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By Gaytei Dukey and Dm RcsaikI . ..... • . i*CharlestonOnly one of three Woodrow Wilson women won her 9 a.m. tennis matchat Cato Park, but that’s all that was necessary for the Eagles to win their second state sports championship in a week.• IBrenda Brammer had little trouble indisposing of Beth Midcap, of Wheeling Park; 64, 6-3 and that win gave Beckley an 11-6 lead over St. Albans and Huntington. The most those two teams can score is 10 points.The championship is the first in the history of women’s tennis at Woodrow Wilson. Coach Fred Hill had said that if the matches are played, Beckley should win. The skies were overcast, but no rain fell during the early matches andthe women can join ; Beckley’s men’strack team as state champs.Barb Culicerto and Connie Hajash dropped their matches and were eliminated from further competition but they had earned the Eagles three points between them. Cindy O’Neal and Margaret Luchini had not finished their later matches by press time.Culicerto dropped a hard-fought 7-5, 6-4 verdict to Alix Evans, of St. Albansand Hajash lost 6-2, 64 to Debbie 'Dorsey, of South Charleston.Over at Watt Powell Park, where the men were playing. Bill Jones won his semifinal match with Bob Battles, of Martinsburg 64, 7-6 to. advance to the finals. Jones was the only Beckley male left in the competition..The men. having totaled just three points yesterday, were not in the competition for first place.“Some of our girls seem to play better against top competition,” Hill said Monday evening after his teamhad taken a commanding lead. “Culicerto and O'Neal always seem to do better when they're facing the best.“Overall,” Hill continued, “we’ve played awfully well.”“I’m not cocky, but the girls did a helluva job,” HOI said. ‘Tm surprised at the boys. I don’t know what happened.”Becitley’s boys team, 4ike everyone * else, was steamrolled by Parkersburg’s Big Reds and South Charleston. Beckley. currently mathematically eliminated from state title considera-
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Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Tue, May 24, 1977
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