NEWS • JANUARY 11-17, 20152

Steven Worley, a sophomore candidate for the North Johnston High School varsity baseball team, gets in a little infi eld practice last week despite cold and windy conditions. Team tryouts are scheduled for Feb. 16-18 and the fi rst game on the Panthers schedule is Tuesday, March 3 at Goldsboro High School.

North Johnston Middle School Lady Jaguars de-feated Four Oaks 45-16 in basketball on Thursday, Jan 8 at home as both teams resumed their conference schedules following the Christmas break.

NJMS jumped out to an early 12-3 fi rst quarter lead and was still ahead 20-10 at the half.

NJMS Lady Jags pick up where they left off by beating Four Oaks 45-16

The Lady Jags outscored Four Oaks 12-4 in the third quarter and 13-2 in the fi nal stanza for the 45-16 result.

Leading scorers for North Johnston were Levossie Taylor with 15 points, Jordyn Scott with 11 and Blayke Batten with 10.

“It was a good victory for us and a great team effort,” said Coach Pierre Bone.

“Everyone contributed to the win and I was very proud of the whole team.”

“Hopefully we’ll contin-ue to improve and get bet-ter every practice and every game,” said Bone.

The win leaves the Lady Jags with a 6-0 overall re-cord and 3-0 in the confer-ence.

The North Johnston Mid-dle School boys basketball team dropped its fi rst con-ference game of the year to Four Oaks 42-30 on Thurs-day, Jan. 8.

The Jaguars fell behind early and trailed 10-2 after one quarter and still trailed 14-10 at the half.

The game was tied 25-25 after three quarters but ran out of gas in the last stanza and was outscored 17-5 for the fi nal 42-30 total.

Daylan Hinnant led the Jaguars in scoring with 11 points followed by Tiquan Bunn with six, Justin Hol-

Jaguars tied after three quarters but fall 42-30

land with fi ve, Diego San-tiago with four and Austin Lee with two.

Diego Santiago was tops in rebounding with 14 while Tiquan Bunn contributed eight, Daylan Hinnant had four and Austin Lee added two.

“We did not start out strong on defense and let Four Oaks take control of the scoreboard early,” said Coach Casey Creech. “At the half we changed up our defense and looked much stronger defensively in the last two quarters.”

“We struggled offensive-

ly the entire game making costly turnovers and were not as strong or confi dent with the ball as we have been in previous games,” said Creech. “After being on a long break it is tough to get back into the swing of things, but we will get back to where we were.”

“We just have to put this game behind us and keep looking forward knowing we have another chance at Four Oaks,” said Creech.

The Jaguars record is now 4-2 overall and 2-1 in the conference.

North Johnston wrestler Tyler Scott, left, 145 pounds, won the silver med-al at Rosewood Eagle wrestling tournament on Dec. 18 Invitational. Cody Jones, middle, 195 pounds and Ethan Williams, 285 pound display bronze medals they won at Charles B. Aycock Falcon Invitational wrestling tourna-ment on Jan. 3.

Bingo at McDonald’sCome join Selma Parks

and Recreation and adults over 55 as we play bingo at the Selma McDonald’s at 9 a.m. on Jan. 20. Bingo is open to all interested senior citizens. Bingo is free and prizes are awarded. Please join us for the fun and fel-lowship. For more informa-tion: 919-975-1411.

Day Trip – Black HistoryJoin us as we celebrate

Black History Month on Tuesday, Feb. 3. We will tour the International Civil Rights Center & Museum which is an archival cen-ter, collecting museum, and teaching facility devoted to the international civil rights. The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum was found-ed in 1902 and transformed the lives of more than 2000

African American Students. Deadline to register is Fri-day, Jan. 16. Cost is $60 per person (includes transpor-tation and entrance to mu-seums). For more informa-tion: 975-1411.

Day Trip - Barn Dinner Theater

Experience a delicious meal and production of First Baptist of Ivy Gap at this historic Greensboro theater on Tuesday, March 24, from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Deadline to register is Friday, Feb. 16. Cost is $85 per person (in-cludes transportation, din-ner and performance with gratuity). For more infor-mation: 975-1411.

Decadent DessertsSeniors 55 and over can

enjoy a variety of desserts and games in celebration of Valentine’s Day on Thurs.,

Feb. 12. This will be a fun-fi lled event for all who smile at the thought of Valentines, chocolates, games and love. Cost is $10 per person and space is limited. Registra-tion Deadline: Friday, Feb. 6. For more information: 919-975-1411.

Registration for Indoor Soccer

Come join us for a co-ed, non-competitive league for beginners...or anyone who wants to learn more about soccer while hav-ing fun. The league is for boys and girls ages 4-12 (as of 1/1/15). Games will be played on weeknights beginning in mid-February. The fee is $25 for residents and $30 for non-residents. The deadline to register is Friday, Jan. 30. For more information: 975-1411

Activities going on at Selma Parks and Recreation

The Selma Middle school boys basketball team con-tinued its winning season by defeating Benson Mid-dle last Thursday, 32-28, in a closely played game. The win improves Selma’s re-cord to 6-0.

Selma scored in the fi rst minute of play but found itself trailing 7-4 at the end of the fi rst quarter. Benson, with some tight play and precision passing, main-tained the lead ending the fi rst half ahead, 13-10.

In the second half, Selma became more defensive with Jaidon Stokes mak-ing three steals that led to great possessions. Anthony Concil and Marquez Sim-mons played great defense disrupting a lot of what the Benson team was trying to do.

That effort helped to give Selma the lead at the half-way point of the third quar-ter, a lead that lasted to the end of the quarter.

Selma went into the fourth quarter leading 20-19, extending that lead to 30-24. In the last two min-utes, Benson applied pres-sure, trailing 30-28, in the last minute of play. Selma released the pressure scor-ing with 30 seconds on the clock to go ahead 32-28.

Anthony Concil led the

Selma MIddle tops Benson; now 6-0

Selma Middle School’s Anthony Concil, followed by Ziontavious Durogene, heads up court looking for an open man during play last week.

scoring with 15 points fol-lowed by Marquez Sim-mons with 6 points. Ilmar Ramirez, Jaidon Stokes, Xavier Pierce and and Zion-tavios Durogene each con-

tributed 2 points.Selma hosted North John-

ston on Monday and will host Four Oaks today, Jan. 15.

--Ken Fitzgerald

Last Thursday at Benson Middle School, the Selma Middle School girls basket-ball team defeated Benson Middle, 27-12. With this, the fi rst victory of the sea-son, the team’s record is 1-5. The team has also bet-tered last year’s record of 0-13.

“The school, staff and stu-dents alike, were very quick to congratulate the girls on a game well played and their fi rst win of the year!” said coach Scott Rorabaugh. “We hope the winning be-comes contagious.”

Selma led throughout the entire game as it scored its highest point total of the year. Going into the second half leading 16-8, Selma had a lackluster third quarter go-ing scoreless. Benson was only able to score 2 points

and in the fourth quarter Selma found its range and scored 11 points while Ben-son remained scoreless.

Defensively, the 12 points scored by Benson is also the lowest number of points scored against Selma.

The balanced scoring at-tack was led by Bessy Ro-jas and Yasmin Pinedo with 6 points each. Ty’Niazia Dublin scored 5, and Make-lle Bryant added 4. Kenya-nah McNeill, Victoria Perry, and Deysy Castaneda each contributed 2 points

Selma Middle girls notch fi rst victory of the year with 27-12 win over Benson

Selma Middle’s Bessy Rojas, picture on the right, jumps for the basket on her way to leading the scoring for Selma with 6 points against Benson last week.

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