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STATE EDITION PAGE 22 WINSTON SALEM JOURNAL Thursday November? 1991 AUTO RACING Nelson Leaves Kyle Petty Team to Work for Winston Cup By Mike Mulhern JOURNAL REPORTER Gary Nelson one of top mechanics for the past 12 years and the crew chief for Bobby 1983 national championship team will be going to work as Technical Direc tor for the Winston Cup series at the end of the season NASCAR officials announced yesterday The stunning decision by Nelson 38 came late Tuesday according to elix Sabates who owns the Kyle Petty team for which Nelson works Nelson in Atlanta yesterday with Petty said had much time to think about next year concentrating on winning the race here at Atlanta Dick Beaty and 1 have been talking off and on about this for a long time And I finally decided that the time was right hoping to make a positive contribution to the Nelson will work under Beaty the Winston Cup director next season Nelson will be in charge of inspections and inspection proce dures for all Winston Cup races Nelson is ex pected to take a vigorous role not only in polic ing the competitors in the garage but also in policing the various high performance parts vendors around the country Nelson will likely take a high profile in monitoring technical trends finally decided Tuesday to go ahead and accept the job so now going to start interviewing this next Sabates said "My phone has been ringing off the hook and had calls from eight or nine crew chiefs today And there are some pretty big names calling "I know the man I want my number one choice but I want to say who that is yet because working for another team I have asked permission from four car owners to talk to their crew chiefs not going behind any back The one guy I want going to go after real According to sources close to the team Mike Beam is top choice And if Beam gets the job then Junior Johnson would likely hire Robin Pemberton from the Jack Roush team according to Johnson team sources be leaving until probably Janu ary" Sabates said "He's going to stay with us through the wind tunnel tests and Daytona tests in December going to hire somebody within the next 10 days This will still be Gary's team at Les Richter said that someone with the talents and experience of Gary Nelson is a real plus for NASCAR and for the Winston Cup series I think everyone in volved in motorsports realizes what he has to GARY NELSON: He will handle inspections Jr wry PRO BASKETBALL PREP SOCCER Late Goal Lifts Back Watauga to lst Round Victory Again BASEBALL AL Umpire Details Shooting THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PREP OOTBALL NCSCA POLLS little brother some point when healthy enough to get out there going to be a tremendous he said worked out togeth er for years during the offseason To be able to play together well I think of anything that could top yesterday how he was shot aiding two waitresses who were attacked by robbers NOTES: These are the final regular season polls compiled Nov 5 before the start of the state playoffs Team records do not include playoff results LITHUANIA WAS the best bas ketball team in Europe and an Olympic gold medal contender when World War II and Soviet an nexation combined to render the Baltic nation non existent in 1940 But if all goes according to plan Lithuania could pick up right where it left off at the 992 Barcelona Olympics Thanks to the lobbying efforts of Lithuanian players Sarunas Marciu lionis of the Golden State Warriors and center Arvidas Sabonis of Valladolid and a plan to seek dual citizenship for players of Lithuanian heritage such as Ameri cans Chuck Aleksinas and Joe Ar lauckas and Leo Rautins the tiny Baltic republic could emerge as the successor to splin tering European powers like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia In fact many believe that the gold medal game next summer will come down to a battle between Lithuania and the United States the right sideline East orsyth outshot Olympic 21 6 and Shouse had five saves in the victory Jeromy Causey had 13 saves for Olympic 10 8 4 East orsyth will play at Char lotte Mvers Park in a second round match next week Myers Park beat Reed scored an unassisted goal Hickory 2 1 last night to advance human beings and I know I took for granted I no longer take for granted: to go the bathroom to brush your teeth to take a Bivins faces up to life in prison and a 10000 fine on the aggravated robbery charge Palermo told the jury how the event changed his life glancing periodically at his wife Debbie who stood at the back of the courtroom "I know if ever umpire again" he said a very uncertain life right now and a life I wish on "no one It's NBA career appeared to be fin ished He played the 1989 90 season in Israel then spent last year with Al bany of