High Point College Edges Elon For Carolinas Conference Title
High Point College withstood Elon’s ninth inning rally to win the Carolinas Conference baseball championship 2-1. Elon won the first game 5-2, forcing a second game in the double elimination tournament. The Panthers benefited from three hits, a walk and an error for an unearned run as their pitcher improved to 8-3. Pembroke College awaits in the season playoffs starting Thursday at an undetermined site.
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Paul Shinn
Enterprise
Asheboro
High Point College
Elon
Panthers
Pembroke College
Holcombe stars as Indians win Loop Track Meet title
Holcombe led the Indians to the Loop Conference track championship at Albion Millis Stadium over Lenoir Rhyne and High Point. He won three events including the 100 yard dash setting a new record, with teammates and rivals setting additional records in the mile shot put and pole vault as Catawba claimed 72 points to beat LR 69 1 half and High Point 51.
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Lenoir Rhyne
Albion Millis Stadium
Laurinburg
Holcombe
Lewis Farlow
High Point
Randleman
Wayne Bell
Glenn Morrison
Catawba
Indians
Elon
Atlantic Christian
Hi Toms edge Cardinals in 10th for 10th straight win
Thomasville Hi-Toms beat Rock Hill Cardinals 3-2 in 10 innings to extend their Western Carolina League win streak to ten. Bob Alexander delivered a bases loaded single in the 10th to drive in the decisive run after a sequence that started with Livingston, Glover, and Videtich. Pete Sierra earned the victory for Thomasville as the Hi-Toms bullpen held Rock Hill scoreless until the final frame.
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Rock Hill
8. C
Bob Alexander
Thomasville
Hi - Toms
Cardinals
John Livingston
Jim Glover
Tom Videtich
Livingston
Pete Sierra
Thomasville Club
Mike Peschel
Hi-Toms
Jim Blackledge
Dave Wilhelm
Sierra
Weaver shoots 68 to lead HPGA tourney at Blair Park
Henry Weaver carded 68 to capture medalist honors in the High Point Golf Association City wide Tournament first round at Blair Park. Jim Ward, Stan Kinney and Howard Cooper shot 70s while Bud Kivett and Gene Jones had 71s in the event with 196 golfers entered the largest ever HPGA field.
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Blair Park
Johnny Johnson
W. L. Caton
High Point Golf Association
Henry Weaver
Ee Werere
Jim Ward
Stan Kinney
Howard Cooper
Bud Kivett
Gene Jones
Weaver
Ceve Vy
Marcus Geeseedy
Gong Hs
Roger Watson
Aaron Rice
Aubrey Bottom
Marcus Wood
Howard Kennedy
Richard Brijes
Phil Hudson
George Crickmore
Joe Deal
Smokey Flowers
Mike Smith
Dewey Hilliard
Bill McKingie
Randy Hutchins
Carlton Boyles
Roy Chilton
Marvin Boggs
George Bulford
Lee Brown
Kim Neeley
David Ellington
Palmer Barrett
Darrell Parker
Fay McCallum
Mack
Red Dobbins
Joe Cox
E. L. Boggess
F. D. Parker
Willard Pickrell
Tom Sullivan
Gien Johnson
J. M. Morrow
Bob Davidson
Dave Ingold
Earl Crow
Phil Sedberry
Roger Cook
John Johnson
Hal Shipwash
Harold Soloman
Bruce DeHart
Robert Bowers
Van
Alan Neasleans
Neece Willard
Wayne Williard
Joel Pendry
Baylor Gray
Don Young
Guy
Results Of Conference Track Meet
High Point dominates with multiple top finishes led by Lewis Farlow and Fred Crump. Catawba and Lenoir Rhyne earn high placements in events including mile and discus while Glenn Morrison, Billi Mann, and Joan Sechel earn podiums in field events.
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High Point College
Lewis Farlow
Steff
Richardson
High Point
Fred Crump
Lenoira
Richard Hardy
Neil
Teak
Goa
Gaine Carine
Glenn Morrison
Lenoir Rhyne
Billi Mann
Elon
Joan Sechel
Catawba
Mike Cantrell
Wes Lamoreaux
Appalachian
High Point College Signs Four For Next Basketball Season
High Point College announces four new basketball signees for the coming year including the program’s first two Negro athletes. Eugene Little and John Davis join Jim Picka and the Moore brothers Logan and Herb from North and South Carolina, each on four year grants-in-aid.
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High Point College
Tom Quinn
High Point
Eugene Little
Washington, D.C
Jim Picka
Baltimore Md
John Davis
Polkton
N.C
Logan
Herb Moore
Western Carolina
Johnson Wins Grand National Race at Bowman Gray
At Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem the Junior Johnson night featured Ronda Ford as she won one of two 25-lap heats for Grand National cars and captured the pole for the 200-lap feature before winning the main race by two and a half laps over Ned Jarrett, another Ford driver, in front of a cheering crowd.
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Junior Johnson
Bowman Gray Stadium
Johnson
Ned Jarrett
Ford
Tony Lema Drops Out Of Greater New Orleans Open
Tony Lema withdrew from the Greater New Orleans Open with a bad back after posting a three over 39 for nine holes. The California swinger said he had slept on a foam rubber mattress all week due to the painful condition.
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New Orleans
Tony Lema
California
Lema
Tom Rolfe wins Preakness in a neck over Dapper Dan
Tom Rolfe a Ray mond Guest Stables colt surged from the pack in the final turn to take the lead a fraction from home and win the 180 600 Preakness at Pimlico by a neck over Dapper Dan. Lucky Debonair faded to seventh in the nine horse field as Canadian Ronnie Turcotte rode a strong pace and Milo Valenzuela filed a foul claim which was dismissed after 15 minutes of review.
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Raymond Guest
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Dapper Dan
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Lucky Debonair
Selari
Wy Wedighenipe
Milo Valenzuela
Drapper Dan Dirging
Valenzuela
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