THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, June 7, 1996 TAG: 9606050138
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 11 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Bill Leffler
LENGTH: 66 lines
Notes on a frayed white cuff. . . .
Danny Barton, a Virginia Independent Schools all-state basketball player at Portsmouth Christian, has committed to Averett College in Danville.
The 6-foot-5 Barton also considered Western Maryland, North Carolina Wesleyan and Barton College.
Barton, a center, averaged 14 points and also double figures in rebounding. He led Portsmouth Christian to its best record ever (27-4) and the Metro Conference championship.
He also received the Portsmouth Christian coaches award for leadership and work ethic.
Over 100,000 athletic scholarships nationwide are available each year to high school and junior college student-athletes. Much of this money goes unused.
For information on how to get a grant, send a self-addressed business size envelope to the National Sports Foundation, P. O. Box 940, Oakhurst, N. J. 07755.
Portsmouth's Anna Fortson, a rising junior at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, was selected as the best defensive player on the field hockey team.
Fortson is a graduate of Norfolk Collegiate.
The Norfolk Sports Club will have its 43rd Scholarship Banquet on Tuesday, July 9 at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Virginia Beach, headlined by University of Virginia athletic director Terry Holland.
Several Portsmouth athletes are among those nominated for the 23, $2,000 scholarships.
It's hard for me to understand how coaches can pick one player at two positions on the same all-star team. They can't play but one.
This deprives another player of a chance to be on the squad. And the player picked at two spots probably is good enough to be named at still another position, so why not name him/her to three?
In football, offense and defense are separate units and a player can be named to both. In Currents' all-city selections, no baseball or softball players are considered for more than one position. They can be placed on the second unit at a different position than the first.
Next year's National Duckpin Bowling Tournament has been awarded to Plaza Bowl in Richmond. It will be the 67th national tourney.
Bowlarama in Norfolk is hosting the National Youth Championships this year June 22.
The Portsmouth Duckpin Bowlers Association will have an important meeting concerning the future of duckpin bowling in the city. Each league president and secretary should attend.
Officers of the city association will be elected at this meeting, scheduled for 5 p.m. on Sunday at Victory Lanes.
Prior to this session, the board of directors for Duckpin Associates Ltd. will meet at 4 p.m. at the bowling center.
The Olive Branch Adult Men's Soccer League will begin play on Sunday, June 23. It is open to men 16 years of age and older.
For information, call Craig Bell at 488-5013.
Mike Evans, always on top of the happenings involving Tidewater Community College's Portsmouth campus (he's the public information director), reports an unusual happening for Julia Knight.
Knight is an assistant physical education professor at the college. She registered a hole-in-one recently at the 159-yard ninth hole at Suffolk Golf Course.
That, in itself, was unusual enough. But Knight was playing immediately behind a tournament group and a sign at the green proclaimed an award of $1,000 for any tournament player who aced the hole.
``They didn't give me the $1,000,'' said Knight, ``but they let me keep the sign.'' by CNB