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DAVID HALSTEAD THS Assistant TODAY'S 'C v'r fj fDfDlK Bristol Herald Courier A Wednesday Novembers 1981 Confrontation Will Pit Brother Against Brother BILL HALSTEAD VHS Assistant MR 4W4 )LW Ji By STEVE BAWDEN Executive Sports Editor Tennessee High vs Virginia War Between The brother against brotherJiterally Bill Halstead Jr and his younger brother David epit omize the annual extravaganza As part of a city divided this week Bill is an assistant coach at Virginia High and David is an assistant at Tennessee High week is always an emotional thing just the way it Bill said with family being involved even more The brother vs brother situation came about when David accepted a position with THS Bill had been a coach and teacher at Virginia High several years prior This will be the fourth time the two have faced each other in the clash When gametime arrives at 8 pm riday night neither will have much time to think much about sibling rivalries aware Bill is on the other side but it really a big David said first year was the only time I really thought about surprisingly I think about him being over Bill said of us work hard to do a good job in the areas we coach You get caught up in the game and have time to think about much else when it's all over the first person I want to see other than my What do you say to your brother at a time like that espe cially when the winner as Bill was last year? can be a little awkward finding the right he admitted long as been in it aware of the empti ness and the hurt when you come out on the short end of the stick There is no rubbing it Naturally both take some ribbing from their fellow coaches about the situation There have been times when the two coaching staffs were not on the best of terms The schools went for years without exchanging game films With Larry Lusk now at the VHS helm tensions have eased there was a difference in David ad mitted and I were kind of caught in the middle kind of tough when you hear people talking about another group as a whole and your brother is a member of that group You want to say I know one person whose not like and I were both hoping to keep things a little calm between the two Bill recalled Larry as head coach there has been a change in Bill and David were star athletes under their father Bill Sr at John Battle High School so very familiar with week really David said even bigger than a homecoming game We used to come down every year and walk through the schools looking at the banners actually a part of it all you really under stand Bill coaches offensive backs and linebackers for VHS David coaches receivers defensive ends and punters for THS Both have a healthy respect for one another real Daivd said pull for each other i Like if I see a Virginia High linebacker make a good hit it gives me a feeling of pride that Bill coaches him also very competitve I want his people to play well but I want Tennessee High to win the Both have good things to say about the team See BROTHERS Page 16 ingers Gets Girls Basketball John Battle Takes Cy Young Win Over Abingdon Hogoheegee Dunking Is A Gift or Bucs' Mikell Cumberland Top Twenty Cy Young Voting 3rd 2nd 34 10 13 12 11 15 18 14 58 64 4 6 4 15 12 19 15 15 18 21 10 11 50 10 11 10 12 43 6 2 0 6 2 0 6 0 1 1283 1201 1178 2 104 1007 869 861 767 658 626 625 14 Al lumbia SC enjoyed the kind of year that first year players usually can only dream about He averaged 165 points a game and led the Bucs in scor ing Last year was somewhat of a disappointment as Mikell dropped two points in his scor ing average and his shooting 1st 22 6 0 2 John Battle took advantage of an ice cold Abingdon club Tuesday night as the Trojans got 13 points from Karen Bar ker and 10 from Tina Sage to eliminate the alcons from the Southwest District basketall tournament 38 24 3' 3 24 2 LATWOODS Va The Cumberland District girls bas ketball tournament moves into the semifinals Wednesday at latwoods High School with the host school meeting Jonesville at 8 pm On Thursday at 8 pm Thomas Walker meets Dryden on the same floor in the other semifinal Totals 126 844 21 ROLLIE INGERS Best In The AL Battle which benefitted from an Abingdon cold spell which saw the visitors go 16minutes with just two field goals The big effort was 'turned in by Tracy CHILHOWIE Va Holston and regular season champion Rich Valley advanced to the fi nals of the Hogoheegee District girls basketball tournament with wins over Chilhowie and Rural Retreat here Tuesday night The Lady Steers placed four ladies in double figures in their 60 43 win over host Chilhowie with Missy Doane leading the way with 16 Brenda Blevins(14) Becky Duncan (13) and Lynn Pratt (12) provided plenty of help for RV The Lady War riors could only get one player in double digits that being Karen Haga who tossed in 12 points The Lady Steers came out of the blocks strong gliding to a 39 7 1 0 6 1 0 "7 1 0 6 2 0 6 2 0 564 5 2 0 6 2 0 6 2 0 7 1 0 ByBILLVILONA SportsWnter JOHNSON CITY Tenn Troy Lee Mikell first realized his gifted ability while he was NEW YORK (AP) Rollie ingers rubber armed relief ace of the Milwaukee Brewers was named winner of the Amer ican League Cy Young Award for 1981 by the Baseball Writers Association of America Tues day ingers won six games and saved 28 others with a 104 earned