Bulldogs sign five players
to bolster squad next year

The UNC Asheville menís basketball team recently announced the signing of five high-school players for next season.
They include 6-foot-1 guard Matt Dickey, 6-6 forward Quinard Jackson, 6-2 guard John Primm, 6-3 guard Chris Stephenson and 6-6 forward Terrence Turner.

Dickey, who is from Trussville, Ala., averaged 15 points and 6.8 assists per game last season.

Jackson, who is from Palm Beach, Fla., averaged 19 points and 10 rebounds.

Primm, who is from Dickson, Tenn., averaged 17.5 points and 4.2 assists.

Turner, who is from Fayetteville, Ga., averaged six points and five rebounds.

Pair of ASU players named
to FCS All-American squad

BOONE ó Appalachian State University offensive lineman Kerry Brown and defensive back Corey Lynch recently were named NCAA Football Championship Subdivision All-Americans by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, which names only one team of 27 players.

Lynch, a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award (given to the nationís top defensive player), leads the Southern Conference with six interceptions and ranks 20th nationally. The three-time All-Americanís 24 career interceptions are one shy of tying ASUís 43-year-old school record.

Brown, who is 6-6 and 310 pounds, earned the Jacobs Blocking Trophy ó awarded to the SoConís top offensive lineman ó for the second consecutive year.

Former Tourists manager
inducted into Hall of Fame

The late Billy Southworth, a former manager of the Asheville Tourists minor baseball team,† was in the latest group of inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Dec. 3.

Southworth, who managed both the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Braves to victories in the World Series, managed the Tourists to the Class B Piedmont League title in 1935. Asheville finished the season with a 75-62 record and then defeated Richmond ó four games to two ó in the playoffs.

He managed the Tourists the following year, winning just 40 games and losing 103 ó the only time in the teamís history that Asheville lost 100 or more games.

Southworth, the seond Touristsí manager to gain entry in the Hall, followed Sparky Anderson, who managed Asheville in 1968.

In addition, two former Tourists players ó Willie Stargell and Eddie Murray, both of whom went on to acclaim in the Major Leagues ó have been inducted into the Hall of Fame as Asheville players.