BASKETBALL
Friday’s results
Boys
Trask 71
Whiteville 68
Pender 45
South Columbus 44
St. Pauls 66
West Columbus 57
Girls
Whiteville 69
Trask 21
Pender 47
South Columbus 24
St. Pauls 49
West Columbus 32
Tonight’s schedule
South Columbus
at West Bladen
Tuesday’s schedule
Pender at
East Columbus
South Columbus
at South Brunswick
East Bladen
at West Columbus
St. Pauls at
Whiteville
(Games begin at 4 p.m., with girls junior varsity match-up, followed by boys junior varsity at 5:30, girls varsity at 7 and boys varsity at 8:30).
Wilcox watch
Chris Wilcox
Still looking for their first win in 2007, the Seattle Super Sonics dropped NBA losses to the New York Knicks on Friday and the Golden State Warriors on Saturday despite some good performances by former Whiteville High All-State Chris Wilcox. In Friday’s 111-93 loss to New York in Seattle, Wilcox tallied 13 points and had six rebounds. In Saturday’s 108-84 loss to Golden State in Oakland, the 6-foot-10, 235-pound Wilcox tallied 22 points and pulled down seven rebounds, He connected on 8-of-13 shots from the field and 6-of-7 from the foul line as the Sonics suffered their fourth straight loss since defeating the Boston Celtics on Dec. 31. Their season record now stands at 13-23 with Wilcox making starts in all but one game.
The Sonics will travel to play the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday.
On this date
January 8, 1991
Future Georgetown University player John Jacques scores 27 points and Cedric Brown follows closely wth 24 points in leading Coach Gary Battle’s Acme-Delco Trojans to a 97-78 Southern 8 1A Conference basketball victory over the visiting Nakina Indians. Nikki Brown adds 10 points and 10 rebounds for ADHS. Chris Ravenell tallies 27 points for Nakina while Nehemiah Barrett chalks up 24.
