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Featuring: The East Columbus Gators The South Columbus Stallions The West Columbus Vikings The Whiteville Wolfpack

The News Reporter Thursday, August 14, 2014

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Columbus County high school football Pack gainer

Whiteville High running back Terrin Manning (center) gets a block from teammate Tyqwan McDougal in the Wolfpack’s win over Clinton last season at Legion Stadium. Whiteville ran to an 11-3 record in 2013, tying for the Three Rivers 1A-2A Conference championship and advancing to the third round of the state 1AA playoffs. Manning was named the 2013 Three Rivers Conference Offensive Player of the Year.

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East Columbus

Gators set to rebuild under Lewis

Just a handful of regulars return for the East Columbus High School varsity football team this season, but new head coach Rocky Lewis plans on trying to make the best with what is available.

Both the 2012 and 2013 Gator squads had solid senior leadership as they posted season records of 9-5 and 5-8.

Lewis became the third Gator head coach in as many seasons earlier this summer, and he knows he has a challenge in rebuilding the Gator squad in his first head coaching assignment.

Lewis is the son of longtime eastern North Carolina high school coaching standout Bob Lewis and played quarterback for

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his father’s Clinton High teams in the early 1990s.

He went on to East Carolina University and became an assistant coach for several college teams, including Appalachian State and North Carolina A&T. He then went into the

business world in Wilmington for several years before deciding to get back into coaching.

He replaces Chris Haney who resigned to become an assistant at Wilmington’s Ashley High. Haney replaced Toby Kasell, who

was Gator head coach for three years before heading to an assistant’s position at North Brunswick.

Punishing running back Nick McClure and fellow seniors Elijah Gresham, Greg Melvin, Jalen Dumas, Ryan Howard and Carlos

Campbell wound up their Gator football careers last season after starting for three years.

While there is not a lot of varsity experience returning, Lewis said that his team is eager to take on the new season.

“We stress hard work and dedication, and getting things done the right way,” he said. “We’ve got some tough teams on our schedule, but as long as we show improvement as a team each time out, we’ll be okay.”

Senior Kysheim Robinson and junior T.J. Brown lead the list of returnees.

“We’d like to have more kids out now,” he said, “but the ones we have out now are eager and working hard.”

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South Columbus

Stallions have new coach, same goals Few high school football teams in Southeastern North Carolina can match the overall consistency of the South Columbus Stallions since the school opened in 1992.

Over the past two decades, the Stallions have won 17 county championships, 14 conference championships and have appeared in the Eastern N.C. 2A Regional finals five times, winning the East title in 2007 and finishing runner-up in the state.

They have qualified for the state playoffs 20 times and a Stallion player has been selected Columbus County Player of the Year 17 times.

And even though the Stallions have suffered heavy graduation losses in each of the past two seasons, there is no reason to think that the 2014 Stallion football season will be any different.

The Stallions are under the tutelage of a new head coach.

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Kyle Hutchison was hired to fill the vacancy left by Jake Fonvielle, who resigned last winter to become fully involved in his family’s longtime Tabor City business.

Fonvielle guided the Stallions to conference championships in four of his five years at the helm. His 2011 and 2012

The Stallions return with the experience and leadership of senior players Reid Worley and Rashad Chatman. Both have earned all-conference and all-county honors in each of the past two seasons.

Chatman provides strength and speed as a running back and linebacker, and Worley is a strong, durable player as a linebacker-tight end.

Matt Miller heads into his junior season after gaining a lot of experience in the line Rashad Chatman last fall.

Matt Miller As has always been the case at South Columbus, several Stallion players will be called South Columbus has gained on to start on both sides of the teams advanced to the Eastmuch of its longtime success football, according to Hutchiern finals.

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Players graduation include assistant for state 4A powerUnder Hutchison, the Stal- 2013 Columbus County Player lions are switching to a Triple of the Year Dashaun Daniels, house Richmond County.

Hutchison is a graduate Option on the offensive side Three Rivers Conference Deof Ohio State University and of the ball. The Triple Option served eight years in the U.S. can be both exciting and ex- See Stallions on Page 12 Marine Corps. plosive.

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Stallions

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The Stallions suffered a tragic loss when promising young running back Cephas McGill died after suffering a stroke while visiting Myrtle Beach during Easter break.

McGill had several strong efforts as a sophomore last spring.

