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Rams Take Big 4 Classic Meet
7 The cool, calm, and confident
■Newton County Rams collected
iheir 10th and 11th wins of the
Season as they wrapped up the
■Big Four Championship. Friday
and Saturday at Hartwell. The fi
nal buzzer of four of the closest,
most exciting basketball games
Ip be played anywhere around,
found the Rams the only two-game
winner in the classic.
- The opening game found New
ton going against a big and
strong Crescent (S.C.) team. Cres
cent had beer, to the state tourna
ment finals four straight years
and had al! five of last year's
starters back this year. The South
Sarolina team had the height and
tocperience advantage over the
•outhful Rams and came out
Jrong the first quarter of the
•ame. scoring 15 points to New-
E>n's 8.
~ During the second quarter the
Rams began to roll offensively
2nd began to tighten defensively,
scoring 17 points and holding the
opposition to only six. The Rams,
vmall in size but tall in confidence
and desire overcame an eleven
J>int deficit to lead at halftime
45-21. The third quarter was even
-2 even all the way and the boys I
*rom South Carolina picked up
lie point and were down by only 3
* the start of the final period.
— When the final buzzer sounded.
Newton County had come out on
top of another thriller as if they
Had ice water in their veins. The
tola! score was 39-38. Tim Chris-
Han was leading scorer for New
ton with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Grady Campbell and Terry Smith
Bbth had 8 points. Wayne Hall and
Gary Bloodworth had 4 each.
— The second game of the evening
was equally exciting as the host
Bart Countians, coached by Bill
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t Ensley, pulled out a victory over
i the Headland Highlanders on a
' last-second buzzer shot by sopho
• more Lyle Martin who was fouled
■ on the play. Martin hit the final
• free throw of the game after the
. Hock had run out to give the Hart
; team a 64-61 victory.
The second of two great nights
of basketball pitted Newton
against the favored Headland
team. Again the Rams were out
sized but that did not faze them :
as their desire and defense quick
ly arose to the occasion. Head
land jumped out in front quickly
and held a 10-5 lead at the end
of the first quarter.
Again the Newton boys outscor- '
ed their opponents in the second
quarter, but were still 3 down at
half-time, 18-15. The second half
brought the determined Rams
back onto the floor with two ob- 1
jectives in mind — to score and
keep Headland from scoring. This
■ they did. The game was a thriller
all the way, with the Rams pull
ing out to a 5-point lead by the
end of the 3rd quarter. Headland
quickly caught up early in the
i fourth quarter and it was nip-and
| tuck the rest of the way.
With 21 seconds left in the game 1
Headland had a 34-33 lead, but '
Terry Smith hit on a driving lay- 1
up to put Newton on top 35-34.
With 10 seconds left, Tim Chris- :-
tian scored 2 clutch foul shots to '
put the game in the bag for the
Rams, 37-34. *
As for their objectives — to
: score and keep Headland from
scoring — the Rams did just that. ’
The boys from Covington missed '
only four shots in the second half
for 69 percent from the field. De- 1
fenjive - minded Wayne Hall, '
along with his mates, also held '
Headland's high-scoring Tingle
(who had a 25 point average) to 2
I points the second half and a total
of 10 points. The second half of
Headland’s scoring duo, Charles
Bussey, scored only 3 points each
half for a total of 6 points. Chris
tian, with 18 points and 13 re
bounds, again led Newton’s scor- '
ing. Smith had 8
Grady Campbell, who spent Sat- |
urday under the care of a doctor, 1
I got up out of a sick bed to score
17, adding one free throw to his i
: string of 17 consecutive free
throws, making it 18 now. Stan
Harris and Wayne Hall added 2
points each.
The second Saturday night game
between Hart Co. and Crescent
followed the thriller pattern as it
ended in a 59-58 verdict for Cres
cent. The Hart County victory
string was snapped at 8 straight
as Billy Kidd's final shot eased
off the back of the rim of the bas
ket as the buzzer sounded.
Newton Co. — Smith 8. Camp
bell 8. Hall 4. Christian 15, Har
ris 0, Bloodworth 4
Crescent — B. Metz 1. Drennon
21, G. Metz 2, Jackson 7, Gray 5,
Keaton 2
Score at half: Rams 25, Crescent
21.
Newton Co. 37, Headland 31:
Newton Co. — T. Smith 8, Har
ris 2, Campbell 7, Hall 2, Chris
tian 18.
Headland — Tingle 10. Manus 1,
Bowen 9, White 8. Bussey 6.
Score at Half: Headland 18,
Rams 15.
Bowl Lineup:
Gator Bowl, Jacksonville, Fla.:
North Carolina (8-2) vs Air Force
(73)
Sun Bowl at El Paso, Texas:
Oregon (6-4) vs SMU (4-5)
Cotton Bowl at Dallas. Texas:
Navy (9-1) vs Texas (10-0)
Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla.:
Nebraska (9-1) vs Auburn (9-1)
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans. La.:
Mississippi (7-0-2) vs Alabama
(8-2)
Rose Bowl at Pasadena. Calif.:
Illinois (7-1-1) vs Washington (6-4)
Air Force-FSU,
Fla.-Manhattan
In Gator Classic
I First-round pairings of the
Gator Bowl basketball tourna
i ment match Air Force and
Florida State in the opener and
Florida against Manhattan in
the second game.
The Air Force-FSU game
1 will begin at 7:30 on the night
of December 26. with the
i Florida-Manhattan contest be
ginning at approximately 9:15.
First-round winners will
meet at 9:15 p.m. on December
, 27 for the championship, while
the losers will play for third
place in a 7:30 game.
Coach Norm Sloan's Gators,
who finished second to Georgia
Tech in last year’s event, are
the only returnees from 1962
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Florida, of course, is a mem
ber of the Southeastern Con
ference while Manhattan, Air
Force and FSU are all inde
pendents.
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3 Footballers Did
Double Duty in '63
Three Ram players who did
double duty with the NCHS
“B” football team and the
Ram varsity were left out of
our names as players who were
awarded letters at the football
banquet.
These boys were listed with
the varsity: Andre Bruyere,
Eddie Hinton and Gary Wilker
son. They received letters and
silver footballs at the banquet
December 12.
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Newton Gagers Continue Travel
The traveling Newton County
Ram basketball team hits the
road again Friday morning for a
three-day trip to Tifton. Georgia.
On Friday night, the Rams, sport
ing a shiny 11-game winning
streak, will face home-standing
Tift County High. The Tift Blue
Devils are annually one of the
strongest south Georgia fives and
have been to the state AA tourna
ment 3 of the past 4 years.
The Blue Devils will be dedi
cating their new $300,000 gum as
they face the traditionally strong
Newton team. On the same pro
gram that night, the Hart County
Bulldogs, defending AA cham
pions, will face the Berrien Coun
ty team.
On Saturday night the Rams
and the Hart lads will swap part
ners. Berrien County has already
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Georgia teams and will prove a
formidable op|»nent for the
Rams.
The Newton team has taken to
the road this year seeking strong
opposition which will season them
for the tough tournaments ahead.
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Thursday, December 28, 1983
The Rams, playing what is pro
bably the school’s strongest bas
ketball schedule in history, has
come through with flying cclors
thus far.
The Rams’ 11 game winning
streak is slightly amazing when
one considers that the local team
has been on the road for seven
of the 11 encounters. Most of the
eleven victories have been gotten
state’s strongest teams.