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Sports Briefs: Reagan's West selected to coach in East-West game
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Published: August 9, 2008
The N.C. Coaches Association has named the basketball, football and soccer coaching staffs for next July's East-West All-Star games in Greensboro and for the Carolinas All-Star basketball classic.
In East-West basketball, Howard West of Reagan will coach the West boys, with Greg McKenzie of East Rowan as his assistant. David Dewey of South Johnston will coach the East, with Todd Edge of Fayetteville Byrd as his assistant.
The girls basketball coaches are Ken Beatty of Gastonia Forestview and assistant Jeff Parham of South Caldwell (West) and Jamie Willoughby of Tarboro and assistant E. Lewis Cummings of Western Harnett (East). Coaches for the Carolinas All-Star Classic will be Reggie Peace of Lee County and assistant John Harder of Eden Morehead (boys) and Tony Denning of Fayetteville Byrd and assistant Cissy Dyer of Murphy (girls).
In East-West football, Scott Cloninger of Lincolnton (West) and Raymond Cobb of SouthWest Edgecombe (East) are the head coaches. The assistants are: Barclay Marsh of Mooresville, Steve Maennie of Asheville Roberson, Alex Mebane of Trinity, Baxter Morris of Albemarle and Dee Walsh of Robbinsville (West) and Grover Battle of Northern Nash, Brian Foster of Southern Nash, Kenneth Grantham of Greene Central, Ken Whitehurst of Greenville Conley and Jimmy Williams of East Wake (East).
The soccer coaches are Patrick Gladys of Ashesville Reynolds (West boys), Chip Stone of Raleigh Leesville Road (East boys), James Pielow of Northeast Guilford (West girls) and Kenny Simmons of Lumberton (East girls).
The East-West games will be July 20 (basketball), July 21 (soccer) and July 22 (football). The date for the Carolinas All-Star Classic has not been set.
Basketball
■ Darrell Wonge , a former forward at Winston-Salem State, has signed a professional contract to play for the Tsusho Toyota Eagles in Nagoya, Japan.
Wonge (6-6, 210) was noticed at a showcase for players from major and mid-major schools. The Fighting Eagles play in the JBL2 League and finished 14-2 last season.
At WSSU, Wonge had career totals of 845 points, 408 rebounds, 89 assists and 74 steals. He averaged a career-best 10.7 points and had a career-high 150 rebounds last season as a senior.
■ Josh Smith's agent said yesterday that Smith, a restricted free-agent forward, is considering a contract offer from the Memphis Grizzlies.
Smith (609, 235) averaged 17.2 points, 8.2 rebounds and 2.8 blocks in helping the Atlanta Hawks make the playoffs last season. It was his fourth season with the Hawks, who drafted him out of high school in the first round in 2004. If Smith accepts the offer, the Hawks will have seven days to match it. The Grizzlies and the Hawks declined comment.
■ Center Jason Smith of the Philadelphia 76ers tore the anterior-cruciate ligament in his left knee during an NBA-approved camp in Las Vegas. Team president Ed Stefanski said that there was no contact when Smith was hurt Wednesday.
"It's unfortunate that this happened, but Jason is resilient and he'll receive the best treatment available," Stefanski said yesterday.
Smith, a second-year player out of Colorado State, averaged 4.5 points and 3.5 rebounds as a rookie. He averaged 18.6 points and 8.0 rebounds in five games in the Las Vegas summer league.
■ Larry Miller, the owner of the Utah Jazz, was released from a hospital in Salt Lake City yesterday, nearly two months after having a heart attack.
Miller disclosed a series of health complications that he said nearly killed him several times. His condition was complicated by Type 2 diabetes, and the most recent scare came from gastrointestinal bleeding that required two operations. Miller needs a wheelchair but hopes to regain the use of his legs, which he said lost strength during the hospital stay.
Golf
■ Orville Moody, the U.S. Army veteran who won the 1969 U.S. Open for his only PGA Tour title, died yesterday. He was 74. The PGA Tour said that Moodie, a part Choctaw Indian from Chickasha, Okla., died in Texas but it did not give a cause of death.
Called "Sarge" because of his 14 years in the service, Moody was the last player to win the U.S. Open after going through local and sectional qualifying. He shot a 72 in the final round at Champions Golf Club in Houston for a one-shot victory over Deane Beman, Al Geiberger and Bob Rosburg.
Moody was a five-time runner-up on the PGA Tour and won tournaments in Hong Kong, Morocco and Australia. A long putter helped revive his career when he joined the 50-and-over Senior PGA Tour in 1984, and his 11 victories included the 1989 U.S. Senior Open.
■ South Carolina has lost another LPGA tournament.
The organizers of the LPGA's Ginn Tribute hosted by Annika Sorenstam announced yesterday that they couldn't obtain the sponsorship needed to keep the tournament through 2010. Bobby Ginn, the chairman of Ginn Companies, blamed a faltering economy and less corporate funds for the demise of the tournament at RiverTowne Country Club.
The tournament paid out $2.6 million this year, which tied for third highest purse on the LPGA Tour. Winner Seon Hwa Lee made $390,000 in prize money in June.
South Carolina also has lost LPGA tournaments in North Augusta, Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head Island.
Ice hockey
■ The Buffalo Sabres have re-signed Teppo Numminen, who missed all but one game last season after heart surgery.
General Manager Darcy Regier said that Numminen, a 40-year-old unrestricted free agent, agreed to a one-year contract worth $1.1 million. He was scheduled to make $2.6 million last season after signing a one-year deal, but he missed 81 games recovering from heart surgery in September 2007.
In three seasons with Buffalo, Numminen has scored 69 points in 155 regular-season games.
■ The Chicago Blackhawks signed Pascal Pelletier to a one-year contract yesterday.
Pelletier, a 25-year-old center, came to the Blackhawks from the Boston Bruins in a July 24 trade for center Martin St. Pierre. Pelletier played in six games last season with Boston. He scored 71 goals in 206 regular-season games with Providence of the AHL between 2005 and 2008.
Miscellaneous
■ East Carolina has selected Bill Carson, Reggie Pinkney, Wallace "Butch" Davis, Brian Irvin and the late Hal Morrison for its latest Hall of Fame class. Induction will be Oct. 17, the night before ECU plays Memphis in football.
Carson coached track and field for 40 years and retired before last season. Pinkney was a defensive back in the 1970s who as a senior set the school record with 197 yards in interception returns. He's the father of current quarterback Patrick Pinkney.
Davis was a three-year letterman in baseball and in 1980 led ECU in batting average (.362), home runs (12) and RBIs (27). Irvin was a six-time All-America in track, specializing in the 400 meters. Morrison coached ECU to seven CAA golf titles between 1986 and 1995.
■ Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United yesterday, with Manager Alex Ferguson saying he wants to extend Ronaldo's contract and warning Real Madrid to stay away from his players.
Ferguson also said that Ronaldo, who played with an ankle injury as United won English and European titles in May, will begin full training in a month. Ronaldo scored 42 goals last season, then had surgery in early July after Portugal's elimination from the European Championship.
■ States that fail to adopt a steroid ban in horse racing by the end of the year could lose their graded-stakes status in 2009.
The American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association passed a new eligibility requirement this week that would penalize states if they fail to adopt a proposed steroid ban by Jan. 1, 2009. At least 10 states have already approved the model steroid rule, but Kentucky has remained a high-profile holdout.
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