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LINCOLN
TIMES-NEWS
P.O. Box 40
119 W. Water Street
Lincolnton, NC 28092
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Sports - January 2002
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Wolves huff and puff and blow down Chase
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Forestview leave the Mustangs’ corral with a pair of wins
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Jan. 30, 2002 - DENVER — Those who attended the boys basketball game Tuesday night at East Lincoln
may owe to school some money.
Those fans got more than their money’s worth.
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Newton’s Red Devils take two from Rebels
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Jan. 30, 2002 - Led by freshman Julius Powell's 24 points and six blocked shots, Newton-Conover pulled away down
the stretch for a 72-52 win over West Lincoln Tuesday night.
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Wolves drop another close conference game
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Middle School Wrestling Results
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Jan. 28, 2002 - The West Lincoln Middle School wrestling team competed in the Indian Classic wrestling
tournament at St. Stephen’s on Jan. 26 . They had 17 individual place winners in the tournament.
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West teams enjoy weekend with wins
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Jan. 28, 2002 - FOREST CITY — The West Lincoln varsity basketball teams Traveled to Chase Friday and came
back with a pair of wins.
Jeremy Parker drained the nets for 19 point to lead the Rebels to a 81-57 whipping of Chase.
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Green Wave swallow Mustangs East girls get big win in OT
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Jan. 28, 2002 - GASTONIA — The Ashbrook Green Wave proved it was the cream of the crop in the Big South 3A Conference with a convincing
73-44 in over East Lincoln Friday play.
Ashbrook (16-1, 7-0), did it with a balanced scoring attack to defeat the Mustangs (10-6, 3-4).
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East Lincoln guard Corey Howard shoots over the Ashbrook defense in their last meeting. Ashbrook defeated East Friday.
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Julius Blum beats Timken to win the Industrial League
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Briefs - Jan. 25, 2002
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ELMS girls defeat LMS
The Lady Wildcats fall to East Lincoln 21-17 Tuesday.
Leading scorers for Lincolnton were Brittany Jones 9, Charlotte Clark 6, and Ashley Broadway 2.
Leading scorers for East Lincoln were Moore 12, Webb 4, Glenn 2, Feldon 2, McCorkler 1.
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Local teams begin second half of season tonight
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Jan. 25, 2002 - The first half of the conference season is over. Some of the local teams are
in position to jockey for a playoff spot.
Lincolnton lost its first five games of the before finally before it finally started getting things together.
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Lincolnton needs Eric Wilson (15) to have a solid second half of the conference season.
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Wolves split with Cavaliers
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Lincolnton 59,
East Rutherford 51
Jan. 23, 2002 - The inconsistency that has marked Lincolnton’s basketball season surfaced at the wrong time.
The Wolves went into a Tuesday night home game against East Rutherford with a three-game winning streak and an opportunity to be 5-2 at the
midpoint of the Midwest 2A Conference race.
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Rebels drop at Bunker Hill
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West Lincoln 69
Bunker Hill, 57
Jan. 23, 2002 - The Rebels closed the gap but they couldn’t get the win Tuesday night at Bunker Hill. West closed to within seven points in the fourth
quarter in the 69-57 loss. Coach Jason Kingery pulled up two JV players to varsity: Cody Branton and Ben Bryant.
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East Lincoln boys beat South Point, Lady Mustangs fall
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East Lincoln 67
South Point, 62
Jan. 23, 2002 - BELMONT — The visiting Mustangs broke open a close contest with a strong fourth quarter, making 11 of 12 free throws with
the game on the line to defeat the South Point Red Raiders 67-62 in Big South 3A Conference play.
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Briefs - Jan. 23, 2002
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West wrestlers beat Shelby
West Lincoln defeated Shelby, 64-15 in their game on Friday.
Winner for West were (103 weight class wrestler) Jeremy Pearson with a pin; 112 Daniel Scronce, pin; 119 Steele Barber by forfeit; 125 Josh Hullette, pin; 130
Chris Godfrey, pin; 135 Brent Gates, pin; 140 Cory Norman, pin; 145 Eric Steele, 12-0 major decision; 152 Daniel Soto, pin; 171 Allen Fredell, pin; 189 Jacob Stephens, pin.
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Mustangs wrestlers steadily improving
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Jan. 21, 2002 - The East Lincoln wrestling team is making a name for itself.
With new head coach Jim Prevost, the Mustangs as of last week have posted a 8-10 record.
But that’s despite losing 16 wrestlers from the start of the season.
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Lincolnton boys beat Bunker Hill, girls fall
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Jan. 21, 2002 - CLAREMONT —Lincolnton’s Eric Wilson poured in a game-high 20 points to propel the
Wolves to a 62-53 win over Bunker Hill Friday.
In a game of runs, the Wolves made more of its opportunities to pull away slowly in the final quarter. The Wolves’ quickness and pressure defense were also key, especially in the
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East Lincoln teams lose close games to East Gaston
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Jan. 21, 2002 - DENVER — The East Lincoln basketball team hosted the most feared team the Big
South 3A Conference Friday.
East Gaston and 6 foot-9 inch center Tyler Berg came into the game as perhaps the best team in the conference.
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East Lincoln guard Jennifer Henley dribbles past a defender in an earlier game. The Lady Mustangs lost in overtime to East Gaston Friday.
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Pumpkin Center teams wins over ELMS
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Jan. 18, 2002 - DENVER — The Pumpkin Center boys and girls basketball teams both beat their
arch rival, Each Lincoln Middle Thursday.
Both games were hard fought.
In the boys game, Lance Friday hit the game-winning basket with 29 seconds left then he secured a missed shot by East.
