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  • Now is the time to try your hand at night fishing

    I have always been a big proponent of night fishing. With the recent heat wave that has greeted us with June’s arrival, there is no better time to try it. Most people have two big reservations about fishing after sunset: it is either inconvenient or they just don’t believe fish bite after the sun goes down.

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  • Golf action

    Lange wins Ed Riedel Memorial Tournament at Meadowlands

    The Players Golf Association held the fourth annual Ed Riedel Memorial Golf Tournament June 12 at the Meadowlands Golf Course.

    Finishing first with a net 65 was Bob Lange. In second by a match of cards was Bob Davis with a 66 over Jack Gorman. In fourth by a match of cards was Nick Samela with a 67 over George Griffin.

    Closest-to-the-pin winners were Pat Jones at No. 5, Bob Butkevicius at No. 8, Bill Favro at No. 11 and Ron Weatherton at No. 15.

    MEADOWLANDS MISSFITS

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  • Playing a real gem of a course at Jumping Brook in New Jersey

    There are many fabulous benefits in knowing how to play golf. The best of these benefits occurs when you are invited to play at a friend’s golf course.

    This is not true of other sports or activities. If your best friend is a bowler and he invites you to bowl with him, that’s great, but all bowling alleys are the same, measuring 41.5 inches wide by 60 feet long.

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  • Brunswick County players have good showing in Greensboro

    GREENSBORO—Brunswick County baseball players made a good impression during the State Games Thursday through Sunday in Greensboro.

    The four county players—Dakota Irwin of North Brunswick High School and Pat and Wally Kamfolt and Joshua Powell of West Brunswick High School—were part of the Region 2 team, which finished 2-2 in the eight-team tournament. And in the final game, a come-from-behind 6-5 victory on Sunday against Region 5, Pat Kamfolt drove in the tying run on a 3-2 count with one out in the final inning.

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  • South Brunswick wins conference's Wachovia Cup

    CHAPEL HILL—South Brunswick High School has won the year-long Wachovia Conference Cup competition for the Waccamaw Conference.

    The Wachovia Conference Cup, sponsored annually by Wachovia Bank, N.A., and sanctioned by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, recognizes high school sports programs that achieve the best overall performance within their respective athletic conferences. Wachovia has sponsored the conference awards program since 1980.

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  • All-County track team selected

    Shawn Sanders of North Brunswick, who won four events at the county track meet, is the Male Track Athlete of the Year.

    Suzanne Costello of South Brunswick, the top distance runner in the county, is the Female Track Athlete of the Year.

    The team was picked by the sports staffs of The Brunswick Beacon and The State Port Pilot from nominations by the coaches at the three county high sachools.

    Members of the All-County Track team are below.

    ALL-COUNTY BOYS TRACK

    Shawn Sanders of North Brunswick is the Track Athlete of the Year.

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  • Trojans defeat Whiteville, Hampstead in Legion play

    The Southwest Trojans improved to 8-2 in Junior American Legion baseball by beating Whiteville 11-1 in six innings Monday night. Last week, the Trojans lost 6-5 to New Hanover and routed Hampstead 17-5.

    Below are summaries of the games.

    TROJANS 11

    WHITEVILLE 1

    The Trojans showed some good defense in the early innings of the victory.

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  • Post 68 improves to 10-0

    When Ryan Hill led off the game with a home run, it was a sign of things to come as Post 68 routed Hampstead 17-2 in an American Legion baseball game Monday.

    The victory at Hampstead—whose high school varsity finished second in the Class A state championship series—kept the Brunswick County team unbeaten (10-0).

    Hill finished 4-for-5 with a double and the home run. Two other Post 68 players also homered. Elliot Swain hit a grand slam. Ben Maggard hit a three-run home run.

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  • Shrimp boat sinks, spills fuel in Varnamtown

    VARNAMTOWN—An old shrimp boat sank in this Brunswick County seafood town last week, spilling fuel into the Lockwood Folly River that required cleanup and a likely citation by the U.S. Coast Guard.

    The 70-foot-long boat, Second Joy, sank last Wednesday night, boat owner Albert Stanley said.

    “I wasn’t expecting it,” Stanley said as he waited out the cleanup with a few other residents Monday inside Robinson’s Seafood near the dock where his boat tipped over on its port side toward the channel.

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  • Local African-American activists rejoice about historic presidential election

    Growing up in Brunswick County in the 1950s, the idea of an African-American presidential candidate seemed like a far-off dream for young black men like Joe Butler and Bernest Hewett.

    Educated in segregated schools, they sat in secondhand desks passed on from the white schools. There was no high school in the southwestern end of the county so going to high school meant temporarily boarding in Southport or Whiteville.

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