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Western Carolina scrapbook, 1955-1956

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  • Matthews, Stallings Homer1 Catamounts To 7-5 Victory SALISBURY, April 14 -Jim Matthews and Charlie Stallings each unloaded towering homers in j ■ hth inning here today, dnv-1 - ... six runs &* sending the j Western Carolina Catamounts to; a 7-5 North State Conference vic-i tory over Catawba. The Catamounts, who lost to! Catawba yesterday, went into the eighth inning trailing, 4-1. .Charlie Crawford walked and Larry. tTuttle, pinch hitting for Dallas Cloer, singled to center, sending Crawford to third. With two out, Matthews hoisted out a 365-foot homer, scoring Crawford and Tuttle ahead of him and tying the score, 4-4. Ronnie Swartzel doubled and Fred Liner walked, bringing up first baseman Stallings. Stallings blasted a 380- foot homer, putting the Catamounts into the lead for keeps. Hank Sowers hit a solo homer i the third for Catawba. Catamounts' reliefer Jim Brogden pitched to only one man but got credit for the win. Freshman Harris Pryor, another reliefer, had never been on the mound before but he struck out the side i the eighth frame. The Catamounts play North Georgia at Cullowhee Tuesday. Cl^/ _ Liner Belts 2 Homers Catamounts Beat Eka Team, 9-2 CULLOWHEE, April 3—Backed; y a pair of home runs by Fred m... iner, Lefty Jim Pardue hm his second straight victory today aiic' _ for the Western Carolina Cata-c»rt« mounts, beating Elon on six hits, gj/i- 9-2, in a North State Conference | Green' Pardue struck out nine men andlR°sj walked only one and spaced his! ar hits well enough so that lone Elon rummers crossed the plate only in tlhe third and sixth innings. Liner belted his home runs in the seventh and eighth innings, each time with Ron Swartzel on base, and each time on the first pitch, A walk to Jim Mathews, a long triple by Swartzel and a sacrifice fly by Nookie McCrary fifth i'litnimg produced WCC In the seventh the Catamounts Droke the game open with five rnns. Swartzel walked and Liner his his first home run to deep centerfield. McCrary and Bobby Holcombe then singled and Larry Tuttle walked, filling the bases. Rabbit Sherrill grounded out, scoring McCrary, amd Pardue lined a jingle to centerfield to score Hoi' fombe and Tuttle. I miner's second home run. in the MjBUi followed a single by [^^^^1- It ended the Cata- I Wester-. jVre again W'i at 3 p. m. \Catawba Scored 6-2 Win WCC Suffers Firs? Conference Defeat SALISBURY, April 13-Catawba ended the Western Carolina Catamounts' five-game winning streak here today with a 6-2 victory behind the six-hit pitching of righthander Fred Duncan. It was Catawba's third straight . I e Conference victory reat, the WCC'i first P meetings. t the six hits well . d gave up runs to the 1 the first and third in- He walked five and struck Lefty Jim Pardue went the distance for the Catamounts and suffered his first loss in four outings I as he gave up ten hits and walked two. Bob Sowers supplied the heavv bat for Catawba with two circuit clouts and a single and driving in there runs. Duncan aided his own cause with three hits including a double. Sowers hit his first homer in the first inning after two were out and smashed out another in the fifth! inning. Western Carolina scored in the first innin£ when Dun t li a Oral three men he faced— ■, Jim Matthews and Ron Swartzel. Kirby scored when Fred Liner hit into a double play. In the third inning, Matthews rapped a double off the right field .wall and moved to third on Swart- zel's infield out. He plate on Liner's sacrifice fly. I The two teams ratal 'morrow at 2 p. m. at Salisbury. W. CABOLINA CATAWBA Klrh^cf 110 0 ButH. If " [ liner. II l n 1 ol.,nl, lh 4 0 1 ■•■-lb 3 10 v', ' r:,Jh ? S i J fe!ML-1 '• A litl wnsssvwasvi ^/UrX '•Tc^e ECC Defeats Catamounts In NSC Tilt GREENVILLE, N.C.. April 20 '* — East Carolina's Pir four runs in the fourth inning here today and went on to defeat West- Carolina 6-4 to take over the State Conference baseball eonard Lilly. ECC starter, ^ave e hits during the first six . . but kept t .cm well scat- ^Bfcen Baker relieved him in ISatk with one run in. two men Hbase and none out. Baker gave i just one hit the rest of the The Pirates' big fourth inning rally resulted from singles by Gene Turner. Ralph Zehrig. Jerry Stewart and Sandy Sander.-on. a double by Lilly and a stolen base. The Pirates now have a 2-fl loop record and a 7-4 overall season mark. West Carolina had held WCCMah Plans For May Day CULLOWHEE. April H - May1 Day plans Bl College were announced this week by Barbara Shaver of Canton, general chairman, and Arnold Pen-] land of Arden, director ot the mu-| sical production. They are working with a facutly committee composed oi Dean of Women Frieda Grieder and Misses Alice Benton and Helen Hartshorn. The program will be held at p. m. May 12. Penland said the .■owning of the queen will be preceded by an abridged presentation of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore." Try- outs were held this week and ihe cast will be announced in the near future. Both the operetta and the coronation will take place on Woodland Stage, a natural bowl near the center of the campua surrounded oy trees and shrubbery and a backdrop of evergreens. This stage is the traditional site oi the May Day program. The Day Student Council will sponsor a formal dance Saturday evening in the gallery of Hunter Library to climax the day's festivities. Marcia Williams, daughter «f Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Williams of Enka. has been chosen May Queen. Members of her court are: Senion —Barbara Nichols of Pilot Mountain; Bunny Broome of Glenville; Mary Jo Cole of Clyde. Nancy Francis of Waynesville Juniors-Julia Moody of Frank-
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