THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, February 12, 1995              TAG: 9502100239
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS      PAGE: 26   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY BILL LEFFLER, CURRENTS SPORTS EDITOR 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   49 lines

HONORS AWAIT `PETEY' SESSOMS HE'LL JOIN HIS FORMER COACH, MAC CARROLL, IN ACCEPTING ACCOLADES.

CRADOCK HIGH SCHOOL no longer exists but the school's all-time scoring leader in basketball and its last basketball coach are going to have one grand reunion.

Old Dominion University's Paul ``Petey'' Sessoms, who scored 1,947 points before graduating from Cradock in 1991, has been selected by the Portsmouth Sports Club as the top male athlete in state colleges for 1994.

Earlier the Sports Club chose former Cradock coach Mac Carroll, now the head basketball coach at Churchland, as the area's outstanding high school coach for '94.

The two will be honored at the annual Portsmouth Sports Club Jamboree on March 8 at the Holiday Inn-Portside.

Last season Sessoms sparked ODU to a 21-10 record, 10-4 in the Colonial Athletic Association. The Monarchs were co-champions with James Madison and earned an invitation to the NIT, where they beat Manhattan and then lost to Bradley.

Sessoms carried a 16.2 scoring average, eighth best in the CAA. He also averaged 5.6 rebounds per game.

The 6-7 senior forward, one of the finest 3-point and free-throw shooters in college basketball, earned All-CAA honors.

At Cradock Sessoms became the third all-time leading scorer in Southeastern District history. His 714 points in one year was a single-season school record. He also set school records in rebounding for a game (27), a season (314) and a career (989).

``One truly remarkable record is that he played in 90 consecutive games over a four-year varsity career,'' recalled Carroll.

The youngest of five children in the Sessoms family, 22-year-old Petey actually is named Paul Davis.

``Everybody always called me P.D.,'' said Sessoms. ``Then it came out in the newspaper that it was Petey. Now everybody calls me Petey, even my sister.'' ILLUSTRATION: Photo

Paul ``Petey'' Sessoms

Cradock graduate attending ODU

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