Mech Comets Defeat Moose In Low-Scoring Contest
Mech Comets posted a 201 to 441 totals with period scores 018 10 41 and 213 17 16 61. Personal fouls favored Mech Comets 10 to 4 as officials Dunlap and Michael oversaw the game.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1958
Page
29
Mech Comets posted a 201 to 441 totals with period scores 018 10 41 and 213 17 16 61. Personal fouls favored Mech Comets 10 to 4 as officials Dunlap and Michael oversaw the game.
Needham Broughton High School of Raleigh won the third Invitational High School swim meet at East Carolina College pool scoring 81.5 to 79. Myers Park of Charlotte led with four firsts while Needham Broughton swept the 100 yard breast stroke and took multiple runner-up places. Greensboro Senior High finished third followed by Chapel Hill High and New Hanover High. This marked the team’s second straight victory at the event.
Don Goodroe of the University of South Carolina will concentrate on track for the rest of the season, giving up basketball. The 6-7 junior from Columbus set a ACC record in the high hurdles at Chapel Hill and is viewed as an Olympic prospect. He has been a reserve center on the basketball team and cites a minor leg injury and early track training as the reasons for the switch.
South Atlantic League directors accepted William H. Terry's resignation as president and reduced the six club Class A loop for 1958. Acting president John Duncan will govern until a successor is elected by Feb. 20 as Jacksonville Knoxville Charlotte Augusta Savannah and Macon remain. Columbus and Columbia exit the league, all preparing a 140-game schedule with the All-Star game slated for July 7.
The Y s Men Midget basketball race tightens as the Pistons pull even with the league leading Rams after a win. Each team has one game left before playoffs. In the National loop the Nationals secure top seed by beating the Panthers 28 to 8, extending their eight straight victory run.
Sugar Ray Robinson, a 7-5 underdog, prepares for a March 25 middleweight rematch with Carmen Basilio at Chicago Stadium. Robinson notes his Chicago losses, praises the officiating there, and recalls his title wins in the venue. Basilio aims to overturn a prior split decision loss at Yankee Stadium and seeks a different outcome in Chicago.
Lawrence resigns today as Bucknell University football coach to become guidance counselor at Baltimore City College High School.
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