A trophy for Contentnea The year 1954 was one of the greatest years we had at Contentnea High School. That was when girls basketball teams played on half the court. Mr. Warren, our coach, had a lot of patience with us. We started off that year winning the first game, then the second, and before long we were playing our last game without a loss before entering the tournament. We also won that one. Now if we could only win the tournament! The best I remember it was a very close game, but we won it. After the boys game, the trophies were passed out. All the schools voted on the sportsmanship trophy to determine which school had shown the most sportsmanship. When they called out Contentnea High School girls team for the sportsmanship trophy we went wild. We could not believe we had been all year undefeated and had also won the best trophy you could win. The other day I went back to our old school. In the hallway, the trophy case still held our now tarnished trophies. I pointed it out to my husband and said, “Look there is the best trophy we ever won—the Sportsmanship Trophy.” Lucy Allen | Four Oaks | South River EMC |
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