Hutchison heads into his tenure at South Columbus with some very tough matchups.

“We have New Hanover in the Jamboree and then we go back to play Hoggard the next week,” he said. “Then we’ll have to get ready for the big game with Loris.

“We’re looking forward to what lies ahead this season,” Hutchison said. “We’re going to work hard and do all we can to keep our program running well.

“Everybody’s looking forward to getting it started,” he added.

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Over the last 10 seasons, the football record at West Columbus High School stands at a combined 34 wins and 84 losses.

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The only winning season in that span was 2006 when the Vikings posted an 8-5 record and advanced to the second round of the state 1A playoffs behind a strong nucleus of senior players.

Last fall, the Vikings opened the season with a 2-2 record but then lost all seven their Three Rivers 1A-2A Conference games. They did manage to land a state 1A playoff berth and traveled to Charlotte where they shut out Davidson Community School 13-0. They lost to Three Rivers

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“It’s a challenge,” Jones said. “Football has been a struggle at West Columbus, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be turned around. The potential has always been here.

“Low numbers in the personnel department seems to be the biggest drawback most years,” Jones said.

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“A lot of them are wanting to stay around and work more,” Jones said. “I had to turn the field lights off the other night to get them to come in.”

Two-way lineman Kalyk Banks is one of the top returnees on the Viking squad this season. The 6-foot-2, 290-pound Viking senior, who also plays basketball for WCHS, has heard from several Division I college programs, according to Jones.

Rostin Bromell returns to the starting running back

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Whiteville

Pack eyes another strong season

With an 11-3 record, a highly respectable third-round appearance in the 2013 state 1AA football playoffs, and a lot of off-season enthusiasm, Coach Luke Little and his Whiteville Wolfpack are hoping that their football fortunes will grow even more positive in 2014.

“It was a good season, but we came close to making it an even better one,” said Little, whose Wolfpack last fall fashioned a nine-game winning streak and fell to eventual state 1AA champion James Kenan 17-7 on the Tigers’ homefield.

The Wolfpack out-scored its opposition by a 14-game total of 492-162.

“We know we have to work even harder and be even more prepared this season,” he added. “Except for the losses to South Columbus and James Kenan, things turned out pretty well for us.

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“We’re excited about the coming season … but as I said, we know we have our work cut out for us,” said Little, whose team tied South Columbus for the 2013 Three Rivers 1A-2A Conference championship.

Several key players from last year’s team were lost to graduation. Those included

Spencer Campbell

fullback Tykwan McDougal, linemen Zach Wilson and Adam Bastug, and quarterback Dylan Williams, and defensive backs Aljere Adams, Antonio Faulk and Nick Ciamillo.

Still, the Wolfpack is returning strong at nearly

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No. 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 16 21 22 23 24 25 30 31 32

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Pack Continued from Page 24 every position.

Little said that only two players are having to start on both offense and defense in pre-season drills and those are linemen Spencer Campbell and Tesean Shipman.

Campbell, who garnered 1A All-State honors last season as a junior, has shed 35 pounds since last season and is now down to 265, giving him more quickness and stamina at his interior positions.

Senior running back Terrin Manning is back to spearhead the Wolfpack running game after providing well over 1,000 yards in rushing last season.

Garrett Wilson, Austin Reeves and Tony Powell are back at the linebacker positions they manned all of last season, and Nate Powell and Jamyson Floyd return in the defensive secondary.

Senior Gerardo Maggioli has provided the Wolfpack with one of the area’s strongest kicking games the past two seasons, providing plenty of consistency from

the 40-yard field goal range and kick-offs to the end zone.

Junior Nydir Carr has stepped into the starting quarterback slot and brings versatility to the backfield.

The Wolfpack has a demanding non-conference schedule as three of its first four games are against 2A powerhouses North Brunswick, East Bladen and Clinton and the other is against a much-improved West Bladen team. Last year, the Wolfpack dropped its opener to North Brunswick before reeling off nine straight wins.

“With the schedule we have, we could head into conference play with a losing record and still be as good a team as we were last year,” Little said.

The 2013 Wolfpack squad enjoyed its best season since 1992 last fall while advancing to the third round of the state playoffs for only the third time since 1993.

“Last season really helped bring the program together, and we’re hoping to keep that up this time around,” Little said. “Our guys are showing a lot of pride and dedication and they are intent on making it another good year.”

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