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Panthers, Pantherettes Snap
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Greyhoimd Winning Streaks
By
Donnie “DC* Cockrel
Last Tuesday night
both Perry High
basketball teams
prevailed in a region
contest against the Jones
County Greyhounds with
the girls winning by a
score of 57-47 and the
boys 83-73 in the nightcap
before a sparsely
populated crowd at the
Perry High gymnasium.
Pantherettes
Coach James Kinchen
summed the game up
best when he commented
that "our defense in the
third quarter was the
turning point of the game
and I was very pleased.”
He also had words of
praise for junior Jeanese
WALLACE. "Jeanese
was fantastic. She is the
best rebounder we have,”
he remarked. Indeed, the
defense was good and
yes, Jeanese Wallace can
rebound. While the
Pantherettes were
limiting Jones County to
only eight third-quarter
points, Wallace was
rebounding most of the
misses which helped
constitute a total of 17
rebounds even though she
scored only 9 points.
Geraldine Watkins led
the Pantherettes with 14
points to go with her 12
rebounds.
The first half was close
with Jones County taking
a one-point lead at the
end of the first quarter
which they also main
tained at halftime. Perry
could not put the ball into
the hole even though they
were winning the
rebounding war 22-18.
Defensive play was also
lethargic with Jones
Steve Sunni (lis Wins
HLCC Weekly Dogfight
Steve Sarandis came in
first place in last
Saturday’s Dogfight Golf
at Houston Lake Country
Club. Jack Steele finished
second and Don Hasse
HLCC Golf Ladies
Name New Officers
Houston Lake Country
Club Ladies Golf
Association met
November 27 to make
plans for the 1980 club
year. The officers were
elected as follows: Betty
Lewis, president: Bar
bara Calhoun, vice
president; Mickie
Zolman, secretary
treasurer; Dottie
Frazier, tournament
chairperson. There were
twenty-five ladies
present for the meeting.
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By Dave Crockett
Perry High School Athletic Director
‘Merry Christmas ’
We would like to begin
this week by com
mending our basketball
teams for their great
start this season. Both
the boys and girls are
currently doing quite
well. If you haven’t seen
our ”roundballers*‘ in
action, we invite you to
the Panther Den after the
holidays to catch them in
action. Lonnie Boone,
Chuck Langston, and
"Pistol” Steve Stokeling
will give you an exciting
night of basketball action
that you won’t soon
forget. It’s like eating
potato chips. You can't
just stop at one game,
you’ll have to see another
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Frances Owens Fires
Against D.F. Douglass
County shredding the 2-1-
2 zone for layups inside.
Things quickly changed
in the second half when
Walkins scored to put the
Pantherettes ahead to
stay, 30-29, early in the
third quarter. The squad
was third,
HLCC’s weekly
scramble has been
postponed until after the
Christmas holidays. They
will resume in January.
A High-Low tour
nament was held and the
winners were Bonnie
Nelson and Shirley
Taylor. The second place
winners were Barbara
Calhoun and Martha
Scarborough and coming
in third place were Grace
Spann and Sylvia Slocum.
The next regular
meeting is planned for
2:30 p.m. January 8. All
golfers are urged to at
tend.
one. Watch out or you
might get "hooked" on
Panther basketball.
The Panther wrestling
team opened up their
season at Washington
County last week. The
Panther grappler lost
their initial match, but
gained some valuable
experience. The matmen
will be at home after the
holidays. In the first
match, Chucky Kendrick
won by a score of 11-3;
Alvin Durham by 6-1; Ed
Kezar by 13-9, and Greg
Harvey and Keith
Fleming won by a pin.
The footballers con
tinue the weight program
with enthusiasm and
started alternating their
press and zone defenses
which forced the op
position into turnovers
and low-percentage shots
while simply taking
advantage of the cir
cumstances to create a
13-point lead by the end of
the quarter.
But character became
a factor as the Lady
Greyhounds showed they
were not through by
pulling to within five
points with five minutes
left. Kinchen was forced
to call two timeouts
within two minutes in an
effort to regain poise .
Wallace then responded
to record a three-point
play which helped
stabilize the situation as
they cruised to a ten-point
victory. The Pantherettes
finished with 46 rebounds
and 17 turnovers.
QUARTER SCORES
Perry 10 24 46 57
Jones Co. 11 25 33 47
Perry; Watkins 14,
Woodard 12, Owens 10,
Wallace 9, King 6,
Whitfield 4, Askew 2.
Jones Co.: Maddox 16,
Post 8, Lester 6, Hill 6,
Farlar 4. Pitts 4, Pat
terson 3.
PANTHERS
While holding on to a
scant three-point lead,
junior center Lonnie
Boone picked up his third
foul with 4:35 left in the
third quarter. This
m
pride. We hope to have
some meets with other
region schools in the
future. Speaking about
football, our football
banquet will be on
January 3, after the
holidays. Watch for
further information in the
Journal.
