell faculty
capture title
in volleyball
Thursday night at Otwell Junior
High School was the last regular
season volleyball match for our
initial 1984-85 campaign.
The evening was highlighted by the
presentation of a league
championship trophy to the Otwell
Junior High Faculty, who completed
the season with 13 wins and only one
loss (which came at the hands of the
Dawson County High Faculty).
Two sportsmanship trophies were
presented as well, one going to Scott
Bennett of Hard Knocks and the other
to Molly Oswald of Cumming United
Methodist Church. Both of these
individuals played very skillfully and
enthusiastically the entire season,
displaying excellent sportsmanship
in acting as a key player for their
respective teams.
Scott and Molly acted as an
example in displaying their athletic
skills to help their teams as well as a
picture of proper attitude in
recreational sports.
Congratulations go out to Scott
Bennett and Molly Oswald and to the
Otwell Junior High Faculty for great
volleyball play and true
sportsmanship.
The Volleyball League’s postseason
tournament will be held Saturday,
Feb. 16, beginning at noon in the
Otwell Junior High School
gymnasium.
The tournament will be single
elimination, but will feature a
consolation bracket for fifth place to
give each team eliminated a chance
to play another match.
The third place match will be held
at 4 p.m. with the championship
games scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.
The volleyball tournament bracket
of first round draws and game times
will be published in next Sunday’s
edition of the News.
Final standings for the 1984-84
Volleyball League’s regular season
are:
Otwell Junior High 13-1
Hard Knocks 10-4
Dawson County High 9-5
Cumming Methodist 7-7
EMCI 6-«
EMC2 6-8
First Christian 4-10
Rec Department 1-13
Teams knotted atop rec basketball league
Katrina Stevens and Charlotte Grindle paced
a second half rally that led McDonald’s to a 41-
39 victory over Dairy Queen in the Cumming
Recreation Department’s Women’s Open Bas
ketball League last Wednesday.
Dairy Queen (3-2) entered the game atop the
standings of the women’s division and carried a
21-14 lead into the intermission. But Stevens
scored 10 of her game-high 15 points in the
second half and Grindle added eight to lead
McDonald’s (2-3) to the come-from-behind win.
Grindle finished with 14 points while Nancy
Carter and Brenda Watson scored 10 points
apiece for Dairy Queen.
Sidney O. Insurance moved into a first place
tie with Dairy Queen with its 55-41 win over
Ingram’s Heating and Air Conditioning (2-3).
Rhonda Jones scored 16 first half points to pace
Sidney O. to a 27-17 halftime lead and Lisa
Gore’s 12-point effort in the second half kept
Ingram’s from overcoming its deficit.
Gore finished with a game-high 19 points
while Jones tallied 18 points for Sidney 0.,
which connected on 23-of-27 free throw opportu
nities in the contest. Nina Moore scored 14
points to lead Ingrams’ and Betty Bennett
Lady Bulldogs’ JV capture 4th win in a row
By Greg Little
The Sunday News
ATHENS Forsyth County’s junior varsity
Lady Bulldogs reeled off the first 11 points of
the second half against Clarke Central last
Wednesday, and that scoring outburst pro
pelled the local team to a 45-29 victory, its
fourth win in a row.
Forsyth opened to a slow start against the
Lady Gladiators, a team which the Lady Bull
dogs had defeated handily in January. Going
without a field goal for the first five minutes of
the contest, the Lady Bulldogs found them
selves trailing 6-1 late in the first quarter and
Coach Jerry Cauley replaced his entire start
WRESTLERS
syth) involved next year.”
The junior high wrestlers found
themselves handed a close 18-15
loss by Riverside on Wednesday,
but defeated Cherokee by a 37-30
count.
Against Cherokee, five of For
syth’s seven individual victories
came via pins. Jody Smallwood
(83-lb.), Darryl Tate (116-lb.), Jay
Thompson (127-lb.) and Mike Hop
ton (134-lb.) each recorded pins
for the Bulldogs.
Local skiars took to the slopes at
Sky Valley Ski Resort last Thurs
day as part of the annual ski trip
sponsored by the Cumming
Recreation and Park Depart
ment. A day full of skiing, turn
bUe and laughter was enjoyed
by almost 60 Forsyth County
skiers to make the trip, and
while the soreness may last a
few days, the memories will
linger much longer. (Clockwise
from top left) Linda Ream scoots
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In addition, Smallwood also re
corded a 15-10 decision over Shane
Pye in his second 83-lb. match of
the competition and Jimmy Coo
per bested Larry Roland by a 9-2
count in the 120-lb. division.
Against Riverside, pins by Ron
ald Seay (83-lb.) and Scotty Stan
di (108-lb.) gave the Bulldogs a 12-
6 lead after three matches, but
Riverside took pins in the next two
matches to pull out to an 18-12
advantage.
SkL-happy!
added 10.
In the Men’s Open Basketball League, Bank
South and Mack’s remained tied for the top
spot in the standings with victories that upped
their season records to 4-1.
Bank South scored a 74-63 triumph over
Day’s (2-3), breaking a 30-30 halftime tie with a
16-8 scoring outburst in the third quarter.
Shane Blackburn and Dennis Howell led the
assault by striking for seven points apiece in
the quarter and Bank South then connected on
20-of-27 free throw shots in the final stanza to
secure the win.
Blackburn took the game’s scoring honors
with 19 points, leading a Bank South attack that
placed five players in double figures, including
Howell (14), Dwight Taylor (12), Nicky Gravitt
(11) and Phil Moore (10). Four Day’s players
scored in the double-digit range, including
Jackie West (16), Steve Barnes (13), Jeff Perry
(10) and Keith Gravitt (10).
