Burns High School - Blazes Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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18 Basketball TOP LEFT — Senior Edward Hopper floats around a Crest defender for two. TOP RIGHT — Darryl Robbs concentrates on the basket as he shoots for two in the Christmas Tournament game against Kings Mountain. MIDDLE LEFT — Bernard Brooks breaks to open a passing lane for a pass from Doug Simmons in the game against Crest. MIDDLE — In the Christ- mas Tournament game against Crest, Edward Hopper, surrounded by five Crest defenders, goes for a basket in the second quarter. MID- DLE RIGHT — Bernard Brooks skies to the hoop for two as a Chase defender looks on in bewilderment. BOTTOM — Junior Martin Kee listens intently to Coach Hall’s game plan in the game with Shelby. DOGS FUNTSat TWD The Bulldogs’ third place finish was accredited to their 12-6 confer- og

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SR NE BOTTOM LEFT — J.V. Cheerleaders show their enthusiasm by building a pyramid during the Crest-Burns game. BOTTOM RIGHT — Spelling ].V. Cheerleaders: BOTTOM ROW — Freda Clark. TOP ROW — Dede Carr, Amy Cabiness, out B-U-L-L-D-O-G-S- is a great way to get fans Wilson, Kim Melton, Tammy Melton, Kay Mary Martin, Meredith Phifer, Kim Hillyer. ready for a basketball game against Shelby. JV Cheerleaders 17

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ence and 13-7 overall record. Defeating Crest 66-65 and Chase 90-65, Burns jumped out to an early winning season despite a one point loss to R.S. Central. Edward Hopper led the scoring with 25 points against R.S. Central, 19 against Crest, and 18 against Chase. Bernard Brooks also had a hand in the scoring effort with he 18 points against R.S. Central and 20 against Chase. Kings Mountain de- feated Burns 76-54 making it their first conference loss. Darryl Robbs and Edward Hopper led the Bulldog scoring, Robbs having 15 and Hopper having 14. Burns retaliated by defeating East Rutherford 75-49 and South Point TOP — Doug Simmons goes up for a jump ball in the game against Chase. BOTTOM — In the game against Chase, Martin Kee takes the ball downcourt while Darryl Robbs and Edward Hopper follow. 82-56 just before the Christmas holi- days. Christmas break ended with the Holiday Tournament for county bas- ketball teams. It was held on January 2 and 3. Crest placed first with Burns second, Kings Mountain third, and a disappointed Shelby fourth. “We were fortunate to hit the key free shots,” said Coach George Hall after the Shelby game. Burns won 57-52. Edward Hopper led scoring with 24 points while Bernard Brooks contributed 10. Burns ran away with a victory against North Gaston. Ed- ward Hopper and Doug Simmons each had 17 points and Bernard Brooks added 10 for a winning score of 83-63. Coach Hall indicated that it was the team’s best overall perfor- mance of the season. Both East Gas- ton and R.S. Central defeated Burns with scores of (E.G.) 75-68 and (R.S.) 66-64. Burns, then, 6-4 in the conference, defeated arch rivals Crest 80-61. Five Burns’ players were in double scor- ing figures. Edward Hopper had 18, Doug Simmons 17, Bernard Brooks and Charles Walton each had 12, and Darryl Robbs had 10. Burns triumphed over Chase by a score of 57-46. Bernard Brooks scored 15 points and Martin Kee added 12. Kings Mountain gave Burns a dou- ble dose of misery defeating us 55-54. Martin Kee led the scoring drive with 14 points while Bernard Brooks had i a Burns, retaliating from defeat by Kings Mountain again, defeated East Rutherford 67-59. South Point also got a second dose of defeat from Burns as we won 77-68. Bernard Brooks scored 20 points along with Darryl Robbs helping with 17. With only three games left in the season, Burns felt sure of a third place finish. Then came Shelby who, on some last second scoring, defeated us 56-55. Sophomore Lee Mauney led the scoring effort with 12 points. North Gaston was given a taste of de- feat when Burns won 61-57. Burns’ last game of the season, against East Gaston, was a total victory. 80-75 was the final score. Darryl Robbs led with 19 points while Edward Hopper added 16. Martin Kee helped with 13 along with Doug Simmons and Ber- nard Brooks who were also in double figures. Basketball