run average in 47 ap pearances for the Brewers sec ond half winners of the Ameri can East Division ingers beat Oakland right hander Steve McCatty receiv ing 22 of the 28 first place bal from the BBWAA commit tee composed of two writers from each of the 14 franchise cities He finished with 126 points and was the only pitcher named on every ballot McCatty had the other six firt place votes and finished with 84 Vz points well ahead of Jack Morris of Detroit who was third with 21 ingers 35 had a hand in 34 of the 62 victories last season and became only the second relief pitcher to win the AL Cy Young award following Sparky Lyle of the New York Yankees who captured it in 1977 Acquired from St Louis just two days after the Cardinals had obtained him from San Diego during the winter meet ings at Dallas last December ingers pitched 78 innings for the Brewers striking out 61 bat ters and walking only 13 A rangy right hander with a waxed handlebar mustache ingers has started only four games in his major league ca reer and none since is 1 He broke in with the Oak land in 1969 and was a key member of three world championship teams with that club named the most valuable player in the 1974 World Series when he won one game and saved two others with a 193 ERA against the Los Angeles Dodgers He holds career World Series records for relief appearances with 16 and career saves with six Both marks were set during reign in the early 70s He left the in the first free agent re entry draft in 1976 signing with San Diego and pitching four seasons for the Padres He won the ire man of the Year award three times in 1977 1978 and 1980 He repeated that award last sea son becoming the first man to win it in both leagues In his first two years with the Padres he set National League records with 35 saves in 1977 and 37 saves the next sea son or his career ingers has 272 saves another bullpen re cord 4Z7 415 411 388 230 267 199 153 7 0 0 8 0 0 7 1 0 7 1 0 6 1 0 6 1 0 Dyke 15 ILatliff 0 TRatUff 0 King 12 Adkins 0 Collins 0 Dye 3 Jones 0 Marion 3 12 5 20 40 Grandy 14 15 18 14 61 One day during eighth grade Mikell jumped on a tra mpoline while fooling around in the gymnasium and suddenly realized he was staring down at the backboard of a basketball goal said to myself I should start playing basket Mikell recalled as he took a break from the photogra phers during East Tennessee annual basketball press day here yesterday in Brooks Gymnasium next time I got on a springboard and dunked the ball with both hands and from then on I never had any trouble dunking a Being able to dunk a basket ball is no big deal except when you realize that Troy Lee Mi kell is only 6 1 Then it borders on the unbelievable never did measure my vertical Mikell admits remember in a high school all star game went up against a 6 10 center and out jumped him all night I guess I was just naturally bom with the ability high school coach used to have us put 50 pound weights on our shoulders and have us jump up and down so I was able to improve my leaping ab ility that Mikell will be the shooting guard on the Buccaneer squad this year As a freshman two years ago the junior from Co NEW YORK (AP) voting for 1981 American League Cy Young Award based on five points for a first place vote three for a second and one for a third The panel consisted of two members of the Baseball Association from each league cit ies: ingers Mil McCatty Oak Morris Det Vuckovich Mil Martins Bl Gossage NY Guidry NY Burns Chi GuraKC By COY BAYS Sports Writer Bristol International Raceway owner Gary Baker an nounced late Monday night that Warner Hodgdon had be come a full partner in the local 533 mile NASCAR sanc tioned track According to Baker the California businessman and racing entrepreneur bought half interest in the track which features two NASCAR Winston Cup races each year for an undisclosed amount of cash be quite honest I was not interested in selling Bristol International Raceway in any way shape form or fashion following the 1981 season which was by far the most success ful in the history despite a number of offers" Baker saraiuesaay when a man the caliber of Warner Hodgdon ex presses interest you stand up and take notice continued the Nashville lawyer who along with Lanny Hester pur chased the track from Larry Carrier prior to the 1978 season since the transaction with the original BIR owner Baker purchased share of the racing plant along with his interests in Nashville International Raceway and operated both tracks as full owner i Baker indicated that by bringing Hodgdon in as a full partner the status of BIR would be upgraded considerably in regard to its standing among the other tracks on the NAS CAR circuit iXAlthough Hodgdon who owns a mile track in Phoenix and is a part owner of the Richmond airgrounds Raceway has bought 50 percent of the local track Baker will continue 7 to serve as President of Bristol International Raceway and Eddie Gossage will remain as Assistant General Manager and Director of Public Relations you look back on the mark Bristol has made in the last few years on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit you can obviously see why I wanted to be Hodgdon s' announced According to sources at the track both Baker and Hodg don see the partnership as a means of broadening the finan cial base of