We sincerely hope that
you and your family have
a joyous Christmas, filled
with lots of love and
happiness. Please
remember that we
celebrate Christmas
because of our Lord, not
because of wrapping
paper and ribbon. Merry
Christmas from all of us
at the Perry High
Athletic Department.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1979
automatically qualified
him for foul trouble.
Quite naturally, Coach
Melvin Sweat became
concerned. Boone’s
teammates also became
concerned. Not to
mention the home fans.
All were asking the same
question, whether by
verbalism or thought;
“Will the rest of the team
produce without him, or
will they collapse just as
they have before?”
Fortunately for the
Panthers, Nick Felder
and Chuck Langston had
the answer. Felder had a
fine 10-point quarter
while Langston con
centrated on the boards,
something he did not do
well in the first half.
“Both Felder and
Langston carried us in
the second half. Tonight
we proved that we could
play well regardless of
who is playing,” noted a
happy and relieved
Sweat.
Still, the Panthers are
strongest with Boone in
the lineup. He scored
Perry’s first six points on
the way to a 14-point first
quarter' as the Panthers
built a seven-point lead.
Jones County could not
stop him from getting the
ball inside because of
good ball movement
which can partly be
accredited to point-guard
Darryl Albritton who
finished with 5 assists,
including two beautiful
Larry Bird-like passes to
Boone for field goals.
After Carlton
Clarington scored the
Greyhounds reeled off ten
straight points in the
second quarter as the
pace of the game
quickened and the crowd
became more involved.
The lead then see-sawed
with Jones County
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scoring right before the
halftime buzzer to cut the
deficit to two points.
The third quarter was
more of the same before
Boone picked up his third
foul which set the stage
for the next 5 minutes and
27 seconds of truth. The
Panthers responded very
favorable with good
shooting, hustle, and
defense to open up an
eight-point lead going
into the last quarter.
Boone returned with
5:58 left in the game and
promptly scored to give
his team a seven-point
lead it never
relinquished. Everything
started going well for the
Panthers as they were
even scoring from their
stalling, spread-out of
fense. At this point many
members of the
Greyhound klan took out
their frustrations on (who
else?) the officials.
Boone was the high
point man and rebounder
in the contest with 24
points and 15 rebounds.
Smooth-shooting Steve
Stokeling finished with 22
points on deadly outside
shooting as the Panthers
shot over fifty percent but
only 16 of 31 from the foul
stripe. In fact, the
Panthers have not lost a
contest in which they
have shot 50 percent or
better from the field, a
statistic which is a
testimony to poor free
throw shooting.
Quarter Scores
Perry 22 40 62 83
Jones Co. 15 38 54 73
Perry: Lonnie Boone
24, Stokeling 22, Felder
14, Langston 14,
Clarington 8, Robinson 2.
Jones Co.: Maddox 14,
Mack 12, Farrar 11,
Bohler 11, Alexander 11,
Stafford 10, Richardson 4.
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6 3-48 And 72-51
PHS Gets Revenge
Against Douglass
By
Donnie ‘DC’ Cockrel
Last Friday night was
very enjoyable for both
Perry High basketball
teams as they swept D.F.
Douglass of Montezuma
before a partisan Perry
crowd. The Pantherettes
got 17 points from
Jeanese Wallace and 16
from Geraldine Watkins
as they rolled to a 63-48
win over the Hornettes.
Good defense limited
D.F. Douglass to eight
fourth-quarter points
while scoring 18 of their
own which produced the
final margin.
Meanwhile, the Pan
thers 72-51 victory over
the Hornets was led by
junior Chuck Langston
who responded with a 22-
point, 20 rebound effort,
by far his best game of
the season. Bench
strength was provided by
Frank Lester, who
finished with 14 points
and 8 rebounds, and
sophomore Ben Robin
son. Red-hot Langston
was 7 of 10 from the field
and 8 of 10 from the foul
line. Lester was equally
as accurate, missing only
one shot out of seven
field-goal attempts.
Not unlike the Pan
therettes in the earlier
game, the Panthers also
played fine fourth
quarter defense, allowing
only six points. One other
bright spot was Perry’s
82 percent shooting from
the charity stripe, a
practice Coach Melvin
Sweat hopes will develop
into a ritual.
Both teams will
compete in the Houston
County Christmas
Tournament Friday
night. By virtue of a
draw, Perry will play the
winners of the Northside-
Peach County contests of
Thursday night.
Girls Scoring: Wallace
17, Watkins 16, Owens 14,
Woodard 8, Allen 4, King
2, Whitfield 2. Halftime:
27-27
Boys Scoring:
Langston 22, Lester 14,
Boone 12, Clarington 10,
Robinson 4, Stokeling 4.
Halftime: Perry 34, D.F.
Douglass 31.