Burns High School - Blazes Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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BEST Pk AUF OR Mlele Scoring 44 out of a possible 110 points, Doug Simmons had one of the best track performances of anyone at Burns High. Doug scored Burns’ only point in the triple jump event at the conference meet. Doug likes to run because it keeps him in shape and prepares him for the basketball season. He jogged from Allen’s Seafood home from practice everyday, approximately three miles. Doug is not only good in track. He was all-conference in cross country, placing second or third in all his | meets. Coach Hall is counting on him heavily to take the slack from graduating four starters from last year’s basketball team. Page 36: TOP — Marty Gee and his East Gaston opponent wait to tee off. BOTTOM — Coach George Hall gives the team last minute plans be- fore the game. Page 37: BOTTOM LEFT — Bennie Famble hands the baton to Ulysses Tuft as they edge a South Point opponent. BOTTOM RIGHT — Lisa Brown and Mary Alexander look on as Lorna Withrow kneels to hit the ball. Volleyball Golf Track 37

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SPIRITS AREN'T DAMPIENIEDD Only winning three of sixteen games didn’t stop the volleyball team from having fun. Their record of 3-13 didn’t even dis- courage them. ‘‘Even though we didn’t have a winning season, it was a good expe- rience for me,’’ stated senior Annette Whitworth. The team defeated their archrivals from Shelby in a match consisting of three games. Senior Lorna Withrow recalls the match. ‘‘We lost the first game, but after that we were psyched up and blew them out the last two games to win the match.” The team’s toughest match was played against North Gaston. The Bulldogs were tough but the Wildcats were just a little tougher. Burns lost both games. Coach George Hall remarked that he felt the team had improved,’’. . . in the skills of hitting the ball and playing better as a teatines 36 Volleyball Golf Track mt i @ .% ‘ % - %, ' Me. = es a plage oe ee me P a the a ‘ty, ‘ % =e et ; wwe , ¥ oe | -4 o F

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Cross Country NEI CONFERENCE AU NINERS All-conference runners Richard Carson and Doug Simmons high- lighted the Cross Country team’s sea- son. With twelfth and fourteenth place finishes, they helped the team finish sixth in the conference meet. The team opened its season with a second place finish. Six of our run- ners placed in the top twelve posi- tions. Richard and Doug both finished with the top five runners. The team added another second place finish, edging South Point by one point. Richard and Darrel Smith were the only two Burns runners to place in the top ten. In the first home meet, the Bulldogs won with four runners in the top ten. Richard coasted in first, giving Burns a ten point edge over North Gaston. The Bulldogs lost their next meet, which decided the first place team. Richard placed fourth. Overall, the team ended their sea- son with a 7-6 record, a sixth place finish, and two all-conference run- ners.