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Briefs - Jan. 18, 2002
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“Choo Choo”
Justice and others will be inducted into Saturday’s Cherryville Sports Hall of Fame
Former UNC running back, Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice will receive an honorary induction in the Cherryville Sports Hall of Fame Saturday night.
Justice, who also starred in the Washington Redskins’ backfield, has owned an insurance company here for years.
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Lincolnton ekes out a pair of home wins over Shelby
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Jan. 16, 2002 - Eric Wilson picked the perfect time to end his struggles at the free throw line.
The sophomore guard hit eight of nine free throws, including six straight in the final two minutes, as Lincolnton held on to beat Shelby 54-51 Tuesday night at home.
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Lincolnton's Andrea Stroup looks for an open player in the Lady Wolves win over Shelby Tuesday.
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Bandys cleans up at West Lincoln with a sweep
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Jan. 16, 2002 - VALE — Get out the brooms.
The Bandys girls and boys basketball teams cleaned out both West Lincoln teams Tuesday with big blowouts, leaving the Rebels’ home court with a sweep.
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WL pins Bandys
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Jan. 16, 2002 - CATAWBA
— The West Lincoln High School wrestling team defeated Bandys 40-26 Tuesday.
Wins for West were scored by the following teammates: Daniel Scronce 112 weight class; Zeb Elmore 125; Josh Hullette 130; Cory Norman 140; Eric Steele 145; C. J. Deputy 171; Antonio Rojo
215; and Aaron Terry in the heavyweight category.
Their record is now 20-7, 2-1 in Conference. The next match will be Friday at Shelby.
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Mustangs are Stallions with conference win over Huss
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Jan. 16, 2002 - Tripp Miller poured in a game-high 20 points to lead East Lincoln to a big conference win
at Hunter Huss, 61-57.
The visiting Mustangs raced out to lead at the half 31-23 and withstood a strong come back down the stretch to pen up the Huskies in Big South 3A Conference play.
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Mustangs beat N. Gaston on court; East girls fall
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Jan. 14, 2002 - DENVER — At halftime of the East Lincoln-North Gaston boys basketball game
Friday, East forward Tripp Miller said he and several other teammates had a talk.
Basically they said it was time to take care of business.
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East Lincoln guard Tyler Handy gets ready to make his move against North Gaston's Jason Graham Friday. East won 64-48.
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Briefs - Jan. 14, 2002
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West Lincoln wrestlers win
Cory Norman got his 109th high school career win to lead Westy Lincoln to a 46-22 win at East Rutherford Friday.
Norman who won by decision in the 140 weight class, is now eight shy of the school record of 117.
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Mustangs take two from Lincolnton
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Jan. 11, 2002 - DENVER — It must be something about East Lincoln’s gym because Lincolnton
varsity basketball boys team can’t win there this season.
The (1-6) Wolves lost three games there in the First Charter Holiday Classic.
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Briefs - Jan. 11, 2002
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Rec Department to hold racquet ball tournament
The Lincolnton/Lincoln County recreation department is sponsoring a racquetball tournament beginning Jan. 28 at the Lentz Recreation Center.
Men’s and Women’s singles and doubles matches will be held. There will be three divisions: advanced, intermediate, and beginner for each category.
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WLMS girls, LMS boys win
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Jan. 9, 2002 - VALE — The West Lincoln Middle School girls and the Lincolnton Middle boys basketball
teams were victorious Monday.
Holly Hoover scored 10 points and Jessie Watts added nine to lead the Lady Chiefs to a 36-11 win over LMS Monday.
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Newton gives the Rebel wrestlers the figs
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Jan. 9, 2002 - VALE — The West Lincoln wrestling team’s string of seven straight conference titles
is in jeopardy.
Tenth-ranked Newton-Conover pinned the ninth-rated Rebels, 40-27, Tuesday in Midwest 2-A Conference action.
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Local ladies teams get victories, LHS boys fall
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Jan. 9, 2002 - The Lincolnton High School varsity basketball teams played at Chase on Tuesday with very different outcomes.
The Lady Wolves defeated the Trojans 43-25. They had a great beginning in the first quarter at 14-2, by half time, they were up 20-7. They pulled away in the
third quarter to cruise to victory.
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LHS tight end Corella selected to AP All-state team
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Jan. 4, 2002 - RALEIGH (AP) — Lincolnton football player Rafael Corella was named to the
Associate Press All-State team Thursday.
The tight end had 604 receiving yards and nine touchdowns for the Wolves in 2001.
He played a key role for the team all year long and made clutch catches against Bandys in the regular season and against Shelby and Burlington Cummings
in the 2A state playoffs.
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Cherryville’s Cease can do wonders on golf course
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Jan. 4, 2002 - CHERRYVILLE — “I want to be the next Tiger Woods.”
We’ve heard that line a lot lately. It seems that every young golfer wants to follow in those big footsteps.
But Billy Cease is one of the few that have the potential.
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The LTN Top Sports Stories of 2001
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Jan. 2, 2002 - The Lincoln Times-News top sports stories of the 2001.
The East Lincoln football team.
You can write a book about the 2001 Mustangs. It would have tragedy, adversity, heroism, glory and even justice.
Both third-string quarterback Travis Conrad and student-athlete Nicole Bowman died in car accidents. Both incidents had huge impact on the football team.
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Wolves take two from Rebels; East falls
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Jan. 7, 2002 - VALE — Lincolnton-West Lincoln basketball games came down to who wanted it
more.
On Saturday, maybe Lincolnton boys and girls varsity teams had more desire as the Wolves came home with both wins.
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© 2001 Lincoln Times-News
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