the CBA Although it ap peared that everyone else in the NBA had given up on him King did not quit on himself was determined to get back I tried never to doubt myself" he said His stint in Israel do any thing to get him noticed year I get any phone calls Maybe it was off the hook or he said year the Bullets needed a few players and they brought a bunch of guys to fill that void It was a great opportunity for me because not many players get to come back to where they played their college ball" Unfortunately it cannot yet be tagged as a triumphant return King played four minutes in the opener and remained on the bench for the next two games nothing Albert has or hasn't done just a matter of num Unseld said Tuesday night i "I fit him into the rotation right It is a time of waiting for both Kings Bernard who has been side lined while he works to recover from a knee injury can't wait to be able to play side by side with his ALBERT WON the event easily and now is back in the NBA just a dozen or so miles from where he launched his career almost as if he never left though it was a long time ago people around here still re member the name Albert he said down the highway I get waves from people Same thing in the malls a lot of encour King now 31 set dozens of re cords at Maryland He ranks sec ond on the all time scoring list be hind Len Bias and 10th in rebound ing His No 55 will never be worn by another Terrapin He was drafted by the Nets as the 10th pick in the 1981 draft and carved out a decent career for him self there over six seasons He ranks in the top 10 in 11 different categories including fourth in scoring But things started to slide for him in the 1987 88 season after the Nets dealt him to Philadelphia Plagued by knee problems King averaged only 72 points in 72 games and was traded to San Anto nio during the offseason After a disappointing season in which he played in only 46 games THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LANDOVER Md His name hangs from the rafters of the University of are na and is generously spread throughout the New Jersey record books But Albert King nev ertheless became anonymous after he was cut from his third NBA team in 1989 He played in Israel and in pro version of the minor leagues the Continental Basketball Association literally trying to make a name for himself again people forget about you if you go overseas or if in the CBA Your name gets King said that happened to Not quite John Nash the general manager of the Washington Bul lets remembered King from the days when both were with the Phil adelphia 76ers And luckily for King his brother Bernard played with Washington spoke with Bernard about Al bert from time to time last Nash said were times we considered giving him a shot It work out that way but we thought he could help us this year and asked him to join Bernard King then gave Albert some advice about Wes Unseld the coach of the Bullets One of the first things he told him was that Unseld puts plenty of stock in the presea son mile and a half run Hickory outshot Myers Park 22 19 and Roger Young made 11 saves in the loss Hickory a quar terfinalist last season finished 19' 4 1 AP WIREPHOTC Although it appeared that NBA teams had given up on him Albert King said he was determined to make it back Mann 27 was shot in the neck arm and abdomen DALLAS Palermo 41 was shot in the back and the bullet which entered the right side ot his back ana exitea me at 2:35 to put Piedmont ahead 1 0 and Arnold scored his first goal at 30:28 to put Piedmont ahead 2 0 at halftime Arnold sealed the victory when Arnold scored his second goal also unassisted at 67:04 Piedmont dominated play and outshot Mount Airy 24 3 Mount Airy the No 2 seed from Conference 5 finished 5 5 6 East orsyth 2 Olympic 1 KERNERSVILLE Kevin Rice scored off a cross from Tim Bullard midway through the second half and East orsyth rallied to beat Charlotte Olympic last night in a Class 4 A opener East the No 2 seed from the Metro Conference improved to 15 5 1 Olympic finished 10 8 4 Neither team sustained a consis tent attack through the first 35 minutes of play but East orsyth went up 1 0 at 36:48 when DanielMacy scored on a shot from 25 yards East led 1 0 at halftime and dom inated play in the first 23 minutes of the second half outshooting Olympic 8 0 but Olympic used an own goal by East orsyth to tie it at 63:11 Chad Rogers set up the goal with a corner kick to the box and Olympic scored when an East or syth defender misplayed a header Myers Park will play host to East past keeper Jacob Shouse orsyth in a second round match Rice scored the game winner af next week ter Bullard ran down a loose ball on Monroe Piedmont 3 Mount Airy 0 MOUNT AIRY Rob Arnold scored two goals and Nathan Reed added another to lead Monroe Pied mont past Mount Airy