the operation so that future improvements and expansion at BIR can be accommodated without putting too great of a fiscal strain on the owners Hodgdon first became involved in NASCAR when sponsored Richard Childress in a couple of races before be coming the full time sponsor for the Bobby Allison Bud Moore Thunderbird in 1979 He is currently sponsoring Neil Bonnett as well as back ing selected races on the circuit never looked back In the nightcap of the semifi nal action Holston took advan tage over a horendous Rural Retreat start and waltzed to a 64 47 victory The two teams had finished in a second place tie with during the regular sea son The Lady Indians opened the game cold and could never overcome a 19 4 deficit at the end of one stanza Carolyn oster played her usual role leading the Cavs with 25 points Tammy Key and Tammy Stroup pitched in with 16 and 12 respectively Patty Cline paced RR with 14 points Rich Valiev and Holston will play for the tourney title tonight in junior high school at Chilhowie High and both will proceed to the Region Sub Regionals to be held next Wednesday at Rich Valley RICH VALLEY (M) Blevins 14 Pratt 12 Duncan 13Doane 16 Carter 4 Roop 1 CHILHOWIE (43) Haga 12 Sheets 6 Thompson 7 Hayden 6 Williams 2 ree man 8 Dalton 2 Rich Valley Chilhowie RURAL RETREAT (47) Cline 14 Cline 2 Eversole 2 Rich 8 Miller 5 Triv ette 4 Dix 4 Catron 8 HOLSTON (64) oster 25 Key 16 Stroup 12 Campbell 2 Magnuson 4 John son 5 Rural Retreat Holston with 12 and Betsy Beamer with 10 Gate City earned its semifi nal berth as Sherry ields poured in 18 points Linda Har lan hit 16 and Tammy Mullins tossed in 14 Kevie Miller was'1 high for the game with 20 points TAZEWELL Jones 2 Lockhart 2 Miller 20 Olinger 5 VanDyke 4 Thorp 15 GATE CITY Tammy Mullins 14 Sherry ields 18 Linda Harlan 16 Pearson 4 Ed wards 2 Brown 4 Tazewell Gate City ABINGDON Hall 5 Smith 6 Mann 6 Eades 7 Thayer 0 Hite 0 McCall 0 Begley The Top Twenty teams in The Asso ciated Press college football poll with first place votes in parentheses record and total points Points based on 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 3 2 1: 1 Pittsburgh (49) 2 Clemson 9) 3 Southern Cal 7)Georgia 5 Texas 6 PennSt 7 Alabama 8 North Carolina 9 Arizona St 10 So Methodist IL Nebraska 12 Michigan 13 Miami la 14 lorida St 15 Mississippi St 16 Washington 17 Oklahoma 18 Ohio St 19 Arkansas 20 So Mississippi Pittsburgh Top Ranked In Country By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP SportsWriter The Pitt Panthers who thought they were the best team in the country a year ago only to finish behind Georgia in the final rankings became Nol Tuesday in The Associated Press college football poll In becoming the sixth team to capture the Nol position this season Pitt set a record the first time in the 46 year history of The AP poll that six teams have held the top spot in one season Michigan Notre Dame Southern California Texas and Penn State also have been Nol this season The other years in which there were as many as five Nol ranked teams were 1950 1958 1960 1961 1962 1965 and 1977 way been going I know if I want to be Nol or Coach Jackie Sherrill said Tuesday at the weekly lun cheon of the ootball Writers Association of New York the end of the year I want to i Asked if the Nol ranking i was especially sweet in view of last runnerup finish Sherrill replied if Nol at the end of the Pitt last runnerup got its chance to move to the top of the ratings when Nol ranked Penn State lost to Miami of lorida 17 14 letcher who scored 29 points and grabbed 25 rebounds Kelly VanDyke added 15 points for the Golden Wave and Leslie King added 12 King also had nine rebounds and VanDyke had eight for Grundy now 15 4 Marion placed three players In the other SWD games last in double figures led by Annette night Gate City won on its' Barker with 13 Susan Burgess home court over Tazewell 58 48 and Grundy defeated Mar ion on its floor 61 40 The three winners join Vir ginia High in semi finals at Gate City with Grundy meeting VHS at 7 pm and 7" John Battle facing regular sea son champion Gate City in The Blue Devils have al 1 ready earned a berth in the Re gion IV tournament at a New River District site If Gate City 5 makes the finals the winner of "the Grundy VHS clash will also qualify for the playoffs sage aaueu 2f haiftime advantage and field 3 McCracken 2 Akers vavis Schacht 2 Viera 0 Woodring 0 Conway 0 Johnson 0 Abingdon 82 John Battle 8 12 MARION Barker 13 Burgess 12 Beamer 10 Catron 2 Aker 1 Sword 2 Hughes 0 Morris 0 GRUNDY letcher 29 Swiney 0 Van Photo By Bill McKee IT COMES NATURALLY Troy Lee Mikell Does His Thing percentage and rebounds dropped down as well was so phenominal his freshman year that it would be tough to ever top it last ETSU head coach Jim Hallihan remarked said last year was such a bad year See MIKELL Page 16 Californian Buys Interest In BIR Lonesome Pine BIG STONE GAP Va Barbara Murphy scored 17 points and pulled down 15 re bounds to lead Clintwood to a 39 34 victory over Wise in the first game of a double header in the Lonesome Pine District tourney here last night at Pow ell Valley High School In the second game Becky See GIRLS Page 16 Photo By Dave Grace IT CAN GET TOUGH ON THE COURT John Karen Barker Has To ight or This Rebound 4Vi Ml iiffl I I Ky mm TK i if i to I i 1L Ml My I 4.