Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-01-06
WAA Opens 1860
Season Friday
BY JIGGS POWERS
(Waccamaw "A PubliciSt)

: game slate will be on tap, Fri
, day night, Jan. s, as the Wac
= camaw Athletic Association
, opens its 1860 basketball season.
President John T. Sasser of
Elizabethtown earlier released
!, the official loop schedule, which
shows that the following games,
!. Friday at 1880 p. m. will start
the new season:
Bladenboro at Chadbourn,
Elizabethtown at Tabor City
and Whiteville at Shallotte.
Coach John Small's Tabor
,lCity Devilettes are the defend
ing girls champs of the six
school class AA conference,
, while Bladenboro's Bulldogs,
coached by Ernest Atkinson,
won the 1859 male title and re-
presented the circuit in state
eliminations.
Most of the teams, which be-
gan play around Dec. the
date when all football playing
schools start basketball compcti-I
uon-have been quite successful
''a!nSt prc-lOOp foes: mainly
class A school teams. Tw,
schools in each of the girls and
boys divisions are unoeaten II
prc-Yulc action; Shallotte's
Lady BUS having won all 6 of
their games, while Bladenboro
lady Bulldogs were SO. Blad-
enboro's boy Bulldogs were al
son SO in before-ChriStmas ac-
ton.
Chadbourn's Panther boys are
undefeated at 10. Other girl
standings include ChadbournI
and Tabor City, So each; Eliza
BEETHOVEN, AZ; and Whiteville,
"a. Other boy standings were
Tabor City, 81; Shallotte, 5-l:
Elizabethtown, Az; and White,
vile, "a.
AS conference play is due to
open. lettermen, in most cases.
will be bearing the brunt of &C
80. .UI a., WAA teams. Here
are the entries, along with re-
.urnlng letterwen:
WHITEVILLE - Girls: For
wards Bonnie Pinyatello, Doris.
smith, Betsy Williams and Pat
Woodland; Guards Grey Hooks
and Mary Scott. Smith, Williams
and Hooks are seniors; the 9TH
ers, juniors. Boys: Seniors John
Elasky. frankie Walters, Larry
Ezzell, Harry Ward and Juniors
John Brakley, Tim Blackmon,
Ned Covington and Jimmy
Watts.
TABOR CITY: Girls - For
wards Eula Mae Annette, Carrie
Jean Wray, Rachel Cox, Judy
Granger; Guards Lenore Beck,
Dixie Cox, Ramona Fipps, Lin
da Fowler. Dixie Cox is the only
senior: Rachel Cox, Fowler and
Beck are Sophs.; the others, jun
Tors. BoyS-Seniors Joel Hedge
coe, Ronald Miller, Henry Neil
Wright; Junior Jackie Small and
Sophomore Boyd Lee.
r CHADBOURN - Girls-For-
wards Jean Caps, Nancy Bost
Guard Lyn Watson. Caps, Bost
are seniors; Watson soph
Boys-Seniors John Robinson
Joe Nance, Robert Lowe anc
Jerry CcCumbee.
| SHALLOTTE: Girls - For
wards Donna Fulford, Judy
Golden, Nellie Trip, Lind;
Phelps, Linda Gore, Faye Smith
Guards Doris Phelps, Wilm;
Holden, Vickie Woodward, Bet.
ty Woodland. Donnie Hewett
Trip, Doris Phelps and Holder
are seniors; Golden and Leon.
ard are sophs; the others, Jun.
iors. Boys-Seniors Ed Bennett
Mark Hewett, Steve Gore, Tom.
my Russ, Bill Hewett, Jimm,
McLamb; Juniors - Jerry Muir
den; and Soph. Jan Hewett,
ELIZABETHTOWN - Girls
Forwards Linda Callihan. San
dy Higgins, Linda Vann: Guards
Nancy Peterson, Helen Suggs
and Tomye Suggs. Tomye Suggs
Van, and Higgins are seniors
Callihan and Peterson, juniors
Helen Suggs, sopho. BOYS -
Seniors Ronald Bordeaux. Sieve
Garner, Bob Marshall, Dicl;
! Porter. Milton Smith. Tommy
Swami.
BLADENBORo: Girls - For
wards Grace Storms, Polly Bull
lard, Doris Brown, Martha Hum
phrey, Judy Lockanfy, Jane
Waterson, Judy Kelly; Guards