last night in the first round of the Class 2 Al A playoffs Albert King Has Another Shot JOURNAL STA REPORT ASHVILLE TJ Edmisten scored the game winnning goal on a muffed play late in the second half and Watauga beat Asheville Reynolds 2 1 last night to advance to the second round of the NC High School Athletic Class 4 A playoffs Watauga 12 7 3 will play its next match on the road against Charlotte Providence Mount Tabor winner Edmisten scored at 77:09 when his throw in to the box bounced off keeper and into the goal Reynolds took a 1 0 lead at 8:49 on an unassisted goal by Greg Schmid and protected its lead through the rest of the first half and most of the second Chad goal at 69:40 off a pass from Bruce Scott gave Watauga a 1 1 tie Keeper Will Graham had five saves in goal for Watauga and each team took nine shots Myers Parti 2 Hickory 1 HICKORY Trey Heim scored the game winning goal early in the second half and Charlotte Myers Park knocked Hickory out of the Class 4 A playoffs last night Heim scored 5 1 :42 on a 1 5 yard shot after taking a pass from Jona than Tisdale The goal put Myers Park 16 7 1 ahead 2 0 Hickory rallied after Heim scored and closed to 2 1 at 67:37 when Rob Nance scored off Chad pass Hickory continued its push for the tying goal but keeper Cal Morgan of Myers Park made two saves in the last 10 minutes to seal the victory Morgan finished the match with 1 1 saves Myers Park led 1 0 at halftime after Mike Vagianos scored an un assisted goal at 6:41 to rely oh leg braces and canes to walk Palermo recently returned to his Overland Park Palermo returned to Dallas where he underwent Kan home after months of rehabilitation in Dallas rehabilitation earlier to testify in the aggravated rob is a Uvjng Palermo said his eyes bery trial of Kevin Bivins one of four suspects in the brimming with tears "Ordinary things we all do as juiy mciueuu of them reached and pulled something out and I hollered and then pow pow pow pow said Palermo who struck the witness stand to mimic the sound of bullets shots rang Palermo was eating dinner at Egyptian Restaurant after umpiring a Texas Rangers game when waitresses outside the establishment were at tacked by robbers Palermo and Terence Mann a former Southern Methodist football player ran to help them along with restaurant employees Both Mann and Palermo were shot Of 1 A I 1 A 1 1 TTT Til Yi £2 1 DLtVC raiUllUU) CUI mncHvcui jjvaguv tailed for jurors in dramatic and emotional testimony left traumatized his spinal cord and forces Palermo MBr llW 1 NK' ilfl MV JUW jl 1 Tiii "Thbiic CLASS 4 A Team Record LW 1 Charlotte Providence 21 0 1 1 2 Raleigh Sanderson 16 2 0 2 3 Jacksonville 17 0 1 3 4 Greensboro Page 19 1 1 4 5 Greensboro Grimsley 18 3 1 7 6 East Mecklenburg 17 4 0 8 7 Mount Tabor (tie) 21 3 0 6 Raleigh Enloe 15 4 2 5 8 Raleigh Millbrook 14 4 1 9 9 Hickory 19 3 1 10 10 Durham Jordan 16 5 2 10 CLASS 3 A2 A1 A Team Record LW 1 Swansboro 19 2 2 1 2 Northwest Guilford 18 0 0 3 3 Charlotte Latin 15 2 1 2 4 Charlotte Catholic 20 1 2 4 5 Lenoir Hibriten 20 0 1 5 6 Southwest Guilford 20 2 1 6 7 Rolesville 21 0 1 7 8 Western Guilford 16 4 2 8 9 High Point Wesleyan 18 4 1 9 10 Mooresville (tie) 19 3 0 10 Bishop McGuinness 15 4 3 10 Thomasville Tops List of 1991 High School Superlatives By Tommy Bowman JOURNAL REPORTER Through nine games of the high school football season at least 1991 has been the Year of the Bull dog in Northwest North Carolina Thomasville the No 1 Class 2 A team in The Associated poll heads the list of top performances this season The Bulldogs are the highest scoring team in the North west and they have allowed the fewest points Off to a 9 0 start the Bulldogs have outscored opponents 362 29 winning by an average score of 40 3 The Bulldogs who have shut out 10 opponents in their last 15 regu lar season games have allowed less than 2 yards per rushing at tempt this season And they have rushed for no less than 255 yards in any game Allen Brown who has been Thomasville's head coach since 1973 said that he has never had a team dominate the way this team has terms of margin of victory no season been through com pares with this Brown said course we haven't had as tough of a schedule this season so a big factor But I believe we're doing a little better on of fense than we normally do" Other teams that have crushed opponents week in and week out are Starmount (which has out scored opponents by an average of 29 4) Carver (27 8) and West or syth (26 8) Unbeaten North Davidson which will play host to Thomasville on riday has allowed only 78 points per game this season West or syth which began this season as the top ranked team in Class 4 A turned in perhaps the most impres sive defensive performance for a single game on Oct 18 when it held then unbeaten Parkland to mi nus 10 yards and