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The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 11

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Leland Ackdemy falls to Sunday. Oct. 11,1870 11 ByVlNCEGIARDIANA DR-TSportiWrUer LELAND--The Leland Academy Bruins were thrown for a 21-0 loss hero Friday night by the Central Academy Vikings from Macon in a Central Division Academy Conference game. Two of the Viking touchdowns were made before the first half was overrate in the first quarter, the Vikings began their initial drive from a Bruin kickoff received on their 15- yard line by Mike Butler. The drive for a touchdown was led by Gene Murphy's carries and was ended by a seven-yard pass from Butter to Gaylon Koon for the touchdown, The kick was good and the Vikings led, 7-0.

The Vikings recovered their own kickoff to Leland on the Bruins' 30-yard line. Koon carried to the one and Butler leaped over for the touchdown, the kick was again good, making the score, 144, Vikings. The Bruins tried hard to move the ball but two consecutive five-yard penalties forced their drive to end on a punt. Bruin Roland Sabbatini booted a 65-yard kick that landed on the Viking 15-yard line. Their efforts were unsuccessful this time when Bruin Tommy Williams recovered a Viking fumble on the' Viking 35-yard line.

Leland drove to the 22 before they lot their spark and the first half ended with the score standing 14-0, Vikings. Second half action was a series of unsuccessful drives by both teams. Leland was pressed against its own three-yard line and was forced to kick. The Vikings received the punt on Leland's 44-yard line arid drove to the 18 where the Bruins' Williams again recovered for Leland, but Leland was unable to move the ball. The Vikings took over the pigskin and steadily drove down field from Leland's 45- yard line.

Three 15-yard penalties against Deer Creek queen Merry Ann Hall (left) was crowned Deer Creek Day School Homecoming Queen Friday night during halftime ceremonies at the Deer Creek-East Holmes Academy (West) football game at Arcola. Miss Hall's escort was Alan Orlicek (right). She was crowned by the School principal, J. E. Logan.

The queen's identity was kept a secret until the actual crowning took place. Flag football opens Monday Two flag football leagues-American and National--will open play Monday at 4:30 p.m. at Frisby Field, announced Horace Thomas, director of Park Commission activity at Rounds Park. Thomas said Frisby Field has a big enough area to have two contests going on at the same time. The American League has four teams composed of boys 8-10 years of age while the National League's participants are boys 11-14 years of age.

The a Colts, Jets and Vikings make-up the younger league while the War Eagles, Tigers, Red Raiders and Bulldogs arc the four squads in the older league. Two games--one in each league--arc slated every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Each team has a 12-game schedule, said Thomas. Lake Village edges Dermott, 13-0 LAKE VILLAGE, Ark. The Lake Village Beavers defeated the Dermott Rams 13-0 here before a large homecoming crowd Friday night.

The Beavers' tenacious defense, led by guard Robert Rice, Center David Hallman and a host of others, held theRams to a minus WE INSTALL AUTO GLASS Rhoden's Glass Service GREENVILLE PH 332-0924 INDIANOLA PH. 887-4885 two yards rushing throughout the game. The Rams never seriously penetrated the Beavers end of the field. After a scoreless first quarter, the Beavers put together a drive with quarterback David Dingier going over from the three. The extra point try by' Robert Bridewell failed.

Dermott failed to move the ball and on fourth down the snap from center was low and Lake Village took over on Dermott's 10- yard line early in the third quarter. Two plays later, Beaver back Paul Morara carried over from the three. Bobby Dingier added the PAT for the final score. Neither team scored in the final stanza, although Lake Village threatened twice. This made the score 13-0 for the Beavers' second win against three losses and one tie.

The next opposition for Lake Side's Beavers will be Friday when they travel to Monticello for a 7:30 p.m. District 4-AA East encounter. thtffl slowed their drive but eventually Butter carried for six yards and the touchdown. The kick good, making the score, 214, Vikings. Fourth quarter action continued but no further score was made in the bnUgame.

Three plays before the end of the game, tin Vikings punted to Leland with Bruin David Keer receiving on the Vikings 44-yard line and carrying to the nine-yard line. Time ran out however, with the score 21-0, Vikings. The Bruins are open Friday, but will meet the Cruger-Tchula Colonels on Oct. 23 in a Central Division Academy conference contest. Deer Creek wins over East Holmes in HC tilt ARCOLA--The Deer Creek Academy.

Warriors rolled over the East Holmes Academy Raiders here Friday night in a 20-6 homecoming game. The win was Deer Creek's third of the season to faring their record to 3-3. The Warriors scored in the first, second and fourth quarters with the only East Holmes tally coming in the third period. A Warrior recovery of one of the team's own punts on the Raider 15 set up the first touchdown. In'about three plays, the Deer Creek team moved the ball to the four where right halfback Pat Brooks took it across the goal line.

Dennis Key kicked the PAT, making the score Deer Creek 7, East Holmes 0. A 30-yard pass from left halfback Jimmy Bruton to right end Rusty Willis, who in turn picked up another 25 yards on the ground, set up the second score. After two more plays, fullback Blake Slay carried it from the one for the six-pointer. A bad snap threw the kick off its mark and the score was now Deer Creek 13, East Holmes 0. The Raiders came back in the third period to light up their side of the Scoreboard on a one-yard run by fullback Ira Tubby.

The TD was set up on a 25-yard pass play. A two- point conversion try failed and the score was now Deer Creek 13, East Holmes 6. The final score of the game came in the fourth quarter when Warrior left halfback Bruton took the ball on a quick opening play and traveled 60 yards downfield for the touchdown. Key kicked the PAT making the final score, Deer Creek 21, East Holmes 6. Warrior Coach Owen Makamson gave much of the credit to the defense.

