Win some, lose some, tie some - Charleston Post Courier
), when McKissick’s mighty Summerville High School Green Wave defeated my plucky, but outmanned, St. Andrews Rocks, 14-6. Well, my Rocks in the sense of early allegiance to that now-defunct high school with not always the best teams but forever... And the magical blend of sights, sounds and even smells made high school football so special to me that it induced a natural, youthful high. Andrews topped Charleston High (can’t remember the score) in my first attended game, at the tender age of 6, at College Park in 1959. Back to the one-sided Green Wave-Rocks series. The 1964 game, again the season’s second for both teams, was played way up oak-moss-draped Highway 61 and way out in the country in Summerville. The News and Courier’s sports section that day included this big headline about big-league baseball: “Koufax Hurls Perfect Game For Fourth No-Hitter Of Career. But my sporting interest as a then-seventh-grader at St. Andrews Junior High hit much closer to that night’s game between two teams that had suffered narrow opening losses. Summerville had been edged by James Island, 19-14, while St. Andrews had given a strong Berkeley team a scare before falling, 19-13. Maybe this was the year. As News and Courier executive sports editor Warren Koon reported in the Sept. 11 paper from a game that drew “an overflow crowd of more than 5,500”: “A stray pitch [as in a football pitchout, not a Koufax fastball] with just over three minutes left opened the door for. Source: www.postandcourier.com
