1977-1982

McCastle, a 5-7 guided missle from the flatlands, was oversha- dowed by her husky teammate Crockett in the scoring, 29-16, but mere pointmaking wasn't enough to confuse the most valuable player selectors from knowing thc North's Star of Stars. Jones, even vri?h ocly half a game of point mahi?g, was the South MVP. Then tht? lads thundered on, like something left over from the fiim- ing ol X h p Warriors. By halftime, the North was in command, 43-36, w,:h things never to get much heiteer. Take away Hinds county's contri- butions for the South and the conse- quences would have been too horri- ble to contemplate. Hinds JC's Ju- nior Simmons had 21 and Danny Lewis (the South hWP) 20 points to lead the losers with Utica's John '

Ramona McCastle made it a mas- sacre by scoring 16 and 12 points, respectively, as the North led, 52- 31, at halftime. Charlene Jones of East Central with 15 first-half points was the lone bright spot for the South. And after those first 20 minutes, the 6-1 .Jones never scored again, an inexplicable development bring- ing post-game theories that either: 1.) she simply had tired out or 1.) just didn't want to do any better in order to keep recruiters from pes- tering her because marriage, not senior college basketball, ranks No. 1 in her order of immediate future priorities. Whatever the reason, it made lit- tle difference as the North women poured through another 52 second- half points compared to the South's 27.

(OODMAN - Without noticable anfare or attendance, the second annual Mississippi Junior College lssoeiation All-star basketball games emerged as the second annu- 31 North All-stars victory romps. If the South ever is to rise again In this J C 'Star basketeerlng, it must first rise, period. And that has not happened yet. The Monday frays here at Holmes Junior College's Frank Branch Gymnasium started onesi- dedly and never got mrrch better. The South women killed, 104-58, and then the South men mangled, 101-84. Both followed similar scripts. The North teams were much quicker and decidedly superior shooters, so much so that it became hard to believe the South teams ful- ly merited designation as All-Stars. Somehow, the South teams looked like the punching-bag opposition

McGriggs at 10 the South's only other double figme scorer.

By LEE BAKER

William Wood of East Mississip- pi, MVP for the North, poked in 23, Don Scott of Coahoma 21 and Rick- ey Everette of Holmes 19 to give the victors a three-way major as- sault that made winning a breeze for the Yanks. All-Star games hardly can be cited as proving anything, being es- sentially a benefit for senior college recruiters (who were abundantly on hand), much as the pro baseball Midsummer Classic dominated so long by the National League shows little carryover in October at World Series time, yet the first two years of this JC affair have been so one- sided that pride surely will stir the South into more frenzied future ( forts to catch up.

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canted around by the Harlem Globetrotters. This was especially true in the women's game. Ere five minutes passed, the North was up, 11-2. Soon it was 19-4 and finally at mid- point the first half, 30-13. The crowd, had there been one, could have begun edging towards the ex- its. The Coahoma JC inside-outside combination of Chan Crockett and