The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-16
FLAT R0CKSIX,
EDNEYVILLE'S
BOYS CHAMPS
Lift County Cage Final
..Honors in, Saturday
Night Contests
By EDGAR II. CASE

house from the rafters right dowr
to the black side lines of the
court and occupied every foot OF
available space along the enc
walls, the Flat Rock girls ano
Edncyvillc boys cage teams be-
came county champions in two
fast and thrilling games at the
Flat Rock gym Saturday night
The Flat Rock scxtet defeated the
Edneyvillc six 10 to II, and the
Edneyville boys quint triumphed
over the Mills River boys team
81 to "a.
The girls game, first on the
book, started off with a bang with
the Edneyville girls, playing smart
and fast basketball, scoring first
and getting away in the next few
minutes to a 5 to | lead.
But the comely, smiling Flat
Rock six soon got going and with
Ballard, dark haired little for
ward, dropping three field goals
through the hoop, pulled up at
the quarter rest in a &c tie with
the fair Edneyville athletes. But
the Cathey coached sextet started
clicking in the second quarter and
while the Flat Rock damosels
missed goal after goal due to
over eagerness, gained the half
way mark or intermission with a
10 to 8 lead and the outcome OF
the game was in doubt.
But the second half was some
thing else. The Flat Rock girls
came out seemingly infused with
new-found confidence and a world
of ambition and determination
and put on perhaps the greatest
exhibition of defensive basketball
seen at the Flat Rock gym in
years. They held the Edneyville
sextet to single free point while,
with Ward, their brilliant center,
finding the basket as per usual,
they added II points to their first
half score. The guarding of King,
Rhodes, Godfrey and Taylor, the
latter as a substitute, was sensa-
tional. The work of Rhodes was
beautiful to watch. -,
Ballard and Ward each shot
nine points. Hill shot five points
for Edneyville. w
The Edneyville, Mills River
boys championship game was a
sparkling, scihtillating, cheer
arousing, pulse-accelerating bat
tie of fast action, brilliant guard
ing, beautiful passing and spectac-
ular goal shooting. with the Ed
neville quint winning mainly be-
cause of it's ability to work the
ball up to its goal and convert
shots into points while the, River
ian five found it very difficult to
advance to its goal due to Edney-
ville's stellar defense and had to
make everything it got the hard
way 49,,
In the first moments of play
the Riverians, through fast play,
got away to a three-point lead.
But Edneyville got three free
throws and made them all good
to tie the score. Then the great
Cathey coached quint struck its
stride and played with such ma
chine-like precision and effective
ness that the quarter mark rest
found it leading II to 3. But the
Riverians got hold of themselves
in the second quarter and jumped
right back into the fight. At the
half they had scored nine more
points and were trailing Edney-
vile 10 to IL. ii
The struggle in the second half
was almost equal, with both teams
making it hard for each other to
score. The Riverians seemed to
improve as the game went on but
thew were unable to overcome the
brilliant five from Edneyville, all
of whom played great basketball.
If throwing boquets Of praise is
permissible, p. Whitaker of the
Mills River team is due most of
them. He scored II of Mills Riv-
er's "a points, and that is some
feat against a team of the calibre
and class of the Edneyville quint.
Not intending to perhaps use
nhrase of his best girl, Whitaker
IS one sweet basketball player.
AS to playing ability, there was
little to choose among the Edney-
vile uuint, as all were good. but
pace and Pittillo each scored nine
The lineups for the champion
ship games were:
GIRLS GAME
Flat Rock 90 Edneyville Q1)
Ballard (9) ........', Hill (5)
Forward
Justus CD -. - Hoots (4
Ward (9)' ..:..... Freeman (2)
Forward -. ...e.
King ,.,.,.;.,.;.j:- j. freeman
Guard
Codfrey .,.,.,,...... Wheaton
Guard
Rhodes ........,.... Ledbetter
Guard
Subs: Flat Rock-Taylor; Ed
neyville-Pryor.
Referees-Foster and Garren.
~
uiII ~ 800. Whitaker. (17)
''' Forward
Pace 90 80. -. Moffitt
Forward
pttillo 90 ...... Bagwell (2)
''' Center
sbvtle 90 ........ Mccall ~
Oily W. Guard
w Pryor 60 ...... Davis (2)
w. Guard
cphs: Mills River-Taylor.