Kinston doesn't have a player on its boys basketball team who is scoring more than 15 points per game, yet the Vikings are averaging 81.5 per game.

Coach Wells Gulledge's team is a picture of balance, led by 6-foot-4 junior Donovan Ingram at 15 points per game.

Gulledge has seven players -- Ingram, 6-7 junior Quinton Coples, 6-5 freshman Reggie Bullock, 6-1 senior Curtis Hines, 6-2 junior Tremaine Miller, 5-10 sophomore Demarcus Quinerly and 5-10 senior Miguel Starkey -- who average 10 points or more. At least 11 players have scored in each game.

The Vikings pushed their record to 4-0 last week by winning the Mount Olive Tip-Off Classic.

Kinston defeated Goldsboro 70-54 in Friday's semifinals before downing West Forsyth 85-47 in Saturday's final.

Ingram was named the classic's MVP for the second consecutive year. Coples, a center, made the all-tournament team.

The Vikings are expected to face a significant challenge in the GlaxoSmithKline Invitational at N.C. State's Reynolds Coliseum in December.

The GSK field includes nationally ranked Newark (N.J.) St. Benedict Prep. Kinston opens the tournament against Durham Riverside on Dec. 27.

MILLBROOK TEAM RAISES FUNDS: The Millbrook girls basketball team recently raised $750 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society with a student-faculty game.

"This gave our students and faculty a chance to interact positively in a non-academic way," Millbrook coach Chris East said.

CRAWFORD JOINS TERPS: Jessalyn Crawford of Athens Drive, the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4-A butterfly champ, recently signed with Maryland.

Crawford competes year-round with the YMCA of the Triangle Area swim club.

With YOTA, she swam the butterfly leg for both the 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay teams that won the YMCA national titles.

ATHLETICS DIRECTOR HONORED: Greensboro Page athletics director Rusty Lee will receive a distinguished service award along with 11 other athletics directors from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA).

The award will be given at the National Conference of High School Directors of Athletics in Anaheim, Calif.

The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) will present a citation to Roy Turner, athletics director at Wilmington Ashley.

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