only two first' downs in a 17 10 victory As for offense Eden Morehead Ims averaged 353 points per game and Elkin 338 Elkin scored 82 of its 304 points on Oct 18 when it hammered Northwest Ashe The Elks scored 12 touchdowns in that game Among the top individual perfor mances this season: Mark Brandon of orbush to taled 256 yards in a victory over West Wilkes He rushed for 97 yards passed for 68 and had 91 yards receiving Perez Boulware of Thomas ville tied a state record when he kicked 10 extra points in a 76 7 victory over East Davidson Chris Charles a freshman quarterback at Elkin who moved up from the junior varsity team in mid season had 332 yards total offense against Ashe Central 240 against Beaver Creek and 354 against Northwest Ashe Shannon Church of East Wilkes rushed for 201 yards and returned tin interception 66 yards against Beaver Creek Tremaine Graham of Carver completed 27 of 35 passes for 314 yards and three touchdowns in a 20 18 loss to West orsyth Quarterback Brian Hampton of Beaver Creek closed the season with several strong performances including a 17 for 31 246 yard game against Northwest Ashe Mark Howell of West Wilkes rushed for 205 yards in a 63 0 vic tory over Hibriten and gained 246 yards in a victory over Hickory Carlos King who has rushed for nearly 5000 yards in his career at Starmount had three 200 yard games including a 267 yard per formance against Surry Central Rusty LaRue who has passed for more than 5000 yards in his career atNorthwest Guilford opened the season by throwing four first half touchdown passes against Southern Guilford He com pleted 13 of 18 passes for 267 yards in an 18 13 victory over East ern Guilford and completed 22 of 35 for 355 yards and four touch downs in a 38 35 loss to Reidsville Tywan Lawrence who re placed the injured Aaron Peele at quarterback for Statesville passed for 209 yards in a victory over South Iredell and set a school re cord when he passed for 375 yards in a victory over North Iredell Kenny Searcy of South Stokes scored the first two times he touched the ball this season His first touchdown came on a 90 yard run and the second on an 85 yard kickoff return in a loss to orbush Steve Smith of West Wilkes rushed for 251 yards in a victory over Ashe Central and 230 yards in a victory over Beaver Creek Tyrone Westmoreland of South Iredell rushed for 298 yards and scored five touchdowns in a victory over Central Davidson and rushed for 308 yards and four touchdowns last week in a victory over North Surry JOSH DANCY DJ SUMMERS (West Iredell) Dancy completed 23 of 52 passes for 260 yards and a touchdown Summers caught 9 passes for 115 yards and a touchdown in a 42 21 loss to Statesville ANDREW DAY BRYAN PITTS (Wa tauga) Day completed 9 of 26 passes for 234 yards and 4 touch downs Pitts caught 7 passes for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns in a 42 24 loss to Hickory CHRIS AW LUKE SPLAWN (North Wilkes) aw completed 9 of 13 passes for 64 yards and at corner back made 6 tackles and Intercepted 2 passes Splawn a noseguard re turned a blocked field goal 70 yards for a touchdown and made 5 tackles in a 14 13 win over East Surry BRIAN HAMPTON JASON KRIDER SHANNON LYALLS (Beaver Creek) Hampton completed 19 of 40 passes for 249 yards passed for 3 touchdowns and rushed for 1 Krider had 9 catches for 139 yards and a touchdown Lyalls a DT made 18 tack les and recovered a fumble in a 27 8 win over Ashe Central WAHID KIMBROUGH (Carver) rushed for 202 yards and scored on runs of 1 2 5 and 78 yards In a 50 16 win over Smith CARLOS KING (Starmount) rushed for 118 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries in a 28 0 win over Mount Airy CHECKLIST RUSTY LARUE (NW Guilford) completed 19 of 41 passes for 288 yards passed for one touchdown and rushed for another in an 18 13 win over Eastern Guilford TERRANCE PAYNE ORD PERRY MIKE SMITH (Reynolds) Payne a receiver and linebacker caught 2 touchdown passes and added 11 tack les and 6 assists Perry completed 7 of 7 passes for 114 yards and 2 touch downs Smith rushed for 143 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries In a 35 6 win over Dudley LAMONT PEGUES (Thomasville) rushed for 97 yards and 3 touch downs In a 48 7 win over Randleman AARON RICHARDSON (North or syth) rushed for 164 yards and 2 touchdowns in a 26 13 win over South Stokes REDDIE SPEAKS (orbush)' rushed for 157 yards and 3 touch downs on 15 carries in a 27 14 win over Surry Central TYRONE WESTMORELAND (South Iredell) rushed for 308 yards scored on runs of 15 60 and 14 yards and returned a punt 55 yards for a touch down in a 28 14 win over North Surry TIM WILLIAMS (SW Guilford) rushed for 140 yards and scored two touchdowns in a 26 23 overtime loss to High Point Central NOTE: This week's checklist is the last of the season NCSCA POLLS.