Sue Williams won't be the BGOC (that's big girl on campus) this fall at Columbia Central High School.
  Classmates won't turn their heads in awe as they might when the star of the football team walks by them in the halls.
  But that's fine with Williams.
  FOR ONE THING, the petite I5-year-old from Cement City ,simply is not big enough to be the biggest anything on campus. For another, she usually won't even mention the fact that she's a sports star in her own right.
  "I don't say very much about it," Williams said, adding that she really has two sets of friends - those at school and those at the court.
  "The friends at school don't know what it is," Williams said.
  But the friends at the court certainly do. The court is a horseshoe court, and heads certainly turn when Williams walks onto the court.
  And so they should. After all, this past weekend Sue Williams won the world girls championship in Huntsville, Ala., and to do it she had to beat two-time defending champion Linda Pateneaude, and not once but twice.
  Not a bad achievement for someone in only her third season of competitive pitching.
  AND WILLIAMS NOT only beat the 17 year-old veteran, but she set a long list of world records doing it. She led qualifying with a record score of 221 (out of a perfect 300), she threw a record 18 consecutive ringers, she won one of her preliminary matches in the longest game (104) shoes compared to 50 for a usual game) in the history of the girls tournament.

and she's been pitching well enough to twice have been among the top 36 players in the world, averaging 65 percent ringers over the course of his career.
  But Ozzie isn't playing as well as he once did. In fact, he can't even beat his daughter. He doesn't mind, because he's coached his wife Peggy, daughter Sue and 12-year-old son Tommy to state championships of their own.
  "I'm more interested in the things they're doing than in my own game," Ozzie said, much to the relief of the more than 100 players in the Jackson County Horseshoe Association leagues.
  One of those players, Dick Pelton, was fifth in men's Class C at the world finals.
  "It's quite a thrill to see them get that much better that quick," He added. Sue's improvement has been particularly remarkable. She played Pateneaude, of Oxford, Me., last summer and lost 50-1.   Last week, she beat the two-time world champion 51-46 to force a best-of-three play-off, which Williams won 50-15, 41-52, 55-20 with an incredible 72 percent ringers.
  The reason for the improvement, both Sue and Ozzie agree, is practice.

Sue often practices twice a day for an hour each time, and practice made perfect - or very close to it.
  Sue has become so good that she has trouble finding competition even at the state level. She usually competes in the boys division of statewide tournaments.
  SUE HAD WATCHED her parents pitch in tournaments for so many years that she finally decided she might as well join them on the pitching platform.
  "I went (with them) all my life," she said.
"Why not play?"
  And Sue plays very well.
  After beating Pateneaude to force the championship showdown, she opened that playoff with an easy 52-15 victory. Perhaps too easy. Overconfident, she fell 25 points behind in the second game and had to rally to lose by 11.
  "I thought I was done for," she admitted.
  But rather than give up, Sue matched Pateneaude shoe for shoe on the first throws of the third and decisive game. Then, when Pateneaude couldn't "cover" Sue's double ringer, Williams seized the momentum and rang 22 of her first 24 pitches for an overwhelming 15-1 lead.
  ALTHOUGH SHE PITCHES a 2 1/2-pound horseshoe to a target 30 feet away for seemingly hours on end, Sue doesn't get tired, she said, . at least not when she's winning.
  But what she likes most about horseshoes is "the people," and "just being able to play in competition, to show what you can do."
  Sue certainly has done that.
  Why, even her friends at school have to realize that now.