THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, February 19, 1995 TAG: 9502170192
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 26 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Bill Leffler
LENGTH: Medium: 65 lines
If Frank D. Lawrence Stadium is demolished this spring as scheduled, preparations are being made to play all of the city's home high school football games at Churchland Stadium.
Churchland athletic director Bill Strickland has proposed a home schedule for the three schools.
Strickland said there will be only one weekend in which all three schools have home games.
``We have two possibilities here,'' he said. ``We can play one game Thursday, one on Friday and the other on Saturday. Or we can play one on Friday and two on Saturday, one in the afternoon and the other at night.''
The suggested schedule has Churchland playing at home on four Friday nights - Sept. 29 against Deep Creek, Oct. 27 against Norcom, Nov. 3 against Indian River and Nov. 10 against Wilson. The Truckers would have a Saturday, Oct. 7 home game against Oscar Smith.
Norcom would have Friday home games on Sept. 8 against Churchland, Sept. 15 against Western Branch, Sept. 22 against Oscar Smith and Oct. 13 against Booker T. Washington.
The Greyhounds' home game with Great Bridge could either be Thursday, Sept. 28 or Saturday, Sept. 30.
Wilson would have Friday home games against Sept. 1 against Granby, Oct. 6 against Western Branch, and Oct. 20 against Norcom. The Presidents would have Saturday games at home Sept. 9 against Lake Taylor and Sept. 30 against Indian River, or the latter game could be shifted to Thursday.
Little League baseball and softball in the state will have a revamped post-season all-star schedule this year.
Instead of all district champions advancing to the state tournament, a sectional tournament will determine the state finals field.
Portsmouth's District 6 teams have been bracketed with District 7 (Hampton area), District 8 (Virginia Beach area) and District 15 (Upper Peninsula area around Warsaw and Gloucester).
State Sen. Fred Quayle presented a resolution commending the Olive Branch Little League on the occasion of its 40th anniversary and will be present at the league's reunion celebration to read the resolution.
``The organization is worthy of praise for all it has accomplished during four decades,'' said Quayle.
Portsmouth's newest 1,000-point career scorer in high school basketball is Patrick Dulin.
Dulin, who plays his basketball at Peninsula Catholic, went over the 1,000 barrier when Peninsula Catholic defeated Portsmouth Christian last week, 69-46. Dulin scored 23 points to reach 1,001. The six-foot junior guard still has another season.
When Portsmouth Catholic closed, Dulin went to Peninsula as a freshman. He scored 209 points in his first season, 371 last year and has 421 this year, averaging 17.5 per game.
Wonder how many mothers and daughters have been local track champions?
Wilson High School junior Jenita Harris ran the anchor leg on the Presidents' 1,600-meter relay team, which posted a district record time of 4:20.8 in the Southeastern District indoor meet at Churchland.
Twenty-two years ago Jenita's mother, Avis Johnson Harris, won the most valuable performer award in the 1973 district meet while running for Manor.
In 1974 mom was the district's 440-yard dash girls' champ. by CNB