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Italian Restaurant Sammio’s New Family Owner Same Great Taste! Specials! Daily Sunday Potato Skins $3.99 22oz Drafts $2.00 Monday Chicken Wings .30 $1.00 Drafts Karla D. Sessoms, GRI, ABR Broker • REALTOR R Pentagon Federal Credit Union 910.494.3102 | www.karlasessoms.com 1% Buyer Credit Upon Closing Certain restrictions may apply Tuesday House Wines $3.50 Wednesday Well Drinks $2.00 Thursday Martini Night $3.99 Friday Long Islands $3.99 Saturday Margarita Night $3.99 for one of the most memorable shots in college basketball history. He scored a running one-handed buzzer beater from 30 feet to force double overtime against rival North Carolina. Capel’s shot was ranked first on the list of 25 greatest moments in ESPN basketball history. After Duke, Jeff III began his coaching career as an assistant at Old Dominion before becoming the youngest head coach in the NCAA at age 29 with Virginia Commonwealth. At Oklahoma, he has already won the most games, 69, and amassed the best winning percentage of any coach in Oklahoma history at .676. As a student at South View, Jeff was known for his work habits and his passion for the game – something he admits he got from his dad. “I’m proud of my dad,” he once said. “I want to be just like him.” Younger brother Jason grew up in www.sammios.com Catering & 3 Banquet Rooms 2623 Raeford Road | 910.321.0000 both shadows but emerged to star at Carolina. Heavily recruited out of high school, Jason was one of only a few players to ever start all four years for the Tar Heels. He averaged 12.1 points in his career at UNC and led the team in scoring his senior year averaging 15.6 points a game. Jason played professional basketball for his father in Fayetteville and overseas before a back problem sent him to the broadcast booth. As a youngster, Jason wanted to play football but was “too big” according to his mother. “He was over the weight limit,” Jerry Capel says. Jason was a star youth league baseball player, but in the end, basketball won out. He played at Hope Mills Middle School before going on to gain national attention at Indian River. His father might not have seen Visit our new location in Andrews Commons (Andrews Commons Shopping Center) 3821 Ramsey St., Ste 120 (Northgate Plaza) 150 Andrews Rd., Ste 6A 910.488.5056 910.822.5056 54|June/July • 2009 basketball becoming the lifeblood of the family, but his mother did. She says the sport was her husband’s passion. “He was always playing,” Jerry Capel says. “He played in high school at Pinecrest, he played in the Army, he played in the recreation leagues. He loves the game.” And so do their boys. CV

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