Mack’s kept pace with Bank South by record
ing a 68-38 victory over Green Hills Landscap
ing. Mack’s broke open a close 14-10 duel in the
second quarter as Scott Jones scored eight
points to lead a 16-7 scoring advantage.
ing lineup with his second team.
A pair of inside baskets by Glynis Caldwell
and Rebecca Wilson broke the scoring drought
and Janice Fowler’s foul line jump shot in the
waning seconds lifted the Lady Bulldogs to a 7-6
lead.
The reserves extended the lead in the second
period to 18-11.
Perhaps anxious to redeem themselves, For
syth’s starting five opened the second half with
an 11-point flurry keyed by a pressing defense
that held Clarke without a field goal attempt
for over four minutes. During that streak,
Forsyth’s lead grew from seven to 18 points and
the rout was on.
Forsyth stretched its advantage to over 20
down the slope with a smile and
a laugh; Stan Estes displays tils
fashionable skiing apparel;
Scott Bennett takes a cautious
first slide on his skis; Gerald
Blackburn and Michael Mullinax
relax on the lift before another
run down the slopes; and In a
scene all to familiar to any skier,
Phil Glover cannot help but
laugh at himself after an embar
rassing, but harmless, fall, j
(Sports photos by Greg Little.)
Mark Hardin led all scorers with 19 points
while Jones finished wiyh 17 and Syeve Terry
added 14 for Mack’s. Bill Higginbotham topped
Green Hills’ scoring with eight points.
Both the men’s and women’s leagues will
take this Wednesday night off, and will resume
action Feb. 20 with the final regular season
games.
First place in both leagues will be on the line
the final night, with Sidney O. set to square off
against Dairy Queen for the women’s title in
the 9:30 p.m. game and Mack’s and Bank South
facing off for the men’s title at 8:30 p.m.
Ingram’s will play McDonald’s in the night’s
6:30 p.m. contest and Day’s will meet Green
Hills in the 7:30 p.m. game.
Concord wins a pair
Concord Baptist captured a pair of victories
in Monday night’s Cumming Recreation De
partment’s Church Basketball League to main
tain its perfect (7-0) record and first place
standing.
In the week’s regulary scheduled game,
Concord used a balanced scoring attack paced
points in the fourth quarter before a late Clarke
surge closed the final margin to 45-29.
Cauley noted that his team’s slow start was
due to a variety of factors. “We had beaten
them easily the first time and I think we might
have been overconfident. Plus we had the off
day the day before (when the game was post
poned from its original date because of the icy
conditions) and it’s a mighyy long trip over
there,” Cauley said’
“We weren’t hustling like we should so I
pulled the starters out and sent the next group
in. And they did a good job. They got the lead
for us and when the starters went back out,
they played a lot better.
“It’s good to win that fourth one in a row, and
it’s good to get to play everybody. All 14 girls
ing period to close to within 21-20 on a jump shot by
senior guard Tim McCallister.
The Gladiators soon extended that lead back to an
apparent 28-21 margin midway through the quarter,
but a discrepancy in the scoreboard, Clarke’s official
scorebook and Forsyth’s scorebook resulted in a
lengthy debate at the scorer’s table. After the dis
cussion, the score was returned to 24-20 in the Gladia
tors’ favor.
The controversy may have served as inspiration for
Clarke as the Gladiators finished the quarter with the
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by Phil Moore’s 12-point effort to defeat First
Baptist (2-5) by a 53-48 count. First Baptist’s
Lawson led all scorers with 22 points, while M.
Downing finished with 12.
And in a game postponed from the season’s
opening week, Concord raced to a 79-57 win
over Liberty (1-6). Four Concord players hit for
double figures in the scoring race, including
Chuck Slaton (20), Barry Slaton (19), Moore
(16) and Chuck Moore (14). Liberty’s Steven
Woody claimed the game’s scoring honors with
a 22-point performance.
First Christian (5-2) stayed in second place
with a 54-46 triumph over Liberty as Jerry
Morgan scored 13 points and Keith Fountain
added 10 for the winners. Tim Byrd and Woody
scored 13 and 12 points, respectively, for Lib
erty while Grady Turner added 10.
In the night’s other game, United Methodist
(3-4) edged Community Bible Church 40-38.
United Methodist, who was led by Jackie
West’s 13 points, rallied for the win after
entering the final quarter facing a 32-26 deficit.
Derry Cochran led all scorers with 16 points
while Steve Logan added 11 for Community
Bible (3-4).
played and 13 of them scored,” Cauley said.
Guard Ellen Fries led the Forsyth attack
with nine points, while Caldwell finished with
eight.
Forsyth’s boys, meanwhile, fell victim to
“the most talented team we’ve played this
year,” according to Coach Byron Orr, whose
Bulldogs dropped an 81-46 decision.
Featuring a thoroughbred lineup that bodes
well for Clarke’s varsity future, the Gladiators
used their heighy advanyage to dominate the
boards and then open up a lightning quick fast
break to move out to an early commanding
lead.
Shane Williams led Forsyyh with 13 points,
while Greg Tallant scored nine and Neal Stud
dard scored eight.
throttle wide open, scoring 18 straight points after the
scoreboard mixup to carry a 38-24 advantage into the
intermission.
And the Gladiators’ offense kept the pace in the
second half, scoring 23 points in each quarter to shrug
off any comeback attempt by Forsyth (10-11 overall,
3-6 in sub-region play).
Sophomore Brad Elzey followed Chester in For
syth’s scoring totals with nine points, while senior
Michael Waldrip finished with eight.