"Our defense did a real good job all night. In addition, quarterback Butch Pugh didn't score, but called a good ball game. We looked more like a ball club at that game than we have all year." The game was fairly free of penalties. Deer Creek was assessed two 15-yarders for a total of 30 yards and East Holmes had one 5-yard penalty. Deer, Creek players carried the ball 148 yards on the ground and picked up 55 yards in the air for a total offense of 203 yards.

East Holmes had a total of 85 with 24 yards rushing and 61 passing. Each team passed 13 times. Deer Creek completed one with no interceptions and East Holmes completed five but had one intercepted. Deer Creek picked up five first downs and East Holmes gained three. The Warriors punted seven times for an average of 33 yards and East Holmes punted eight times for a 22-yard average.

The Warriors travel to Belzoni next Friday to face Humphreys Academy in an 8 p.m. game. The team plays Humphreys Academy's B-team here Monday at 7:30 p.m. Reeves gains Staff Photo by Llttltton Upthur Leland Academy tailback Smitty Reeves grinds out a six-yard gain in second period action in the Bruins' Friday night battle in Lelaiid against Central Academy of Macon. The Bruins went down to defeat, 21-0.

Lee Academy Colts ride way past Bayou's Colts Gentry Rams roar back to defeat East Side INDIANOLA--The Indianola Gentry Rams spotted the Cleveland East Side Trojans two early touchdowns before storming back to take a 18-12 victory here Friday night at Gentry Field. The Trojans' first six-pointer came early in the initial period on a 20-yard tackle eligible pass play that went from quarterback Leonard Carter to tackle Eddie Forrest. A try for two on a run was unsuccessful, but East Side led, 6-0. Early in he second stanza, the East Side gridders i nd themselves on the Scoreboard again. This time it was a 60-yard pass and run play from Carter to right end Roscoe Wade.

A try for the two points on a run failed. The score, however, had the Trojans leading, 12-0. After that it was all Gentry as they first came back and managed to cut East Side's margin in half before intermission. After recovering a fumble on the 25-yard line of Gentry, a good run by quarterback Wes Davis moved the ball to the 12 and then halfback Aaron Byars put Gentry on the two with a 11-yard gallop up the middle. From that point halfback Wilton Attaway plunged over to make the score, 12-6, still East Side.

A try for two on a run was unsuccessful. Gentry kicked off to East Side to open the second half, but the Trojans fumbled the ball away on the second play on their own 30-yard line where the Rams recovered. Alternate Gentry quarterback Cornell Walker then fired a 30-yard strike to split end Robert Myrick for the tying TD. The point after on a running effort fell short and the two teams were all knotted at 12-all with still almost half a game left to play. Midway of the third, Walker found Myrick all alone and hit him with a 25-yard pass on the East Side 10 to help set up the final marker.

Byars then ran the ball to the three before Attaway took it over on the next play. The two-point play on an attempted pass failed and the Rams led, 18-12--the way the Scoreboard also read at the end of the game. Gentry led in first downs--16-13. Coach J. B.

Holmes said it was a defensive battle between the two teams in the last quarter and a half. Holmes had words of praise for the play of his defensive unit in the final period. He said the whole defense, led by nose guard Joe Winston and tackle James Rosser, a 255-pounder, "played tremendously well in the fourth period." Holmes.was happy with but was saddened'by flie loss of His end Alsee McDaniel who will be out for the season with torn ligaments he sustained in the contest. East Side Coach Wardell Davis said, "Our offense just could not get rolling in the second half. We lost our momentum somewhere along the line." Davis singled out three of his defenders for good games.

They were end Wade, middle guard Curtis Bass and linebacker Maurice Smith. Gentry, which now has a record, will be open this Friday but will travel to Glen Allan on Friday, Oct. 23 to meet the Packers in an 8 p.m. contest. East Side, now 1-3-1, has a Friday night dale with Lexington in Cleveland beginning CLARKSDALE-The Clarksdale Lee Academy Colts kicked up their heels and galloped over the Bayou Academy Colts from Skene in a 21-6 game here Friday night.

The loss was Bayou's fourth of the season giving the Colts a 0-4-1 record thus far. Ricky Lewis scored 15 of Lee's 21 points with Buddy Pierce taking honors on the other touchdown. Lee scored first in the initial period on a pass from Freddie Britt to Pierce from six yards out. Lewjs kicked the PAT making the score Lee 7, Bayou 0. The second quarter saw Lee score twice more.

Lewis scored from the 40-yard line for one six-pointer then picked up another TD from four yards out. The PAT attempt failed on the second, but Lewis picked up two points on the conversion on the third tally to make the score Lee 21, Bayou 0 at the half. Second half play was uneventful except for the one Bayou tally in the third Quarterback Gene Cobb passed to tight end Glen Sandroni for a 55-yard play to give the; Bayou Colts six points on the board. A two-; point conversion try failed and the final score. was Lee 21, Bayou 6.

The Bayou Colts made eight first downs and had 45 yards rushing and 108 passing for. a total offense of 153 yards. Lee rushed for 309 yards and picked up another 89 in the air for a total offensive yardage of 398. Bayou completed eight passes for the 108' yards and Lee connected on 10 passes. Bayoii' was penalized 15 yards to Lee's 75.

In individual rushing, Tim Lyons led the; Bayou team with 17 carries for 40 yards. Jerry Baldwin carried 25 times for 160 yards for Lee and was followed ciosely by Lewis, who carried 22 times for 151. The Bayou Colts travel to Greenwood on' Friday where they will meet the Pillow Academy team at8 p.m. TSlEENVILLE BUICI CADILLAC-PONTIAC CO. PHONE 332-5493 DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE Jimmy Groves Invites You To His Continues Tomorrow.

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